{"id":11358,"date":"2011-01-31T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11358"},"modified":"2011-01-31T10:44:41","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T15:44:41","slug":"start-your-ipods-270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11358","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was fun last week, so let's do it again: turn your music player of choice to 'random', describe the first five songs that come up.<\/p>\n

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  1. Miles Davis<\/a> - Love For Sale. This is from a record I, for some reason, don't listen to often ('58 Sessions<\/i>). So, I'm not too familiar with it. I'm going to have to do this one by actually listening to the song a couple of times... luckily, it's only 12 minutes long<\/b>...\n

    It's basically the same band that would make Kind Of Blue<\/i> slightly less than a year from when they made this one, so it's got that great combination of Bill Evans' introspective piano and Miles' lonely trumpet vs. the Coltrane and Adderley power sax duo, with Jimmy Cobb's quick, light touch on the drums. Can't hear the bass at all in my headphones - sorry Mr. Chambers. But this a more conventional tune than the stuff that makes Kind Of Blue<\/i> special - though it starts leaning in the KoB direction near the end, when Evans' and Davis' solos start reaching into that cool, unresolved space that their next record inhabits so well. Not a bad number, but the length is a little much - at least on this first (and second) really close listen.<\/p>\n

  2. Death Cab For Cutie - Expo '86<\/a>. Lazily melodic, with a calm sing-song verse, a loud and soaring chorus, a great bridge, wistful lyrics: a Death Cab For Cutie song. And it's one of my favorite DCfC songs.
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    \nSometimes I think this cycle never ends.
    \nWe slide from top to bottom and we turn and climb again.
    \nAnd it seems by the time that I have figured what it's worth.
    \nThe squeaking of our skin against the steel has gotten worse.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

  3. Blind Boy Fuller - Big Leg Woman Gets My Pay<\/a>. Early country blues - with washboard accompaniment! Not a bad song, but - title notwithstanding - nothing spectacular, either.\n
  4. The Coctails - City Sun<\/a>. Archer Prewitt, The Sea And Cake's lead (?) guitar player was in this band, first. That's really the only way I know about this band. They were a rock\/jazz band in somewhat the same style as Sea And Cake, but with a bit less polish. This track is just guitar and drums, and sounds like it might have been a Prewitt solo thing - sounds very much like the kind of stuff guitarists make when they're experimenting in their living room.\n
  5. Sunny Day Real Estate - One<\/a>. Loud and bombastic and emo<\/i>. It's not their best song, but it's not their worst, either. That's pretty much how I feel about all of this, their last, record.\n<\/ol>\n

    And you? What have you to say?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It was fun last week, so let's do it again: turn your music player of choice to 'random', describe the first five songs that come up. Miles Davis - Love For Sale. This is from a record I, for some reason, don't listen to often ('58 Sessions). So, I'm not too familiar with it. I'm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-start-your-ipods"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358","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=11358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}