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 what there's music in the air.

Get the player. Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim De Regattis of pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-times.

And I'm Greg Katz. I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show,

we've got a band that joins the big noise

with the big melodies, parts and labor.

Plus we've got a trio of posthumous releases from Elliot Smith, Jeff Buckley, and Nick Drake,

and the newest from the controversial King of R&B, R Kelly.

You are listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. Big news in the Digital World folks, Amazon.com says it's going to take on Apple's iTunes

iTunes store by the end of the year. It is going to create a digital music download store with

millions of songs for more than 12,000 record labels. The big news here is that

Amazon is going to make every song and every album available in its digital store

free of digital rights management restrictions.

That means you're going to be able to play these songs on any type of digital audio player.

You're going to be able to share them as many times as you want.

Steve Jobs of Apple a few months ago, called on the record company, say make this stuff available

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