{"id":22305,"date":"2015-02-09T23:43:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T04:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22305"},"modified":"2015-02-10T16:53:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-10T21:53:52","slug":"just-another-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/just-another-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Another (Decade)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently lent me a copy of some old <strong>Madness<\/strong> Greatest Hits. It got me thinking about the first <strong>Madness<\/strong> song I heard when I was a wee lass visiting my English family during the summer of 1982:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HAhFGUK80nk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have a soft spot for that track and even more so, for their earlier, more ska-inflected sound. (My sister had a great ska compilation that mixed &#8220;Night Boat to Cairo&#8221; into The Specials&#8217; &#8220;Friday Night, Saturday Morning,&#8221; a one-two punch I always think of when I hear either of those songs. But I digress.)<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward ten years or so to the next great Wave of English Working Class Rock, and you get songs like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YSuHrTfcikU\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In the early Aughts you can hear a semi-distant refrain, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eP6nY-112Xc\">these guys<\/a> taking the piss:<\/p>\n<p><em>Help me connect the dots. Choose a band a decade earlier than Madness, one that celebrated the rich life of the English prols. Or can you think of their distant echo in, say, 2012 or beyond? <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine recently lent me a copy of some old Madness Greatest Hits. It got me thinking about the first Madness song I heard when I was a wee lass visiting my English family during the summer of 1982: I have a soft spot for that track and even more so, for their <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/just-another-decade\/' 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":[997,8,995,996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22305"}],"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=22305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}