You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. this. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Jim Deeregatus, the pop music critic at the Chicago sometimes.

And I'm Greg Cott.

I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show.

It's the middle of the year, Jim.

You know what that means?

It is time. It's time for you to agitate that we do a mid-year

top 10 Best Dev Show. You and I were arguing about this, well, and how unusual is that?

I mean, I think it's kind of lame. I think you wait until the end of the year and but you the king of equivocating I believe

that you foisted upon me this mid-year top ten that we do annually just so you can do the

top ten's twice a year and then have like just because I like more music than you you're gonna you're gonna

dis me you're gonna say you're gonna use that vile equivocate term you know I mean

although I got admit to we get what conservatively 200 300 CDs in the mail every

week and week out right I have to keep a list of all the records that I like

most I you know the sometimes we have a four-star scale you know you equivocate more at the tribune you don't put stars on anything

you're not forced to put your butt on the well see our readers actually read the

reviews as opposed to let just look at the star ratings that's the important

difference there yeah well it's good enough for Roger Ebert it's good enough for me so

so anything that's three and a half stars or more you know I keep a running tally

I've already got four or five dozen records that are on that list and so here we are

midway through before the big push in November, December where we have to name our 10

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