{"id":17315,"date":"2013-02-09T13:54:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T18:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17315"},"modified":"2013-02-11T11:44:13","modified_gmt":"2013-02-11T16:44:13","slug":"tape-your-wife-to-the-ceiling-or-anti-valentines-day-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/tape-your-wife-to-the-ceiling-or-anti-valentines-day-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling [or Anti-Valentine&#8217;s Day Songs]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the big heart day &#8212; I thought I would share this little number called &#8220;Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling.&#8221;<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DRkD88wwuZk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Here&#8217;s another kind of anti-valentine song from <strong>Tom Petty<\/strong>.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pIexKj-bWQ4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>A personal aside:<\/strong> The biggest rock band in the Twin Cities in 1980-81 was not <strong>Husker Du<\/strong>\u00a0or <strong>The Replacements<\/strong> or <strong>Prince<\/strong>. It was a large ensemble group called <strong>The Suburbs<\/strong>, who had a couple of minor hits (&#8220;Music For Boys&#8221;, &#8220;Love Is The Law&#8221;), a 1-record major-label deal, and then kind of faded away into local lore. The &#8216;Burbs packed &#8217;em in &#8212; I saw them outside at Navy Island in St. Paul with <strong>R.E.M.<\/strong> &#8212; and R.E.M. wisely opened for these guys, because the &#8216;Burbs were always a tough act to follow. (That concert is also memorable because I saw some of my sister&#8217;s 14-year-old friends at the show, which freaked me out, because I was an old man of 19.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personal aside II:<\/strong> Petty&#8217;s &#8220;Long After Dark&#8221; is due for a critical upgrade.<\/p>\n<p><em>So, anyway, what&#8217;s your favorite anti-Valentine song?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the big heart day &#8212; I thought I would share this little number called &#8220;Tape Your Wife to the Ceiling.&#8221; Here&#8217;s another kind of anti-valentine song from Tom Petty. A personal aside: The biggest rock band in the Twin Cities in 1980-81 was not Husker Du\u00a0or The Replacements or Prince. It was a large <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/tape-your-wife-to-the-ceiling-or-anti-valentines-day-songs\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[204],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315"}],"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\/1413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}