{"id":1474,"date":"2008-06-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-14T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-01-14T17:59:15","slug":"the-most-coked-out-song-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-most-coked-out-song-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Coked-Out Song Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/namethatcaliforniamini.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"75\" height=\"113\" \/><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/57-bBwiIsWU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn celebration of <strong>California Day<\/strong> here at RTH &#8212; and feel free to correct me if I&#8217;m wrong &#8212; I submit that <strong>&#8220;Those Shoes&#8221;<\/strong> by <strong>The Eagles<\/strong> is <em><strong>The Most Coked-Out Song Ever<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>First, take the arrangement. It&#8217;s not enough to have <em>one<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk_box\">talk box<\/a> guitar. No, here, <em>all<\/em> the guitars have bendy mouth things on them, the better to convey the sound of snorting noses. Then, there&#8217;s the mix of drum machine and <strong>Henley<\/strong> beats. (Guess which of the two has more swing.) The relentless, unchanging bass line convinces me that even mellow nice-guy <strong>Timothy B. Schmit<\/strong> is feelin&#8217; kinda nervous right now, man.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"75\" height=\"113\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"data\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/CAsting.swf\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/CAsting.swf\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"75\" height=\"113\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/CAsting.swf\" data=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/CAsting.swf\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think need to have tried <strong>Peruvian flake<\/strong> to get the sweats to this song. I mean, look at this homemade video: just some innocent shots taped from someone&#8217;s car window, and with this song, it looks like an outtake from <em>Boogie Nights.<\/em> How exactly did this song avoid inclusion in that film, anyway?<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t forget the lyrics. I bet Henley and <strong>Frey<\/strong> wanted to provide a searing but sensitive portrait of &#8220;desperation in the single bars.&#8221; When Don sings it, however, it sounds cold, lifeless, uncaring. You know where I&#8217;m going with this. I maintain there&#8217;s at least a flicker of humanity in even the most brittle <strong>Steely Dan<\/strong> track. But not here.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t listen to this song too much, though. My research indicates that repeated exposure leaves the recipient feeling uncannily like he or she&#8217;s reaching the drop during a five-day L.A. bender, surrounded by hot concrete and cars, with no significant foliage for miles and miles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In celebration of California Day here at RTH &#8212; and feel free to correct me if I&#8217;m wrong &#8212; I submit that &#8220;Those Shoes&#8221; by The Eagles is The Most Coked-Out Song Ever. First, take the arrangement. It&#8217;s not enough to have one talk box guitar. No, here, all the guitars have bendy mouth things <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-most-coked-out-song-ever\/' 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":[31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474"}],"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=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}