{"id":1306,"date":"2011-03-25T09:57:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/bands-that-need-a-bath-bands-that-need-t\/"},"modified":"2011-03-25T09:56:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T13:56:15","slug":"bands-that-need-a-bath-bands-that-need-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bands-that-need-a-bath-bands-that-need-t\/","title":{"rendered":"Bands That Need a Bath…Bands That Need Their Fresh, White Sneakers Stepped On"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Spring is in the air, which reminded me of this old post. It’s a time for spring cleaning as well as a time for getting on your hands and knees in the garden, pulling out weeds and getting real dirty.<\/em><\/p>\n

This post initially appeared 3\/20\/08.<\/code><\/p>\n

Here’s a real simple set of questions:<\/p>\n

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Take a bath, already!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

1.<\/strong> Name a band\/artist you’re pretty sure you’d like better if they had a bath – that is, if they took a little better care of their presentation, be it more thoughtful arrangements, better sound, more focused Look, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

Meat Puppets<\/strong>‘ first two albums were interesting enough for me, but it wasn’t until they “took a bath” for the making of Up On the Sun<\/em> that they really clicked for me. (Shortly thereafter they’d scrubbed themselves up too much, but that’s another matter…)<\/p>\n

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Get his sneaks!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

2.<\/strong> Name a band\/artist you’re pretty sure you’d like if they loosened up a bit, if you and your friends could scuff up their brand-spankin’-new white sneaks a bit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Crowded House<\/strong> was in this category for me for a number of years until someone finally scuffed up their sneaks over the course of their third and fourth albums. There were outright holes in their canvas Docksiders<\/strong> by the time of the excellent Together Alone<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spring is in the air, which reminded me of this old post. It’s a time for spring cleaning as well as a time for getting on your hands and knees in the garden, pulling out weeds and getting real dirty. This post initially appeared 3\/20\/08. Here’s a real simple set of questions: Take a bath, […]<\/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\/1306"}],"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=1306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}