{"id":24046,"date":"2016-05-06T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T15:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24046"},"modified":"2016-05-06T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T20:06:08","slug":"listening-to-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=24046","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies<\/strong>. I'd always avoided New Order because I only knew them from their big shiny hits that I couldn't avoid in 1988 (Blue Monday, True Faith, Bizarre Love Triangle, etc.). I thought they were just a synthpop band, like a sunnier Depeche Mode. But, I recently saw some old footage from a live show they did in 83 or something and was kinda blown away. Also, I was kinda like \"Oh, so The Cure aren't <i>sui generis<\/i>. Hmm!\" So I picked this up. It's from 1983, their second album as New Order, and still has a lot of the dark and minimal Joy Division sound (but with better vocals). And to that, it adds synthpop, and actual joy, something that Joy Division was a little short on. 5 eggplants.<br \/>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_cYx8yW3POcg\"><div id=\"lyte_cYx8yW3POcg\" data-src=\"\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cYx8yW3POcg\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/cYx8yW3POcg\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/cYx8yW3POcg\/0.jpg\" alt=\"YouTube video thumbnail\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<li><strong>Parquet Courts - Human Performance<\/strong>. My favorite new band. Today, anyway. They're clearly fans of so many of my favorite old bands, all those smart punks of yesteryear: Pavement, VU, Modern Lovers, Devo. And with that as their base, they write songs with noisy snarling droning barking guitars, clever deadpan vocals and metronomic rhythms. This one is a more fleshed-out and varied than 2012's <i>Light Up Gold<\/i> (the only other album I have from them). But it's still scrappy and gritty and smart and very NYC. 4 eggplants.<br \/>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Parquet Courts - Dust (Official Video)\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_lRG3R2FmGlY\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/lRG3R2FmGlY\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lRG3R2FmGlY\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT3M58S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2016-02-04T16:59:56Z\" \/><\/div><div id=\"lyte_lRG3R2FmGlY\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/lRG3R2FmGlY\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Parquet Courts - Dust (Official Video)<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lRG3R2FmGlY\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/lRG3R2FmGlY\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Parquet Courts - Dust (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Dust&quot; is taken from Parquet Courts&#039; new album &#039;Human Performance&#039;, out now on Rough Trade Records. Buy the album: Rough Trade webstore: http:\/\/smarturl.it\/HumanPerformance_rt (The first people to pre-order from here will receive an exclusive, limited edition screen print designed by Andrew Savage) iTunes: http:\/\/smarturl.it\/HumanPerformance_i Amazon: http:\/\/smarturl.it\/HumanPerformance_a Stream &quot;Dust&quot; on Spotify: http:\/\/smarturl.it\/HumanPerformance_s Video directed by Johann Rashid https:\/\/parquetcourts.wordpress.com\/ http:\/\/roughtraderecords.com\/\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><\/p>\n<li><strong>Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city<\/strong>. My quest to find rap that I like but which didn't come out in 1993 continues. And this will probably be among my favorites. Lamar's lyrics are impressively clever and perceptive, and the tracks mostly avoid the modern hiphop cliche of minor key strings stretched over big fat dance beats. Sometimes a little too much boasting for my taste (something that's unavoidable even with the best rappers), but otherwise it's very good. I hear he has a new record out. I should look into it. 4 eggplants.<br \/>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Kendrick Lamar - Backseat Freestyle (Explicit)\" style=\"width:640px;max-width:100%;margin:5px;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_EZW7et3tPuQ\" itemprop=\"video\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><div><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/EZW7et3tPuQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EZW7et3tPuQ\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT4M45S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2013-01-08T04:33:36Z\" \/><\/div><meta itemprop=\"accessibilityFeature\" content=\"captions\" \/><div id=\"lyte_EZW7et3tPuQ\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/EZW7et3tPuQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\" itemprop=\"name\">Kendrick Lamar - Backseat Freestyle (Explicit)<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EZW7et3tPuQ\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/EZW7et3tPuQ\/0.jpg\" alt=\"Kendrick Lamar - Backseat Freestyle (Explicit)\" width=\"640\" height=\"460\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"good kid, m.A.A.d city available now! http:\/\/smarturl.it\/gkmc Music video by Kendrick Lamar performing Backseat Freestyle (Explicit). \u00a9 2012 Interscope\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:640px;margin:5px;\"><\/div><br \/>\nPlus, booty.\n<\/ul>\n<p>U?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies. 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