{"id":1256,"date":"2006-11-09T17:24:18","date_gmt":"2006-11-09T21:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2006-11-09T17:24:18","modified_gmt":"2006-11-09T21:24:18","slug":"i-buy-the-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"I Buy The Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Metallica - Master Of Puppets<\/strong>. Just backfilling my collection here. But wow, what an album. Half of the lyrics make no sense at all, but they sound good. The iPod absolutely loves it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Decembrists - Her Majesty<\/strong>. Neutral Milk Hotel meets the Smiths. An acceptable combination, since neither of those bands are doing anything with the styles they pioneered.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Decembrists - The Crane Wife<\/strong>. Not as interesting as \"Her Majesty\". It's a lot less anachronistic and a bit more mainstream. It has its charms, but some of the songs (\"Perfect Crime\", \"When The War Came\") I find downright obnoxious.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mission Of Burma - The Obliterati<\/strong>. I missed them the first time around, and have only heard a few songs from their early days - and I like what I've heard of them. But this record, released in 2006, sounds as if it could've been written back in the 80's, it's so chock-full of early post-punk goodness: loud, aggressive, defiant, angular, dissonant. It definitely doesn't at all sound like a band in its 24th year. And as a bonus, listening to this stuff puts other, later, loud post-punk bands like Polvo, Fugazi, the Pixes and even the mighty Sonic Youth into perspective. These guys were doing it first, and they're still doing it today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow<\/strong>. There's a bit of the airy mystical chamber-folk of Nick Drake and a bit of the cheery modern pop-folk of Bright Eyes, a little Latin flavor, some hippy folk stuff. Innaresting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beatles - 65<\/strong>. This came from a bunch of LPs my father sent me to rip to CD. Great record. I wasn't sure about my fondness for early Beatles, but this is infectious, energetic stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gillian Welch - Black Star EP<\/strong>. Awesome. There are only three songs: Black Star, Pocahontas, White Freightliner Blues. I've had this for a long time, and I assumed the songs were all covers, but never bothered looking up who wrote the songs. Then, one day, \"Black Star\" popped-up on the iPod, but it was Radiohead... huh. Now I know. Gillian's version is a lot better, IMO - it's a great song, but the Radiohead version sounds busy, and compressed by comparison. \"Pocahontas\" is a Neil Young song, and again, Gillian's version is better. The third song is a Townes Van Zandt song, but I already knew that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robyn Hitchcock - Robyn Sings<\/strong>. Robyn sings Bob Dylan, to be accurate. It's a compilation of Robyn doing Bob Dylan covers. Some are good. Some are kind of rough. Some sound like bootlegs. Since Dylan, like Neil Young, is one of those songwriters I like better when other people do his songs, this is a nice way to sample a bunch of Dylan I'd probably otherwise never hear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metallica - Master Of Puppets. Just backfilling my collection here. But wow, what an album. Half of the lyrics make no sense at all, but they sound good. The iPod absolutely loves it. The Decembrists - Her Majesty. Neutral Milk Hotel meets the Smiths. An acceptable combination, since neither of those bands are doing anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256","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=1256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}