Good music is what we want to hear.

What do you mean? Good music. It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to.

And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home.

Did you have a band? Good or bad?

It's a great band, it's a bad band, it's like pizza baby, it's good no matter if there's music in the air. We are 10 and a quarter years into our run and we barely scratched the surface of all the great

music we want to share to say nothing of saving you

from all those trash at records. I'm Jim Deeregatus and I'm Greg Kott. Today we're

sharing some of our favorite moments in the show's history as we look back at the

first 500 episodes of sound opinions.

Welcome to sound opinions, I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

And I'm Greg Cot. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune. The world's only rock and roll talk show is making its debut tonight on Chicago Public Radio.

And we've got a great show for you.

We've got John Kale in the studio performing with his band

and we're going to interview him

going way back to his early days in the Velvet Underground

and up to his

phenomenal new solo album Black Acetate.

We've got record reviews of the number one debut by Madonna,

the number one debut by System of a Down,

a couple of the biggest records at the end of the year last few weeks.

We're also going to pop a quarter in the desert island jukebox later on in the show.

But first as always we've got some music news. Welcome to Sound Opinions. I'm Greg Cott. My partner is Jim Deeregottis and that was some audio from our very first episode on public radio in December 2005 when Jim's voice was probably

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