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.

Get the plan. Welcome to Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim De Regattis, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun Times.

And I'm Greg Cut. 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 live performance in conversation with one of the great punk bands of the 80s, the newly reunited effigies.

Plus we'll review the newest album from Hip Hop Veteran Common.

You're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news. The day paradise put up a parking lot with a pink hotel a boutique and a swinging hot

with a pink hotel a a boutique, and a swinging hot spot.

That is Joanie Mitchell, one of the most respected songwriters in music for the last three, four decades.

She has not had a new almout since 1998, but all that's going to change.

She's going to follow Paul McCartney's lead and put out a record on the Starbucks label in September,

her first record since 1998 called Shine.

So, Jim, what we're seeing here is McCartney's had some modest success with the record he put out on Starbucks about six weeks ago, memory almost full.

And Joanie Mitchell, who has basically said, I loathe the music industry.

I don't want anything to do with it.

But she has been writing songs, and I think she saw what McCartney did

one of the most established major label icons of the last four decades saying

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