You gotta understand something there.

This music is the glue of the world.

It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music.

For nearly 20 years, Spoon has been releasing one great album after another.

Not bad for a one-time Indie Upstart. I'm Greg Kot.

And I'm Jim Deregatus.

Britt Daniel and Spoon join us in the studio for a performance and conversation.

And we'll review the long-awaited new album from hip-hop cult figure, Divine Styler.

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

This is sound opinions and Greg, you know know rock and roll has produced many

reclusive cult legends through the years something of people like skip Spence or

Sid Barrett or Rocky Ericsson but hip-hop hasn't had many of those kind of larger-than-life cult figures.

Divine Styler is one, and later in the show will review his first album in 14 years. But first, we have some music news.

Say you'll remember me, standing in a nice dress,

staring at the sunset, babe,

bad lips and rosy cheese say you'll see me again even if it's just in

your wild streams are high. That's from Taylor Swift's 1989, her 2014 release that dominated record sales.

You know, Jim, if you'd ask me at the half year point last year, what album was going to dominate the year-end charts?

You know, I would have said, nothing's going to top frozen that Disney soundtrack.

It just seemed to keep selling and selling and selling.

I'd really be happy never to hear it again. And you know, you're going to keep hearing it because kids are just going to keep buying

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