Good music is what we want to hear.

What do you mean? Good music. It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to.

And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home.

Did you have a band? It's a great band. It's a bad band. It's like

pizza baby. It's good no matter if there's music in the air.

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 Cod.

I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today in the world's only rock and roll talk show,

Jim and I are going to dig into another one of our classic album

dissections, this time of Van Morrison's 1968 release,

Astral Weeks.

And later on, Greg and I will review the new albums

by pop superstar Kelly Clarkson

and the Somalia-born rapper, Canaan.

You're listening to sound opinions,

and now it's time to welcome our newest affiliate.

Yes, Greg, whenever a station adds sound opinions to its roster, we like to say thanks

by playing a great piece of music from its neck of the woods. Today we're adding Rochester, New York's W-R-U-R-E-R-E-E-8.5 FM. Instantly, only one band sprung to mind right away. Chesterfield Kings. The Chesterfield Kings emerged at the

tail end of the original punk explosion in the 70s and they were reviving

that wonderful garage rock sound of the Nuggets era, the mid-60s. They are still going

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