{"id":21563,"date":"2014-05-05T12:16:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T16:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=21563"},"modified":"2014-05-08T00:21:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T04:21:30","slug":"twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/twins\/","title":{"rendered":"Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this band that started out in San Francisco that Mr. Royale I like, <strong>Deerhoof<\/strong>. We particularly enjoyed this track, &#8220;Flower,&#8221; from their 2003 album, <em>Apple O&#8217;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XBcy-zOq_QM?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward a few years; the band has moved east and has released a few more albums, including most recently our favorite, the 2012 <em>Breakup Song<\/em>. On that disc, there&#8217;s also a song entitled, &#8220;Flower,&#8221; but it sounds a little like this:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zwUYTa_mflI?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And then the other day, while I was going through a <strong>Throwing Muses<\/strong> phase, I mentioned their song, &#8220;Cry Baby Cry&#8221; to Mr. Royale. He thought I meant the version from the 1987 EP, <em>Chains Changed<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DX8BeqhCLic?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yet I was referring to the Lennon-McCartney cover (he didn&#8217;t know existed!) from the 1990 <em>Not Too Soon<\/em>\u00a0EP:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZxoEwqmcCk?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>So what gives?! Are these fraternal twin recordings just to fuck with our heads and the libraries of music lovers everywhere? Are they reflective of a supreme lack of creativity on the part of the artists? Do they represent band ghosts that have yet to be exorcised? <\/em><\/p>\n<p>And can you think of other examples of this doppelganger musical form?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So there&#8217;s this band that started out in San Francisco that Mr. Royale I like, Deerhoof. We particularly enjoyed this track, &#8220;Flower,&#8221; from their 2003 album, Apple O&#8217;. Fast forward a few years; the band has moved east and has released a few more albums, including most recently our favorite, the 2012 Breakup Song. On <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/twins\/' 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":[942,944,945,943,941],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563"}],"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=21563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}