{"id":14444,"date":"2012-07-12T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14444"},"modified":"2012-07-12T10:53:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:53:05","slug":"how-do-you-tell-the-twins-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/how-do-you-tell-the-twins-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do You Tell the Twins Apart?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14445\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-14445\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/how-do-you-tell-the-twins-apart\/kinks\/\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14445\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14445\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kinks-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kinks-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kinks.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Kinks x 2<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Has there ever been a band who\u2019s first two big,  international singles sounded so much alike that they were like twins?  <em>If you just met and liked Bob, you\u2019ll love his identical twin Rob!<\/em> The  Bob and Rob of the rock world would have to be  those two British Invasion, proto-heavy metal doppelgangers \u201cYou Really  Got Me\u201d and \u201cAll Day and All of the Night.\u201d These two sound so much the  same the first 100 times you hear them. Same new (for the time) guitar  distortion, similar sliding barre-chord riffs,  same wild and \u00a0un-schooled guitar solos, same dramatic endings.<\/p>\n<p>But you mad scientists here in the Hall can put on  your lab coats and really dissect the differences between this pair.  <em>Which is the better song and why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll have to get deep into the tiny details to do  it right. I\u2019ll post the audio files (no Youtube \u2013 I don\u2019t care about  look or stagecraft here) for your use and put my thoughts down in the  comments later.<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/You-Really-Got-Me1.mp3|titles=The Kinks: You Really Got Me]\n[audio:http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/All-Day-and-All-of-the-Night.mp3|titles=The Kinks: All Day and All of the Night]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has there ever been a band who\u2019s first two big, international singles sounded so much alike that they were like twins? If you just met and liked Bob, you\u2019ll love his identical twin Rob! The Bob and Rob of the rock world would have to be those two British Invasion, proto-heavy metal doppelgangers \u201cYou Really <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/how-do-you-tell-the-twins-apart\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[126,230],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444"}],"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\/1832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}