{"id":15351,"date":"2012-09-03T12:13:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15351"},"modified":"2012-09-03T12:13:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T16:13:09","slug":"beasts-of-burden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/beasts-of-burden\/","title":{"rendered":"Beasts of Burden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15358\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/beasts-of-burden\/ttyo-10\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15358\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TTYO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TTYO.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/TTYO-300x279.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve always championed <strong>The Wolfgang Press<\/strong>. I\u2019m not sure where your basic RTH-er is going to stand with this challenging lot. It has been said that \u201cif you filled a room with Talking Heads fans, got them drunk and played a few Wolfgang Press discs, loudly, the congregation would go ape before they had time to rescue their cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15352\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/beasts-of-burden\/01-king-of-soul\/\">King of Soul<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15353\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/beasts-of-burden\/06-im-coming-home-mama\/\">I&#8217;m Coming Home (Mama)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Weighty and primal, always changing, they were cast from PiL-type gloom backgrounds but there has always been something darkly humorous about this trio. Lead ranter <strong>Michael Allen<\/strong> was a brooding goofball who comes across like a dreadlocked Nick Cave. His spoken-howl lyrics and the band\u2019s bottom-heavy, textured experiments moved from cacophony to minimal to soul-tinged to (admittedly not so successful) dance-floor funk.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15354\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/beasts-of-burden\/10-fireeater\/\">FireEater<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15355\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/beasts-of-burden\/04-kansas\/\">Kansas<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TWP is not for the easily intimidated. Swaggering but self-doubting, full of fire and brimstone, choosing odd songs to cover, permeated by 4AD atmosphere, and always visceral, always confrontational\u2026what say ye?<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15356\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/beasts-of-burden\/11-ecstasy\/\">Ecstasy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15357\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/beasts-of-burden\/02-mama-told-me-not-to-come\/\">Mama Told Me Not to Come<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-15359\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/beasts-of-burden\/twp_067a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15359\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/twp_067a-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/twp_067a-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/twp_067a.jpg 345w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always championed The Wolfgang Press. I\u2019m not sure where your basic RTH-er is going to stand with this challenging lot. It has been said that \u201cif you filled a room with Talking Heads fans, got them drunk and played a few Wolfgang Press discs, loudly, the congregation would go ape before they had time <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/beasts-of-burden\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[513,644],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15351"}],"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\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}