{"id":22497,"date":"2015-06-23T09:48:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22497"},"modified":"2015-06-23T09:48:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:48:20","slug":"blinded-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/blinded-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Blinded Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things I don&#8217;t give much thought to. Yet today, &#8220;One of Our Submarines Is Missing&#8221; by <strong>Thomas Dolby<\/strong>, popped into my head. I loved this song when I first heard it and I still enjoy it in all its Ur New Wave production frippery. I even remember that it did not appear on the US release of Dolby&#8217;s breakout album, though it was on the (much pricier) UK version. Then I tried to recall other favorite Dolby tunes. &#8220;She Blinded Me With Science&#8221; is the obvious one, as imprinted in all of us as a Motown hit. &#8220;Europa and the Pirate Twins&#8221; still stirs psychic zephyrs of of breezy longing for a innocent love that I maybe experienced in the briefest of flashes in my late teens and early 20s. Then I tried to remember other Dolby songs. I couldn&#8217;t. I can&#8217;t. Ok, maybe &#8220;Radio Silence,&#8221; but I&#8217;d argue that&#8217;s just good, not great.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yNWPYH-XKpI\" width=\"420\" height=\"236\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The challenge is not to look up Thomas Dolby songs on Google. The challenge is to come up with a Dolby song or songs that you think are as defensibly great as the three as I mentioned above, and then defend your choice(s) in the Hall like a gentleman with a one spectacle eye glass and some unnecessary though fetching steampunk headwear. Bonus points to Dolby for being an early progenitor of the Steampunk look. Bro-wear, such as khaki or relaxed fit, get no such bonus points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many things I don&#8217;t give much thought to. Yet today, &#8220;One of Our Submarines Is Missing&#8221; by Thomas Dolby, popped into my head. I loved this song when I first heard it and I still enjoy it in all its Ur New Wave production frippery. I even remember that it did not appear <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/blinded-challenge\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[1008,1007],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22497"}],"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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22497\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}