What happened to music that meant something?

The Who at the Kingdom or a kiss at the Coliseum?

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke 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 Orgatus, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

And I'm Greg Kott. 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 host our own inaugural celebration

with the best songs in presidential rock.

Plus we'll review the new album from Scottish indie rockers, Franz Ferdinand.

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

Indeed it is Greg whenever a new station adds sound opinions we like to play a great piece of

music something we love from that town or city. We've been doing this a lot a couple of weeks in a row now and a few more to come because

we're on a roll. Sound opinions is going nationwide in a big way in 09.

This is our year, my friend.

This city, I know, means a lot to you, Milwaukee.

Absolutely, my old stomping grounds went to college there, great music town, a lot of great bands

in Milwaukee.

Absolutely.

So to welcome 88.9 Radio Milwaukee. You know, look, we could have done the obvious, play

the violent fems, right? No, no, no, no, no. The best of any of the second wave psychedelic

revival bands of the 80s was a group called Plastic Land. I don't

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