What happened to music that meant something?

The Who at the Kingdom or Kiss at the Coliseum.

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?

Where is the Iron on the water where is the iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is Rock and Roll.

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 Kotz. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show, Jim and I are going to channel our inner teenager

and take a trip back to the heyday of bubblegum pop.

Plus, we'll review the new albums from R&B Superstar Beyonce

and Underground Meta-Rapper's The Nucks.

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

In the night I hear him talk the cold story ever told

somewhere far along this road he lost the soul to a woman so heartless.

How could you be so heartless? Greg that is the new single Heartless by

Kanye West we're going to talk about his fourth album next week when it's

dropped but at the moment it's the number one most popular download on iTunes, Apple's music store.

Apple is having a very good year music-wise in the midst of an otherwise bad year for music.

Another bad year for music. Another bad year for music.

People may be a little cautious going

into the holiday season with consumer electronics,

but Apple wrapped up its fiscal year

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