Fruit Bats Live & Opinions on Lambrini Girls
Hosts Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot welcome Eric Johnson of long-running indie folk band Fruit Bats for an interview and performance. The hosts also review the debut album from punk shock activists, Lambrini Girls.
Review: Lambrini Girls
Jim and Greg review “Who Let The Dogs Out” by Lambrini Girls, an English punk duo who speak their mind and practice their activism through shocking displays.
Fruit Bats
Jim and Greg talk with Eric Johnson, the given name of the leader of Fruit Bats. Johnson also performs a few of his songs solo on acoustic guitar at the Goose Island Salt Shed Pub.
Featured Songs:
- Fruit Bats, "When U Love Somebody," Mouthfuls, Sub Pop, 2003
- The Beatles, "With A Little Help From My Friends," Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Parlophone, 1967
- Lambrini Girls, "Bad Apple," Who Let the Dogs Out, City Slang, 2025
- Lambrini Girls, "Nothing Tastes As Good As It Feels," Who Let the Dogs Out, City Slang, 2025
- Lambrini Girls, "Scarcity Is Fake (communist propaganda)," Who Let the Dogs Out, City Slang, 2025
- Fruit Bats, "Rushin River Valley (Live on Sound Opinions)," A River Running To Your Heart, Merge, 2023
- Fruit Bats, "Today," Siamese Dream, Turntable Kitchen, 2020
- Califone, "Bottles and Bones (Shades and Sympathy)," Roomsound, Perishable, 2001
- Fruit Bats, "We Used To Live Here (Live on Sound Opinions)," A River Running To Your Heart, Merge, 2023
- Fruit Bats, "Humbug Mountain Song (Live on Sound Opinions)," Absolute Loser, Easy Sound, 2016
- Fruit Bats, "When U Love Somebody (Live on Sound Opinions)," Mouthfuls, Sub Pop, 2003
- Chumbawamba, "Tubthumping," Tubthumper, EMI, 1997
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