{"id":46014,"date":"2018-05-01T19:40:54","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=46014"},"modified":"2018-05-01T19:40:54","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T00:40:54","slug":"surfin-suomi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/surfin-suomi\/","title":{"rendered":"Surfin&#8217; Suomi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred M. Yankovic and Brave Combo have conclusively demonstrated that virtually any popular song can be improved by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3h2hXFr7QZI\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">polkafying it<\/a>. It&#8217;s also true that rendering a song as a surf instrumental almost always makes it better.<span id='easy-footnote-1-46014' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/surfin-suomi\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-46014' title='As often as not, when I play around with a traditional tune in the digital audio workstation, I start by loading a Telecaster emulation adjusted for extra twang. I have to consciously resist the temptation to add a little spring reverb.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dustbury.com\/archives\/26199\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Hill posts a couple of surf transformations<\/a> that are superior to the originals and links to a third. My favorite re-arrangement, though, is this one by Laika and the Cosmonauts, yet another eccentric band from Finland. They call it &#8220;Sauna Soul&#8221; for no obvious reason, but you probably know it by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZOr60MxIvvE\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">another name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i5p41DSfKtk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfred M. Yankovic and Brave Combo have conclusively demonstrated that virtually any popular song can be improved by polkafying it. It&#8217;s also true that rendering a song as a surf instrumental almost always makes it better. Charles Hill posts a couple of surf transformations that are superior to the originals and links to a third. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/surfin-suomi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Surfin&#8217; Suomi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-bYa","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46014"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46021,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46014\/revisions\/46021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}