{"id":15416,"date":"2012-09-07T13:59:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T17:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=15416"},"modified":"2012-09-10T11:09:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T15:09:09","slug":"on-second-thought-bands-you-originally-thought-sucked-but-later-learned-to-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/on-second-thought-bands-you-originally-thought-sucked-but-later-learned-to-enjoy\/","title":{"rendered":"On Second Thought: Bands You Originally Thought Sucked But Later Learned to Enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15417\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15417\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15417\" title=\"The+Smiths\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The+Smiths-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The+Smiths-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/The+Smiths.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On second thought...<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong>[<\/strong><strong>Suburban kid<\/strong> suggests we discuss the following topic. Welcome to <strong>The Main Stage<\/strong>, my friend. &#8211; Mr. Mod.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have a lot of these, but off the top of my head I can think of:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Smiths<\/strong> \u2013 I saw them open for The Fall in 1983 and thought they were very boring. Then I had to listen to them as my record store co-workers played them over and over again in 1985-86. I thought Morrissey was a pretentious drip, which prevented me from even trying to like the music. But after an extended period of this immersion technique, I grew to enjoy Moz\u2019s defiance and eccentricity, his vocal ticks and his camp posing. Some of his lyrics were actually quite funny, and the band, if you listened, seemed to play rock and roll sometimes. I decided I quite liked them, but that I probably would have\u00a0<em>loved<\/em> them if I were 17 and not a few years older than that.<\/p>\n<p>There are other examples, but what about you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Suburban kid suggests we discuss the following topic. Welcome to The Main Stage, my friend. &#8211; Mr. Mod.] I have a lot of these, but off the top of my head I can think of: The Smiths \u2013 I saw them open for The Fall in 1983 and thought they were very boring. Then I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/on-second-thought-bands-you-originally-thought-sucked-but-later-learned-to-enjoy\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2338,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416"}],"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\/2338"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}