{"id":2091,"date":"2007-12-04T09:13:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T13:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2091"},"modified":"2007-12-04T09:13:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T13:13:27","slug":"30-second-reviews-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2091","title":{"rendered":"30 Second Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Haven't done this in a while...<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Syd Barrett - Madcap Laughs. I want to like it, but it hasn't grabbed me yet. I really like a lot of those old Floyd singles that Barrett wrote, but I think that spark was nearly out by this point.\n<li>Sea And Cake - Sea And Cake. I resisted buying this for years, without good reason. But it's great. It's a lot more rough and unpolished than their subsequent records, but it's got a real <i>band<\/i> kind of feel - not slick and electronic like some of their recent stuff. A good lead-up to <i>Parasol<\/i>.\n<li>Tord Gustavsen Trio - Being There. Cool, introspective piano-trio jazz. Very nice stuff.\n<li>Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks. I really want to like Dylan. But it's just not working for me, outside of <em>Highway 61<\/em> and <em>Freewheeling<\/em>, that is. This one does have the original version of \"You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go\", which I'd only heard in the Madelene Peyroux cover, so that's interesting (her cover <em>kills<\/em> the original, b.t.w).\n<li>Amy Winehouse - Back to Black. Hey, why not. It's fun. Some of it's a little too contemporary (?) for me, but the more classic-soul-sounding tracks are pretty good. And \"Rehab\" is as catchy as anything.\n<li>New Pornographers - Challengers. I like their uptempo stuff better.\n<li>Matt Pond PA - Last Night. I like these guys (this guy? I dunno). They're like the Toad The Wet Sprocket of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century - very melodic, smart, nicely-crafted songs.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haven't done this in a while... Syd Barrett - Madcap Laughs. I want to like it, but it hasn't grabbed me yet. I really like a lot of those old Floyd singles that Barrett wrote, but I think that spark was nearly out by this point. Sea And Cake - Sea And Cake. I resisted [&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-2091","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\/2091","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=2091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}