{"id":11440,"date":"2011-02-07T09:51:03","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11440"},"modified":"2011-02-07T09:51:03","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T14:51:03","slug":"start-your-ipods-271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11440","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grab hold of your music shuffling device. Command it to play then five songs. Describe here those five songs to us, so that from you we may learn of them.<\/p>\n

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  1. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Heaven<\/a> (Kershaw Sessions). While most of the songs on this album were recorded on Andy Kershaw's radio show, this one was actually re-packaged from their \"Gotta Let This Hen Out\" record. Cheaters! Anyway... this is a nice little tune from Robyn's very early period, very poppy, very chipper and upbeat, very mid 80s.\n
  2. Copeland - The Day I Lost My Voice<\/a> (The Suitcase Song). A delicate little sketch of a song. A wispy keyboard line and the sparest of drum tracks accent a high simple vocal melody. Sometimes there's harmony. It doesn't do a lot, and it's almost too sweet, but I like it. It's been sitting on my iPod for a couple of years now, and has slowly grown on me. I almost never think about it, but one day it came on and I realized I had memorized it - though I didn't know the name of the song or who it was from. And the band broke up last year. Alas.\n
  3. The New Pornographers - Use It<\/a>. On the other hand, the verses in this song are just drums, a simple piano line and a simple vocal melody, too. But the New Pornographers don't do wispy and delicate. This song rocks. And then the chorus comes in, and everything goes to 11. One of my favorite NP songs.\n
  4. Beastie Boys - Something's Got To Give<\/a>. Another live-band Beasties track! This one's a laid-back, funky, trippy thing - like a garage band doing a War impression. The video is all bomber footage and tanks and ruination. Good times.\n
  5. King Crimson - Matte Kudasai<\/a> (alternate take). KC's prettiest song, by far. Even people who aren't fans of prog rock will like this one. It still has Belew's trademark animal noises (seagulls, this time) and Fripp's guitar parts are sick, but it's all in service of a soft, mellow and sweetly-lovesick vibe. Veddy nice. Veddy nice. The difference between this and the the original is in the guitar parts - Belew's howling infinite-sustain parts are slightly different from the original version, and Fripp gets a little extra bit.\n<\/ol>\n

    Onward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Grab hold of your music shuffling device. Command it to play then five songs. Describe here those five songs to us, so that from you we may learn of them. Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians - Heaven (Kershaw Sessions). While most of the songs on this album were recorded on Andy Kershaw's radio show, this […]<\/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-11440","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\/11440","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=11440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}