{"id":6922,"date":"2009-09-22T17:09:14","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T21:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6922"},"modified":"2009-09-22T17:09:14","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T21:09:14","slug":"listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=6922","title":{"rendered":"Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Cold War Kids - Loyalty To Loyalty<\/strong>. Love it. Minimal, and bare-bones, but intense and surprisingly melodic. They've got the raw retro R&B sound of a darker Black Keys but with a wider dynamic range and more depth in the lyrics. In addition, they use the same lo-treble, high-reverb guitar sound that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-SHnuAgPgxU\">The Walkmen<\/a> use, which is cool thing to have. I wish that one song didn't remind me of \"Taking Care Of Business\", though. Still, great stuff. Thank you, RobC for the tip.<br \/>\nFour iquests: &iquest;&iquest;&iquest;&iquest;<\/p>\n<li><strong>Os Mutantes - Everything is Possible<\/strong>. It's impossible to know where to start with a band that's been around as long as these guys have, so I got a best-of collection. Most of the words are in Portuguese (I assume, since they're from Brazil), so I don't know what the songs are about, but the music is great fun. It runs all over the place, stylistically; some are light jazzy things, some are psychedelia, there is straight-up Latin dance music, ballads, and things I don't know how to classify - but it's all fun. So far, my favorite song is \"Cantor De Mambo\" (the mambo singer), which I believe is a tribute to Brazilian jazz legend Sergio Mendes, but sounds sometimes like a golden-era Santana song and finishes off with a sizzling Robert Fripp-style guitar solo. Wild stuff.<br \/>\nFour iquests: &iquest;&iquest;&iquest;&iquest;<\/p>\n<li><strong>Middle Distance Runner - Plane In Flames<\/strong>. I really liked their single, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rqXDsv1k360\">The Unbeliever<\/a>, so I went looking for the album. But (as of yet!) there is no album - it's just a single. They did have this earlier album, though, so I bought it. There are a few fairly fine songs on there from the same vein as The Unbeliever; but then there a bunch of things that sound like U2RadioheadColdplay... which don't do much for me. Overall, a good disk, though. It's been stuck in my car CD player for weeks.<br \/>\nThree iquests: &iquest;&iquest;&iquest;<\/p>\n<li><strong>Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz<\/strong>. I had some credit at a used book store, so I grabbed this - only $3. Heh. Memories. To think how this freaked-out parents all over the world when it came out - oy. If you couldn't tell he was play-acting, then, as most jr. high kids could, it's impossible to miss, now. OK, there are a couple of solid songs here and Randy Rhoades was surely a brilliant guitarist, but Ozzy's lyrics seem so cartoonish (even for Ozzy!) that it makes the parental freak-out look even more hilarious in hindsight than it did at the time.<br \/>\nTwo iquests: &iquest;&iquest;\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold War Kids - Loyalty To Loyalty. Love it. Minimal, and bare-bones, but intense and surprisingly melodic. They've got the raw retro R&#038;B sound of a darker Black Keys but with a wider dynamic range and more depth in the lyrics. In addition, they use the same lo-treble, high-reverb guitar sound that The Walkmen use, [&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-6922","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\/6922","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=6922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}