{"id":22608,"date":"2015-07-23T12:30:22","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T16:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=22608"},"modified":"2015-07-23T12:30:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T16:30:22","slug":"bands-i-dont-believe-ive-ever-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bands-i-dont-believe-ive-ever-heard\/","title":{"rendered":"Bands\/Albums I Don&#8217;t Believe I&#8217;ve Ever Heard and, Frankly, Don&#8217;t Feel a Reason to Ever Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22609\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22609\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22609\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest3-297x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;I don't think so...&quot;\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest3-297x300.jpg 297w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest3-1016x1024.jpg 1016w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest3-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest3-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest3-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest3-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest3-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest3.jpg 1168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22609\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Uh&#8230;I don&#8217;t think so&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Have you ever browsed through a used records bin and been confronted with a band or album you&#8217;ve seen repeatedly yet never heard? As a music obsessive, I usually think to myself, <em>I need to hear this someday<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, however, despite it being the 832nd time I&#8217;ve flipped to a particular band or album, I think to myself, <em>I don&#8217;t believe I&#8217;ve ever heard this band\/album before, yet\u00a0frankly, I don&#8217;t feel a reason to ever hear it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Anything, for instance, by <strong>Barclay James Harvest<\/strong>, brings this thought to mind.<\/p>\n<p><!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_22610\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22610\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Uh...I don't think so...&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22610\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Uh&#8230;I don&#8217;t think so&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know the slightest thing about this band, but everything about their used album covers\u00a0gives off a vibe of &#8220;Uh&#8230;I don&#8217;t think so&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The\u00a0band name sounds like a cross between a wine cooler and a UK\u00a0investment firm<\/li>\n<li>The fonts they use on their album covers support the wine cooler vibe<\/li>\n<li>The butterfly and landscape motif is unappealing, in terms of how it might suggest anything related to my musical tastes, and is consistently poorly rendered from a graphic perspective<\/li>\n<li>Their occasional scroll band logo atop some of their album covers (below) supports the UK investment firm vibe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_22612\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22612\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-22612\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Uh...I don't think so...&quot;\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest2-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest2-24x24.jpg 24w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest2-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest2-48x48.jpg 48w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest2-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/barclayjamesharvest2.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-22612\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Uh&#8230;I don&#8217;t think so&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I have never found a reason to even pull a Barclay James Harvest album from a stack of used records and see if there&#8217;s anything worthwhile on the back cover or in the credits. For all I know there are<a title=\"Tastefully Nude\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/nsfw-last-man-standing-nude-album-covers\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0tastefully nude models<\/a> on the back cover, surrounded by butterflies, no less. Maybe someone cool, like Eno or George Martin, shows up in the credits. I&#8217;ll never know.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a band\/album you&#8217;ve consistently bypassed over years of flipping through used record bins?<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bands-i-dont-believe-ive-ever-heard\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/bands-i-dont-believe-ive-ever-heard\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever browsed through a used records bin and been confronted with a band or album you&#8217;ve seen repeatedly yet never heard? As a music obsessive, I usually think to myself, I need to hear this someday. 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