{"id":1751,"date":"2018-11-23T09:04:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T09:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2018-11-21T11:21:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T11:21:21","slug":"song-of-the-week-love-buzz-by-shocking-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1751","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Love Buzz&#8221; by Shocking Blue"},"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;Love Buzz&#8221; by Shocking Blue:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JAvYUFcRnO4\" width=\"351\" height=\"220\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Kurt Cobain had a good ear for the cover version, often from obscure and\/or little-known sources. Through Nirvana I learned about The Vaselines and The Meat Puppets, for just two examples. Because I&#8217;m a nerd who reads liner notes and song credits, I knew that &#8220;Love Buzz&#8221;, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Xm0qjrceeYE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fifth song on <em>Bleach<\/em><\/a>, wasn&#8217;t a Cobain-penned song, but I&#8217;d never actually heard the original until this week, when it buzzed in from 1969 and out of the speakers while I was listening to the radio.<\/p>\n<p>I almost held my breath listening to it. The thing that struck me most was all the space&#8211;Shocking Blue are not afraid to use silence as part of their sonic palate, and it creates a serious tension that Nirvana&#8217;s cover version replaces with the big Melvins-y guitars. I really like the Nirvana version: it&#8217;s creepy and sleazy and big Melvins-y guitars light my fire. But Shocking Blue create a different kind of vibe&#8211;tense, longing where Nirvana is creepy, and building its set of psychedelic guitar sounds into a frenzied groove in that middle section. Listening to it feels like listening to the exact Venn diagram overlap of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EUY2kJE0AZE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jefferson Airplane<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9TR6QuOj-Gw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Cramps<\/a>.<\/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%22Love%20Buzz%22%20by%20Shocking%20Blue\";<\/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;Love Buzz&#8221; by Shocking Blue: \ufeff Kurt Cobain had a good ear for the cover version, often from obscure and\/or little-known sources. Through Nirvana I learned about The Vaselines [&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%22Love%20Buzz%22%20by%20Shocking%20Blue\";<\/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":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","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\/1751","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=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}