{"id":319,"date":"2011-11-11T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-11T09:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/?p=319"},"modified":"2015-01-03T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2015-01-03T13:58:29","slug":"my-loveliest-vinyl-part-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"my loveliest vinyl, part 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_327\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-327\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-327 \" title=\"fluf - Home Improvements (CD) \/ Whitey on the moon (LP) (Headhunter HED032, 1994)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fluf.png\" alt=\"fluf - Home Improvements (CD) \/ Whitey on the moon (LP) (Headhunter HED032, 1994)\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fluf.png 500w, https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/fluf-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">fluf &#8211; Home Improvements (CD) \/ Whitey on the moon (LP) (Headhunter HED032, 1994)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>fluf, the band that threw records out like hell in the early 90&#8217;s, hailing from sunny San Diego and masterminded by someone aptly called &#8220;O&#8221; and pushing the art of covers for the punk space into the retro-design territory. And as a bonus: Vinyle and CD releases had different covers and different names &#8211; cool, this way i could thrill my record collector asshole!<\/p>\n<p>The verdict:<br \/>\n1977 \u2013<em> naaa, this type of sound the class of 1977 had not forseen. Classic anyway!<br \/>\n<\/em>published by a cool lable \u2013 <em>Headhunter, a Cargo outfit, had an endless stream of great stuff back then!<\/em><br \/>\nfound in a cool shop \u2013 <em>ticked, again Martin Stehr\u2019s Drugstore<\/em><br \/>\ncatching sound \u2013 &#8220;<em>Fluf&#8217;s strength lies in its to-the-point songwriting, namely O.&#8217;s gift for combining ultra-heavy hooks and tender pop strains (&#8220;happenin&#8217; melodies with friggin&#8217; raw, heavy guitar,&#8221; is how he describes it)<\/em>&#8221; (claims the net, and the net is always right)<br \/>\nnot too bad words \u2013 <em>yeah, the are great. touchy, personal and to the point like this chorus:<\/em><\/p>\n<pre>you say you want a relationship\r\nbut you never really care\r\nno one likes you anyway\r\nyou alway buy a fare\r\n(c) 1994 fluf<\/pre>\n<p>And this is fluf, reformed and @ a private party in 2010, trashing out that very song:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fluf\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lXTUogIH654?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An extra bonus goes to the band for the graphical design of the records &#8211; extra class! i&#8217;d say one of the most underrated bands from out west!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fluf, the band that threw records out like hell in the early 90&#8217;s, hailing from sunny San Diego and masterminded by someone aptly called &#8220;O&#8221; and pushing the art of covers for the punk space into the retro-design territory. And as a bonus: Vinyle and CD releases had different covers and different names &#8211; cool, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[53,54,17,14],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-records-as-in-vinyl","tag-fluf","tag-headhunter-records","tag-loveliest-vinyl","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gehkacken.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}