{"id":10458,"date":"2011-11-24T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-24T19:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10458"},"modified":"2011-11-25T20:29:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T01:29:54","slug":"little-rays-of-sunshine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/little-rays-of-sunshine\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Rays of Sunshine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this record, adore it, I want it played at my funeral and I want to be alive during my funeral so I can hear it just one last time.  Whenever I hear it I then have to play it another three or four times just to bask in the llveliness of it.  I want to line up everyone who bought &#8220;Need You Tonight&#8221; by INXS in 1988 and demand to know why they didn&#8217;t buy this instead.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1DMlxrGIi8U?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It is such a gorgeous song that I want to buy everything that The Mekons have ever recorded, and all of Sally Timms&#8217; solo records, and follow them on tour just in case they play it.  Here&#8217;s where it all falls down, though &#8211; I&#8217;ve heard almost all of their other records and they do nothing for me at all, leave me stone cold.  For over thirty years.<\/p>\n<p>By way of a reversal of the &#8220;one rubbish track on a great album&#8221; debate: Which band or artist (who have released at least two albums) would be completely without interest if it wasn&#8217;t for just one song which gives you a nice sunny feeling inside whenever you hear it and vindicates an otherwise not very interesting career?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this record, adore it, I want it played at my funeral and I want to be alive during my funeral so I can hear it just one last time. Whenever I hear it I then have to play it another three or four times just to bask in the llveliness of it. I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/little-rays-of-sunshine\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458"}],"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\/2204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}