{"id":16621,"date":"2012-09-06T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16621"},"modified":"2012-09-06T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T15:09:47","slug":"listening-to-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16621","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vsmaTq-T4zE\">Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory<\/a>. When I listen to this, I hear a band trying out sounds from other bands: from the vaguely Thom Yorke-ish opener, into things that sound like Paper, Pixies, Tokyo Police Club, etc.. It's not bad, but I get so distracted by the echoes of other bands that I can't get into it fully. Not their fault entirely, it's a curse of mine.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ecY1WJMlT_U&feature=relmfu\">Buddy Guy & Junior Wells : Hoodoo Man Blues<\/a>. 1965. Now this is the shit. Guy's guitar playing is awesome: aggressive and playful (and his influence on Clapton is obvious). He sounds like he's just having a ball. Harmonica, in the mouths of folkies at least, makes me want to tear my ears off and fill the holes with spackle, but Wells' favors a low and growly tone, and it's well down in the mix. Awesome. Killer record.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V_Pn37MP56U\">Buddy Guy & Junior Wells : Alone And Acoustic<\/a>. 1981. Just Guy with an acoustic guitar and Wells with his harp; both sing. I much prefer the electric side of these guys, but there are some good songs here.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7vi2JrjRy6Y\">Buddy Guy - Sweet Tea<\/a>. 2001. The sound of this reminds me of Neil Young's \"Le Noise\" record; it's huge and raw, up-close and intimate when it's quiet, and when it gets loud it grabs you by the neck and roars in your face. It's a great sound, very <i>live<\/i>. Feels like you're watching them in someone's backyard. The only thing that detracts are the various odd reverbs\/echoes on Guy's voice; seems like there's a different unnecessary vocal effect on each song. His voice still sounds fine, and doesn't need any decoration.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UruZj56LwYk\">Divine Fits - A Thing Called Divine Fits<\/a>. This is Spoon's Britt Daniels, Wolf Parade's  Boeckner and New Bomb Turk's Sam Brown. It's a fun record; a strong 80's electronic new wave vibe, and a good amount of Britt Daniels signature hooks and vocal lines. They're coming to town next month. I am excite.\n<\/ul>\n<p>You got anything new?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud Nothings - Attack On Memory. When I listen to this, I hear a band trying out sounds from other bands: from the vaguely Thom Yorke-ish opener, into things that sound like Paper, Pixies, Tokyo Police Club, etc.. It's not bad, but I get so distracted by the echoes of other bands that I can't [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16621","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=16621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}