{"id":11672,"date":"2011-03-07T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11672"},"modified":"2011-03-07T15:38:40","modified_gmt":"2011-03-07T20:38:40","slug":"the-power-of-the-fade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11672","title":{"rendered":"The Power Inherent In Act The Fading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've always liked this NPR story which attempts, but ultimately fails to answer the question: <a href='http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/therecord\/2010\/10\/07\/130409256\/you-ask-we-answer-why-do-some-songs-fade-out-at-the-end'>Why Do Some Songs Fade Out At The End?<\/a> Lots of nice record industry trivia and arcana in there. But again, it doesn't really answer the question - everybody had their own reason for doing it, initially, and eventually it became a standard option.<\/p>\n<p>I'm thinking of that because my iPod just pulled-up the Kinks doing \"Death Of A Clown\" during a BBC session sometime in the 60s. And at the end, while the Kinks fade the song out <i>live<\/i>, the announcer says <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"And from Mr. Dave Davies it was 'Death Of A Clown'. OK fellas. Out with a nod. That's it. Fade it away. Very nice. <b>I think it gives them a great sense of power to do that<\/b>.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Me.ow.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to double check that NPR article to make sure there wasn't anything in there about DJ's resenting bands who put out records that faded out, because <em>pushing the volume slider down is the DJ's job, dammit!<\/em> There wasn't.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've always liked this NPR story which attempts, but ultimately fails to answer the question: Why Do Some Songs Fade Out At The End? Lots of nice record industry trivia and arcana in there. But again, it doesn't really answer the question - everybody had their own reason for doing it, initially, and eventually it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672","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=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}