{"id":17367,"date":"2013-02-05T00:17:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-05T05:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=17367"},"modified":"2013-02-05T00:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-02-05T05:17:36","slug":"two-of-a-perfect-pair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/two-of-a-perfect-pair\/","title":{"rendered":"Two of a Perfect Pair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Unknown.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17372\" alt=\"Unknown\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Unknown.jpeg\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Unknown.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Unknown-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>As an offshoot to the whole MBV thing, and the relationship between (bear with me) masterpiece and follow-up, I got to thinking of analogous album pairs.<\/p>\n<p>On the color wheel, we have groups of color arranged next to each other,\u00a0with a dominant color (such as red, at let&#8217;s say 12:00), and then adjacent colors (orange-red at 1:00, orange at 2:00, red-violet at 11:00, and so forth).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious to know of such pairings with essential albums, and their follow-up or predecessor\u00a0(as in the case of <em>Sticky Fingers<\/em>:<em>Exile on Main Street<\/em>). Are there pairs of albums, released in consecutive order, where one is the &#8220;acknowledged masterpiece&#8221; and the other is just as good, if not better, and you always listen to that one more often anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Does this make sense? Give me a red, and an orange-red. I&#8217;ll give another example. <em>OK Computer<\/em> (yes, watershed, that is known and accepted,and I love it) to <em>Kid A<\/em> (not as critically lauded, but damn, that&#8217;s the one for me!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As an offshoot to the whole MBV thing, and the relationship between (bear with me) masterpiece and follow-up, I got to thinking of analogous album pairs. On the color wheel, we have groups of color arranged next to each other,\u00a0with a dominant color (such as red, at let&#8217;s say 12:00), and then adjacent colors (orange-red <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/two-of-a-perfect-pair\/' 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":[510,780],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17367"}],"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=17367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}