{"id":17762,"date":"2013-02-11T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17762"},"modified":"2013-02-11T12:20:12","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:20:12","slug":"listening-to-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=17762","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of quick impressions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My Bloody Valentine - m b v . They had a tough puzzle: how to follow up <i>Loveless<\/i>. Ditch the trademark swirling guitar noise? Lose the ethereal vocals? Update the 1991 sampled dance-beat drums? Answer to all three: no. Instead, they reduced the number and density of the guitars - now it sounds like one guy giving his whammy bar and effects pedals the workout of their lives. And, they reduced the warmth and sweetness in the melodies, which makes the album a lot less easy to get into. I'm not crazy about this, so far. Willing to give it more chances, though.\n<li>James Brown - Live At The Apollo. Regarded by many as the best live album ever. Dunno. The band is tight, sure, but I'm not a huge fan of 60s R&B in general, nor of James Brown in particular, so tightness in service of music that doesn't grab me isn't going to get me there. Plus, the crowd noise is a bit overdone - those girls shrieking all the time are just distracting. Not my bag.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hard to get new stuff without decent internet...<\/p>\n<p>Got anything we need to know about?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of quick impressions: My Bloody Valentine - m b v . They had a tough puzzle: how to follow up Loveless. Ditch the trademark swirling guitar noise? Lose the ethereal vocals? Update the 1991 sampled dance-beat drums? Answer to all three: no. Instead, they reduced the number and density of the guitars - [&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-17762","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\/17762","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=17762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}