{"id":1112,"date":"2008-01-02T17:13:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-02T22:13:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-04T10:38:23","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T10:38:23","slug":"butter-you-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/butter-you-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Butter You Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HJiX-g_tOBg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nHappy New Year, Rock Town Hall!<\/p>\n<p>Before I share my burdens with you in the coming year, I thought I&#8217;d butter you up with a few tracks that have been rocking my world the last few weeks. Perhaps you know them. Perhaps you don&#8217;t. My hope is they will find a place in your heart over the coming days and buy me a little <strong>favor<\/strong> with you in the coming months. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a track that I believe fits Mr. Mod&#8217;s recently stated preference for productions that don&#8217;t <strong>shoehorn<\/strong> the listener into one point of view, or hear, as the case may be. It&#8217;s too bad the album from which this track appears, <em>New Picnic Time<\/em>, is easily written off as the beginning of Pere Ubu&#8217;s walk down David Thomas&#8217; more impressionistic side. Certainly it has its moments hinting at the shapes of things to come, but tracks like this one rock in a way few have ever rocked.<\/p>\n<p><del><strong>Pere Ubu, &#8220;49 Guitars &amp; One Girl&#8221;<\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n<p>Talk about musicians headed for a walk on the impressionistic side, Captain Beefheart quickly abandoned his garage-rock <strong>foundation<\/strong> shortly following <em>Safe as Milk<\/em>. This 1966 demo, from the <em>Grow Fins<\/em> box set, is nice to have around.<\/p>\n<p><del><strong>Captain Beefheart, &#8220;Just Got Back from the City&#8221; (1966 Demo)<\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n<p>Finally, this track reminds me of the childhood joys of eating <strong>sugar-loaded breakfast cereals<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><del><strong>Music Explosion, &#8220;Sunshine Games&#8221;<\/strong><\/del><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year, Rock Town Hall! Before I share my burdens with you in the coming year, I thought I&#8217;d butter you up with a few tracks that have been rocking my world the last few weeks. Perhaps you know them. Perhaps you don&#8217;t. My hope is they will find a place in your heart <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/butter-you-up\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}