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The Music Forecast with Brian Staker, Oct 14

Brian is heard on KRCL every Wednesday at 8am and 1pm.

Host of the Awkward Hour Podcast and City Weekly contributor, Brian Staker shares one of his favorite albums. Salt Lake City, UT One of the most loaded words of the last century is "revolution," a term embraced by pop musicians, most famously the Beatles, twice, with "Revolution" and "Revolution 9" in which John Lennon and Yoko Ono reworked the ending of the former song with the ominous voice intoning "Number 9," one of the earliest examples of a remix.

This limited-edition collection, compiled by Alan Dunn, is a fascinating look at not only the musical uses of the word but also spoken-word samples, from The Cramps' singer Lux Interior's obituary to Aldous Huxley and Raul Castro, Marcel Duchamp, the terrorist Baader-Meinhof Gang and radio soccer broadcastsdiverse offerings that together indicate revolution has morphed into a ubiquitous symbol and a brand, the opposite of what most of its acolytes intended it to be.

Excerpt from the City Weekly.