{"id":612,"date":"2005-05-09T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=612"},"modified":"2005-05-09T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T08:30:00","slug":"hi-fi-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"Hi-fi Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since I'm too small to be tagged, I'll take the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandagon.net\/archives\/2005\/05\/i_need_to_learn.html#more\">Hi-Fidelity Challenge<\/a> myself.<\/p>\n<p><b>Top Five Lyrics that Move Your Heart<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Pavement - Range Life<\/b>\n<ul>\nSo drunk in the august sun<br \/>\nAnd you're the kind of girl I like<br \/>\nBecause you're empty and I'm empty<br \/>\nAnd you can never quarantine the past<br \/>\nDid you remember in december<br \/>\nThat I won't eat you when I'm gone<br \/>\nAnd if I go there, I won't stay there<br \/>\nBecause I'm sitting here too long<br \/>\nI've been sitting here too long<br \/>\nAnd I've been wasted\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>REM - Don't Go Back To Rockville<\/b>\n<ul>At night I drink myself to sleep and pretend<br \/>\nI don't care if you're not here with me<br \/>\n'Cause it's so much easier to handle<br \/>\nAll my problems if I'm too far out to sea<\/ul>\n<li><b>Unrest - June<\/b>\n<ul>As you lay dying<br \/>\nMorphine and ice cream<br \/>\nStaining your sheets<br \/>\nConfusing your mind<br \/>\nand it reminds me<br \/>\nThey still get paid<br \/>\nwhen you die.\n<\/ul>\n<li><b>Neil Young - Powderfinger<\/b>\n<ul>Shelter me from the powder and the finger<br \/>\nCover me with the thought that pulled the trigger<br \/>\nThink of me as one you'd never figured<br \/>\nWould fade away so young<br \/>\nWith so much left undone<br \/>\nRemember me to my love,<br \/>\nI know I'll miss her.<\/ul>\n<li><b>Spoon - Anything You Want<\/b>\n<ul>If there's anything you want<br \/>\nCome on back cause it's all still here<br \/>\nI'll be in the back room drinking my half of the beer<br \/>\nAnd if you and me is so right<br \/>\nWhy's it the same thing every night<\/p>\n<p>It's just a matter of time<br \/>\nIt's almost measurable<br \/>\nImagination ain't kind on us tonight<\/p>\n<p>You're at your best when you got the guns turned a hundred eighty degrees<br \/>\nAnd finding out if it adds all up right<br \/>\nWe go through all the same lines and sell out to appease<br \/>\nBut go to sleep in a bed of lies<br \/>\nI made my own more than once or twice<\/p>\n<p>And now time is my time<br \/>\nTime is my own<br \/>\nAnd I feel so alive yet feel so alone<br \/>\nCause you know you're the one and that that hasn't changed<br \/>\nSince you were nineteen and still in school waiting on a light<br \/>\nOn the corner by Sound Exchange\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Top 5 Instrumentals<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I agree with Amanda, on this: <i>all<\/i> of Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue\n<li>Dave Brubeck - Take Five\n<li>Stevie Ray Vaughan - Little Wing\n<li>Robyn Hitchcock, Chinese Water Python\n<li>Doc Watson - Black Mountian Rag (live)\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Top 5 Live Musical Experiences<\/b><br \/>\nThis is tough. There are so many, it seems wrong to pick just five.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Merlefest, 05. Of course.\n<li>1991, First Lollapalooza. At the time, it was amazing to see so many people so into \"alternative\" music - back when the label meant something.\n<li>1991, New Year's Eve. Maxwells, Hoboken, NJ. Mudhoney, The Mummys and The Lyres (?). Hanging out at the bar with the guys from Mudhoney and Thurston and Steve from Sonic Youth. We got them to fill up a postcard which we sent to a guy who couldn't make the show with us.\n<li>Cowboy Junkies, Cat's Cradle ('03?). They somehow managed to make songs that seem distant and melancholy on the records sound warm and personal - and I liked 'em both ways.\n<li>Nearly any Robyn Hitchcock show.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Top Five Artists You Think More People Should Listen To<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Spoon\n<li>Cowboy Junkies\n<li>Elliot Smith\n<li>Yo La Tengo\n<li>Gillian Welch\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Top Five Albums You Must Hear From Start to Finish<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation\n<li>Miles Davis, Kind Of Blue\n<li>Liz Phair, Exlie In Guyville\n<li>My Bloody Valentine, Loveless\n<li>Slint, Spiderland\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Top Five Musical Heroes<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Robert Smith\n<li>Robyn Hitchcock\n<li>Ira Kaplan (vocals, guitar - Yo La Tengo)\n<li>Eric Clapton\n<li>Stephen Malkmus (vocals, guitar - Pavement)\n<\/ul>\n<p>(oh, and <i>fuck<\/i> stupid buggy Blogger for making me retype this thing)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since I'm too small to be tagged, I'll take the Hi-Fidelity Challenge myself. Top Five Lyrics that Move Your Heart Pavement - Range Life So drunk in the august sun And you're the kind of girl I like Because you're empty and I'm empty And you can never quarantine the past Did you remember in [&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-612","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\/612","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=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}