{"id":1404,"date":"2008-04-30T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-04-30T17:57:37","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T17:57:37","slug":"sucker-mix-stylistic-descriptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sucker-mix-stylistic-descriptions\/","title":{"rendered":"Sucker Mix: Stylistic Descriptions You No Longer Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RABrrrleB8o?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m alone in having experienced this: a pattern of falling for a certain stylistic description in record reviews and recommendations from friends emerges, one that includes a mix two or more artists I already love. The description may be easily believable &#8211; or so unbelievable that you find yourself falling for it hook, line, and sinker:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The band sounds like <em>Revolver<\/em>-era Beatles as played by Captain Beefheart!&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After buying 5, maybe even 10 records that fail to fit this ideal description, you finally come to the conclusion that you&#8217;ve fallen victim to a <strong>Sucker Mix<\/strong>. The recommendation from that favorite reviewer or trusted music friend is sincere, but once you&#8217;ve sniffed out a Sucker Mix, there&#8217;s no going back. Just the other day I recommended that an old friend check out a band that I described as a mix of &#8220;Talking Heads and Pink Floyd.&#8221; I truly thought I was doing him a favor. I immediately had visions of how I would spend my &#8220;turn-on points.&#8221; Instead he waved me off, saying, &#8220;No man, I&#8217;m not falling for that one again!&#8221; He&#8217;d been suckered one too many times by a description of what, for him, was once a dream pairing.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you ever fallen victim to a Sucker Mix?<\/em> How many albums fitting this description did you buy before you finally realized it was an impossible dream?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;m alone in having experienced this: a pattern of falling for a certain stylistic description in record reviews and recommendations from friends emerges, one that includes a mix two or more artists I already love. The description may be easily believable &#8211; or so unbelievable that you find yourself falling for it <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/sucker-mix-stylistic-descriptions\/' 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\/1404"}],"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=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}