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 up temple, I want something snappy. As critics were constantly name-checking our musical heroes. The only people to do that more are musicians themselves.

I'm Greg Kataotta the Chicago Tribune.

And I'm Jim Deeregottis from W.P.E.Z at Columbia College.

We talk about great moments of hero worship in rock and roll and review the new albums by R&B artist Man Hunt and Metal Monsters Mastodon.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

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Hey, he got three, I wrote you a song.

About a funny old world that's a come in a long

Seems sick and it's hungry it's tired and it's torn

It looks like It's a dying and hardly been born.

It's a dying and it's hardly been born.

You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Jim Dirogatus. He's Greg Cott and that is Bob Dylan from 1962 song to Woody. Greg, a cornerstone of the sound opinion's philosophy is that everybody's a critic, but everybody

also is a fan. That includes musicians. Musicians started playing music because they loved music and they had certain heroes, right?

And there's a tradition in rock and roll that goes back even long before Bob Dylan, where

a young musician will give a shout out, a name check if you will, to a

hero that he or she worships, writing a song about one of the people that was instrumental

in giving them their start.

We're going to go back and forth and play some of the greatest hero worship songs in rock history today.

So whenever we do a show like this, Jim, we have a specially minted coin today's theme is

hero worship so we've got a coin with superheroes on one side or the other mine is

going to be Batman I'm going with the vintage Green Lantern before this recent

lame movie. All right, coins in the air? And the green lantern wins. I get to go

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