{"id":2133,"date":"2009-04-24T13:46:56","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-04-24T13:46:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T13:46:56","slug":"slow-burns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/slow-burns\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/taeaLY3KJUc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I don&#8217;t have the world&#8217;s longest attention span, especially when it comes to rock &#8216;n roll. I tend to get fidgety during long intros, slow songs, and the like. Sometimes even the opening minute of a generally fine meat-and-potatoes pinky rock song by a band I really like on an album I love tests my patience. For years this was the case with <strong>&#8220;The Have Nots,&#8221;<\/strong> the closing song on <strong>X<\/strong>&#8216;s fantastic third album, <em>Under the Big Black Sun<\/em>. The song was never a needle lifter for me, but if I had to get somewhere while spinning the record, I never felt compelled to listen past the penultimate side 2 song, the energetic &#8220;How (I Learned My Lesson).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then, one day, my close personal friend, <strong>Townsman Andyr<\/strong>, told me how much he loves &#8220;The Have Nots.&#8221; I&#8217;d already spent a few rockin&#8217; nights in the presence of this music lover, and although I knew he shared my love for this album, I had no idea this was his favorite cut on the album! <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why?&#8221; I asked. He told me he liked the way it built up steam. He told me to wait for the verse with the handclaps and to follow the progression of Billy Zoom&#8217;s guitar parts. I tried it, and damn if he wasn&#8217;t right! I&#8217;ve since loved that song too and now consider it one of my favorite songs on that album. However, even knowning the payoff that&#8217;s to come, to this day when &#8220;The Have Nots&#8221; starts off I get a little fidgety. I know the song is a <strong>slow burn<\/strong>, but something inside me wants to douse it with lighter fluid.<\/p>\n<p><em>What&#8217;s your favorite slow burn?<\/em> I don&#8217;t necessarily mean a song that&#8217;s constructed as a slow burn, such as <strong>Otis Redding<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;I&#8217;ve Been Loving You Too Long.&#8221; I&#8217;m looking for your personal slow burn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have the world&#8217;s longest attention span, especially when it comes to rock &#8216;n roll. I tend to get fidgety during long intros, slow songs, and the like. Sometimes even the opening minute of a generally fine meat-and-potatoes pinky rock song by a band I really like on an album I love tests my <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/slow-burns\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133"}],"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=2133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}