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? 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 there.

Music has always been a way to address change from civil rights to no nukes.

But what about climate change? I'm Greg Kott.

And I'm Jim Deregadas.

As we think about Earth Day, we explore Rock's relationship with the environment

with author and activist Bill McKibbon. Plus we'll review the latest from sound

opinions vets Parquet courts. That's all coming up to sound opinions and as music lovers know on April 21, one of the

giants of the music business for the last half century singer, songwriter,

guitarist, producer, towering figure in R&B, rock and pop was found dead in his home in Minneapolis. Prince was 57 years old.

We will devote next week's show to the life and career and of course the music of Prince.

You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Jim Deeregatus. My partner is Greg Cott and that is the song Sugar Daddy by

Sturgle Simpson. Fans of the HBO series, vinyl will recognize it instantly. It's the theme song.

Vinyle just wrapped its first season and had a lot of viewers, all music lovers, eager to see how

executive producers Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger would bring 1970s New York to record

industry and the music scene to life on the small screen.

The show stars Bobby Canavale as a struggling label head in New York City back in the day

the reviews have been mixed but no doubt this show knows and loves the music and

that's in large part to its music supervisor, Randall Poster.

This isn't the first time he's collaborated with Martin Scorsese.

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