{"id":16080,"date":"2012-07-02T09:45:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T13:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16080"},"modified":"2012-07-02T09:45:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T13:45:17","slug":"start-your-ipods-340","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16080","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another week, another broken hot water heater.<\/p>\n

Random five, describe!<\/p>\n

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  1. Allman Bros - Don't Keep Me Wonderin' (live)<\/a>. I can appreciate the Allman Bros' talents, but on the whole they've never been able to reach the level of essential<\/i>, in my estimation.\n
  2. The Sundays - I Won<\/a>. This little flash-in-the-pan band, with that Smiths-y guitar sound, and that very English singer... somehow this album grabbed me, in 1990, and it has yet to grow old. Odd.\n
  3. John Mayall - Bernard Jenkins<\/a>. It's just Clapton's guitar and Mayall's piano. Makes you realize that even the best rock guitar players will sound simple next to a great piano player. While Clapton is wheedling away, one or two strings at a time, Mayall is playing bass, rhythm chords, and<\/i> a bit of a lead accompaniment. And when Clapton sits back on a verse, and Mayall steps it up, it's obvious that Mayall could easily handle this one on his own.\n
  4. John Coltrane - Cousin Mary<\/a> (alternate take). One of my favorite Coltrane tunes. He doesn't go all sheets-of-sound on this, and the melody is nice.\n
  5. The Cure - Happy The Man<\/a>. One of their early B-sides. Guessing, I'm going to say that this was recorded around the time of The Top<\/i>... (looking it up... I'm right! It's a B-side to \"The Caterpillar\"). I've always dug this one. For The Top<\/i>, Smith was almost done with the minimal gloom of the Faith<\/i> era, but hadn't fully embraced the catchy pop side of the Japanese Whispers<\/i> singles. So, The Top<\/i> stuff feels a little unsettled, experimental, transitional. Lots of interesting stuff.\n<\/ol>\n

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

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