{"id":21084,"date":"2014-02-04T06:28:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21084"},"modified":"2014-02-04T06:28:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T11:28:16","slug":"we-could-blog-about-our-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/we-could-blog-about-our-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"We Could Blog About Our Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After reading very encouraging recent comments from funoka, cherguevarra, and MrHuman, I believe that, AT LAST, I can swoon a little about <strong>Aztec Camera<\/strong>. I&#8217;ve loved this band since my introduction to them, which occurred via a little black and white photo of a cute boy with floppy hair that my sister had glued to the dashboard of her car. Ah, my first gaze at <strong>Roddy Frame<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><em>High Land, Hard Rain<\/em> is a great album: lo-fi emotive pop with clever, besotted lyrics and alternating jangly and classical guitar. Later albums get slicker, cornier, and\/or sadder. However, the excellent track or two on each record kept my faith in the band alive. The final Aztec Camera album, <em>Frestonia<\/em>, reverted back to a lo-fi sound, but this time with more of a jazz influence.<\/p>\n<p>Please join me in watching this early performance of &#8220;We Could Send Letters.&#8221; It&#8217;s lyrics used to make me cry. Luckily, in this video, I was distracted from my reminiscences of an old boyfriend by the matching tracksuits, the ridiculous hair, and the weird now-apparent resemblance of Roddy Frame to Paul Dano.<\/p>\n<p>The final charge, at the 3:40 mark, continues to make me love this band.<\/p>\n<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1EtMaeFAnn8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>\n<p>P.S. &#8211; Mr. Royale just shared his own NSFW memories about this album indicating that I&#8217;m not the only one who had romantic associations with Aztec Camera&#8217;s music. (Will <em>High Land, Hard Rain<\/em>\u00a0beat out <em>Avalon<\/em> as the most nookie-worthy album of the &#8217;80s?) AND that the album was just re-released!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After reading very encouraging recent comments from funoka, cherguevarra, and MrHuman, I believe that, AT LAST, I can swoon a little about Aztec Camera. I&#8217;ve loved this band since my introduction to them, which occurred via a little black and white photo of a cute boy with floppy hair that my sister had glued to <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/we-could-blog-about-our-feelings\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[923,921,922,924],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21084"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}