{"id":14580,"date":"2012-07-17T01:53:56","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=14580"},"modified":"2012-07-17T01:53:56","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T05:53:56","slug":"return-of-the-pumpkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/return-of-the-pumpkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Pumpkin: Is the End Near for &#8217;70s Mainstream Bands That Became Hip Long After the Fact?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oSU17vvq-Ts?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Last week a guy I only know through Internet means but really enjoy &#8220;seeing&#8221; posted something about how much cooler <strong>Stevie Nicks<\/strong> and <strong>Fleetwood Mac<\/strong> are than <strong>Bruce Springsteen<\/strong>. I&#8217;m not a fan of either band, but thoroughly dig 6 to 8 songs by each band. Stevie Nicks solo, however, is atrocious. What&#8217;s that &#8220;Tears Like a White Winged Dove&#8221; song, or whatever she&#8217;s going on about? She should have been gagged once that thing hit the airwaves.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand Boss Backlash as well as anyone, but although I once did a few weeks&#8217; time trying to convince myself of the &#8220;genius&#8221; of <strong>Lindsey Buckingham<\/strong>, the long-running mystification of Fleetwood Mac baffles me. They were a pretty cool, pretty weird mainstream band with a half dozen killer songs. However, I&#8217;m too old and was too-cool-for-school as an outwardly dorky teenager to pretend these days that &#8220;Landslide&#8221; and <em>deep cutz<\/em> from Buckingham&#8217;s <em>Go Insane<\/em> album should get me looking off into the distance or reflecting on missed opportunities to snort mounds of cocaine.<\/p>\n<p>Fleetwood Mac, <strong>Steely Dan<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>ABBA<\/strong>, and <strong>Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band<\/strong> have been discussed here before, I&#8217;m sure. Who approved their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/tag\/critical-upgrade\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Upgrades<\/a>? Each band has its charms. I&#8217;m not immune to the best songs by those bands in small doses, but for the last 20 years their stature as <em>Important Mainstream Rock Artists Who Were Hipper Than We Originally Thought<\/em> has exploded. I can&#8217;t buy into this. There were hipper bands then, and there have been hipper bands since. The fact that they were relatively hip doesn&#8217;t make them hip. I&#8217;ve scoured enough used bins to find relative gems from an era&#8217;s music I generally (and probably rightfully) ignored.<\/p>\n<p>What I want to know is which of these bands will lose their Cinderella powers first? Whose limo will turn back into a pumpkin? I think the clock is ticking on at least 2 of the following 4 artists, while 1 artist&#8217;s belated hip status is ascending. What do you think? What other bands fall into this category, and what perhaps rightfully looked down-up (by music snobs) &#8217;80s artists are now becoming unfathomably hip?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-265\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_265\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blogs\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_265_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"0cb1f8d929\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"265\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which '70s mainstream band that became hip long after the fact is due to revert to its previously uncool status first?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-265-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-956\" name=\"poll_265\" value=\"956\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-956\">Steely Dan<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-958\" name=\"poll_265\" value=\"958\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-958\">ABBA<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-959\" name=\"poll_265\" value=\"959\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-959\">Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-957\" name=\"poll_265\" value=\"957\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-957\">Fleetwood Mac<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(265);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(265); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-265-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week a guy I only know through Internet means but really enjoy &#8220;seeing&#8221; posted something about how much cooler Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac are than Bruce Springsteen. I&#8217;m not a fan of either band, but thoroughly dig 6 to 8 songs by each band. Stevie Nicks solo, however, is atrocious. What&#8217;s that &#8220;Tears <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/return-of-the-pumpkin\/' 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":[609,61,221,78,684],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580"}],"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=14580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}