Songs About Breaking Free, Kanye Review, RIP Lee Scratch Perry

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4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

As Sound Opinions celebrates our first year as an independent production, hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share their favorite songs about breaking free. They also review the new album by Kanye West, pay tribute to Lee Scratch Perry and play recent listener comments.

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Featured Songs:

Teenage Fanclub, "Free Again," Free Again (Single), K, 1992

Kanye West, "Jail," Donda, Def Jam, 2021

Kanye West, "Jesus Lord," Donda, Def Jam, 2021

Kanye West, "Donda," Donda, Def Jam, 2021

Kanye West, "Off The Grid," Donda, Def Jam, 2021

Queen, "I Want To Break Free," The Works, EMI, 1984

Janet Jackson, "Control ," Control, A&M, 1986

Bob Marley & The Wailers, "Redemption Song," Uprising, Tuff Gong, 1980

The Velvet Underground, "I'm Set Free," The Velvet Underground, MGM, 1969

The Rolling Stones, "I'm Free," Out Of Our Heads, London, 1965

The Rolling Stones, "I'm Free," Stripped, Virgin, 1995

The Rolling Stones, "I'm Free," Shine A Light, Polydor, 2008

The Soup Dragons, "I'm Free," Lovegod, Big Life, 1990

Dua Lipa, "I'm Free," (Unreleased), NA, 2020

Alex Chilton, "Free Again," Alex Chilton's Lost Decade, Fan Club, 1985

Eric B. and Rakim, "Teach the Children," Don't Sweat the Technique, MCA, 1992

Florence + the Machine, "Dog Days Are Over," Lungs, Island, 2009

Lee "Scratch" Perry, "I Am the Upsetter," Trojan Reggae: Ska, Rocksteady and Reggae Classics 1967-1974, Sanctuary, 1998

Max Romeo & The Upsetters, "Chase The Devil," War Ina Babylon, Island, 1976

Venus Skytrip, "Star," Psychlona, Ripple, 2020

Kali Uchis, "telepatía," Sin Miedo (del Amor Y Otros Demonios) ∞, Interscope, 2020

Jaimie Branch, "theme 001 (Live)," FLY or DIE LIVE, International Anthem, 2021

Art d'Ecco, "Tv God," In Standard Definition, Paper Bag, 2021

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0:00.0	Hey Sound Opinions Listeners, if you support us on Patreon, you get to listen to our podcast,
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0:08.0	Hello, Chicago! Oh! Oh, You're listening to sound opinions and this week we're sharing our favorite songs
0:39.7	about breaking free. I'm Jim D. Regattis. And I'm Greg Kott. We'll also pay tribute to Lee Scratch Perry who died
0:47.0	last week and hear from some of our listeners. But first, at long last, we have a new Kanye West album to review. We're all bodies. I'm pulled over and I got priorities.
1:07.0	Guess we're going down.
1:09.0	We're going to jail.
1:11.0	That's going to jail tonight. Guess who's going to jail tonight.
1:14.0	Guess who's going to jail tonight.
1:18.0	Guess who's going to jail tonight.
1:20.0	Guess who's going to jail tonight. That is a track called Jail from Donda, the 10th studio album by Kanye West.
1:35.0	Greg, it's always a challenge.
1:36.6	You and I have covered Kanye West since he was a kid putting mixtapes in our hands.
1:42.3	How much do people need to know about this guy? They know him primarily,
1:46.0	I think, for controversial antics in public and weird utterances and all sorts of stuff the tabloids love.
1:56.6	We know him as, over the course of his first five albums between 2004 and 2010, reinventing sonically hip-hop in many ways as one of the most
2:08.1	talented daring and adventurous producers that the art form has ever seen.
2:13.9	There have been five albums since those first five, this being the 10th, you know, and he introduced
2:20.0	it with these big listening parties at giant stadiums.
2:23.7	Sometimes he stayed at the stadium for quite a while afterward working on the album in the
2:28.0	stadium.
2:29.0	Tinkering until the last minute, nobody was sure it would actually come out when it did but sure enough it surfaced the day after
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