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. Josh Homie brought music from the California Desert to the masses and is now one of the most respected names in rock and roll.

I'm Greg Kata of the Chicago Tribune.

And I'm Jim Deregottis from W be Z and Columbia College.

Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme talks with us about the ups and downs of his bands,

leaving record labels, and playing with John Paul Jones.

Plus we'll review the new album from Superchunk.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

You're listening to Sound Opinions, and now it's time for some music news.

You got me wide open, wide open.

Now I'm yours.

You found me hardbroken, hardbroken on the floor.

Became my salvation, salvation through the more. Salvation wide open now show.

Greg, I know you're excited about this as a former Backstreet Boys fan.

That is one of their new tracks in a world like this, which believe it or or not debuted at number five on Billboard's top 200

and is proving to be a hit low these 13 or so years after the Backstreet Boys were a mega teen sensation.

It's not that we're getting old, but the two of us are sort of mystified by this phenomenon

of millennial nostalgia.

Remember 2000?

So we turned to our own millennial generation

expert here, Annie Minoff.

You were a huge Backstreet Boys fan, right?

Yes, and this was actually kind of my punk rock rebellion because my mother would not have

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