{"id":2165,"date":"2009-08-08T21:56:16","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T01:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/?p=2165"},"modified":"2009-08-08T21:56:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T01:56:16","slug":"song-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/08\/08\/song-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;Spontaneous Song Recommendations from Genres I Don&#8217;t Normally Listen To&#8221; category: I&#8217;m suddenly a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=444L2Kc4zIg\">Allein Allein<\/a> by Polarkreis 18, which I&#8217;d classify as European electro-pop, which may or may not be a real musical genre. For what it&#8217;s worth, I never watch music videos, so the Youtube link is just for the audio. It doesn&#8217;t seem worth watching anyway.<\/p>\n<p>A quick bit of Googling suggests that &#8220;allein&#8221; is German for &#8220;alone,&#8221; and the refrain, &#8220;wir sind allein&#8221; translates to &#8220;We are alone.&#8221; The song is catchy and upbeat, though.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, as long as I&#8217;m making spontaneous song recommendations, <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"267\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UtPTvyjtx3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen title=\"Carbon Based Lifeforms -MOS 6581\"><\/iframe> by Carbon Based Lifeforms is among the best songs you&#8217;ll never hear on the radio. This one is apparently a cross between the &#8220;Ambient&#8221; and &#8220;Chill-out&#8221; genres, the latter being something I never thought was a genre at all. Everything by Carbon Based Lifeforms makes great background music while working, especially if you&#8217;re trying to concentrate in a noisy office.<\/p>\n<p>The latter is available on iTunes. The former is only available on iTunes through what appears to be the German equivalent of a Now CD. (Which is an interesting listen.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the &#8220;Spontaneous Song Recommendations from Genres I Don&#8217;t Normally Listen To&#8221; category: I&#8217;m suddenly a big fan of Allein Allein by Polarkreis 18, which I&#8217;d classify as European electro-pop, which may or may not be a real musical genre. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/2009\/08\/08\/song-of-the-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","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-2165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/n1zyy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}