RACHEL MARTIN, host:
So today on the BPP, we are all about recovered musical memories.
MIKE PESCA, host:
Dave Longstreth, the leader of the band Dirty Projectors, found the empty cassette case for the Black Flag album, "Damaged," while he was cleaning out his old things from his childhood home. The cracked-plastic case got him thinking about that punk album. And he decided to reconstruct the record, song by song, from memory. What he came up with might not sound a lot like the Black Flag's original sound, but it put a classic album in a very new context for us.
MARTIN: Luckily, when we want to hear a classic BPP studio session, we don't have to entirely recreate it from memory. All we need is a quarter and the good old BPP jukebox.
(Soundbite of jukebox)
(Soundbite of song "Rise Above")
DIRTY PROJECTORS: (Singing) Jealous cowards try to control. They distort what we say, Try to stop what we do, When they can't do it themselves.
We are tired of your abuse. Try to stop us, but it's no use.
Society's arms think they're smart. I find satisfaction in what they're lacking 'cause We are born with a chance, And I'm gonna have my chance,
Rise above. Rise above. Rise above. Rise above.
We are tired of your abuse. Try to stop us, but it's no use.
Society's arms think they're smart. I find satisfaction in what they're lacking 'cause We are born with a chance, And I'm gonna have my chance.
Society's arms think they're smart. I find satisfaction in what they're lacking 'cause We are born with a chance, And I'm gonna have my chance.
Rise above. Rise above. Rise above. Rise above, rise above, rise above, rise above, rise above, rise above. Rise...
MARTIN: You can see Dirty Projectors perform that song at our website, npr.org/bryantpark. And that is it for this hour of the BPP, but we're always online at npr.org/bryantpark. I'm Rachel Martin.
PESCA: And I'm Mike Pesca. This is the Bryant Park Project from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.