{"id":135,"date":"2002-03-06T15:17:57","date_gmt":"2002-03-06T15:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-135.html"},"modified":"2014-01-03T16:07:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T16:07:37","slug":"new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2002\/03\/06\/new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"New music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bought a couple of new CDs over the weekend:  <i>Anthology<\/i> by Alien Ant Farm, and <i>The Hour of Bewilderbeast<\/i> by Badly Drawn Boy.  (Neither of these was on my wishlist.  I was very tempted to go for Virgin&#8217;s 5 CDs for \u00a350 instead of their 2 for \u00a322 price to catch some of the ones that <i>are<\/i> on my wish list, but I tried to be moderate.) <\/p>\n<p><i>Bewilderbeast<\/i> is brilliant album, just bursting with memorable tracks and beautiful melodies.  <i>Anthology<\/i> wil probably take more time to work its charms on me.  I love the two singles AAF have had out so far, <i>Smooth Criminal<\/i> and <i>Movies<\/i>, bot of which feature some amazing drumming by Mike Cosgrove, but the rest of the CD hasn&#8217;t jumped up and grabbed me by the throat just yet.<\/p>\n<p>And then on Monday I also picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanis.com\/\" alt=\"Alanis Morissette's web site\">Alanis Morissette&#8217;s<\/a> new album, <i>Under Rug Swept<\/i>.  The single <i>Hands Clean<\/i> is fantastic.  It is one of the best tracks on the album, but there is plenty of other excellent material there.  There are only two tracks that seem duff right now:  <i>That Particular Time<\/i> and <i>Utopia<\/i>, both of which are slow numbers.  The up-tempo tracks are all either immediately memorable, or are &#8220;growers&#8221;.  Pretty good stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bought a couple of new CDs over the weekend:  <i>Anthology<\/i> by Alien Ant Farm, and <i>The Hour of Bewilderbeast<\/i> by Badly Drawn Boy.  (Neither of these was on my wishlist.  I was very tempted to go for Virgin&#8217;s 5 CDs for \ufffd50 instead of their 2 for \ufffd22 price to catch some of the ones that <i>are<\/i> on my wish list, but I tried to be moderate.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}