{"id":207,"date":"2007-11-15T18:36:58","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2007-11-15T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T23:38:00","slug":"my-one-and-only-friend-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/15\/my-one-and-only-friend-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"my one and only friend statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been blast from the past time for me in the car lately. I’ve been listening to a copy of a mix I made for a friend’s birthday in early 1992 (!) that I excavated from the box of car cassette tapes.<\/p>\n

So many of these songs are still so very excellent: Close Lobsters’ “Just too Bloody Stupid,” Ultra Vivid Scene’s “Special One,” and Pale Saints’ “True Coming Dream” to name just a few. The extended dreamy guitar outro on Field Mice’s “Of the Perfect Kind” STILL slays me to this day.<\/p>\n

Some of these records I just bought because of label lust, say, anything on 4AD or Creation. And the songs were okay<\/i>, but now I find myself using our car tape deck’s handy skip feature to fast forward over them. More than one of these songs is on the new Rhino Records Brit Box<\/a> (e.g. Wonderstuff’s “Unbearable” and the Primitives’ “Crash”).<\/p>\n

Some of these songs haven’t quite<\/i> held up to the test of time, to my ears at least. I remember LOVING Voice of the Beehive, but now they sound corny and overproduced. They probably were always corny and overproduced, and maybe it’s just my preference, as I age, for corny and un<\/b>derproduced? Who’s to say.<\/p>\n

And some of these songs make me a little sad, because this tape is the only copy I have of them. Like Felt’s “The Day the Rain Came Down” and Momus’ “Hairstyle of the Devil,” both of which I borrowed from a friend to make this mix. Are the consequences of thrifty living coming back to haunt me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s been blast from the past time for me in the car lately. I’ve been listening to a copy of a mix I made for a friend’s birthday in early 1992 (!) that I excavated from the box of car cassette tapes. So many of these songs are still so very excellent: Close Lobsters’ “Just […]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mauraweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}