{"id":13308,"date":"2011-09-06T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=13308"},"modified":"2011-09-06T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-06T18:28:00","slug":"not-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=13308","title":{"rendered":"A Sort of Homecoming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I'm much less of a U2 fan than I once was, but on a whim I bought the remastered version of \"The Unforgettable Fire\" last night. I bought it on cassette, back in prehistoric times, and lost interest in the band before CDs came out. So, I've never heard it on anything but crappy tape through a long series of crappy tape decks.<\/p>\n<p>\"Bad\" just popped up on the iPod, and it's truly an amazing difference from what I remember. There are all kinds of sounds in there that I have no recollection of hearing: various seagull guitar sounds, a tambourine occasionally shaking throughout the verses, a high-pitched tinkling sound on the strings in the second verse, a strange stereo echo on a ride cymbal in the second half, etc.. I had to check to make sure it wasn't a remix of some kind. Sounds great, even in MP3. Most impressive. Makes me wonder about the \"Boy\" and \"Under A Blood Red Sky\" remasters... I still won't touch anything after \"Rattle And Hum\", but it's nice to hear the old stuff again...<\/p>\n<p>Cassettes really were shit, weren't they?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm much less of a U2 fan than I once was, but on a whim I bought the remastered version of \"The Unforgettable Fire\" last night. I bought it on cassette, back in prehistoric times, and lost interest in the band before CDs came out. So, I've never heard it on anything but crappy tape [&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-13308","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\/13308","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=13308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}