{"id":3015,"date":"2016-04-05T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocc.org\/?p=3015"},"modified":"2016-04-05T14:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-04-05T20:33:02","slug":"song-of-the-day-the-war-on-drugs-touch-of-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/2016\/04\/05\/song-of-the-day-the-war-on-drugs-touch-of-grey\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day: The War On Drugs &#8211; Touch of Grey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The War on Drugs - &#039;Touch of Grey&#039;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/72OLupNWNho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tribute albums have always been tricky for me.\u00a0While there are few things more satisfying than seeing a group of incredible artists collaborating to cover the music of some legendary group from the days of yore, these sort of projects can easily fall flat. \u00a0The Flaming Lips&#8217;\u00a0<em>With a Little Help From My Fwends<\/em>, for example, was a track-for-track tribute to Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band that made me feel like I&#8217;d rather just listen to the Beatles or the Flips separately rather than some unsatisfying marriage of the two.<\/p>\n<p>When I first heard about the forthcoming\u00a0<em>Day of the Dead,\u00a0<\/em>a Grateful Dead tribute album curated by two members of The National, I had mixed feelings. Sure, the thought of an all-star cast including Courtney Barnett and Wilco covering some of my favorite Dead tunes is\u00a0more exciting to me than an 8th Harry Potter book. Initially, however, I couldn&#8217;t help but wonder if the execution could possibly live up to the hype.<\/p>\n<p>If the singles released off\u00a0<em>Day of the Dead\u00a0<\/em>thus far are any indicator, the album will be a huge success. The War On Drugs&#8217; cover of &#8220;Touch of Grey&#8221; is a prime example of how insanely good a cover can be.\u00a0It&#8217;s not exactly a major innovation on a melodic theme &#8212; the new version sounds pretty damn similar to the\u00a0<em>In the Dark<\/em>\u00a0original. The beauty\u00a0of this song is\u00a0really in how well Adam Granduciel&#8217;s voice adapts to Garcia&#8217;s lyrics, almost as if the tune were written for The War On Drugs. With a single like this, the rest of the tribute album could be absolute trash and I would be more than okay with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tribute albums have always been tricky for me.\u00a0While there are few things more satisfying than seeing a group of incredible artists collaborating to cover the music of some legendary group from the days of yore, these sort of projects can easily fall flat. \u00a0The Flaming Lips&#8217;\u00a0With a Little Help From My Fwends, for example, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1117,"featured_media":3016,"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-3015","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-MD","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/socc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}