{"id":1290,"date":"2008-03-13T14:22:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T18:22:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-17T11:30:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T11:30:27","slug":"albums-that-shun-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/albums-that-shun-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Albums That Shun Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5KeJ7mGB3zg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhile driving to a client meeting this morning I heard <strong>&#8220;Interstellar Overdrive&#8221;<\/strong> on our local AAA station. As I considered just how much of a waste of time that recording is and began thinking about &#8211; as I often do, when faced with revisiting what was once a treasured find in my record collection &#8211; how much more I like the two solo <strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong> albums than <em>Piper at the Gates of Dawn<\/em>, I realized something else: <strong>I can&#8217;t listen to my Syd Barrett albums with anyone else.<\/strong> Years ago I&#8217;m sure I spun them with friends in my presence, but today, beside the fact that my closest friends and wife have never cared for those albums, I don&#8217;t <em>want<\/em> to spin them with anyone else around. They&#8217;re for me to listen to in private. I have my own feelings about them, and I don&#8217;t want anyone else distracting me from the relationship the albums and I have.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure why I feel this way about these Barrett albums, in particular, and I&#8217;m wondering whether I feel this way about any other albums in my collection. Some albums I choose not to play for others because they may be grating or too intense &#8211; in no way do the Barrett albums satisfy the &#8220;it&#8217;s got a good beat and you can dance to it&#8221; objectives of much music we choose to play in social situations. Although the Barrett albums are loaded with backstory and a unique mood, they&#8217;re not the same as playing the third <strong>Velvet Underground<\/strong> album or some mystical folk-rock or &#8217;60s jazz album that your beard-stroking friends might appreciate hearing played in the background. When I want to spin my Barrett albums, I do so alone. Maybe I don&#8217;t want to get caught sucking my thumb.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have albums that shun company?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While driving to a client meeting this morning I heard &#8220;Interstellar Overdrive&#8221; on our local AAA station. As I considered just how much of a waste of time that recording is and began thinking about &#8211; as I often do, when faced with revisiting what was once a treasured find in my record collection &#8211; <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/albums-that-shun-company\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[76,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}