{"id":1175,"date":"2016-01-01T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T09:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2015-12-29T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T14:18:22","slug":"song-of-the-week-ill-be-your-sister-by-motorhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1175","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Your Sister&#8221; by Mot\u00f6rhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Your Sister&#8221; by Mot\u00f6rhead:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OUpCUX4k76w\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So, Lemmy died this week. He was 70 years old, which seems amazing for a guy who drank and smoked and drugged, and disdained basic nutrition and sunlight, as much as he did. I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;m a huge fan of Mot\u00f6rhead, but then again, not liking Mot\u00f6rhead seems kind of impossible.\u00a0 Everybody knows &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vcf7DnHi54g\" target=\"_blank\">Ace of Spades<\/a>&#8221; so I thought I&#8217;d mark Lemmy&#8217;s ascension to the great rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll swindle in the sky with &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Your Sister&#8221;, which I first heard in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hOyCMcVjAdY\" target=\"_blank\">this cover version by Superchunk<\/a>. Lemmy&#8217;s rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll lifestyle is (was) a lot of the attraction of the dude, I guess, though I always thought he was less interesting than a lot of people seemed to think.\u00a0 On the other hand, I suspect the reason a lot of rock musicians loved him so much was because he didn&#8217;t just live the superflously-umlauted lifestyle, he lived the life: Lemmy played rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll constantly through his adult life, and he played it really loudly, and those riffs are really big, and they&#8217;re really fun&#8211;and most importantly, they&#8217;re really fun to play.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22I%27ll%20Be%20Your%20Sister%22%20by%20Mot%C3%B6rhead\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. This is &#8220;I&#8217;ll Be Your Sister&#8221; by Mot\u00f6rhead: So, Lemmy died this week. He was 70 years old, which seems amazing for a guy who drank and smoked and drugged, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22I%27ll%20Be%20Your%20Sister%22%20by%20Mot%C3%B6rhead\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-week","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1177,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}