{"id":3235,"date":"2015-10-28T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=3235"},"modified":"2015-10-28T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T00:39:10","slug":"poetry-the-raven-edgar-allen-poe-christopher-walken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2015\/10\/28\/poetry-the-raven-edgar-allen-poe-christopher-walken\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe, Christopher Walken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Christopher Walken reading Edgar Allen Poe&#8217;s <i>The Raven<\/i> is musical in the sense that there are occasional bursts of heavy metal guitar amid reverb, ravens cawwing and other sound effects, which some listeners seem to have found very annoying, but I rather liked. I&#8217;m wondering, now, what more of Poe&#8217;s work would sound like with suitably sp00ky audio illustrations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/65457402&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This recording of Christopher Walken reading Edgar Allen Poe&#8217;s The Raven is musical in the sense that there are occasional bursts of heavy metal guitar amid reverb, ravens cawwing and other sound effects, which some listeners seem to have found very annoying, but I rather liked. 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