{"id":1273,"date":"2008-03-11T00:27:21","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T04:27:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-04T16:47:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T16:47:50","slug":"overlooked-gems-of-my-lifetime-the-priso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/overlooked-gems-of-my-lifetime-the-priso\/","title":{"rendered":"Overlooked Gems of My Lifetime: The Prisoners, A Taste of Pink<\/em><\/font>"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pinker and prouder<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Some of you may be aware of my Overlooked Gems of My Lifetime<\/a><\/strong> blog, which has been inactive since – not coincidentally – the launch of this blog version of Rock Town Hall. It’s time I put a little work into that concept again – and make sure to celebrate some things I love wholeheartedly, with no intent to confuse and educate readers. <\/p>\n

Recently I pulled out my lone album by The Prisoners<\/strong>, A Taste of Pink<\/em>. It sounded as rockin’ and fun as ever, and the vinyl was still pink<\/font><\/strong>. It’s hard to find the space between songs when placing the needle on a particular song on a pink-vinyl album, but the tracks on this album make the effort worthwhile. <\/p>\n

I never bothered to find out much about this ’80s garage-mod band from somewhere in England. A friend owned another album by them, but it was not as good as the one I happened to take a chance on. I never bothered hearing another note by these guys. One great album by any ’80s garage-mod band is enough. (God, as I type that sentence I sense myself looking in the mirror, holding an unopened box of my band’s second record!) Honestly, though, I can only take so much garage and mod rock, especially when the lyrics and fuzz-guitar solos are nothing special. This album, however, is together<\/em>! Simply put, it works. The guitars are chunky. The organ player cooks up that Deep Purple “Hush”\/Steppenwolf stew. The singers pull no punches. I have FUN<\/strong> while listening to it. It’s a good time to get my lab coat pressed.<\/p>\n

Since this is a rare album I’ve never spent much time thinking<\/em> about, I’m going to do nothing more but share some tracks with you. Send your lab coat to the cleaner and check out The Prisoners!<\/p>\n

“Better in Black”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Maybe I Was Wrong”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Threw My Heart Away”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

“Come to the Mushroom”<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pinker and prouder Some of you may be aware of my Overlooked Gems of My Lifetime blog, which has been inactive since – not coincidentally – the launch of this blog version of Rock Town Hall. It’s time I put a little work into that concept again – and make sure to celebrate some things […]<\/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":[61,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273"}],"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=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}