{"id":18865,"date":"2013-08-15T11:45:59","date_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18865"},"modified":"2013-08-15T11:45:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-15T15:45:59","slug":"listening-to-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=18865","title":{"rendered":"Listening To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/smallrecords\/1033-1.jpg\" align=right style=\"margin:20px\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Love And Rockets - Earth Sun Moon<\/b>. Every now and then I feel the urge to back-fill some of the records I listened to a lot in the past but either traded-away or otherwise lost access to. So, this one. It's an absolute classic. Lush, <strike>early 90's<\/strike> late 80's, retro-Beatles psychedelia. There's not much of the old Bauhaus goth lingering around on this, but there is a lot of misty, watercolored, neo-hippie-dippyism. It was <em>very <\/em>stylish at the time. The catchy, \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Bo3R3LBjDek\">No New Tale To Tell<\/a>\" was the first song I ever learned to play on guitar (I had tried to learn The Beatles' \"Help\" prior, but that f'in Bm chord was too much for me at the time).\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_9-gjSUF4PQ\">Howlin Wolf<\/a> - Howlin' Wolf\/Moanin' in the Moonlight<\/strong>. I've had the \"London Howlin Wolf Sessions\" album forever. That's the one where Wolf and his guitar player somewhat-reluctantly hooked up with a bunch of British rock kids (Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ringo Starr, Bill Wyman, Charlie Watts, Ian Stewart, etc.) for a run-through of Wolf classics. I like it well enough, but I have to admit I bought it mostly for the rockers. It wasn't until I heard the original versions of the tunes that I really appreciated how awesome Wolf was. The stuff with Clapton et al drags a bit because Wolf wasn't into it, and the rock kids were intimidated by him. But these early versions are raw and rockin and, yes, <i>howlin<\/i>. It's easy to hear what drew all those rock kids to him. Plus <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Howlin-Wolf-Moanin-Moonlight\/dp\/B000002O3I\"<\/a>$6 for 24 songs<\/a>!\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Eh1-T1HqEJY\">Tame Impala<\/a> - Innerspeaker<\/strong>. Retro-psychedelia, often sounding very much like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PjKx-yLOGEY\">The Nazz<\/a>, or George Harrison, especially in the vocals. Or Cream. Or Hendrix. Or a great swirling stew of 60's rock. Which is a good thing, IMO. I like it.\n<\/ul>\n<p>You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Love And Rockets - Earth Sun Moon. Every now and then I feel the urge to back-fill some of the records I listened to a lot in the past but either traded-away or otherwise lost access to. So, this one. It's an absolute classic. Lush, early 90's late 80's, retro-Beatles psychedelia. There's not much of [&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-18865","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\/18865","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=18865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}