{"id":16896,"date":"2012-10-08T09:51:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16896"},"modified":"2012-10-08T09:51:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T13:51:14","slug":"start-your-ipods-354","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=16896","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"

Get your random five, rank them favorites first, justify your choices.<\/p>\n

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  1. Sam Prekop - The Shadow<\/a>. The Sea & Cake's singer's first solo record sounds pretty much like it could have been an S&C record. But at the time, S&C was going into their dense Stereolab \/ electronic phase, and this is very airy, minimalistic, stuff.\n
  2. Colorblind James Experience<\/a> - New Beret. CBJE started out with a unique jazzy two-step circus polka feel; but that eventually gave way to more of a straight country\/western vibe. Regardless of the base, though, they always had Chuck's deadpan lyrics and delivery and his love of repeating a simple curious melodic figure like clockwork throughout the song. They seemed to play a call\/response role: Chuck sing\/speaks a line and the songs's clockwork melody jumps up for a couple of bars, then back to Chuck, etc..\n
  3. Replacements<\/a> - Buck Hill. An instrumental. Country\/surf guitar line, and breaks that were eventually reworked into Tim<\/i>'s \"Kiss Me On The Bus\" (I assume). It feels like it needs just a bit more ... something. Maybe some of Westerberg's clever lyrics, maybe an explosive ending. Something. Still, it's a nice sketch.\n
  4. Robyn Hitchcock - Ye Sleeping Knights Of Jesus<\/a> (live). This was never one of my favorite RH songs. But, it's a decent rendition, and Robyn's lyrical improvisations are fun.\n
  5. Louis Armstrong : Alligator Crawl<\/a>. A bit slow, a bit plodding, and Louis' trumpet boppin over the top can't get this one out of the mud.\n<\/ol>\n

    That was a pretty good random five. No bad songs, this time. <\/p>\n

    What you got?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Get your random five, rank them favorites first, justify your choices. Sam Prekop - The Shadow. The Sea & Cake's singer's first solo record sounds pretty much like it could have been an S&C record. But at the time, S&C was going into their dense Stereolab \/ electronic phase, and this is very airy, minimalistic, […]<\/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-16896","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\/16896","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=16896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}