{"id":4729,"date":"2011-06-01T18:03:50","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=4729"},"modified":"2011-06-01T18:03:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T22:03:50","slug":"midweek-makeover-soft-in-the-middle-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2011\/06\/01\/midweek-makeover-soft-in-the-middle-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Midweek Makeover: Soft in the Middle Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paul Simon’s You Can Call Me Al will never fail to put a smile on my face. \u00c2\u00a0It’s irreversibly associated with summer streets and long-ago friends and general youthful goofiness.* \u00c2\u00a0 Issued in ’86, this is the original that everyone knows:<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AsEjsIbWq88[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

Now, I’ve never had an ear for covers of this song, but I ran into one today that had me thinking about them. \u00c2\u00a0This is not it:<\/p>\n

[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZMkEXVyqnrI[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

That was Inspection 12. \u00c2\u00a0Not bad, I think. \u00c2\u00a0And really, I can see how this could be a kickass concert cover. \u00c2\u00a0Alas, YouTube never captures those very well<\/a>. \u00c2\u00a0But what got me thinking about this? \u00c2\u00a0A very simple cover with a bass line:
\n<\/param><\/param><\/embed><\/object> Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al (Cover-dance remix) Dj Rebel and FTW<\/a> by Mixes and Mashups #22<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n

This has been playing all.day.long.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

*Of course, 25 years later, the opening lines gain a new appreciation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Paul Simon’s You Can Call Me Al will never fail to put a smile on my face. \u00c2\u00a0It’s irreversibly associated with summer streets and long-ago friends and general youthful goofiness.* \u00c2\u00a0 Issued in ’86, this is the original that everyone knows: [youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AsEjsIbWq88[\/youtube] Now, I’ve never had an ear for covers of this song, but I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4730,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4729\/revisions\/4730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}