Oftentimes the best way to celebrate a new venture is with great music, and we could all use a fresh start right about now. Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot share some of their favorite songs about new beginnings. They also review new records from country singer-songwriter Margo Price and the late Chicago rapper Juice WRLD.
For the first time in it’s history, Sound Opinions is now an independent production. To mark the occasion Jim and Greg share songs about new starts that are speaking to them right now.
Margo Price has spent years living and working as a musician in Nashville, but her third studio album, That’s How Rumors Get Started, makes it clear she can’t be confined to any one genre. Jim and Greg agree this is a great album.
Juice WRLD was at the height of fame when he tragically died late last year just after turning 21. Legends Never Die is his third album and the most commercially successful posthumous release in many years. Jim and Greg are mixed on it’s artistic success.
I’m Still Standing,Too Low for Zero, Geffen, 1983
Feeling Good,I Put a Spell on You, Philips, 1965
I Can See Clearly Now,I Can See Clearly Now, Epic, 1972
Begin the Begin,Lifes Rich Pageant, I.R.S., 1986
Beginning to See the Light,The Velvet Underground, MGM, 1969
Ready To Start,The Suburbs, Merge, 2010
We’ve Only Just Begun,Close To You, A&M, 1970
I Can,God’s Son, Ill Will, 2002
It’s The Sun,The Beginning Stages Of..., Hollywood, 2002
That’s How Rumors Get Started,That’s How Rumors Get Started, Loma Vista, 2020
Prisoner of the Highway,That’s How Rumors Get Started, Loma Vista, 2020
Heartless Mind,That’s How Rumors Get Started, Loma Vista, 2020
I’d Die For You,That’s How Rumors Get Started, Loma Vista, 2020
Righteous,Legends Never Die, Interscope, 2020
Come & Go,Legends Never Die, Interscope, 2020
Titanic,Legends Never Die, Interscope, 2020
The Man, The Myth, The Legend (Interlude),Legends Never Die, Interscope, 2020
Wishing Well,Legends Never Die, Interscope, 2020
Space Inc. (feat. Ishmael),Voyager, Sony, 2020
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