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 Cut. I write about rock and roll at the Chicago Sometimes.

And I'm Greg Cut.

I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

It is a great day today on the world's only rock and roll talk show because we've been

waiting all year to do this show.

We are going to present our lists for the best albums of 2008

and hear what made number one for some of our listeners.

You're listening to sound opinions and time now for the best records of 2008.

Yes, Greg, it is and no rock critic worth his or

rehearsal fails to produce the obligatory year and best of albums list.

Mine this year is 50 albums long.

You can look on the Sound Opinion's website.

I have not seen yours. We do not compare notes.

What we do every year, we both do follow the model of we're putting the list together based

on the albums that we are dying to listen to still. Might it come out on January

2 still can't get enough of this record. It lives on. We're not thinking about political correctness. We're

not thinking about artistic greatness, commercial sales. This is the music we love.

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