{"id":10393,"date":"2011-11-21T07:58:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10393"},"modified":"2011-11-21T07:58:25","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T12:58:25","slug":"see-me-hear-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/see-me-hear-me\/","title":{"rendered":"See Me, Hear Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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"You had me at Dick Clark as Hitler."<\/p><\/div>\n

Once a year I try to listen to my lone Devo<\/strong> album, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!<\/em> I want to love it. I begin to chuckle over it before I even drop the needle. Once I do, however, musically there’s not enough there for me to care about, no matter how much I try. I inevitably skip ahead to get my requisite laughs out of the song “Jocko Homo” before logging onto YouTube to marvel at their videos. Devo videos are amazing!<\/p>\n

As an impressionable college freshman I got into The Residents<\/strong>. I bought Third Reich ‘n Roll<\/em> and Meet the Residents<\/em> as soon as I saw the album covers, without ever hearing a note of the band’s music. (Actually, come to think of it, I stole<\/em> both records before ever hearing a note of the band’s music, but that’s a long story I might have shared once and I will probably share once more in the future…) The Residents’ album covers and concepts are amazing! I dig their “classic”\u00a0albums enough to actually feel compelled to rank their musical output and cite “turning points” in their development, but without the record covers and overriding concepts, what would be the point of ever listening to The Residents? Without the medium of the 12-inch vinyl album cover could The Residents have ever existed? I don’t think so. What 18-year-old kid is\u00a0going to log into the iTunes Store to sample and download a Residents album?<\/p>\n

I’ve never liked KISS<\/strong>, but I’ve got to give them credit for their visual appeal. Sans makeup and pyrotechnics would KISS have been anything more than a “1-hit wonder” like Brownsville Station<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

What artists are you attracted to primarily for their visual appeal, even long after you’ve bought and dug their records?<\/em><\/p>\n

Previously: Music That’s Better With the Sound Turned Off: Devo<\/em>…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once a year I try to listen to my lone Devo album, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! I want to love it. I begin to chuckle over it before I even drop the needle. Once I do, however, musically there’s not enough there for me to care about, no matter how […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[179,109,51,197,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}