{"id":1240,"date":"2008-02-21T13:59:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T18:59:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-10T09:05:02","modified_gmt":"2008-12-10T09:05:02","slug":"holy-f-ing-cow-run-don-t-walk-jesus-of-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/holy-f-ing-cow-run-don-t-walk-jesus-of-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy F*ing Cow:  Run Don&#8217;t Walk: Jesus of Cool Is in da Hizzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AI2k6aseNqg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI have bemoaned for years, and Mr. Mod can attest (say <em>Amen<\/em>, brother), the loss of <strong>Nick Lowe<\/strong>&#8216;s masterpieces, <em>Labor of Lust<\/em> and <em>Pure Pop for Now People<\/em> (originally <em>Jesus of Cool<\/em> in the UK) to the great digital abyss.  <\/p>\n<p>Last time I checked these discs were released in the &#8217;90s and then vanished, showing up in used shops for as much as $89!  Puh-leeze.  <\/p>\n<p>But you can bemoan a lot less as <strong>Yep Rock Records<\/strong> has just released <em>Jesus of Cool<\/em> (with the original track line-up) and &#8220;10 extra non-LP singles, EP sides and compilation cuts that lead up to Jesus.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AND IT&#8217;S ON EMUSIC!!!  Sweet. Here&#8217;s a bonus cut, originally released as part of the excellent <em>Bowi<\/em> ep.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nick Lowe, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/NickLowe_ShakeThatRat.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Shake That Rat&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><ins><br \/>\nRELATED SIDE ISSUE<\/ins>: <em>Pure Pop for Now People<\/em> and <em>Jesus of Cool<\/em> are two of my favorite album titles and they&#8217;re for the same album! Has any other album come even close to having two drastically different release titles that are both this bitchin&#8217; and spot-on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have bemoaned for years, and Mr. Mod can attest (say Amen, brother), the loss of Nick Lowe&#8216;s masterpieces, Labor of Lust and Pure Pop for Now People (originally Jesus of Cool in the UK) to the great digital abyss. Last time I checked these discs were released in the &#8217;90s and then vanished, showing <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/holy-f-ing-cow-run-don-t-walk-jesus-of-c\/' 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":[342],"tags":[5,4,3,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"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=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}