{"id":23847,"date":"2020-10-02T09:08:29","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23847"},"modified":"2020-10-02T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T13:08:31","slug":"does-anyone-still-like-shes-bought-a-hat-like-princess-marina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/does-anyone-still-like-shes-bought-a-hat-like-princess-marina\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Anyone Still Like \u201cShe\u2019s Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did anyone ever?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I became a diehard fan of the Kinks in the late \u201860s, around the time of <em>Arthur<\/em>. I loved that album, played it constantly, loved every song, everything about it. I went back from there and continued forward with them for quite a while, long past the time I should have bailed. They were the headliners at my first rock &amp; roll concert, in Philly in 1971, with local Philly band Good God opening and Edgar Winter\u2019s White Trash second billed. That was the first of my disappointments with The Kinks. Was there ever a more disappointing live band?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still love <em>Arthur<\/em> but have to ask myself, how could I ever have liked \u201cShe\u2019s Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina\u201d? My only defense it that I was 13 years old and in love with the album and like the early days of love you may be a little blinded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s the worst of two worlds: \u201cShe\u2019s Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina\u201d live. Yes, that\u2019s right, they released it twice \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"She&#039;s Bought a Hat Like Princess Marina (Live)\" width=\"695\" height=\"521\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AvOhQW0TP3I?feature=oembed&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m sure I could look back on a lot of albums from my first decade or so of buying records and there will likely be a lot of Princess Marinas but that one in particular sticks out in my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think of a song like \u201cHoney Pie\u201d from <em>The White Album<\/em>. I loved it then, probably for similar reasons to \u201cPrincess Marina,\u201d but despite recognizing intellectually that it is a way minor song in the Beatles canon, I still love it.  It\u2019s part of the Beatles, part of my DNA, and intellect be damned, I still love it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But \u201cPrincess Marina\u201d, sorry, no.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does anyone else feel like confessing up to a similar lack in taste, an album you loved then, still love, but has this glaring \u201cWhat was the matter with me\u201d song in it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did anyone ever? I became a diehard fan of the Kinks in the late \u201860s, around the time of Arthur. I loved that album, played it constantly, loved every song, everything about it. I went back from there and continued forward with them for quite a while, long past the time I should have bailed. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/does-anyone-still-like-shes-bought-a-hat-like-princess-marina\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}