{"id":19692,"date":"2013-08-02T15:45:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T19:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=19692"},"modified":"2013-08-02T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-02T19:52:27","slug":"thrifty-music-in-praise-of-the-shangri-las","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-in-praise-of-the-shangri-las\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrifty Music: In Praise of the Shangri-Las"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ANJGTyZ6v_A?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Greetings, seekers of the rare, the unusual, the putatively worthless! I come before you once again with a pair of fine, obscure tunes \u2014 both from the same, excellent single \u2014 collected at a garage sale I chanced upon a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>I make no claims about the catalog depth of the Shangri-Las, a girl group most famous for their mega-smash hit, \u201cLeader Of the Pack.\u201d But I can say that all the Sharngri-Las material I have found in my thrifty peregrinations has provided excellent entertainment, and Mrs. Bakshi concurs. This single is no different. The A-side, \u201cLove You More Than Yesterday,\u201d is catchy and hook-laden, and features just enough \u2014 how shall I say it? \u2014 girlish naivete to amuse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/01-Love-You-More-Than-Yesterday.mp3\">01 Love You More Than Yesterday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The B-side, however, was a real WTF moment for me. And I mean that in a good way! As you&#8217;ll hear, \u201cPast, Present &amp; Future\u201d isn&#8217;t really a \u201csong\u201d at all. It&#8217;s a spoken word piece, about&#8230; uh&#8230; about the emotional impact of being raped, as far as I can tell. Seriously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/01-Past-Present-and-Future.mp3\">01 Past, Present and Future<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first time I heard it, I had a hard time getting past the melodrama, and I suspect you&#8217;ll have the same reaction. But if you have it pop up on CD mixes in the car for a month as I did, you may find yourself appreciating its subtler charms. I cannot tell a lie; I love the extreme girly drama of it. As I get older, I find myself losing patience with the supposed drama of the gang-banger, the beer-drinker, the hell-raiser, and I enjoy the simple charm (if you can call it that) of a girl&#8217;s lament, ca. 1965. And as far as girl&#8217;s laments go, this one is a corker. See what you think.<\/p>\n<p>As always, I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings, seekers of the rare, the unusual, the putatively worthless! I come before you once again with a pair of fine, obscure tunes \u2014 both from the same, excellent single \u2014 collected at a garage sale I chanced upon a few weeks ago. I make no claims about the catalog depth of the Shangri-Las, a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/thrifty-music-in-praise-of-the-shangri-las\/' 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":[71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692"}],"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=19692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}