{"id":6099,"date":"2011-12-03T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T10:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6099"},"modified":"2011-12-02T13:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T13:26:58","slug":"all-time-top-25-tunes-post-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6099","title":{"rendered":"All-Time Top 25 Tunes (post 23)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The twenty-third track in my All-Time Top 25 Tunes is number fifteen, &#8216;Alpe d&#8217;Huez&#8217;\u00a0by Oxfordshire&#8217;s We Aeronauts.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"We Aeronauts.mp3\" href=\"http:\/\/thisrealitypodcast.com\/audio\/submissions\/Alpe_WeAeronauts.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">You can stream the audio for this track here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For the second (and last) time, my All-Time Top 25 Tunes includes the work of an unsigned band.<\/p>\n<p>What I like about this song is that We Aeronauts have clearly demonstrated how unafraid they are of &#8216;being different&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>This talented group of individuals have come together to make a piece of music that begins in a subtle, low-fi pop manner, yet ends with a stunning choral climax.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Cowell?<\/p>\n<p>X-Factor?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t make me laugh.<\/p>\n<p>We Aeronauts have clearly demonstrated they each have more &#8216;X-Factor&#8217; than any of the winners of that ridiculous TV &#8216;reality&#8217; show will ever\u00a0possess.<\/p>\n<p>And a hundred times more originality.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s why &#8216;Alpe d&#8217;Huez&#8217; has made it in to my All-Time Top 25 Tunes.<\/p>\n<p>It is wholly original.<\/p>\n<p>And unafraid of being different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The twenty-third track in my All-Time Top 25 Tunes is number fifteen, &#8216;Alpe d&#8217;Huez&#8217;\u00a0by Oxfordshire&#8217;s We Aeronauts. You can stream the audio for this track<\/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-6099","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\/6099","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=6099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}