{"id":1244,"date":"2008-02-24T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2008-02-24T15:27:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-24T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-24T10:27:08","slug":"mystery-date-revealed-and-you-thought-yo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-and-you-thought-yo\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Date Revealed: And You Thought You Were Underwhelmed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y5G8AJf4Xzw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nOK, so even the Hall&#8217;s rabid <strong>Beatles fans<\/strong> were underwhelmed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=mystery_date_beatles_fan_edition&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=mystery_date_beatles_fan_edition&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">offshoot Beatles-tribute single<\/a> I&#8217;d stumbled across while unexpectedly researching a relatively decent song I&#8217;d foggily remembered from my teenage years of flipping FM channels in hopes of hearing a new song that rocked. Remember, this was the time when the likes of <strong>Journey<\/strong>, Kansas, Toto, and the relatively rocking <strong>Boston<\/strong> ruled the airwaves. Recent &#8220;oldies,&#8221; which would form the foundation of the Classic Rock radio format, were always cool for me, but it was tough to find something new and exciting, like newcomers Elvis Costello &amp; the Attractions, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=dvd_review_my_weekend_with_tom&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=dvd_review_my_weekend_with_tom&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Tom Petty &amp; the Heartbreakers<\/a><\/strong>, and The Police. <\/p>\n<p><strong>J. Geils Band<\/strong>, pre-<em>Freeze Frame<\/em>, and <strong>Thin Lizzy<\/strong>, could deliver an occasional, plodding, half-decent new single, and then there were oddities that would make it to FM radio for a couple of weeks, like the song I&#8217;ve posted from our most recent Mystery Date.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Horslips, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/Horslips_TheManWhoBuiltAmerica.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;The Man Who Built America&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For those of you who lived through this age, do you recall half-decent songs that could get you through a stretch of FM radio?<\/em> I&#8217;d never heard of Horslips previously, and I&#8217;d never heard them again until a couple of weeks ago, when I stumbled across their collection on <strong>eMusic<\/strong>. I downloaded this foggily remembered track as we as the Beatles-themed single I posted the other day. I checked out their back catalog, and it turns out this Irish band came out of the British folk-prog-rock tradition of bands like <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=bands_you_don_t_really_like_that_neverth&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=bands_you_don_t_really_like_that_neverth&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">Jethro Tull<\/a><\/strong> and Fairport Convention. See the clip I&#8217;ve provided for a more representative Horslips number. Only in the &#8217;70s! Hearing the Tull-like stuff has once again tempted me to pull out my lone Tull album and see if I can better enjoy it while blocking out the stuff that bugs me about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, so even the Hall&#8217;s rabid Beatles fans were underwhelmed by the offshoot Beatles-tribute single I&#8217;d stumbled across while unexpectedly researching a relatively decent song I&#8217;d foggily remembered from my teenage years of flipping FM channels in hopes of hearing a new song that rocked. Remember, this was the time when the likes of Journey, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mystery-date-revealed-and-you-thought-yo\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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\/1244"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}