{"id":3839,"date":"2012-06-11T22:17:06","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T15:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=3839"},"modified":"2012-06-11T22:19:43","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T15:19:43","slug":"two-psas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2012\/06\/11\/two-psas\/","title":{"rendered":"Two PSAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">PSA Numero Uno<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Horse&#8217;s reading of &#8220;She&#8217;ll Be Comin&#8217; &#8217;round The Mountain&#8221; &#8212; from its new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Americana_%28Neil_Young_%26_Crazy_Horse_album%29\">album<\/a> of Horsed-out old-time Folk tunes &#8212; is freaking <em>awesome<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Young has exhumed some lyrics <em>I&#8217;ve <\/em>certainly never heard of. &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna kill the big red rooster when she comes&#8221;? &#8220;She will take us to the portals when she comes&#8221;? What?? (Well, I guess if nothing else, it shows that Christians were just as nuts way back in the Nineteenth Century as they still are to-day.) Anyways, the arrangement will blow you away. This is a song to which to stop everything you&#8217;re doing, close your eyes, and attempt to levitate. (Just, don&#8217;t forget to crank it up.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Neil Young &amp; Crazy Horse: Jesus&#039; Chariot (She&#039;ll Be Coming Round The Mountain&quot;)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0NghGoIdv-E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Though it&#8217;s decidedly <em>not<\/em> in the same class as Springsteen&#8217;s similar <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/We_Shall_Overcome:_The_Seeger_Sessions\">project<\/a> from a few years back, the rest of the album is quite good as well. (To be fair, that Springsteen disc proved out as my fourth-<a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/lists\/top050.html\">favourite<\/a> rekkid of the &#8217;00s &#8212; so, rather a tough act to follow!)<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\">PSA Numero Dos<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More of an FYI that a PSA, I guess. Having been two years gone since its release, I feel it safe to now officially promote Ted Leo&#8217;s &amp; The Pharmacists&#8217; &#8220;Woke Up Near Chelsea&#8221; &#8212; from the <em>fantastically<\/em> great album <em>The Brutalist Bricks<\/em> &#8212; to my favourite all-time Punk Rock song. It&#8217;s the only time, in this blogger&#8217;s opinion, the band have managed to truly capture in studio the unrivaled ferocity of its live act.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kinda surprised to&#8217;ve been unable to locate the track online; I went and slapped together a very basic slideshow. (Oh, yeah: don&#8217;t forget to crank it.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ted Leo &amp; The Pharmacists - Woke Up Near Chelsea\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2Cb9ABw78Yc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, I guess the rest of the top five now plays out as follows.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In second, we gots Sleater-Kinney with &#8220;Entertain&#8221;. Well factually, I don&#8217;t like the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MbxRu7fwR24\">official<\/a> video <em>at all<\/em>. So here they are, instead, performing it live on <em>The Henry Rollins Show<\/em>. Janet is just <em>on fire<\/em> here.<em> Good god<\/em>, how I miss this band! (By the way: uhhhh&#8230;Rollins had a <em>teevee show<\/em>? How did I not know about that? Were there, like, three episodes, or something?)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sleater-Kinney - &quot;Entertain&quot; Live\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TAmIm3XFPuY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bronze medal given to &#8220;Holidays In The Sun&#8221;. Pretty sure this is the first Punk Rock song I ever heard. At the least, it&#8217;s the one first I ever <em>intentionally<\/em> heard. Still recall quite clearly being in utter disbelief that any song could <em>sound<\/em> this great.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HOLIDAYS IN THE SUN-SEX PISTOLS\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6wchgl-S-qg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Batting cleanup, Minor Threat&#8217;s &#8220;Filler&#8221; checks in at a brisk one minute and thiry-two seconds of beautiful, glorious Punk Rock fury. Probably my fave Punk <em>band<\/em> of all time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Minor Threat, &quot;Filler&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WmgWNTsrr68?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fifth, but certainly not least, it&#8217;s Husker Du with &#8220;Books About UFOs&#8221;: total Punk Rock rave-up! While the lyrics most definitely do not carry the same heft as do those of the other songs here; I just can&#8217;t get enough of that guitar\/piano combo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lW2pxd1ueG4\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lW2pxd1ueG4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PSA Numero Uno The Horse&#8217;s reading of &#8220;She&#8217;ll Be Comin&#8217; &#8217;round The Mountain&#8221; &#8212; from its new album of Horsed-out old-time Folk tunes &#8212; is freaking awesome! Young has exhumed some lyrics I&#8217;ve certainly never heard of. &#8220;We&#8217;re gonna kill &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2012\/06\/11\/two-psas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}