{"id":11869,"date":"2011-03-28T09:12:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11869"},"modified":"2011-03-28T09:12:03","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T14:12:03","slug":"start-your-ipods-278","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=11869","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Start your music machine.\n
  2. Let it shuffle.\n
  3. Describe the first five songs that come up\n
  4. ???\n
  5. Profit!\n<\/ol>\n
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    1. Beck - Tropicalia<\/a>. In which Beck dabbles in Brazilian pop - with great results. Like all of Beck's best stuff, it's groovy, clever and just a little weird: it's got that tropicalia vibe in the guitar and percussion, but it also has Beck's space-age sound effects and his deadpan vocals. I'm not quite sure what the lyrics are about - something to do with tourists and the decadence of Carnival.\n
    2. Rush - Big Money<\/a>. iTunes lost its library last week, so I had to re-populate my iPod from a new playlist. I was a little sloppy with the albums I chose. Gack. This is not a great song. Rush really went a little crazy in the mid 80s - the huge synth sounds, the lush 80s chorus on the guitars, electronic drums. Though it's still possible to appreciate Rush as musicians on an over-produced wanna-be hit single like this, I'd really rather hear them do their thing on a good song.\n
    3. Beth Gibbons & Rustin Man - Drake<\/a>. A low, dark song. Brushed drums, a stand-up bass, some muted guitars, a choir of ghosts. She's barely above a whisper here. It's pretty, on a rainy day like today.\n
    4. Belly - Witch<\/a>. Tanya Donnely and her guitar. The words are like a small fragment of a grim fairy tale, dreamily delivered as if it was a lullaby. Disarming. It's very short, and on the album, it seems more like an interlude, sitting between the two catchy and exuberant pop songs, \"Gepetto\" and \"Slow Dog\". But, on it's own, it shines. There very are few albums (14<\/a>) I like as much as this one; songs like this are the reason.\n
    5. Liz Phair - Love Song<\/a>. This is one of her early \"girlysounds\" songs. A self-recorded demo, really. Compared to Gibbons's sultry witch and Donnely's bewitching sprite, Phair's voice is raw and unpolished. But maybe that's not entirely fair; it is just a demo, after all. And, really, listening to Phair isn't about vocal technique or timbre - her songs do the real work. Though, at six minutes, this one is a bit long for what it does. With a little editing, it probably could've worked on Exile<\/i> - it has that same mixture of bitter lyrics and unusual and melancholy chords.\n<\/ol>\n

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

      Start your music machine. Let it shuffle. Describe the first five songs that come up ??? Profit! Beck - Tropicalia. In which Beck dabbles in Brazilian pop - with great results. Like all of Beck's best stuff, it's groovy, clever and just a little weird: it's got that tropicalia vibe in the guitar and percussion, […]<\/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-11869","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\/11869","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=11869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}