{"id":4221,"date":"2010-07-23T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2010-07-23T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T19:12:48","slug":"song-of-the-day-33","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=4221","title":{"rendered":"Song of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s another song that goes quickly from the silly to the serious, Ani DiFranco’s “Fuel.”<\/p>\n

Maybe I should put a bucket over my head
\nAnd a marshmallow in each ear
\nAnd stumble around for another dumb numb week
\nFor another humdrum hit song to appear<\/i><\/p>\n

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DiFranco’s a much more electrifying presence live than on her recorded albums — I saw her at Penn State in 1998, and I still think her live double album Living in Clip<\/i>, released the year before, is some of the best work she’s ever done. I like her more recent music, and some of it quite a lot, but maybe not as<\/i> much as the earlier songs. I only just<\/i> bought her 2003 album Evolve<\/i>, and she’s released four other albums since then. (To say nothing of bootlegs and compilation packages.)<\/p>\n

It’s with this song, and the rest of ’98’s Little Plastic Castle<\/i>, that I first discovered DiFranco’s music. There’s definitely a spoken-word feel to it, and I still listen to it all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s another song that goes quickly from the silly to the serious, Ani DiFranco’s “Fuel.” Maybe I should put a bucket over my head And a marshmallow in each ear And stumble around for another dumb numb week For another humdrum hit song to appear DiFranco’s a much more electrifying presence live than on her … 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-4221","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\/4221"}],"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=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}