{"id":2374,"date":"2008-04-04T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T11:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2008-04-04T07:00:32","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T11:00:32","slug":"the-list-2008-70-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=2374","title":{"rendered":"The List, 2008, #70-61"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here's the next installment of my 2008 Top 100 Favorite Records list. <\/p>\n

The Lilys entry down there has my feeble attempt at a music video. As a video, it sucks, I know; but I just wanted to make something to look at while the song was playing.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n 70<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n The Police<\/td>\n\n 1980<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Zenyatta Mondatta<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n The studio solo from "Driven To Tears" is a thing of beauty.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 69<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Lilys<\/td>\n\n 1994<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n A Brief History of Amazing Letdowns<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n The Near-Perfect EP.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 68<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n ZZ Top<\/td>\n\n 1973<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Tres Hombres<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n "A haw haw haw!" Yes, exactly, haw haw.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 67<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Neil Young<\/td>\n\n 1979<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Live Rust<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Sugar Mountain sounds like a nice place. I wish I was 4 again.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 66<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Rolling Stones<\/td>\n\n 1972<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Exile On Main Street<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Keith sings "Happy" and that's all that matters.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 65<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Yo La Tengo<\/td>\n\n 1995<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Electr-O-Pura<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Twelve years past, and I still don't know what "Tom Courtenay" is about, even though it's my favorite YLT song.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 64<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Nirvana<\/td>\n\n 1991<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Nevermind<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Less dangerous than you might remember. But still entertaining!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 63<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Gillian Welch<\/td>\n\n 1996<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Revival<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Her first record. A star is born.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 62<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n The Doors<\/td>\n\n 1967<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n The Doors<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Does the day divide the night, or does the night divide the day? Which is to be master, is the question. To start off with your best record is both triumph and tragedy.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n
\n 61<\/span><\/td>\n\n <\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n Pink Floyd<\/td>\n\n 1977<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Animals<\/td>\n\n <\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n He converteth me to lamb cutlets!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

And the histogram for #100-#61 looks like this:
\n
\n(release dates of records listed so far, grouped into five-year spans)<\/p>\n

Next exciting installment will be out on Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And here's the next installment of my 2008 Top 100 Favorite Records list. The Lilys entry down there has my feeble attempt at a music video. As a video, it sucks, I know; but I just wanted to make something to look at while the song was playing. 70 The Police 1980 Zenyatta Mondatta The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-list-08"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","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=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}