What happened to music that meant something?

The Who at the Kingdom or a kiss at the Coliseum?

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?

Where is the Iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is rock and roll.

Shamir has already experimented with House, disco, indie pop, country, and he's just getting

started.

I'm Jim De Regattis.

And I'm Greg Kot.

Shamir joins us in the studio for a conversation and performance.

And later, we'll review the sophomore album from London-based Post-Punks,

Savages.

That's all coming up on sound opinions.

This is sound opinions and Greg later in the show we're going to review the much anticipated second album from the British band

Savages. They were on the show in 2013. One of the angriest, most furious performances we ever have hosted and now on album

number two they're giving us love songs.

That's coming up later on in the show Jim but first we've got some music news. That's the man who sold the world from David Bowie of course.

That's the man who sold the world from David Bowie of course our minds have been on Bowie lately Jim with his death the release of his new album Black Star that became the number one album in America

Representative of the fact, Jim, from this

2015 Nielsen Music report, the most comprehensive report of how music is distributed, bought, and sold in the United States in 2015 and every year

prior to that, rock music is still going strong.

Despite the fact that pop artists, hip-hop artists seem to own the charts, whether it's Lady Gaga or

Drake, rock is still the number one genre for album sales.

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