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? Good or Bad?

It's a great band, it's a bad band, it's like pizza, baby.

It's good no matter what there's music in the air. 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 Kot. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Sometimes. And I'm Greg Kot.

I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today in the world's only Rockin' Little Talk Show,

Jim and I welcome Rivers Cuomo of Weiser

for a one-of-a-kind live performance.

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

from Art Rockers, Yaysayer.

You're listening to sound opinions,

and now it's time for some music news.

The Mississippi Delta

were shining like a national guitar.

I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the

civil war. I'm going to raceeland, Graceland, Memphis, Tennessee I'm going to Graceland.

That is Paul Simon's Graceland, an appropriate title for an album that just made the Vatican's

top ten list. Jim, when we do the new stories and sound opinions, we don't often fall upon

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