{"id":1289,"date":"2003-06-16T17:30:57","date_gmt":"2003-06-17T07:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/16\/poems-for-laila\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:09:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:09:47","slug":"poems-for-laila","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/16\/poems-for-laila\/","title":{"rendered":"Poems for Laila"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14433,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.poems-for-laila.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20060821151233\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.poems-for-laila.com:80\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 22:37:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 00:16:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 00:16:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I wanted to do two things with this post &#8212; test a new feature for the site, and promote one of my favorite bands, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poems-for-laila.com\/\" title=\"Poems for Laila\">Poems for Laila<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I discovered PfL when I was in Germany in the summer of 1991. I saw a display stand advertising the release of their second album, and gave it a listen. What I heard was enough to peak my interest, so I bought their first two albums &#8212; &#8216;Another Poem for the 20th Century&#8217; and &#8216;La Fillete Triste&#8217; &#8212; on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, I bought them on cassette tape, and over the next few years, I listened to them enough to wear them out. Thanks to the magic of the &#8216;net, though, a few months ago I was lucky enough to track down not just the two albums I used to own, but three more. Eventually I&#8217;ll order as many as their albums as I can, but as they&#8217;re not available here in the states, for now I&#8217;ll just have to live with the .mp3s I downloaded (one of the <em>very<\/em> few times I&#8217;ve actively searched music out on the file trading networks).<\/p>\n<p><del title=\"I've long since disabled my streaming audio software, sorry!\">In the meantime, though, you can browse through my PfL catalog, and listen to just what has captured my interest for so long.<\/del> It&#8217;s a little difficult to narrow down just a few &#8216;recommended tracks&#8217;, but here&#8217;s a few good ones from the two albums I know the best:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From &#8216;Another Poem for the 20th Century&#8217;:<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Intro to the Morning After<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>The Morning After<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Lewd<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>From &#8216;La Fillete Triste&#8217;:<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Round Round Round (The Gentleman&#8217;s Fear)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>Willy Poor Boy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>I Hold A Prince<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered PfL when I was in Germany in the summer of 1991. I saw a display stand advertising the release of their second album, and gave it a listen. What I heard was enough to peak my interest, so I bought their first two albums &mdash; &#8216;Another Poem for the 20th Century&#8217; and &#8216;La Fillete Triste&#8217; &mdash; on the spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2035],"tags":[80,2182],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-music","tag-poems-for-laila"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}