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. As we say goodbye to 2016, we'd like to take a look back at the year the best way we know how.

Through the music, I'm Greg Kott.

And I'm Jim Deregadas.

It's our annual mixtape show with the songs that tell the story of 2016.

And we'll remember some of the many musicians we lost this year.

That's all coming up on Sound Opinions.

You're listening to Sound Opinions and later in the show we are going to give you our

mixtape for 2016, the songs that tell the story of this year, but first Greg, part of the story

of this year is the incredible amount of loss in the music world.

I don't think in my years as a musical journalist I've ever seen

so many people die who meant so much to so many.

Part of this, I think, is a factor of demographics.

The baby boom did not invent rock and roll, but they made it a worldwide force, and we're talking about the largest generation. Rock and

we're talking about the largest generation in American history.

So many people grew up with musicians like Prince

and David Bowie and Leonard Cohen forming and shaping their lives and you know the

weird thing about music I think more so than any other art form you fall in love

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