{"id":1488,"date":"2007-03-23T09:32:43","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T13:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2007-03-23T09:32:43","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T13:32:43","slug":"15-second-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"15 second reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let's do some top-of-the-head reviews!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Return Of the Grievous Angel - Tribute to Gram Parsons. I've had this for years, but every time a song from it pops up on the iPod, I'm amazed at how great it all is. Except that Cowboy Junkies song.\n<li>The Futureheads - News and Tributes. Meh.. It's short on the edge that made the first record fun, going instead for more elaborate harmonies and sweeter chord progressions.\n<li>Adrian Belew - Side Three. Less heavy on the electronica than Side Two, more like traditional Belew solo stuff. Les Claypool (Primus) and Robert Fripp stop by.\n<li>The Good, The Bad and The Queen - The Good, The Bad and The Queen. I don't know what this is all about, because I haven't played close enough attention. But I like it superficially. Reminds me of British Sea Power - maybe it shouldn't.\n<li>Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break. Lo-fi psychedelic pop, in a kind of Apples In Stereo vibe. Nice enough.\n<li>Andrew Bird - Weather Systems. A little more introspective than his Mysterious Production Of Eggs record, yet still good. Too bad he's not playing within 400 miles of my house... would love to see him.\n<li>Eagles of Death Metal - Death By Sexy \/ Peace Love Death Metal. There's no real difference between the two records. It's the White Stripes guitar\/vox\/drums vibe but instead of the blues worship, it's a sometimes-silly garage rock explosion.\n<li>No Knife - Fire In The City Of The Automatons. Not as catchy as their Riot For Romance, but still fairly interesting - angular Belew\/Crimson-scented alterna-post-punk-pop ?\n<li>Pavement - Wowee Zowee reissue. A bunch of interesting outtakes and b-sides, and a bunch of live stuff that makes me appreciate their studio stuff more - does Spiral's mic have to be so loud?\n<ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let's do some top-of-the-head reviews! Return Of the Grievous Angel - Tribute to Gram Parsons. I've had this for years, but every time a song from it pops up on the iPod, I'm amazed at how great it all is. Except that Cowboy Junkies song. The Futureheads - News and Tributes. Meh.. It's short on [&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-1488","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\/1488","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=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}