{"id":1121,"date":"2008-01-10T01:14:52","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T06:14:52","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-11T09:45:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T09:45:35","slug":"i-really-don-t-care-for-gnome-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-really-don-t-care-for-gnome-rock\/","title":{"rendered":"I Really Don&#8217;t Care for Gnome Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\" color=\"orange\">UPDATED AGAIN WITH TOMORROW&#8217;S CONTRIBUTION (THANKS TO TOWNSMAN SATURNISMINE)<\/font><br \/>\n<em><ins>UPDATED BELOW THE FOLD WITH BOWIE&#8217;S CONTRIBUTION TO THE GENRE (THANKS TO TOWNSMAN SHAWNKILROY)<\/ins><\/em><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ohJKf7xYf_8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI LOVE Syd Barrett and even kinda like this song but I fear it may be the song that launched the Gnome Rock genre. Is Syd to blame?  Tell me.  I can take it.  Is he responsible for&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/sammymaudlin\/gnomerock.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Fum, fum, diddle-um di<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/sammymaudlin\/inanotherland.mp3\" title=\"\">This<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/sammymaudlin\/phenomenalcat.mp3\" title=\"\">This<\/a><\/p>\n<p>or <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/sammymaudlin\/silasstingy.mp3\" title=\"\">This<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m missing some choice Gnome Rock cuts. Let&#8217;s get &#8217;em all out in the open to make it easy for Rhino or K-Tel to release a compilation.  Is there anyone here who can defend Gnome Rock?!  Make yourself known.<\/p>\n<p>Is there anyone here that can help me put a finger on what it is?  It&#8217;s definitely not Old Timey or even Ye Olde.  It has a Celtic (hard &#8220;C&#8221;) feel but I&#8217;m not sure why.  They tell stories of impish characters and\/or the kind of psychedelic landscapes that you might expect to see in a &#8217;70s breakfast cereal commercial and\/or have characters named Grimble Grumble, Silas Stingy or Cracky Crocky or some shit. <\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g97CvFAI_bM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I think what bugs me the most is that the artists plopped their Gnome droppings in the middle of otherwise great albums.  Anyone that knows me well knows that I really, really don&#8217;t like skipping songs but when those Gnomes start River Dancing out from behind their red polkadotted mushrooms, I spring for that next button with all speed.<\/p>\n<p>I really don&#8217;t care for Gnome Rock.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DuUvvYHwAws?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Tommorow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/sammymaudlin\/threejollylittledwarfs.mp3\" title=\"\">Three Jolly Little Dwarfs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED AGAIN WITH TOMORROW&#8217;S CONTRIBUTION (THANKS TO TOWNSMAN SATURNISMINE) UPDATED BELOW THE FOLD WITH BOWIE&#8217;S CONTRIBUTION TO THE GENRE (THANKS TO TOWNSMAN SHAWNKILROY) I LOVE Syd Barrett and even kinda like this song but I fear it may be the song that launched the Gnome Rock genre. Is Syd to blame? Tell me. I can <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-really-don-t-care-for-gnome-rock\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}