What happened to music that meant something?

The Who at the Kingdom or a kiss at the Coliseum?

Where is the Misty Mountain Hop? Where is the smoke on the water?

Where is the Iron man of today. Hey, this is not a test. This is Rock and Roll. Welcome to Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

I'm Jim Deorgatus, the pop music critic at the Chicago Sometimes.

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

Today on the world's only rock and roll talk show, Jim and I are going to review two of the most heavily anticipated albums of the year from 50 Cent and

Kanye West. Then it'll be Greg Stern to pop a quarter in the Desert Island

Jukebox. You're listening to sound opinions and time now for some music news.

Greg, this is the 93rd public radio installment of sound opinions and for 93 weeks here

we have been covering the slow and painful death of the music industry.

Everybody wants to know what does the future of this industry, what's it going to be, right?

We have two stories this week that are offering two different views from two people who are

renowned record men.

I think it's worth mentioning first before we get to those.

Bertelsman, the biggest music publisher in Europe, one of the four big major labels left

standing, has posted a phenomenal loss recently

69 million dollars bailing out all of those lawsuits from Napster. If you recall

Napster was the first big file sharing program.

It was the vision of this kid who started it in his dorm room, Sean Fanning, give away music

for free, right?

That's one model of what the future of the industry is going to look like.

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