You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.

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

I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-times.

And I'm Greg Kott. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

This week, Jim and I are going to present our annual mixtape for your year-on parties.

We've picked out our favorite songs of the year to give you a soundtrack to usher in 2008.

You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time to welcome our newest affiliate.

You could your European son, you spit on those other 21, but now your blue cars are gone.

You better siss all along.

Hey, bye bye. Greg that is one of the best destructive rock and roll songs of all time

European Sun by the Velvet Underground we are playing them to welcome on board

W rvio in Oswego, New York.

Why?

Because they serve all of Central New York,

including Syracuse.

Syracuse University, of course, well, Syracuse is famous

as the town of your birth, I know, but also Syracuse University was the home

of Lou Reed and Sterling Morrison when they put together the Velvet Underground.

That's what brought them together.

European son on that first Velvet's album was dedicated to a professor at Syracuse

University to Delmore Schwartz, Lou Reed wrote.

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