{"id":18195,"date":"2013-04-04T07:35:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T11:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18195"},"modified":"2013-04-04T08:14:54","modified_gmt":"2013-04-04T12:14:54","slug":"rth-in-review-25-characteristically-80s-songs-not-even-mr-moderator-was-too-cool-to-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-in-review-25-characteristically-80s-songs-not-even-mr-moderator-was-too-cool-to-like\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH in Review: 25 Characteristically &#8217;80s Songs Not Even Mr. Moderator Was Too Cool to Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18200\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Judd-Nelson.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18200\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18200\" alt=\"Judd Nelson, Mr Mod's '80s role model and unsuspecting lunch table mate at a burger joint in Portland, Maine, circa 1999.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Judd-Nelson.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Judd-Nelson.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Judd-Nelson-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18200\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Judd Nelson, Mr Mod&#8217;s &#8217;80s role model and unsuspecting lunch table mate at a burger joint in Portland, Maine, circa 1999.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You may recall our recent effort to help <strong>Mr. Moderator<\/strong> identify his <a title=\"Help Mr. Moderator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/mr-moderator-too-coo-for-school\" target=\"_blank\">list of 25 characteristically &#8217;80s songs even he liked during that era, when he was, by his own admission, too cool for school<\/a>. Despite rigorous exclusion criteria and the Mod&#8217;s artful stickwork in fending off hopeful shots on net, we managed to help him show the world that he was actually not quite as a big a party pooper as imagined.\u00a0I consider it an extraordinary personal triumph that I was able to get even one song on his Top 25 list.<\/p>\n<p>Attached is the compilation of the Top 25 songs plus all candidate songs and their sponsors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/RTH80s.pdf\">Mr. Mod&#8217;s Top 25 and the RTH &#8217;80s Playlist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A few items of trivia related to the thread:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Total submissions, including Mr. Moderator\u2019s top 25: 206<\/li>\n<li>Submitter with the highest number of successful top 25 candidates other than Mr. Moderator: alexmagic (5)<\/li>\n<li>Top 5 submitters overall: alexmagic (27); ladymisskirroyale (26); Sgt. Peppermint Petty (15); cliff sovinsanity (15); Suburban kid (14)<\/li>\n<li>Most frequent first word in song title (other than \u201cI\u201d): Don\u2019t(5)\u2026hmmm, interesting considering the point of the thread.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may recall our recent effort to help Mr. Moderator identify his list of 25 characteristically &#8217;80s songs even he liked during that era, when he was, by his own admission, too cool for school. Despite rigorous exclusion criteria and the Mod&#8217;s artful stickwork in fending off hopeful shots on net, we managed to help <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-in-review-25-characteristically-80s-songs-not-even-mr-moderator-was-too-cool-to-like\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[795,125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195"}],"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\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}