{"id":1250,"date":"2008-02-28T10:02:46","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T15:02:46","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-02-28T11:26:02","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T11:26:02","slug":"thurston-moore-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thurston-moore-question\/","title":{"rendered":"General Slocum Raises the Thurston Moore Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_sy8dXusuP4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nEarlier today <strong>General Slocum<\/strong> posed the following thoughts at the tail end of a recent <strong>Dugout Chatter<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>OK&#8230;what&#8217;s up with <strong>Thurston Moore<\/strong>?<\/em> I have always been just one arm&#8217;s length away from being anything more than luke warm about <strong>Sonic Youth<\/strong>. Some admittedly great songs still don&#8217;t make them a band I like. That&#8217;s odd, to me, and unusual in my experience. So I just took out of the library today that <em>Trees Outside the Academy<\/em> album. Some of it sounds good, some really interesting rhythm guitar in there. But the whole package is a tastefully elaborate, calculatedly self-deprecating, quasi-candid shrine to Mr. Moore himself, and his own obtuse hipness. Fans, hatas, thoughts?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know the General and let me tell you, he&#8217;s no dimestore, artsy-fartsy-averse Townsperson. This isn&#8217;t the esteemed-yet-hippie-hating <strong>Hrrundivbakshi<\/strong>, our very own <strong>2000 Man<\/strong> of the People, or even an open-minded, reasonable, tolerant sort like like myself raising these issues. Rather it&#8217;s among the most free-thinking and visionary regular voices in the Halls of Rock. Hell, this is a guy we might have pegged for a Sonic Youth fan! For this reason I&#8217;m bringing the General&#8217;s idle chatter to <strong>The Main Stage<\/strong>. I&#8217;m hopeful that <em>his<\/em> asking this question will give the necessary campaign against rock&#8217;s most ubiquitous rock-doc commentator the credibility it requires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today General Slocum posed the following thoughts at the tail end of a recent Dugout Chatter: OK&#8230;what&#8217;s up with Thurston Moore? I have always been just one arm&#8217;s length away from being anything more than luke warm about Sonic Youth. Some admittedly great songs still don&#8217;t make them a band I like. That&#8217;s odd, <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thurston-moore-question\/' 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\/1250"}],"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=1250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}