{"id":5713,"date":"2009-05-14T10:43:38","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5713"},"modified":"2009-05-14T10:43:38","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T14:43:38","slug":"listening-to-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5713","title":{"rendered":"Listening To..."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality<\/b>. Have you ever put on a record, not really expecting much from it except background music, but somehow find yourself completely falling into it? Every song and verse absolutely resonates with you; and when it's over, you're a little amazed at what just happened ? Yeah, that happened with this record a few weeks ago. This puzzled me because, while I like Sabbath well enough, I don't consider myself to be a huge fan, nor a huge fan of metal in general (at least not since high school). But, nonetheless, it happened. I was one with Ozzy and Tony. Mostly Tony. I think it had something to do with the copious quantity of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allagash.com\/black.htm\">Allagash Black<\/a> I had consumed.  Four Psis for each: &Psi;&Psi;&Psi;&Psi; .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash<\/strong>. This is the first album from them that annoys me less than it pleases me. I think it's because much of the record has a real live-in-the-studio feel; many of the songs have long loose sections where you can hear the members playing off each other, waiting for cues, taking chances, etc.. No, they aren't a jam band, or even close, but this record definitely has a more relaxed feel than most of their other stuff. That interplay also makes the record seem like more of a group effort than just a Stephen Malkmus [with backing band] record. Three Psis: &Psi;&Psi;&Psi; .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paper - An Object<\/strong>. Like Joy Division + Red Bull. They've got that raw goth\/punk feel of classic Joy Division, but Paper is louder, faster and twitchier. There's a clip at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flux-rad.com\/2009\/05\/07\/one-a-day-while-youre-away-paper\/\">Flux-Rad<\/a>. Four Psis: &Psi;&Psi;&Psi;&Psi; .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality. Have you ever put on a record, not really expecting much from it except background music, but somehow find yourself completely falling into it? Every song and verse absolutely resonates with you; and when it's over, you're a little amazed at what just happened ? Yeah, that happened with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-listening-to","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713","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=5713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}