{"id":117,"date":"2007-03-07T21:52:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T10:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/keep\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-03-07T21:52:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T10:52:23","slug":"musical-obsession-of-the-moment-the-decemberists-o-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=117","title":{"rendered":"Musical Obsession of the Moment: The Decemberists&#8217; &#8220;O Valencia!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6Ad7XFStuB8\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I think that if you ignore the start and end of this video and pay attention to the part that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s set to music \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you know, the music video part \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you can discover greatness within.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153O Valencia!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sounds quite different to the rest of the material on <I>The Crane Wife<\/I> album, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not difficult to say that about an album which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a consistent sound. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my first album by The Decemberists, and all I can describe it as is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kinda folksy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.  They&#8217;re essentially an intermittent break from my constant listening to the <i>Dreamgirls<\/I> deluxe edition soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>So if you listen to this song, good times may abound! Just watch the epilogue at your own risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think that if you ignore the start and end of this video and pay attention to the part that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s set to music \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you know, the music video part \u00e2\u20ac\u201c you can discover greatness within. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153O Valencia!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d sounds quite different to the rest of the material on The Crane Wife album, but it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not difficult to say that about an album which doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a consistent sound. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s my first album by The Decemberists, and all I can describe it as is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153kinda folksy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. They&#8217;re essentially an intermittent break from my constant listening to the Dreamgirls deluxe edition soundtrack. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HLZ6-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}