{"id":1468,"date":"2009-06-28T11:12:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-28T03:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=1468"},"modified":"2009-06-28T11:12:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-28T03:12:02","slug":"music-electrified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/06\/28\/music-electrified\/","title":{"rendered":"Music (Electrified)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack<\/a> and Simon<\/a>‘s top 10 songs<\/a> posts<\/a> have inspired me to post 10 songs that I like. Since I’m embedding videos, I’ll spread them out over a few posts.<\/p>\n

I usually ignore lists like “the hottest 100 songs of all time” because:<\/p>\n

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  1. Aesthetics aren’t objective, static, universal, or one-dimensional<\/li>\n
  2. People tend to put too much value on music (and media) preferences<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As a result, I get the feeling that such lists often end up being a reflection of what respondents feel that they should<\/em> like. I find it incredibly odd how much self-identity people derive from what music they like, and how much people judge others based on such subjective preferences.<\/p>\n

    So why would I post about songs that I like? Well, I’ve only come to learn about some of favourite musicians through other people and I appreciate people sharing things that they love (even if I don’t get into them).<\/p>\n

    And now onto the first song… “Electrified” by Dressy Bessy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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    I first found out about Dressy Bessy via The Powerpuff Girls Soundtrack<\/a>. It’s a great CD with music also contributed by Shonen Knife<\/a>, Apples in Stereo<\/a>, and Cornelius<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    I love the stop-start pace of this song, the purposeful break to chorus, and the deliberate casual singing of Tammy Ealom<\/a>. It feels like a lot of thought has been put into the juxtaposition of structured minimalism and hang-loose fun.<\/p>\n

    Hmmm… that’s enough for now. I’ll post more songs later. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Jack and Simon‘s top 10 songs posts have inspired me to post 10 songs that I like. Since I’m embedding videos, I’ll spread them out over a few posts. I usually ignore lists like “the hottest 100 songs of all time” because: Aesthetics aren’t objective, static, universal, or one-dimensional People tend to put too much … Continue reading “Music (Electrified)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-nG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1481,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468\/revisions\/1481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}