There had been abuse in my family, but it was mostly musical in nature. I don't want any of this lovers lament crap I want something peppy something happy something up-tem. I want something peppy, something up temple, I want something snappy. Three decades ago hip-hop was an exciting street art. Today it's the music industry's cash king. I'm

Greg Cod of the Chicago Tribune and I'm Jim deregatus of vocalo.org we talk

about the history of the hip-hop business with writer Dan Charness and later on we'll review the new

records by Electric Wizard and Corin Bailey Ray. Stay tuned on sound opinions.

From W.B.E.Z Chicago and distributed by PRX, you're listening to sound opinions.

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

Yes, Greg, we're incredibly excited to be welcoming Connecticut Public Radio, W NPR in that fine state to the

sound opinions family. Whenever we get to add a station we like to play a little

bit of music from that part of the world to say welcome and to illustrate something

about that place. To me having grown up in New Jersey, ginging all over New York,

New Jersey, Massachusetts, and often in Connecticut as a young punk rocker.

What a beautiful part of the world and I think you can't choose any music that better represents

the place than that of Karen and Richard Carpenter. The brother and sister were raised on Hall Street in

New Haven, considered by a few to be, you know, White Bread, Square, the epitome of

easy listening music in the 70s.

No, no, no, no, no.

People have been re-evaluating them for the last two decades,

starting in the alternative era when bands like Sonic Youth champion them

and said this was incredibly complicated and

sophisticated pop music with a enduring and very very deep emotional

resonance that wonderful 94 if I were a a Carpenter album produced a song by Shownen Knife, the Japanese

noise pop band, a cover of Top of the World that has subsequently turned up as the theme

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