{"id":19956,"date":"2014-02-17T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T14:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19956"},"modified":"2014-02-17T22:01:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T22:01:57","slug":"balloon-juice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=19956","title":{"rendered":"Start Your iPods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random three, described.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9J-V6AGuA2k\">Guided By Voices - Motor Away<\/a>. A great band. This song is one of many on its album which make you think that these guys can toss out these ridiculously great pop songs which would all be top-40 hits in a sane and just world. Except that they've recorded the songs to sound as radio-unfriendly as possible, because <i>Fuck The System!<\/i> or <i>Artistic Vision!<\/i> something, so they linger in obscurity by their own choice because <i>Gimmie Indie Rock!<\/i> or whatever. But then, their later albums are as slick as possible (produced by people like Ric Ocasek!), and the songs just as good; and the albums went nowhere.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GeLe5GD7hlo\">Sonic Youth - The Sprawl<\/a>. The \"Sprawl\"? No. This will always be the \"Come on down to the store\" song.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mkx6f0LqFLM\">The Men - Oscillation<\/a>. A nice indie rock jam. Reminds me of early Feelies, or Yo La Tengo, or even fieldfresh.<br \/>\n <div class=\"compact_audio_player_wrapper\"><div class=\"sc_player_container1\"><input type=\"button\" id=\"btnplay_69e7bb34edf369.50136587\" class=\"myButton_play\" onClick=\"play_mp3('play','69e7bb34edf369.50136587','https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/..\/songs\/fieldfresh\/evening_news.mp3','80','false');show_hide('play','69e7bb34edf369.50136587');\" \/><input type=\"button\"  id=\"btnstop_69e7bb34edf369.50136587\" style=\"display:none\" class=\"myButton_stop\" onClick=\"play_mp3('stop','69e7bb34edf369.50136587','','80','false');show_hide('stop','69e7bb34edf369.50136587');\" \/><div id=\"sm2-container\"><!-- flash movie ends up here --><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Play along, if you dare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random three, described. Guided By Voices - Motor Away. A great band. This song is one of many on its album which make you think that these guys can toss out these ridiculously great pop songs which would all be top-40 hits in a sane and just world. Except that they've recorded the songs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,28,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs","category-start-your-ipods","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956","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=19956"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19972,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19956\/revisions\/19972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}