{"id":2311,"date":"2009-09-02T12:54:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:54:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-09-02T22:48:44","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T22:48:44","slug":"the-rock-band-s-most-dubious-endeavor-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rock-band-s-most-dubious-endeavor-th\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock Band\u2019s Most Dubious Endeavor: the Covers Album"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y1Pkd8sIe-c?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nYesterday, <strong>Townsman Hrrundi<\/strong> seemed to be issuing a cry for help after someone recommend the new <strong>Matthew Sweet<\/strong> and <strong>Susanna Hoffs<\/strong> <em>Under the Covers<\/em> album to him, thinking that it would be right up his alley.  He fearlessly tried to make it though the album.  Like many victims of trauma, the experience seemed to leave him scared, angry, and confused about what had just happened to him.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I think the best road to recovery for these types of situations is to talk through them.  Let\u2019s all help pitch in to help him work through this by going through the following exercise:<\/p>\n<p>Please rank the following types of covers album from most offensive to least offensive. Feel free to add any category that I\u2019ve over looked. <\/p>\n<p>1. The devoted fans\u2019 soulless attempt to recreate their favorite tunes (eg, Mathew Sweet and Suzanna Hoffs \u2013 <em>Under the Covers<\/em> albums).<br \/>\n2. The jaded headliner\u2019s crass money-grab (eg, <strong>Rod Stewart<\/strong>\u2019s <em>American Songbook<\/em> series).<br \/>\n3. An unhinged and extremely misguided attempt to cash in on the current zeitgeist. (eg, <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> \u2013 <em>The Transformed Man<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Hrrundi, please know that you did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, Townsman Hrrundi seemed to be issuing a cry for help after someone recommend the new Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs Under the Covers album to him, thinking that it would be right up his alley. He fearlessly tried to make it though the album. Like many victims of trauma, the experience seemed to leave <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-rock-band-s-most-dubious-endeavor-th\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311"}],"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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}