{"id":13420,"date":"2012-05-09T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T04:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=13420"},"modified":"2012-05-08T23:42:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T03:42:53","slug":"delayed-reaction-robyn-hitchcock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/delayed-reaction-robyn-hitchcock\/","title":{"rendered":"Delayed Reaction: Robyn Hitchcock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynvegan.com\/img\/music2\/rachelmarried1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/><br \/>\nI know we&#8217;ve discussed this guy before, how he&#8217;s an acquired taste for many of us, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/better-with-age-lstrongglfont-color-666633grobyn-hitchcockl-fontgl-strongg\/\" target=\"_blank\">for others one of the few examples of a musician who seems to improve with age<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It&#8217;s taken me years to develop a real of appreciation of Hitchcock. This is weird, given my love for many eccentric British songwriters. But I think I&#8217;m finally on my way, thanks to the most banal reason possible: A very basic, maybe even dumbed-down <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yeproc.com\/robyn-hitchcock-to-release-chronology-his-first-best-of-collection-1025-on-yep-roc\" target=\"_blank\">greatest hits album<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">However, I have a request for those of you are already in the pro-Hitchcock camp. Recommend <strong>three (3)\u00a0albums<\/strong> for me: one from the &#8217;80s, one from the &#8217;90s, and one from 2000 onward. I will listen to them on Spotify, and perhaps later purchase them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Caveats<\/strong>: Don&#8217;t recommend any Soft Boys. I&#8217;m pretty sure those albums are already in our house somewhere. Also, I already have <em>I Often Dream of Trains<\/em>, so you can skip that one too. I used to have <em>Jewels for Sophia<\/em>. I thought it was pretty good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know we&#8217;ve discussed this guy before, how he&#8217;s an acquired taste for many of us, and for others one of the few examples of a musician who seems to improve with age. It&#8217;s taken me years to develop a real of appreciation of Hitchcock. This is weird, given my love for many eccentric British <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/delayed-reaction-robyn-hitchcock\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[206,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}