{"id":18343,"date":"2013-04-12T10:43:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=18343"},"modified":"2013-04-12T10:43:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T14:43:47","slug":"ive-been-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ive-been-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Been Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HflAD9rnrDg?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>Is there a particular part in a song that you like enough to wait through all the boring (or worse) bits? While flipping stations this morning I landed on a song I&#8217;ve never warmed up to, except for one part: <strong>U2&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Bloody Sunday.&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0I have always liked the &#8220;How long, how long must we sing our song?&#8221; break enough to wait through the song&#8217;s annoying elements. (And I know I&#8217;m probably in a tiny minority of people who find this song annoying for the reasons I find it annoying.)<\/p>\n<p>That song and the <em>War<\/em> album mark my initial drifting from my high school U2 fandom. The song is not terrible and there are always elements I like, but the open martial snare beat, swishy hi-hats, and the Celtic violins that punctuate the song always bugged me. I don&#8217;t like the production of <em>War<\/em>; to my ears it exposes the things I like least about the band&#8217;s rhythm section. For some reason, too, the production of Bono&#8217;s voice on &#8220;Sunday Bloody Sunday&#8221; made me feel for the first time that he was trying too hard to transcend his band&#8217;s humble music. These days, the wiser, kinder, gentler me has come to appreciate Bono&#8217;s abundance of pomp, but I still get the sense he&#8217;s milking me a little too hard on that song, at least until the\u00a0&#8220;How long, how long must we sing our song?&#8221; break kicks in. That break delivers the goods in ways I was accustomed to the goods having been delivered on U2&#8217;s first 2 albums.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, like most times that song has come on the radio, I stuck with &#8220;Sunday Bloody Sunday&#8221; in all its swishy, high-end hollowness so I could enjoy that break. How about you, what song has a specific part you like so much that you&#8217;ll tolerate the rest of the song for a few measures of glory?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is there a particular part in a song that you like enough to wait through all the boring (or worse) bits? While flipping stations this morning I landed on a song I&#8217;ve never warmed up to, except for one part: U2&#8217;s &#8220;Sunday Bloody Sunday.&#8221;\u00a0I have always liked the &#8220;How long, how long must we sing <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ive-been-waiting\/' 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":[111],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343"}],"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=18343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}