{"id":10620,"date":"2011-11-30T20:02:20","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T01:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=10620"},"modified":"2011-11-30T21:02:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T02:02:19","slug":"its-the-holiday-season-and-that-means-some-of-the-crappiest-rock-and-roll-youll-ever-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/its-the-holiday-season-and-that-means-some-of-the-crappiest-rock-and-roll-youll-ever-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Holiday Season, and That Means&#8230; Some of the Crappiest Rock and Roll You&#8217;ll Ever Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NqUu4EkLGHo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Oh, God. The other day, I went out to buy, I dunno, a lightbulb or something &#8212; and I was assaulted by my all-time un-favorite &#8220;Christmas&#8221; song: the <strong>Jackson 5<\/strong> cynically caterwauling their way through &#8220;Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.&#8221; This, of course, means we&#8217;ve officially entered the season all us crotchety old music snobs love to hate: the month-long musical shit-tacular that is &#8220;the holidays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think we took the high road a couple of years back, working together to compile a list of the best holiday season rock and soul ever recorded. Surely we can do better than that. Besides MJ&#8217;s aforementioned pre-adenoidal Xmas screeching &#8212; what&#8217;s the least tolerable music the music-retail complex hurls at us at this time of year?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, God. The other day, I went out to buy, I dunno, a lightbulb or something &#8212; and I was assaulted by my all-time un-favorite &#8220;Christmas&#8221; song: the Jackson 5 cynically caterwauling their way through &#8220;Santa Claus Is Coming to Town.&#8221; This, of course, means we&#8217;ve officially entered the season all us crotchety old music <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/its-the-holiday-season-and-that-means-some-of-the-crappiest-rock-and-roll-youll-ever-hear\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[394,544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}