{"id":3429,"date":"2017-02-26T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-26T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=3429"},"modified":"2017-02-26T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T23:25:07","slug":"song-of-the-day-gene-clark-lifes-greatest-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2017\/02\/26\/song-of-the-day-gene-clark-lifes-greatest-fool\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of The Day: Gene Clark- &#8220;Life&#8217;s Greatest Fool&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VzvKS5QD2nU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of the Byrds ever since\u00a0my idealistic high school days, which is why I&#8217;ve been kicking myself for not listening to Gene Clark&#8217;s masterpiece of an album <em>No Other<\/em>\u00a0until a few days ago. Since\u00a0then I&#8217;ve been playing the album on repeat, and the grandiose sounds permeate the mundanity of my days with a brilliance I\u00a0haven&#8217;t felt since first hearing the Dead&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-voC5IrYeAA\">American Beauty<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0&#8220;Life&#8217;s Greatest Fool&#8221; kicks off the album with Clark&#8217;s country croon, jangly guitars, a lofty choir. The upbeat tune moves you to perceive your surroundings with rose-tinted glasses, engendering a need for sun soaked road trips while this song blares in the background.<\/p>\n<p>At a first listen, the grandiosity of the production can feel overdone, the lyrics pretentious in their sweeping statements; however,\u00a0Clark&#8217;s delivery subdues the whole thing.\u00a0He doesn&#8217;t give us a\u00a0concrete perspective on life. He admits that &#8220;words can be empty though filled with sound\/Stoned numb and drifting, hard to be profound.&#8221;\u00a0And despite this the lyrics are rife with profundity in humbling ways. It&#8217;s a song full of questioning, \u00a0Clark&#8217;s unique outlook\u00a0bundled in the guise of genuine curiosity, open ended and unsure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a huge fan of the Byrds ever since\u00a0my idealistic high school days, which is why I&#8217;ve been kicking myself for not listening to Gene Clark&#8217;s masterpiece of an album No Other\u00a0until a few days ago. Since\u00a0then I&#8217;ve been playing the album on repeat, and the grandiose sounds permeate the mundanity of my days [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1129,"featured_media":3430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-of-the"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7fJU-Tj","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}