{"id":858,"date":"2014-07-25T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T07:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=858"},"modified":"2014-07-22T15:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T14:03:23","slug":"song-of-the-week-game-of-pricks-by-guided-by-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=858","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Game of Pricks&#8221; by Guided by Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<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;Game of Pricks&#8221; by Guided by Voices:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HLINRoC4f1k\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Last week Dan, one of my longest-time buddies, wrote me an email to announce, &#8220;&#8216;Game of Pricks&#8217; is my new (old) favorite song.&#8221; That seems good enough to me.\u00a0 When I first heard Guided by Voices back in 199whatever, it was on a cassette that my friend (and Dan&#8217;s then-girlfriend) Meg dubbed for me of <em>Bee Thousand.<\/em> It sounded like the best thing I&#8217;d ever heard then, and I more or less still think that now.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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%22Game%20of%20Pricks%22%20by%20Guided%20by%20Voices\";<\/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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