{"id":2688,"date":"2002-07-20T20:13:53","date_gmt":"2002-07-20T19:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=2688"},"modified":"2002-07-20T20:13:53","modified_gmt":"2002-07-20T19:13:53","slug":"everybody-is-linking-to-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2002\/07\/20\/everybody-is-linking-to-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Everybody is linking to this,"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody is linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaguaro.org\/feature\/03-09-02_wesk.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"we love daypop\">this<\/a>, a list of 100 albums that, according to the compilers, you should throw away. I only own two of the albums: <i>Heaven or Las Vegas<\/i> by the Cocteau Twins, which is a very good album if not the best that they ever did (which is probably <i>Treasure<\/i> or <i>Blue Bell Knoll<\/i> &#8211; ask me tomorrow for a different answer) and <i>Songs In A Minor<\/i> by Alicia Keys, which I can honestly say is an excellent album, even if I did buy it for sentimental reasons.<br \/>\nI have no plans to throw either album away.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d say to anyone reading the list &#8211; don&#8217;t throw away your albums. I have a copy of Beverley Craven&#8217;s eponymous album, and much as I detest it now, I wouldn&#8217;t throw or give it away. It represents a time in my life when my outlook, expectations and tastes were different to the way they are now. I&#8217;m sure that 12 years from now I will detest the Amon Tobin album that I&#8217;m listening to as I type this, but I won&#8217;t throw it away. Maybe I&#8217;m just a hoarder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody is linking to this, a list of 100 albums that, according to the compilers, you should throw away. I only own two of the albums: Heaven or Las Vegas by the Cocteau Twins, which is a very good album if not the best that they ever did (which is probably Treasure or Blue Bell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}