{"id":11806,"date":"2011-03-21T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11806"},"modified":"2011-03-21T09:24:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T14:24:02","slug":"start-your-ipods-277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11806","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"

It being Monday
\nTurn on your i pods
\nAnd shuffle the first
\nFive describe these songs
\nTo us.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Cassandra Wilson - Last Train To Clarksville<\/a><\/b>. As with many of her covers, the only trace of the original is in the lyrics. The music from the Monkees' original has been turned inside out. All traces of the Beatles have been blasted away, too: no more jangly guitar, no more harmonies. No more 60's British invasion sound. What's left is bluesy and funky and a bit eerie. Triple A Plus.\n
  2. Sunny Day Real Estate - Song About An Angel<\/a><\/b>. The quintessential SDRE song: pretty and melodic, alternating with heavy<\/i>. In retrospect, this really wasn't too different from what the far-more-mainstream Smashing Pumpkins were doing around that time (94); but, SDRE used a lot more grunge-y dissonance, some of that emo shouty background vocal thing, and a relatively raw and unfussy approach. Enigk's voice vocals are typically unintelligible here, but they do set the mood simply by tone. He's placid, sleepy in the quietest sections, then works his way up to screaming rage in the loud parts. Which, I guess, is how those things usually go. Interesting song structure here, tho. It's not verse-chorus-verse, rather it's a series of four or five increasingly-loud parts, then a single repeat. Great song, great album.\n
  3. Getz \/ Gilberto - Pra Machuchar Meu Coracao<\/a><\/b>. To me, all the songs on this album which are not \"Girl From Ipanema\" are the same song - a laid-back bossa nova beat, Gilberto sings something in Portuguese, then Stan Getz does a lyrical sax solo. Pretty, relaxing, short, sweet.\n
  4. Sidney Bechet - Characteristic Blues<\/a><\/b>. A puzzling one. It's built from sections in a handful of different styles, so I guess it's a suite; but compressed into 2:50, it's more like a sampler. It starts with a swinging clarinet solo over a slow blues groove, then after a minute, a singer shows up and does a couple verses of a blues call-and-response with the band (which sometimes, oddly, does its response in double-time), then a bit of yodeling. Finally, Bechet closes it out with a blazing clarinet solo over a much faster bit of music which seems unrelated to the anything that preceded it; during which, the songs ends in the middle of a bar with just a quick fade - as if they simply ran out of time. I wonder if this was a much longer song that they cut down to fit onto a record, and just couldn't get the timing right.\n

    The internet tells me that Bechet played this at Buckingham Palace and that King George V. was impressed. It also tell me that Stravinsky's \"Three Pieces for Clarinet Solo\" was inspired by this tune.<\/p>\n

  5. Sea And Cake - Aerial<\/a><\/b> It's definitely not classic Sea And Cake, but it's not a terrible song. Has its moments.\n<\/ol>\n

    Go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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