{"id":1803,"date":"2008-11-17T17:44:58","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T22:44:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-11-17T19:38:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T19:38:15","slug":"there-is-nothing-wrong-with-this-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-this-song\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is Nothing Wrong With This Song!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hfpli2VQtZU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>When I was college, I experienced the wonderful realization that &#8212; with a little effort &#8212; I could actually write songs.  Not great ones, but songs that were occasionally not half bad.  Catalyzed by my encounters with The Jam&#8217;s <em>All Mod Cons<\/em>, Townsmen kcills, Mod, and a few other personal and professional icons of the pop\/punk ideal, I began doing this in my spare time, forming a band as so many around me were doing.<\/p>\n<p>One of the groups that convinced me it was possible for mere mortals to write pleasing, interesting music was the dB&#8217;s.  Their <em>Repercussions<\/em> album is still on my short list of &#8220;One Day the World Will Wake Up and Celebrate This LP and the Band That Made It&#8221; discs &#8212; and it&#8217;s one of the reasons why, when I met <strong>Chris Stamey<\/strong> a few years ago, the first thing I blurted out was, &#8220;you&#8217;re a National Cultural Treasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, as a hopeful collegiate songwriter, the one song that rose to the top for me &#8212; across all the Great Bands I was soaking up in those impressionable years &#8212; was &#8220;Neverland&#8221; by the dB&#8217;s.  I thought then, and continue to think today, that it&#8217;s the Perfect Pop Song.  And the spot (at 2:27 in this newly discovered video) when <strong>Gene Holder<\/strong> shoots up the neck to the tonic is one of those shudder-inducing &#8220;wait for it&#8221; moments that make musical life worth living.<\/p>\n<p>I defy you to find anything wrong with this song.  I even dare you to tell me this 26-year-old song sounds dated.  You can&#8217;t.  You just can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n<p>p.s.:  per Mod&#8217;s request, I add &#8212;  do you agree, or ARE YOU AN ASSHOLE?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was college, I experienced the wonderful realization that &#8212; with a little effort &#8212; I could actually write songs. Not great ones, but songs that were occasionally not half bad. Catalyzed by my encounters with The Jam&#8217;s All Mod Cons, Townsmen kcills, Mod, and a few other personal and professional icons of the <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/there-is-nothing-wrong-with-this-song\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803"}],"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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}