{"id":11662,"date":"2011-03-07T09:32:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11662"},"modified":"2011-03-07T09:32:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T14:32:07","slug":"start-your-ipods-275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11662","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here's how we roll: start your music shuffling device, list and describe the first five songs that come up. No skipping, no choosing, random!<\/i>.<\/p>\n

For example:<\/p>\n

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  1. A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour<\/a><\/b>. One of my favorite tracks from one of my favorite records. Jazzy, laid-back, with that catchy little vibraphone sample. Sounds odd out of context, though. I'm expecting the segue into \"8 Million Stories\". Instead...\n
  2. The Allman Bros - Don't Keep Me Wonderin'<\/a><\/b> (live). Starts out with a harmonica blast that makes me think it's Black Sabbath's \"The Wizard\". And then the fear sets in: oh shit, is this one of those 20 minute Allman Bros tunes that I forgot to take off the iPod? Nope: this is a short one. Still, Duane Allman packs a hell of a lot of sizzlin slide guitar goodness into these 3 minutes.\n
  3. Polvo - Channel Changer<\/a><\/b>. The kings of Chapel Hill noise. There were a lot of indie bands in the early 90s that, inspired by Sonic Youth, featured two oddly-tuned, dissonant, guitars weaving around each other. But Polvo's guitar sound is distinguished by a slight middle-eastern vibe, especially in the less chaotic parts. This is a pretty good example of their early sound; it's dissonant as fuck, but still a pretty strong melody somehow emerges from all the grinding and hissing. I wish it was mixed a little differently. This whole album is muddy.\n
  4. Matt Pond PA - Taught To Look Away<\/a><\/b>. A pretty little bittersweet love song, sounds like it could've been written in the 50's - reminds me of \"Sea Of Love\". That clip doesn't really do it justice, but it's only one I could find. I'm always puzzled by the last verse, though. It starts with the woman who was singing harmony singing the verse alone. And that would make the song a duet, which feels exactly right for a sweet little thing like this. But Matt Pond comes in singing after the first line and then finishes the verse alone. It's like they started that verse thinking \"duet!\" then changed their mind after ten words. A great song, though. A grea album, too.\n
  5. Robyn Hitchcock - Shuffling Over The Flagstones<\/a><\/b>. An instrumental: mostly acoustic guitar, with some electric accents. Not really a favorite - I like the playing, but the tune itself is meandering and a little too vague for me to get into.\n<\/ol>\n

    OK, now you go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here's how we roll: start your music shuffling device, list and describe the first five songs that come up. No skipping, no choosing, random!. For example: A Tribe Called Quest - Award Tour. One of my favorite tracks from one of my favorite records. Jazzy, laid-back, with that catchy little vibraphone sample. Sounds odd out […]<\/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-11662","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\/11662","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=11662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}