{"id":20927,"date":"2014-01-19T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-19T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=20927"},"modified":"2014-01-19T09:47:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-19T14:47:38","slug":"songs-you-love-yet-have-never-owned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-you-love-yet-have-never-owned\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs You Love Yet Have Never Owned"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20929\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/spiritinthesky.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20929\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20929\" alt=\"Tempting?\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/spiritinthesky.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tempting?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Despite never having owned it, the hippie cheese of Norman Greenbaum&#8217;s &#8220;Spirit in the Sky&#8221; never fails to please. Hearing on the radio yesterday I realized how influential the record is on my aesthetic: the beat, the fuzz tone, the double-bends&#8230; &#8220;Sad,&#8221; you may be right in thinking to yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Or maybe not, as I learned with an outpouring of support when I posted these thoughts to my Facebook page minutes after this experience.<\/p>\n<p>Why don&#8217;t I own a copy of &#8220;Spirit in the Sky&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In part because I never went out of my way to buy a 45 of it. In part because I knew feared buying a dollar bin copy of the entire Norman Greenbaum album on which it appears would bum me out (ie, I have always assumed that anything else by that guy would stink to high heaven and probably not even be in the same musical vein). In part because it&#8217;s always been so easy to hear &#8220;Spirit in the Sky&#8221; for free on the radio. Maybe I&#8217;ll buy an mp3 of it some day and avoid the temptation of bringing home a used copy filled out with what I imagine would be orchestrated, musty roll-neck sweater, hippie-folk shit.<\/p>\n<p>How about you, what song do you love and find inspiration in yet have never owned? What&#8217;s your excuse?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite never having owned it, the hippie cheese of Norman Greenbaum&#8217;s &#8220;Spirit in the Sky&#8221; never fails to please. Hearing on the radio yesterday I realized how influential the record is on my aesthetic: the beat, the fuzz tone, the double-bends&#8230; &#8220;Sad,&#8221; you may be right in thinking to yourself. Or maybe not, as I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-you-love-yet-have-never-owned\/' 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\/20927"}],"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=20927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}