{"id":11539,"date":"2011-02-21T10:07:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11539"},"modified":"2011-02-21T10:07:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:07:39","slug":"start-your-ipods-273","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11539","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"

... and talk about what they turn up?<\/p>\n

(five songs, random, describe them)<\/p>\n

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  1. Radiohead - Motion Picture Soundtrack<\/a>. It's one of those Radiohead songs that doesn't seem to do a lot. There's a funereal organ bit, and some electronic chimes breeze in and out. A choir Ooohs and Ahhhs in the background. Thom sings something I can't understand. Then there's a huge chunk of silence before the band comes back with a bit of sound collage, then the silence is back for a minute or so before the track officially ends. It's a pretty thing, but I don't know really what to do with it. The silences are inconvenient because they make me think my iPod has died. I suppose the structure would work as an actual motion picture soundtrack, but I don't know what the movie is. Oh Radiohead, why do you torment me so?\n
  2. Beastie Boys - Shadrach<\/a>. Yeah, OK, three weeks in a row; it's time to get take some B.Boys off the iPod. Unlike the past two, this is not a live-band track. This is a classic (and fantastic) sample-n-beats hip-hop track with classic Beastie vocals over it - wise ass, nasal, etc.. It has a few good lines, but it's not one of my favorite Beastie tunes - I don't hate it, but it just doesn't stick to me.\n
  3. Shellac - Didn't We Deserve A Look At You The Way You Really Are<\/a>. And this is a pretty standard long Shellac song: minimal drums and quiet bass play the same thing for two minutes (the bass does a little 2-bar fill about 2 minutes in! then it's back to the original two note pattern); Albini deadpans a couple of lines of lyrics over top then stops; guitar comes in for a couple of seconds at the 3:00 mark. Then it's back to bass and drums for another minute. Things get really crazy around the 4:00 mark, when the guitar plays a couple of quiet chords and the bass does another fill! Then it's back to the bass & drums for another minute. A little bit of some thin high vocals at 5:00, then, at 5:30, the volume kicks in! They're gonna bust out! But, no. By 6:00, they're back to the basic bass & drums. Just past 8:00, a couple more lines of deadpan vocals! At 9:30, Albini mutters the titular line! At 10:15, a guitar comes in, with real volume! Could this be where they let loose? 11:00, bass does another fill. 10:50, a drum fill! 11:00, Volume! Sigh. Then we're back to the basic bit again. 12:00, they abandon the basic pattern! Crescendo! Finale! Huzzah!\n
  4. Bauhaus - Telegram Sam<\/a>. Bauhaus could really kick the hell out of a cover. I'd almost say they're better at covers than at their own songs. But really, I think it's just because they pick really good songs to cover<\/a>. The T-Rex original<\/a> is the standard T-Rex groove (ie. the music in the verses is completely indistinguishable from \"Bang A Gong\"), but Bauhaus speeds it up, replaces T-Rex's glam-pouting swing and swagger with a nervous and wiry anxiety; and instead of horns, we get Daniel Ash's screaming feedback. It sounds nothing like the original. Love it.\n
  5. Tokyo Police Club - Graves<\/a>. One of their better tunes. It's got enough melody to be sweet and enough energy to be fun. It rushes by in a brisk 2:35, with guitars a-barking, background vox a-oooohh-ing, singer a-whining, drums a-pounding. This is what makes them one of my favorite new bands.\n<\/ol>\n

    And now, you do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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