{"id":11862,"date":"2017-01-15T20:09:47","date_gmt":"2017-01-15T20:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11862"},"modified":"2017-01-15T20:16:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-15T20:16:03","slug":"music-hath-charms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11862","title":{"rendered":"Music hath charms&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my continual quest to bring light and understanding to the up-and-coming generation, this evening I have been spreading the love of music and pop video.<\/p>\n<p>The journey through the world of music videos started with the awesomely creative and wackily amusing OK GO! videos.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was a quick detour to The Hives (Tick Boom).<\/p>\n<p>And then, briefly entering the world\u00a0of musical history, from the historically synth-pop genre-defining Alphaville (Big In Japan), to the outrageously awesome\u00a0Oxford threesome Zurich (Alone).<\/p>\n<p>Then a quick flip over to the shamelessly mainstream Evanescence (the Fallen album).<\/p>\n<p>The 7yo really enjoyed\u00a0the OK GO! videos.<\/p>\n<p>The 10yo liked The Hives.<\/p>\n<p>None of them really got Alphaville, but the 42yo really got Zurich (and their previous incarnation, The Scholars, which I briefly aired).<\/p>\n<p>Gotta love Zurich&#8217;s Alone:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G5z-soVlG2g\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 10yo liked about two Evanescence tracks.<\/p>\n<p>And now they&#8217;ve all gone upstairs to get ready for bed.<\/p>\n<p>So I listened to Mark Knopfler&#8217;s Local Hero\/Going Home theme.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier we watched Swallows And Amazons, which was a lovely piece of time-travel.<\/p>\n<p>I read the book many times as a schoolboy.<\/p>\n<p>It moved me to buy a dinghy and learn to row and then how to sail.<\/p>\n<p>A charming film, it deviates from the original Arthur Ransome story, but still preserves the feel.<\/p>\n<p>I had a lovely time and I hope everyone else enjoyed it too.<\/p>\n<p>Time passes.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m now filtering though some old TV themes, because it&#8217;s time I updated my personalised ring tone library.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking of assigning this one to Young Masher (for no other reason than it&#8217;s a cracking piece of John Barry composition:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t99QQIXez4M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my continual quest to bring light and understanding to the up-and-coming generation, this evening I have been spreading the love of music and pop<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}