{"id":17218,"date":"2013-01-23T09:43:47","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T14:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17218"},"modified":"2013-01-23T09:43:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T14:43:47","slug":"whats-that-sound-and-lunkhead-anthems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-that-sound-and-lunkhead-anthems\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s That Sound&#8230;and Lunkhead Anthems"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSc7QZnPMOM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p><strong>Townsman machinery<\/strong> ran a similar thread not too long ago on <a title=\"Strange Sounds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/strange-sounds\" target=\"_blank\">strange sounds<\/a> on records. Bachman Turner Overdrive&#8217;s awesome lunkhead anthem &#8220;Taking Care of Business&#8221; came on the radio this morning and I couldn&#8217;t help but dig it. At the 47-second mark, when they sing &#8220;And if you take your time you can get to work by 9&#8230;&#8221; some low, fluttering sound enters the mix. Real simple question: <em>What&#8217;s that sound?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While that song is fresh in mind, is there a better lunkhead anthem than &#8220;Taking Care of Business&#8221;? To be fair, it&#8217;s probably not fair to characterize the song as being targeted at lunkheads, which the <a title=\"Lunkhead\" href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=lunkhead\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Dictionary so sensitively defines<\/a> as, &#8220;A very inoffensive, PG way of calling somebody a fucking retard.&#8221; But the spirit of the song goes deeper than &#8220;down to earth.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know about you, but when I hear &#8220;Taking Care of Business&#8221; I get in touch with my inner lunkhead. That can be a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>If we were to construct a 12-song compilation album entitled\u00a0<em>Lunkhead Anthems<\/em>, what other 11 songs would best serve the need we all have, now and then, to get in touch with our inner lunkhead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townsman machinery ran a similar thread not too long ago on strange sounds on records. Bachman Turner Overdrive&#8217;s awesome lunkhead anthem &#8220;Taking Care of Business&#8221; came on the radio this morning and I couldn&#8217;t help but dig it. At the 47-second mark, when they sing &#8220;And if you take your time you can get to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-that-sound-and-lunkhead-anthems\/' 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":[177,773,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218"}],"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=17218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}