{"id":487,"date":"2005-01-31T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2005-01-30T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=487"},"modified":"2005-07-15T09:15:38","modified_gmt":"2005-07-14T21:15:38","slug":"the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/487","title":{"rendered":"The best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are some songs that have taken over my life for a month or a year, or had a life of their own and forced me to listen to them over and over again. As I remember them, I jot them down. Here are the ones I&#8217;ve recollected so far, listed in reverse chronological order, 2004 to ~1989. <\/p>\n<p>Muttonbirds\/A Thing Well Made<br \/>\nBill Withers\/Grandma&#8217;s hands<br \/>\nNeil Finn\/Into the Sunset &mdash; In the middle it falls asleep and breaks in two like <a href=\"index.php?p=669\">Cam&#8217;s poem<\/a>.<br \/>\nDoves\/Sulphur Man<br \/>\nWeta\/Calling On<br \/>\nAvril Lavigne\/I&#8217;m With You<br \/>\nTurin Brakes\/Painkiller<br \/>\nTool\/Schism<br \/>\nBelle &#038; Sebastian\/There&#8217;s Too Much Love&#8230;<br \/>\nGrant Lee Buffalo\/It&#8217;s the Life<br \/>\nBeth Orton\/Couldn&#8217;t Cause Me Harm<br \/>\nDodgy\/One of Those Rivers<br \/>\nLeonard Cohen\/Ballad of the Absent Mare<br \/>\nIncubus\/The Warmth<br \/>\nRide\/Rolling Thunder<br \/>\nBlur\/This is a Low<br \/>\nSupergrass\/It&#8217;s Not Me<br \/>\nSeven Mary Three\/Cumbersome<br \/>\nSoundgarden\/Black Hole Sun<br \/>\nLive\/All Over You<br \/>\nLive\/Lightning Crashes<br \/>\nThe Police\/Don&#8217;t Stand So Close to Me<br \/>\nCoolio\/Gansta&#8217;s Paradise<br \/>\nGenesis\/Fading lights<br \/>\nREM\/Find the River<br \/>\nToad the Wet Sprocket\/Walk on the Water<br \/>\nScorpions\/Wind of Change<br \/>\nAustralian Crawl\/Reckless<br \/>\nBoston\/More Than a Feeling<br \/>\nDire Straits\/Brothers in Arms<br \/>\nSting\/Russians<br \/>\nPhil Collins\/Who Said I Would?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some songs that have taken over my life for a month or a year, or had a life of their own and forced me to listen to them over and over again. As I remember them, I jot them down. Here are the ones I&#8217;ve recollected so far, listed in reverse chronological order, [&hellip;]<\/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-487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}