{"id":3511,"date":"2014-10-19T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8105\/?p=3511"},"modified":"2021-12-04T20:14:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-04T20:14:27","slug":"20141020-discovered-this-gem-on-spotify-_remem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/?p=3511","title":{"rendered":"Discovered this gem on Spotify"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">Discovered this gem on Spotify.<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/717p+84fwlL._SS500_.jpg\" alt=\"No Frills - Solo Acoustic by Nik Kershaw on Amazon Music - Amazon.com\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember Nik Kershaw from the mid-80s? Brilliant tunes with riddling lyrics? Well a quarter century later he&#8217;s released an <i>acoustic<\/i> compilation. Stripped of the synth-pop, tracks like &#8220;The Riddle&#8221; transform into a beautifully haunting rendition of &#8230; well whatever he was prattling on about in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I wish &#8220;Human Racing&#8221; and &#8220;When A Heart Beats&#8221; were on this too. But if you remember this stuff from the 80s (Who can forget &#8220;Near a tree by a river there&#8217;s a hole in the ground &#8230;&#8221; ?) this is definitely worth a listen.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>LINK:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/2889l94ycQm90vcxbEicyq\"><br \/>\nNo Frills &#8211; Solo Acoustic<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Comments (1):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>2014-10-20 02:12:42+0800 Anita George<\/i> Shall do<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i>This post was originally <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+shahadaabubakar\/posts\/FXQjDSKiEvU\">published<\/a> publicly on <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.google.com\">Google+<\/a> at 2014-10-20 02:11:35+0800<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered this gem on Spotify. Remember Nik Kershaw from the mid-80s? Brilliant tunes with riddling lyrics? Well a quarter century later he&#8217;s released an acoustic compilation. Stripped of the synth-pop, tracks like &#8220;The Riddle&#8221;&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.shahada.abubakar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}