#92 Track One, Side One

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Society & Culture, Music, Arts

4.4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2007

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

It’s a term as old as the album itself: Track One, Side One. This week Jim and Greg release their inner music geek to tackle the question of what are the best Lead-Off Tracks in rock history. Tune in to hear their picks, as well as some of yours.

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0:00.0	Good music is what we want to hear.
0:05.0	What do you mean?
0:06.0	Good music.
0:07.0	It's what we dance to, what our children will dance to.
0:09.0	And if you don't want to play it, then take your records and go home.
0:13.0	Did you have a band? Good or bad?
0:23.0	It's a great band, it's a bad band, it's like pizza, baby.
0:25.0	It's good no matter if there's music in the air. Welcome to sound opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.
0:39.0	I'm Jim Diregottis, top music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times.
0:42.0	And I'm Greg Scott, I write about rock and roll. God us the top music critic at the Chicago Sun-Dimes.
0:43.0	And I'm Greg Cott, I write about Rock and Roll for the Chicago Tribune.
0:46.3	Today on the world's only Rock and Roll Talk Show, a show tailor-made for you rock deeks out there.
0:51.2	We know who you are.
0:52.3	We're going to pick the best lead-off tracks of all time.
0:54.0	And we'll hear some of your picks as well.
0:57.0	You're listening to sound opinions,
1:01.0	and now it's time to get into some of the best lead-off tracks of all time.
1:05.4	Yeah, Greg, I mean this is a great topic. We've been wanting to do it for some time.
1:08.8	It's one of those things that kind of assumes that the world of popular music still is ruled by the album.
1:15.0	I think there's a lot of debate about that. A lot of people are saying, you know, iTunes and the
1:18.8	way people listen on shuffle has ruled out the album as a beginning to end listening experience.
1:24.0	However, week after week on sound opinions, we keep reviewing albums that are made by artists
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