{"id":1542,"date":"2017-07-28T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T08:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1542"},"modified":"2017-07-20T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T12:39:59","slug":"song-of-the-week-the-outdoor-type-by-smudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1542","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;The Outdoor Type&#8221; by Smudge"},"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;The Outdoor Type&#8221; by Smudge:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iiZ7-VEu5hw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t really know much&#8211;or anything of consequence, actually&#8211;about 1990s Australian band Smudge, though I might&#8217;ve owned an EP by them, unless I&#8217;m confusing them with another band that bore some kind of relation to Evan Dando and The Lemonheads.\u00a0 Anyway, you can read about them on <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Smudge_(band)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a well-known information site<\/a>.\u00a0 &#8220;The Outdoor Type&#8221; was made more well-known by The Lemonheads.<\/p>\n<p>The real reason I&#8217;m posting this song is because my friends Anna and Andy are getting married today, and she really likes this song (or The Lemonheads&#8217; version, at any rate). 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