{"id":12749,"date":"2011-07-18T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12749"},"modified":"2011-07-18T09:31:47","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:31:47","slug":"start-your-ipods-292","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=12749","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shuffle-up five songs. Describe them so that we may learn.<\/p>\n

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  1. Kristin Hersh<\/a> - Silver Sun. The same week the Throwing Muses put out their blistering self-titled 2003 'comeback' album, their singer, Kristin Hersh, put out a solo album of eerie, gloomy acoustic tunes called \"The Grotto\". This is from that album. It's really quite beautiful (and Andrew Bird's in there playing violin), but it's really quite cold, too.\n
  2. Portishead - Over<\/a>. Speaking of gloomy and beautiful... Portishead kindof owned that category, in the mid 90s. And this is one of my favorite songs from their second, self-titled, album.\n
  3. The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes (live)<\/a>. Gloomy and beautiful, right. This one is just dripping with that creepy unsettled feeling that defined their early 80's sound, which I love. Maybe this song's is a little too filled-out though - I can generally do with fewer keyboards - when compared to the rest of their stuff from '81. But, overall, a nice 2nd-era Cure tune.\n
  4. Kristin Hersh<\/a> - Vitamins V. The iPod is clearly in a mood. This is also from \"The Grotto\", and so: gloomy and beautiful. The 'Vitamins V' are vodka and valium. That's partially what this song is about, and is exactly what it sounds like.\n
  5. John Mayall - All Your Love<\/a>. I play this song on guitar, constantly, sloppily. Wish we lived out in the country, so I could crank my amp and get some of that lovely feedback Clapton gets on the breaks. It wouldn't sound any better to anyone listening, but it would be a lot more fun for me.\n<\/ol>\n

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

    Shuffle-up five songs. Describe them so that we may learn. Kristin Hersh - Silver Sun. The same week the Throwing Muses put out their blistering self-titled 2003 'comeback' album, their singer, Kristin Hersh, put out a solo album of eerie, gloomy acoustic tunes called \"The Grotto\". This is from that album. It's really quite beautiful […]<\/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-12749","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\/12749","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=12749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}