You gotta understand something here. 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 Kat. I write about rock and roll for the Chicago Tribune.

This week, Jim and I are going to dig up our first chest of buried treasures for the

new year.

And later on, we'll review the new album from Indy Darling's Animal Collective.

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

Yes Greg whenever a new station adds us we like to play a piece of music from their

environment that's very important to the history of rock and roll and or which we like a lot

San Francisco K-A-L-W boy we are thrilled to be on in San Francisco we're talking one of the

great American music cities here I mean you know contribution to rock history which is ongoing

But when you talk about San Francisco and rock and roll you really have to talk about one fabled summer

When the vibe that was coming out of San Francisco spread across America

and everybody was looking towards the Golden Gate right?

I'm not talking 67.

No no no no no.

1979 June, a band called The Dead Kennedy's makes its debut with a single

called California Uber Alice, actually taking a lot of shots at Jerry Brown. He was too liberal.

They were complaining that he was imposing liberal fascism on the state,

pretty ironic given its current governor, but what a way to say hello San Francisco.

California Uberallis by the dead Kennedyys on sound opinions. I am Governor Cherry Brown.

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