{"id":536,"date":"2017-12-22T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?p=536"},"modified":"2017-12-22T22:48:50","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T22:48:50","slug":"sledge-trudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/2017\/12\/sledge-trudge\/","title":{"rendered":"Sledge Trudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sledgetrudge.mp3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/images\/play.gif\" width = 12 height = 12 alt=\"[play]\"\/> Sledge Trudge<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some songs have hidden dystopian meanings or inner, subtle depth. And some are just dull but still popular. From Kenny G&#8217;s wholly regrettable key changes to the Ronnette&#8217;s questionable special effects, the recorded history of pop acts covering Sleigh Ride is one of desperation to make <em>anything<\/em> interesting happen. Somehow, this song lingers in the top 20 of seasonal favourites, safe, boring, predicatable and no actual mention of any holidays at all.<\/p>\n<p>I uncovered some bug in Audacity that would not allow me to cut out Johnny Matthis saying &#8216;Just&#8217; at the start of the song, so he remains.<\/p>\n<p>All of my Christmas songs this year are fundraising for the <a href=\"https:\/\/cafdonate.cafonline.org\/294#\/DonationDetails\">Hackney Night shelter<\/a>, which my wife has been volunteering at. There are very few shelter beds in East London. This roving shelter makes up a large percentage of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6311\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sledgetrudge.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6311','http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sledgetrudge.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sledgetrudge.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=536-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sledgetrudge.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sledgetrudge.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 2:28 &#8212; 4.2MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sledge Trudge Some songs have hidden dystopian meanings or inner, subtle depth. And some are just dull but still popular. From Kenny G&#8217;s wholly regrettable key changes to the Ronnette&#8217;s questionable special effects, the recorded history of pop acts covering Sleigh Ride is one of desperation to make anything interesting happen. Somehow, this song lingers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6312\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sledgetrudge.mp3\" title=\"Play\" onclick=\"return powerpress_embed_html5a('6312','http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sledgetrudge.mp3');\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/plugins\/powerpress\/play_audio.png\" title=\"Play\" alt=\"Play\" style=\"border:0;\" width=\"23px\" height=\"24px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sledgetrudge.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/?powerpress_pinw=536-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/sledgetrudge.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"sledgetrudge.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 2:28 &#8212; 4.2MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[109,8,105],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-109","category-supercollider","category-vaporwave","tag-christmas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.berkeleynoise.com\/celesteh\/podcast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}