{"id":4966,"date":"2012-08-30T10:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T03:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=4966"},"modified":"2012-08-30T10:29:51","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T03:29:51","slug":"call-the-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2012\/08\/30\/call-the-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"Call The Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"

A cool cloudy day to-day, so made time to upload the full-length recording of Thee Emergency’s Solid<\/em>, about which I’d raved<\/a> a week or so ago.<\/p>\n

Don’t even know what made me pull this record out — probably just looking for loud music to listen to on one or other overnight Thailand train trips. But now that I have<\/em> done, I can’t stop listening to it. It’s got its hooks so far into me, that I figured I must go back and see how many notches I’d raise it up were I to rank it to-day?<\/p>\n

Whoa, turns out it’s at #5 on my 2008 list<\/a>, nestled right in between Ray LaMontagne and Elliott Brood. Yet I had somehow kinda let it slip my mind. I think that, in retrospect, I’d\u00a0 rank it second, behind Devotchka; dropping Joseph Arthur to third, Balkan Fever<\/em> to fourth, and Ray Lamontagne to fifth. Shit, what a great year in music that was!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I pulled a major boner leaving off my best-of-decade<\/a> list altogether. It certainly would now place within the top twenty-five…maybe well within.<\/p>\n

Uh, in other words: crank it the fuck up<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Thee Emergency – Solid<\/em><\/h2>\n