#81 The Best of 2007... So Far

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🗓️ 15 June 2007

⏱️ 59 minutes

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The Best of 2007 (So Far): While most critics make their best-of lists at the end of the year, Jim and Greg figure—why wait? Tune in this week to hear which albums are already big contenders.

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0:00.0	You gotta understand something there.
0:02.0	This music is the glue of the world.
0:05.0	It holds it all together.
0:06.0	Without this, life would be meaningless. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Welcome to Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.
0:41.0	I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago
0:43.8	sometimes. And I'm Greg Kott, I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.
0:48.0	Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show, it's halfway through the year and
0:52.4	we're going to provide you
0:53.1	with a soundtrack for the upcoming summer months. Yes indeed it's time for our best albums
0:57.4	of 2007 so far. You're listening to sound opinions and now it's time for the honorary coin flip
1:04.0	Matt Spiegel our producer is going to kick off her his show for the best albums of
1:08.9	2007 so far. Jim we've got Greal Marcus on one. We've got Lester Bangs on the other. You're
1:14.6	going to call it in the air. Yeah, well you know where I'm going. Go ahead, Speaks.
1:17.6	It's Lester Bangs. Of course it is. Amazing how that works. Of course it is all right that means I get to go first
1:25.8	Greg one thing I'll say about the year in general so far is that the people are convectioning on the sound
1:30.9	opinion is Messers Board and elsewhere about a mediocre year.
1:33.8	They've been whining about that.
1:35.1	Even like the best year in Rock History,
1:36.8	by the 67, they were probably whining about that.
1:39.3	Any given year has always got great records.
1:41.3	It just depends on how hard you have to dig for them.
1:43.5	The thing that I've noticed so far about 2007 is that I've had many more
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