{"id":2052,"date":"2007-11-13T15:21:36","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T19:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2052"},"modified":"2007-11-13T15:21:36","modified_gmt":"2007-11-13T19:21:36","slug":"uh-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2052","title":{"rendered":"Uh, No"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year ago, Paste went a-trollin' with its list of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pastemagazine.com\/action\/article\/3003\/feature\/music\/pastes_100_best_living_songwriters_the_list\">100 Best Living Songwriters<\/a>. I just found it today...<\/p>\n<p>You can read it for yourself, but, hey, wait, I have a few complaints:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Pink Floyd (#80) vs Fleetwood Mac (#83) is an argument worth having. But claiming that Conor Oberst (#67) is better than both is just goofy.\n<li>Jack White (#59) is better than Sting (#62) ? This is about songwriting, right?\n<li>I like the Replacements just fine, but no way is Paul Westerberg (#52) a better songwriter than Becker & Fagan (a.k.a. Steely Dan), <i>who don't even appear on the list<\/i>.\n<li>As the only rap group to make the list, (which makes them like the best rap group of all time, I guess) Public Enemy at #50 seems a little out of place.\n<li>Sufjan Stevens (#47) doesn't deserve to be anywhere on this list.\n<li>Nor does Ryan Adams (#43), who in no possible universe could be a better songwriter than David Byrne (#46), let alone James Brown (#56) or any one of the Fleetwood Mac principles.\n<li>I like Beck too, but his position at #36 is puzzling.\n<li>Where's Robyn Hitchcock??!\n<\/ol>\n<p>I know, lists like this are generally pointless, but this one seems particularly silly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little over a year ago, Paste went a-trollin' with its list of the 100 Best Living Songwriters. I just found it today... You can read it for yourself, but, hey, wait, I have a few complaints: Pink Floyd (#80) vs Fleetwood Mac (#83) is an argument worth having. But claiming that Conor Oberst (#67) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","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=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}