{"id":6201,"date":"2017-01-20T09:35:09","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T13:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=6201"},"modified":"2024-09-01T22:17:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T02:17:29","slug":"friday-playlist-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2017\/01\/20\/friday-playlist-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Playlist (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is different today. Things that had been in place for years are suddenly changed, awkward, and troublesome. Yep, you guessed it: M got braces put on yesterday. Or at least her top brackets.<\/p>\n<p>She was alternately excited and anxious. I think it\u2019s weird that kids these days often look forward to getting braces. I guess it has to do with how you can personalize them with different colors, and how they are much less bulky than they were when our generation was growing up. I was lucky; I never had braces, so I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like. But a 20-month process is now underway.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, did you think I was talking about something else changing today? Hmmm\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Onto the tunes.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y\/playlist\/2MVyjoogRiTPl2hwrmAYwO<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSherry\u201d &#8211; Loose Tooth. It seems like I\u2019ve been hearing a lot of really good, Australian indie-pop lately. This is the latest example.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s Like Air\u201d &#8211; Communions. These lads are from Denmark. They sound very Mancunian, to me, though. They don\u2019t quite do the Oasis thing as well as DMAs, but this is a pretty solid song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStar Roving\u201d &#8211; Slowdive. Oh. My. God. !!!! The first single in 22 years by one of the signature bands of the British Shoegaze era is an absolute stunner. How can you take a quarter century off and make a song this good?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFake Empire\u201d &#8211; The National. I\u2019ve been thinking of this song a lot as I mentally prepare for today\u2019s events. Ah, those heady days of 2008, when this was the soundtrack to an amazing online ad for a skinny guy with a funny name who was running for president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHot Thoughts\u201d &#8211; Spoon. Man, the list of anticipated new albums for 2017 keeps growing. We finally get the first big wave next week. Spoon dropped their new single this week, in advance of a March LP release. As always, it\u2019s thoroughly listenable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Doomsday&#8221; &#8211; Ryan Adams. New single that seems appropriate for the day.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"R.E.M. - It&#039;s The End Of The World\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Z0GFRcFm-aY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)\u201d &#8211; R.E.M. I wish I could say I felt fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything is different today. Things that had been in place for years are suddenly changed, awkward, and troublesome. Yep, you guessed it: M got braces put on yesterday. Or at least her top brackets. She was alternately excited and anxious. I think it\u2019s weird that kids these days often look forward to getting braces. I guess it has to do with how you can personalize them with different colors, and how they are much less bulky than they were when our generation was growing up. I was lucky; I never had braces, so I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s like. But a 20-month process is now underway. Oh, did you think I was talking about something else changing today? Hmmm\u2026 Onto the tunes. https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/user\/224aiwksicafjldlua6nnpo4y\/playlist\/2MVyjoogRiTPl2hwrmAYwO \u201cSherry\u201d &#8211; Loose Tooth. It seems like I\u2019ve been hearing a lot of really good, Australian indie-pop lately. This is the latest example. \u201cIt\u2019s Like Air\u201d &#8211; Communions. These lads are from Denmark. They sound very Mancunian, to me, though. They don\u2019t quite do the Oasis thing as well as DMAs, but this is a pretty solid song. \u201cStar Roving\u201d &#8211; Slowdive. Oh. My. God. !!!! The first single in 22 years by one of the signature bands of the British Shoegaze era is an absolute stunner. How can you take a quarter century off and make a song this good? \u201cFake Empire\u201d &#8211; The National. I\u2019ve been thinking of this song a lot as I mentally prepare for today\u2019s events. Ah, those heady days of 2008, when this was the soundtrack to an amazing online ad for a skinny guy with a funny name who was running for president. \u201cHot Thoughts\u201d &#8211; Spoon. Man, the list of anticipated new albums for 2017 keeps growing. We finally get the first big wave next week. Spoon dropped their new single this week, in advance of a March LP release. As always, it\u2019s thoroughly listenable. &#8220;Doomsday&#8221; &#8211; Ryan Adams. New single that seems appropriate for the day. \u201cIt\u2019s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)\u201d &#8211; R.E.M. I wish I could say I felt fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-6201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13697,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6201\/revisions\/13697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}