Good music is what we want to hear.

What do you mean? Good music. It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to.

And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home.

Did you have a band? It's a great band. It's a bad band. It's like pizza baby. It's good no matter what there's music in the air.

Welcome to Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago sometimes.

And I'm Greg Kot.

I write about rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show,

we have a conversation with soft machine founder Robert Wyatt.

Then Greg has a Desert Island toothbox pick for for you and will review the new collaboration between Robert Plant and Allison Kraus.

You're listening to sound opinions and for some music news.

This is radio and nowhere.

Is there anybody have a life upstairs?

This is radio Springsteen. The number one album in the country right now is Magic. It sold 77,000 copies last week that was good enough for the

number one slot in the country gym five years ago 77 thousand might not have

even gotten you in the top 10 of the Billboard 200.

When Platinum in one week, as little as five years ago.

Absolutely, these are hard times for the music industry.

A few weeks ago we talked about the fact that the Kanye West 50 cent dual was going to set up a big fourth quarter or the record

industry was hoping that it would set up a big fourth quarter that is a time

traditionally that the music industry makes the bulk of its money on record

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