{"id":10982,"date":"2010-12-17T11:21:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-17T15:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10982"},"modified":"2010-12-17T11:21:27","modified_gmt":"2010-12-17T15:21:27","slug":"listening-to-2010-end-of-year-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=10982","title":{"rendered":"Listening to... 2010 End Of Year Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite X records of the year. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt.2<\/strong><br \/>\nJazzy, freaky soul. Pretty wild stuff. Way outside my normal zone, but it's awesome. Gonna have to get some more of her stuff.<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/67Jn3pcc178?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/67Jn3pcc178?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<li><strong>LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening<\/strong>. Feels strange to be listening to something, in 2010, that sounds so much like it could've been made in 1988. But, my only real complaint is the length of the songs: half of them are over 7 minutes long. Other than that, it's catchy, clever, fun and doesn't scare my wife out of the room. Win!<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tW8FKkVnqng?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tW8FKkVnqng?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<li><strong>Spoon - Transference<\/strong>. For some reason I always think I dislike this. But then I play it and realize it's actually pretty good.<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-v4vXRioZbk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/-v4vXRioZbk?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<li><strong>Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig<\/strong>. A mix of old-time jug band, bluegrass, traditional Piedmont folk. It's got a nice spontaneous feel and sounds like they had fun playing this.<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1xOxHyTP91c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1xOxHyTP91c?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<li><strong>Vampire Weekend - Contra<\/strong>. Though that Honda commercial is quickly killing the song \"Holiday\" for me, it's still a fun record.<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1e0u11rgd9Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/1e0u11rgd9Q?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<li><strong>Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record<\/strong><br \/>\nIt usually loses me in the second half, but I really like the first half.<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MTfNTzuJTJU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MTfNTzuJTJU?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<li><strong>Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest<\/strong>. Sounds like a mixture of a bunch of things that I love but could only find in bands that either don't exist anymore (Syd Barret, Neutral Milk Hotel) or don't sound like that anymore (Rogue Wave). They all combine to form a sound I wish more bands would pick up. Until some do, this will suffice.<br \/>\n<object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G5RzpPrOd-4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/G5RzpPrOd-4?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite X records of the year. Erykah Badu - New Amerykah, Pt.2 Jazzy, freaky soul. Pretty wild stuff. Way outside my normal zone, but it's awesome. Gonna have to get some more of her stuff. LCD Soundsystem - This Is Happening. Feels strange to be listening to something, in 2010, that sounds so much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}