{"id":20557,"date":"2013-11-25T08:52:02","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T13:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20557"},"modified":"2013-11-26T11:39:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:39:06","slug":"music-and-lyrics-by___________","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/music-and-lyrics-by___________\/","title":{"rendered":"Music and Lyrics by___________."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20564\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cokerealthing.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20564\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20564\" alt=\"Even better than the real thing?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cokerealthing-229x300.jpg\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cokerealthing-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cokerealthing.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Even better than the real thing?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Okay, so for whatever reason, the only thing I can listen to lately is my entire oeuvre of <strong>Sonic Youth<\/strong>. Wait a minute, wait a minute, I know, most of you lot don&#8217;t like them. That&#8217;s not the point.<\/p>\n<p>The point<em> is<\/em>: I was thinking about how <strong>Smashing Pumpkins<\/strong>&#8216; <em>1979\u00a0<strong><\/strong><\/em>is the best thing Sonic Youth &#8220;never wrote.&#8221; Similarly, I feel that <strong>The Verve<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Bittersweet Symphony<\/em> is the best thing Jagger &amp; Richards never wrote. [<em><a title=\"Or did they?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thevervelive.com\/2005\/05\/bitter-sweet-symphony-controversy-and.html\" target=\"_blank\">Or did they?<\/a> &#8211; Mod.<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p>So that got me to thinking: <em>What are other songs that one-up the influence?<\/em> Which tunes distill the shape and inspiration to manifest and encapsulate the essence of their model? <strong>Fill in the blank:<\/strong> ________is the best thing______never wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so for whatever reason, the only thing I can listen to lately is my entire oeuvre of Sonic Youth. Wait a minute, wait a minute, I know, most of you lot don&#8217;t like them. That&#8217;s not the point. The point is: I was thinking about how Smashing Pumpkins&#8216; 1979\u00a0is the best thing Sonic Youth <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/music-and-lyrics-by___________\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2340,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[723],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20557"}],"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\/2340"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}