{"id":1866,"date":"2008-12-11T06:52:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-16T01:26:23","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T01:26:23","slug":"your-cleanest-side-of-vinyl-on-an-otherw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-cleanest-side-of-vinyl-on-an-otherw\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Cleanest Side of Vinyl on an Otherwise Enthusiastically Worn Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/applejam.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Sides 1-4: Good; sides 5-6: Mint.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In a recent thread on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/12\/10\/your-choices-for-worst-song-by-these-maj\">worst song by a handful of Classic Rock artists<\/a>, <strong>2000 Man<\/strong> selected &#8220;Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands&#8221; as Bob Dylan&#8217;s worst song from his prime recording years. The song constitutes all of <strong>side 4<\/strong> of the otherwise classic <em>Blonde on Blonde<\/em>. My guess is that even among Dylan fans and fans of this album, those of us who own it on vinyl can claim a much cleaner, scratch-and-pop-free side 4 than any of the album&#8217;s first three sides. At least that&#8217;s the case for me.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of two more albums sides that I&#8217;d bet my house on being <em>much cleaner<\/em> than any other side of what may be a frequently spun album in your collection: <!--more--><strong>side 5<\/strong> of George Harrison&#8217;s <em>All Things Must Pass<\/em> and <strong>side 6<\/strong> of George Harrison&#8217;s <em>All Things Must Pass<\/em>, the &#8220;Apple Jam&#8221; sides. Unless you actually used these <em>album sides<\/em> rather than the album cover to clean pot, those sides look as new and clean as the day you bought the album, right?<\/p>\n<p>So how &#8217;bout it, what&#8217;s your cleanest side of vinyl on an otherwise enthusiastically worn album?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sides 1-4: Good; sides 5-6: Mint. In a recent thread on the worst song by a handful of Classic Rock artists, 2000 Man selected &#8220;Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands&#8221; as Bob Dylan&#8217;s worst song from his prime recording years. The song constitutes all of side 4 of the otherwise classic Blonde on Blonde. My <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-cleanest-side-of-vinyl-on-an-otherw\/' 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":[99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866"}],"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=1866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}