{"id":2197,"date":"2009-06-07T12:30:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T16:30:02","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-06-07T16:41:58","modified_gmt":"2009-06-07T16:41:58","slug":"albums-you-know-you-like-by-artists-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/albums-you-know-you-like-by-artists-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Albums You Know You Like by Artists You Definitely Like Yet That You Have Zero Interest in Playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/armedforces.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Exhausted?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>It just occurred to me that I did not load a single track from <strong>Elvis Costello &amp; The Attractions<\/strong>&#8216; <em>Armed Forces<\/em> onto my iPod. I love EC &amp; The Attractions &#8211; everybody loves &#8217;em &#8211; and <em>Armed Forces<\/em> is a strong record featuring some killer songs, but I rarely if ever feel the need to spin it. I&#8217;ve felt this way for most of the years that have followed the release of <em>Get Happy!!<\/em>, my all-time favorite album (period, not just among EC albums). I feel like I&#8217;ve got nothing to learn from <em>Armed Forces<\/em>. The arrangements lack mystery and unexplored nooks and crannies for me to stumble upon. The lyrics seem to have nothing more to reveal to me. I never found it to be a very emotional album, and what emotions I once felt for the album have long since passed from my daily routine (eg, &#8220;Party Girl&#8221;). It&#8217;s a closed book. A very good book, but closed for me.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you have an album or albums like I&#8217;ve described, albums you know you like by artists you definitely like yet that you have zero interest in playing?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhausted? It just occurred to me that I did not load a single track from Elvis Costello &amp; The Attractions&#8216; Armed Forces onto my iPod. I love EC &amp; The Attractions &#8211; everybody loves &#8217;em &#8211; and Armed Forces is a strong record featuring some killer songs, but I rarely if ever feel the need <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/albums-you-know-you-like-by-artists-you\/' 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":[10,56,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197"}],"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=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}