{"id":517,"date":"2013-03-15T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T10:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2013-03-13T15:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T15:22:32","slug":"song-of-the-week-puttin-it-down-by-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Puttin&#8217; It Down&#8221; by Beck"},"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;Puttin&#8217; It Down&#8221; by Beck:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=so-8sSp7Ssw\" target=\"_blank\">Beck&#8211; &#8220;Puttin&#8217; It Down&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1994, Beck released three albums on three different labels: <em>Mellow Gold<\/em>, the one that made him famous, on Geffen, <em>Stereopathetic Soulmanure, <\/em>from which this song comes, on Flipside, and my favorite, <em>One Foot in the Grave,<\/em> on K Records.\u00a0 I love the sound of the line, &#8220;I&#8217;ll be better at kissin&#8217; when my teeth are all missin&#8217;.&#8221; It&#8217;s probably not true, but it sounds like it could be true, and anyway, it&#8217;s totally inconsequential, so who cares?<\/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%22Puttin%27%20It%20Down%22%20by%20Beck\";<\/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. 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