Gregg and music

On Cinema guest Gregg Turkington has a complicated relationship to music. Around the forming of Dekkar, Gregg began to express a distaste for the medium. He has simultaneously defended and criticized Oscar for its relationship to music, once stating that awards like Best Song had their place but that less time should be dedicated to musical segments.^[1]

• Gregg hated One Direction: This is Us, calling the music “terrible” and “awful,” and the band “jerks.”^[2]
• Gregg implied that music is an inferior art form compared to film, opining that “they don't make a lot of bad movies,” while music has “a lot of bad songs.”^[3]
• Nearly every time Dekkar performs
• Gregg was disappointed that the 2024 remake of Mean Girls was a musical.^[4]

• Gregg stated he enjoyed the music to the film Chariots of Fire, adding he liked it better than the NBC chime.^[5]
• Gregg described singer-songwriter Eric Clapton as “great.”^[6]
• Gregg excitedly asked Tim Heidecker to edit the song Born to be Wild into Podcast Episode 18: "Easy Rider".
• Gregg described rock-and-roll as “good stuff” for movies to feature alongside sex and drugs.^[7]
• Gregg appears to have a soft spot for the theme songs to the James Bond series of films, stating that For Your Eyes Only had a great theme song,^[8] and playing a recording of a live performance of the track during the finale of the Our Cinema Oscar Special.
• Gregg praised Bette Midler for having a good singing voice.^[9]
• Gregg participated in Podcast Episode 29B: The Music of the Three Stooges, positively discussing the music of The Three Stooges (2012), The Graduate, and West Side Story, and states that for the latter two “the music was as important as the dialogue.”
• Gregg once visited a jazz club in San Francisco with Tim.^[10]
• Gregg stated that the score of Hyde Park on Hudson was “quite good.”^[11]
• Gregg's comment on Les Miserables was “great music.”^[12]
• Gregg fondly recalls Duran Duran performing “The Living Daylights” when discussing Skyfall winning Best Sound in 2013.^[1]
• Gregg, in his review of Tammy, wished that the film featured more music, especially since it featured Dan Aykroyd, an accomplished harmonica player.^[13]