{"id":16460,"date":"2012-11-04T17:26:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T22:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=16460"},"modified":"2012-11-04T17:26:10","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T22:26:10","slug":"molasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/molasse\/","title":{"rendered":"Molasses Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cfwXfRlh6Go?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>I hate the &#8220;molasses cover.&#8221; HATE IT!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure when this convention began, but that molasses-slow version of &#8220;Sweet Jane&#8221; from the 1980s by that Canadian band that recorded in a church is the first example of the phenomenon that made such a bad impression on me.<\/p>\n<p>Why is it considered a good idea to cover a galloping or charging rock &#8216;n roll song at a third of the original&#8217;s speed? Was I previously not capable of getting the drama of the lyrics at the song&#8217;s original pace? Do artists think we&#8217;re, you know, &#8220;slow?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I know some of you like <strong>Cowboy Junkies<\/strong>&#8216;\u2014that&#8217;s the band whose name I couldn&#8217;t remember\u2014take on &#8220;Sweet Jane.&#8221; I can&#8217;t count that. Does the molasses cover EVER improve on the original?<\/p>\n<p><em>I, most likely, dread your responses<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate the &#8220;molasses cover.&#8221; HATE IT! I&#8217;m not sure when this convention began, but that molasses-slow version of &#8220;Sweet Jane&#8221; from the 1980s by that Canadian band that recorded in a church is the first example of the phenomenon that made such a bad impression on me. Why is it considered a good idea <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/molasse\/' 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":[342,17],"tags":[271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460"}],"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=16460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}