You're listening to sound opinions. I'm Greg Cott and later in the show my co-host

Jim De Regottis and I will answer some questions from our listeners in an Ask The Critics

segment. But first, in honor of it being leap year and the time of year our clocks spring forward

for sharing our favorite songs about time. And then one day you find, 10 years have got behind you.

No one told you when to run.

You missed the study. Greg, that of course. Greg that

is the opening of time by Pink Floyd from the dark side of the moon

probably the most famous song in rock history about that subject time also I would

add the greatest tuned Rototom solo ever I love Nick Mason on drums there you

know this idea of time in rock and roll,

the time signature that drives rock and roll is so simple.

4, 4, 4, 1, 2, 4, right?

You know, but playing with the clock

and incorporating that element and thinking existentially of our time on earth and making the most of our time and the great rock and roll Creto be here, live for the moment, right?

Now we always have these lists of great topics for songs to examine that have, you know,

across the genres have dived into this topic. And time's been on the list for a long time. the from Jim and I'm going to kick it off with a song by Ice Cube, the great NWA rapper,

and Ice Cube's solo career immediately after he left NWA, especially those early Ice Cube records, early 90s, really strong records, powerful music, describing what it was like to be a young African American growing up in a neighborhood like Compton, California, a ghetto, run by gangs,

rife with police harassment to hear NWA and others talk about it on their records.

This was part of the culture of the 80s that led to the LA

riots in the early 90s, this atmosphere of violence, paranoia, and day-to-day fear

that led up to that rioting. Ice Cube addresses it in the song

It was a good day which is basically you know when you talk about a song about

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