{"id":1430,"date":"2007-05-21T08:14:02","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T08:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/21\/songs-of-the-moment\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T08:14:02","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T08:14:02","slug":"songs-of-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/21\/songs-of-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs of the Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Top choices from the recent acquisitions playlist:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Sly,&#8221; Cat Empire. I bought this because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.75orless.com\/?\/archive\/2007\/04\/the_cat_empire.php\">75 or Less review<\/a>, which asks the important questions: When did G Love become the bandleader for the Blues Brothers? And when did they add reggae and Latin influences? And why are my feet doing this stupid dance under my desk?&#8221; This is my favorite track off the record, just for the trumpet line after the chorus.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;What&#8217;s Goin&#8217; On,&#8221; Detroit Cobras. I heard this on KEXP, and wrote down the artist and title right away. Unfortunately, the samples for the rest of the album didn&#8217;t sound that good, but this song is a terrific old-school rock and roll number.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rehab,&#8221; Amy Winehouse. An absolutely perfect re-creation of a sixties blues\/ soul sound, which is remarkable, given that it&#8217;s being sung by a skinny white British girl. A ridiculously ear-wormy song.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;m Getting Back Into Getting Back Into You,&#8221; the Silver Jews. This is pretty country-ish, but a lot of the time, it sounds like the guy from the Crash Test Dummies fronting a Hold Steady cover band. &#8220;Punks in the Beer Light&#8221; is also good.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Same Jeans,&#8221; the View. I heard this song months ago on the BBC channel of the free Sirius radio trial that came with my new car. And the goddamn album didn&#8217;t show up on iTunes until this past week, despite the fact that the physical CD was available since January. Honestly, it&#8217;s like the music industry is trying to make me pirate songs&#8211; all I want is a clean electronic copy (ripping CD&#8217;s on my computer invariably produces skips and jumps), and I&#8217;m willing to pay for it. Why do they make it difficult for me to give them money?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Road I Must Travel,&#8221; the Nightwatchman. This is Tom Morello from Rage Against the Machine doing a solo acoustic folk kind of thing. Most of the samples from the album came off as tiresomely political, but this has a catchy pseudo-Celtic thing going, reminiscent of the IRA fight songs that a guy I used to know in college was prone to singing when drunk.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What other recent singles should I be listening to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top choices from the recent acquisitions playlist: &#8220;Sly,&#8221; Cat Empire. I bought this because of the 75 or Less review, which asks the important questions: When did G Love become the bandleader for the Blues Brothers? And when did they add reggae and Latin influences? And why are my feet doing this stupid dance under&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/05\/21\/songs-of-the-moment\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Songs of the Moment<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}