What happened to music that meant something?

The Who at the Kingdom or 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.os, Sunny and Cher, Jack and Meg, maybe even the two of us.

I'm Jim Deeregatus from W.B.Z and Columbia College.

And I'm Greg Todd from the Chicago Tribune.

Jim and I have picked out our favorite duets of all time.

That's coming up on sound opinions.

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You're listening to sound opinions, and now it's time for some music news. Greg the whole history of the music business is based on producing hits can you

Greg the whole history of the music business is based on producing hits.

Can you predict them?

If you could, you would rule the universe.

Well, what if science gave you a key to do that?

Some new research out of Emory University is suggesting that teens have tell-tale brain

responses when they are listening to hit songs as opposed to tunes that will not

be huge commercial successes. The study was conducted by neuroeconomists Gregory Burns

and neuroscientists Sarah Moore. As Greg said in one article I read, the punchline is

that brain responses correlated with units sold.

We wanted to hear more about this study and what it means for the music business.

So welcome Dr. Burns to sound opinions.

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