What do you love about music?

To begin with?

Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. One great rock show can change the world. Welcome to Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim Deorgatus, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sometimes.

And I'm Greg Cutts.

I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

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

Jim and I are going to count down the best albums of 2008 so far.

One of our favorite shows of the year,

plus Greg and I will review a new album

from My Morning Jacket.

You're listening to sound opinions

and time now for some music news. That's a little bit of Mozart Symphony Number 41 and perhaps you're wondering why we are playing that at the moment.

Well, we like to discuss how music seeps into and informs our everyday life.

And Dr. Claudius Conrad of Harvard University in Boston has also been exploring this issue

in terms of his surgeries and how classical music, how music in general

can help the recovery process can help ease the stress and pain of his patients.

Dr. Conrad's also a classically trained pianist and he studied music philosophy in addition to medicine so he's an ideal guest in terms of

dealing with this intersection of music and medicine.

Welcome doctor to the show.

Hello, how are you?

Very good. Intriguing. Welcome doctor to the show. Hello, how are you?

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