You gotta understand something there. This music is the glue of the world. It holds it all together.

Without this, life would be meaningless. Yes. What are you getting so crazy about? It's just music. Welcome to Sound Opinions from Chicago Public Radio and American Public Media.

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

And I'm Greg Kot. I write about Rock and Roll to the Chicago Tribune.

Today on the world's only Rock and Roll talk show, Jim and I are going to talk about a big batch of new fall releases, including Bruce Springsteen and PJ Harvey.

You are listening to sound opinions and time now Jim to run down some of the biggest releases of the fall

Absolutely time of the year when the record industry starts rolling out the big guns

Hopefully it's going to sell a lot of records. It's hoping for similar success for the

records we're going to talk about today that it had a few weeks ago with the

Kanye West and 50-cent records, both of which sold a combined total of nearly 2 million

records in their first week.

Remains to be seen whether these records will do the same,

but these are the releases they're counting on to save its year.

We'll see if they do it. So they've paid paradise, put up a parking lot.

With a pink hotel, a boutique and a swing a night spot.

Don't you know what you got tell it's gone

the big paradise put up a parking lot.

Familiar song, Familiar Singer, new arrangement.

That of course is big yellow taxi,

Joni Mitchell's protest song from the 60s, They Paved Paradise, put up a parking lot.

She has revisited it on her new album called Shine.

Her first album of new songs in nine years,

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