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 De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-times.

And I'm Greg Kata, right about rock and roll at the Chicago Sun Times.

And I'm Greg Cott.

I write about rock and roll for the Chicago Tribune.

This week on sound opinions, Jim and I call out the year's biggest musical turkeys

for our Thanksgiving turkey shoot.

Plus, we'll review a bevy of new albums from Kanye West, Rivers Cuomo, and The Killers.

You are listening to sound opinions and now it's time for some music news. I got to have a lot.

Now one more gourmet.

Greg, you know, the world has changed in so many important and fundamental ways since February of 2004. We are of course still

involved in these two wars overseas. We have a new president of the United States of

America. We have the worst economic meltdown since the Great Depression and yet

our government is most concerned about the nine sixteenths of a second of nipple that

Janet Jackson showed at the Super Bowl in

and oh four. You remember Nipplegate, Janet Jackson was performing with

Justin Timberlake. She had a wardrobe malfunction or a little flash of

bad taste either way exposed herself and civilization melted down.

The FCC won't let this go.

A series of court rulings has said, look this was a fleeting thing, forget about it, the half million dollars in fines

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