{"id":16353,"date":"2019-12-05T21:24:28","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T08:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/?p=16353"},"modified":"2021-11-17T17:54:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T04:54:06","slug":"its-the-end-of-a-decade-but-was-there-any-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/music\/its-the-end-of-a-decade-but-was-there-any-music\/","title":{"rendered":"IT&#8217;S THE END OF A DECADE &#8211; BUT WAS THERE ANY MUSIC?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>OK I&#8217;d better get this out of the way first &#8211; most modern music is utter SHIT. So could I find anything I liked?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Not much, but here are a couple of tracks I think are worth checking out.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Kills &#8211; Future Starts Slow (2011) &#8211; when this played in the final of Altered Carbon it was the perfect music for the scene, and the combination was pretty awesome.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Kills - Future Starts Slow (Official Video)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KiLjuRG3hoE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The White Stripes broke up in 2010 so I can&#8217;t include anything from them, and my favourite tracks from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are all pre-2010 as well&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>So I&#8217;m going to cheat a bit here and include this song because NOTHING THIS CENTURY comes close<\/strong><strong> to The Pixies &#8211; this was 25 years on and they were still on a whole other level to everyone else. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Yes, this is the music of my generation, but even with only one ear that still works I can tell that this is the bomb shit. Listening to this brings back so many memories, and yeah, I wish I could go back &#8211; holy crap, the music was amazing!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Pixies &#8211; Gouge Away (Live in 2014)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"PIXIES - Gouge Away (Exceptional performance)\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FiUNDeuBbi8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800-200x37.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/www.frot_.co_.nz_.800-500x92.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK I&#8217;d better get this out of the way first &#8211; most modern music is utter SHIT. So could I find anything I liked? Not much, but here are a couple of tracks I think are worth checking out. The Kills &#8211; Future Starts Slow (2011) &#8211; when this played in the final of Altered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/download-scaled.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10254,"url":"https:\/\/www.frot.co.nz\/design\/like\/hot-karl-action\/","url_meta":{"origin":16353,"position":0},"title":"HOT KARL ACTION \u2013 KICK ARSE ROCK MUSIC FROM THIS CENTURY","date":"November 27, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"HOT KARL ACTION \u2013 KICK ARSE ROCK MUSIC FROM THIS CENTURY Following on from my HOT BABOON ACTION CD compilation, and still armed with my trusty CD burner, I made my last compilation CD in 2009. 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