{"id":11611,"date":"2011-02-28T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11611"},"modified":"2011-02-28T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T14:33:38","slug":"start-your-ipods-274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11611","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Start your music delivery system. Tell it to shuffle\/randomize\/mix. Describe the first five songs that come up - no skipping, no editing.<\/p>\n

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  1. Breeders - Divine Hammer<\/a>. In my book, this is a perfect pop song. I can't think of a thing about it that I don't like, or that I would change. It's a solid 2:39 of Yaaayyyyyy!<\/i>\n
  2. Feelies - Everybody's Got Something To Hide (except for me and my monkey)<\/a>. Yup, it's The Beatles' song. But this one's been stripped down and streamlined and compressed, and it zips by much faster than the original. I couldn't find The Feelies' original version on YouTube, and the live versions (which all seem to be recent), are a little messy, but, on the 1980 recording, it's all tight and nervous and twitchy.\n
  3. Spoon - Anything You Want<\/a> (live, NPR<\/a>). The live version is a little faster and Britt Daniels' vocals are a little loud, a little shouty and a little sloppy - because he's always that way, live. But, this is my favorite Spoon song. I don't even want to think about it any more than that.\n
  4. The Breeders - Chances Are<\/a>. This is a cover of a Bob Marley song<\/a>. It's a slow simple tune, without even the slightest touch of reggae - sounds more like a late 50's R&B ballad. The Breeders' version isn't much different than the original - Marley had a drummer tapping out a simple beat in his, which The Breeders skipped. The big difference is the vocals. In Marley's version, it sounds like Kim Deal is (somehow) doing the backup vocals. In The Breeders' version, she's doing the lead.\n
  5. Paul McCartney - Eat At Home<\/a>. I'm a little new to the McCartney solo stuff. Never bothered with it until a few months ago, when I bought \"Ram\" out of curiosity. This isn't bad. It's moderately catchy and inoffensive. But it needs something... \"Divine Hammer\" is simple, but it's also blissful; this is just good natured<\/i>.\n<\/ol>\n

    I've showed you mine. Now you show me yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Start your music delivery system. Tell it to shuffle\/randomize\/mix. Describe the first five songs that come up - no skipping, no editing. Breeders - Divine Hammer. In my book, this is a perfect pop song. I can't think of a thing about it that I don't like, or that I would change. It's a solid […]<\/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-11611","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\/11611","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=11611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}