{"id":20664,"date":"2014-06-18T13:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20664"},"modified":"2014-06-20T18:38:14","modified_gmt":"2014-06-20T18:38:14","slug":"listening-to-32","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=20664","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><b>The Gun Club - Fire of Love<\/b>. Classic 80's punk infused with blues. I'd heard the name, but I always assumed The Gun Club was some kind of new wave synths-and-white-hair band. But a friend who has no use for that stuff mentioned this record, and I took a listen. It's good! I wish I'd heard it 25 years ago. (<strong>Update<\/strong>: this was also #77 in our <a href=\"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/favorite_recs\/results.htm\">2011 Readers Favorite Records Poll<\/a>!)\n<li><b>Jack White - Lazaretto<\/b>. For some reason, I haven't liked any of Jack Black's post-White Stripes records 1\/10th as much as I like his Stripes stuff. In my ears, that minimal blues-stomp stuff the Stripes did is so much more fun and <i>alive<\/i> than what he does when he gets to add all kinds of other instruments. Bring back Meg!\n<li><b>Yevgeny Kutik - Music From The Suitcase<\/b>. There's a genre of music that gets used as background in dark movies, especially those set in eastern Europe, early 1900s. It's usually a solo violin in a classical style, but mournful and plaintive and less formal than the old masters. I once thought they might be Chopin (eastern European, classical but more modern, etc.), so I bought a bunch of Chopin. But that wasn't it; Chopin is too intricate and busy (and piano-based). I only knew Stravinsky and Prokofiev from their big loud symphonies, so I didn't suspect them. And that's as far as my knowledge of eastern European classical music went. This was pre-digital music, where you could just preview tunes at will, so I couldn't just hunt around. I eventually gave up. But a couple of months back I heard a review of this record on NPR, and there was that music again: violin and piano, spooky, melancholy. And they were mostly short songs by big-name Russian composers, late 19th C, early 20th C: Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovitch, etc.. I just didn't know they did those types of things. Mystery solved.\n<li><b>Cypress Hill - Black Sunday<\/b>. <i>Insane In The Membrane!<\/i>, yeah that one. It's fun, shut up.\n<li><b>The Pharcyde - Bizzare Ride II<\/b>. Since early 90s hip-hop is the only hip-hop I like, I must buy everything from that era. It's a little uneven, but the good parts are really good. I like it.\n<\/ul>\n<p>You?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gun Club - Fire of Love. Classic 80's punk infused with blues. I'd heard the name, but I always assumed The Gun Club was some kind of new wave synths-and-white-hair band. But a friend who has no use for that stuff mentioned this record, and I took a listen. It's good! I wish I'd [&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-20664","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\/20664","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=20664"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20678,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20664\/revisions\/20678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}