{"id":1860,"date":"2008-12-09T13:08:02","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T18:08:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T08:31:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T08:31:58","slug":"mystery-date-revealed-the-fireman-feat-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-the-fireman-feat-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Date Revealed:  The Fireman feat. Sir Paul McCartney and some dude from The Orb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>tcfiViHa1F4]<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fireman<\/strong> is <em>Paul McCartney<\/em> and this dude <em>&#8220;Youth&#8221;<\/em> who played bass for <strong>Killing Joke<\/strong> and gained more rep with his &#8220;ambient house&#8221; collaborations with <strong>Orb<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n<p>Unbeknownst to moi, they started collaborating in 1993 and have realease a total of three albums, 1994&#8217;s \t<strong><em>Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest<\/em><\/strong> and 1998&#8217;s <strong><em>Rushes<\/em><\/strong>.  I haven&#8217;t heard a single thing from these but understand they are heavily electronic and might not even include lyrics. <\/p>\n<p>Can anyone shed some light on these for the class?<\/p>\n<p>This new one <em><strong>Electric Arguments<\/strong><\/em> showed up highly praised on eMusic.  I gave it a whirl and like it more than anything he has been involved with in a long, long time.  It starts out pretty far away from electronic but by the second half gets pretty deep.<\/p>\n<p>Track 1 <a href=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/ElectricArguments\/Nothing%20_Too_Much_Just_Out_Of_Sight.mp3\">Nothing Too Much Just Out of Sight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Very little in the way of anything Beatles, at least not overtly except for:<\/p>\n<p>Track 2 <a href=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/ElectricArguments\/Two_Magpies.mp3\">Two Magpies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And by Track 11 we&#8217;ve gotten here: <a href=\"http:\/\/rocktownhall.com\/ElectricArguments\/Is_This_Love.mp3\">Is This Love<\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I found this YouTube that samples from each track in order:<\/p>\n<p>xY_hBdxPAhA]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tcfiViHa1F4] The Fireman is Paul McCartney and this dude &#8220;Youth&#8221; who played bass for Killing Joke and gained more rep with his &#8220;ambient house&#8221; collaborations with Orb. Unbeknownst to moi, they started collaborating in 1993 and have realease a total of three albums, 1994&#8217;s Strawberries Oceans Ships Forest and 1998&#8217;s Rushes. I haven&#8217;t heard a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-the-fireman-feat-s\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[2],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}