{"id":4021,"date":"2010-06-28T19:41:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T23:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4021"},"modified":"2010-07-09T13:47:57","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T17:47:57","slug":"song-of-the-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4021","title":{"rendered":"Song of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How about a little Beck? A little &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Haircut&#8221; in fact.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aa3rBVb3v4g&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x402061&#038;color2=0x9461ca\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aa3rBVb3v4g&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x402061&#038;color2=0x9461ca\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I think this is the first song that turned me on to Beck, who before this I knew mostly, if not exclusively, from his first breakthrough hit &#8220;Loser,&#8221; of which I wasn&#8217;t the biggest fan. (It now feels like more of a piece with the rest of his work, but at the time it sounded more like a one-off novelty act.) I first heard the song on an episode of <i>Saturday Night Live<\/i>, an episode hosted by Kevin Spacey in 1997, with guest appearances by John Cleese and Michael Palin. I still think it&#8217;s one of the best episodes of the show I&#8217;ve ever seen &#8212; which, depending on your view of the show or a particular season could mean a lot of different things. Shortly after the show, I knew I wanted a copy of Beck&#8217;s album <i>Odelay<\/i>, with this song on it, and I got a copy for my birthday that March.<\/p>\n<p>I would have been a sophomore in college at the time. I find it frankly unbelievable that that was thirteen years ago, but that&#8217;s what the dates on the calendar tell me. Anyway, enjoy the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How about a little Beck? A little &#8220;Devil&#8217;s Haircut&#8221; in fact. I think this is the first song that turned me on to Beck, who before this I knew mostly, if not exclusively, from his first breakthrough hit &#8220;Loser,&#8221; of which I wasn&#8217;t the biggest fan. (It now feels like more of a piece with &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4021\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[240],"class_list":["post-4021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-song-of-the-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}