{"id":2178,"date":"2009-05-27T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T18:46:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-27T23:11:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T23:11:35","slug":"let-s-play-hands-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/let-s-play-hands-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Play Hands Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/sammymaudlin\/handsdown.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"276\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This is quick one.  When thinking about great bands that have deep catalogs of great albums, there are few of which I can say &#8220;This is their best, hands down.&#8221;  For <strong>The Beatles<\/strong> or <strong>Stones<\/strong> or <strong>Kinks<\/strong> or&#8230;there is no way I could pick a best.<\/p>\n<p>But for <strong>XTC<\/strong>, I can say, hands down, <em>English Settlement<\/em> is their best.  For classic <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>, I can say, hands down, <em>Animals<\/em> is their best.  For <strong>Crowded House<\/strong>, I can say, hands down, <em>Together Alone<\/em>, is their best.<\/p>\n<p>And I use &#8220;best&#8221; rather than &#8220;favorite&#8221; as with these albums, the bands, IMHO, delivered what they were growing towards all along and then never quite achieved again.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to agree with me regarding the above specifics but the question is really- Do you have any <em>hands down<\/em> albums?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is quick one. When thinking about great bands that have deep catalogs of great albums, there are few of which I can say &#8220;This is their best, hands down.&#8221; For The Beatles or Stones or Kinks or&#8230;there is no way I could pick a best. But for XTC, I can say, hands down, English <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/let-s-play-hands-down\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[125],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}