{"id":1081,"date":"2006-04-18T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2006-04-18T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-18T17:00:00","slug":"hasseldorf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"hasseldorf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How can I describe this album?  In a word, divine.  Never before and never again will such genius and mastery of the senses coalesce into a body of pure bliss as has in this work of blinding brilliance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is clearly one of the finest works in the entire oeuvre of human expression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Midway through the monumental Track 6, I involuntarily sprang up from my seat, threw my entire CD collection out of the window, and ordered a further 172 copies of this masterpiece to fill the space they left behind. I have never regretted it for a moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Like the Colossi of antiquity, his magnificence is both awe inspiring and humbling. His oeuvre is living proof that the Dumbing Down phenomenon theory is just speculation. Indeed, his music is the culmination of hundreds of years of evolution in Western Classical Music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To listen to these 18 songs of pure, magical bliss is an experience so mindblowing and ecstatic that it is worth knocking your grandma over to turn up the volume.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He scoured the slums of Belgium to find the best harmonium player, the canals of Venice to get the greatest squeezebox artist, and the backstreets of Lourdes to discover the most prolific player of the ukelele. These three musicians would join forces like a musical Voltron and rock out so hard that even the international space station would feel it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>* * * * * *<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000070S1\/103-6524644-2606239?n=5174\">This stuff<\/a> <i>kills<\/i> me.  I&#8217;ve had to bite my lip here at work to stifle the laughter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;How can I describe this album? In a word, divine. Never before and never again will such genius and mastery of the senses coalesce into a body of pure bliss as has in this work of blinding brilliance.&#8221; &#8220;This is clearly one of the finest works in the entire oeuvre of human expression.&#8221; &#8220;Midway through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}