What do you love about music?

To begin with,

everything. Everything. Putting on a great show is the most important thing you can do. one great rock show can change the world. Welcome to Sound Opinions. I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago

Sun Times. And I'm Greg Cut. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune. Today

on the world's only rock and roll talk show, well we've got a new album by Nellie

Furtado we've got Jim Deeregatus with a Desert Island jukebox pick but not to

minimize the importance of those things Jim we've got something that's really

really important I think you were burying your lead there. I think you're right.

The lead is that we're being joined live in the studio by Tom York and Johnny Greenwood of Radiohead.

A really important group. It can't be underestimated. How and avant-garde they are in terms of

stretching the musical boundaries, but also they're an arena act. They're in the midst of a theater tour,

sort of celebrating the release of Tom York's solo album

The Eraser in a couple of weeks but really tweaking their new material for an

album that probably isn't going to come until next year. Right, their seventh

album. There are six previous albums have all gone at least a million selling

level, if not more. They are one of the biggest bands in the world, and yet one of the most experimental

albums ever made to debut at number one on the Billboard charts, Kid A in 2000. I can't think of a record

that combined the avant-garde with pop accessibility in a more profound way than that one.

And I think that's really the key to this ban, Jim.

Mr. Scott, I will say with pride and I think that's really the key to this band Jim.

Mr. Kot I will say with pride that I think that we got some stuff out of them that will

surprise fans and will also perhaps introduce some of the people who don't know what

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