{"id":724,"date":"2005-08-11T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-11T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=724"},"modified":"2005-08-11T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-11T15:44:00","slug":"the-listener-is-listening-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=724","title":{"rendered":"The Listener is Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And what does he hear ?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Twin A<\/b> - Disappear . My wife and I saw them in Rochester, NY a few weeks back, at a club called Milestones (where, back in the day, many of my old bands played). I assume they're still a local band, because I haven't seen much about them on the net. They were loud, the sound was crap, but we could make out enough of it to know we liked it - so we bought their CD. And, it is good. They sound like a band that could get a lot of college\/alternative radio play these days - emotional guitar pop.\n<li><b>Madeleine Peyroux<\/b> - Careless Love.  ... ... BILLIE HOLIDAY!! Ok. There's no getting around it, the woman sounds like the reincarnation of Billie Holiday. She does very approachable blues\/jazz versions of standards new and old (including, to my surprise, Elliot Smith's <i>Between The Bars<\/i>). The whole thing has a nice, slow relaxed vibe - with the vocals up front and clean. I like it, but I just can't shake the feeling that I'm listening to Billie Holiday - which is a compliment, of course.\n<li><b>Rolling Stones<\/b> - Let It Bleed. What's to be said... it's everything you'd expect from a record that starts with <em>Gimme Shelter<\/em> and ends with <em>You Can't Always Get What You Want<\/em>. Well, there is a problem... the problem with buying Rolling Stones records these days is that all of them have two or three songs that you've already heard a skrillion times - why would I want to pay for a copy of <i>You Can't Always Get What You Want<\/i> ? Especially since I already have it, and all the others, on Hot Rocks. Luckily, iTunes lets you buy tracks individually, so I just bought everything but the first and last songs, then told iTunes that the Hot Rocks versions are actually from Let It Bleed (can't have a song on more than two albums ? WTF ?). Problem solved.\n<li><b>Andrew Bird<\/b> - Andrew Bird and the Mysterious Production of Eggs. An great blend of styles (folk, rock, swing, jazz, etc) with intelligent, oblique, and often dark lyrics that are delivered in a voice that reminds me a lot of Beck's quieter moments - or maybe John Mayer (gasp).\n<ul>\nOverprescribed<br \/>\nUnder the mister<br \/>\nWe had survived to<br \/>\nTurn on the History Channel<br \/>\nAnd asked our esteemed panel<br \/>\n`Why are we alive?'<br \/>\nAnd here's how they replied:<br \/>\n`You're what happened when two substances collide<br \/>\nAnd by all accounts you really should've died.'\n<\/ul>\n<p>I like it quite a lot.\n <\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And what does he hear ? Twin A - Disappear . My wife and I saw them in Rochester, NY a few weeks back, at a club called Milestones (where, back in the day, many of my old bands played). I assume they're still a local band, because I haven't seen much about them on [&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-724","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\/724","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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}