{"id":23858,"date":"2020-10-15T22:21:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=23858"},"modified":"2020-10-15T22:21:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T02:21:55","slug":"the-mount-rushmore-of-rock-roll-new-wave-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-mount-rushmore-of-rock-roll-new-wave-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mount Rushmore of Rock &amp; Roll: New Wave Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who belongs on the Mount Rushmore of New Wave? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wow, there\u2019s a broad category, huh?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I\u2019m not going to try to define it or narrow it down; that\u2019s up to Rock Town Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Whatever the definition, I say Talking Heads has to be there. Three-piece, four-piece, expanded funk version, it doesn\u2019t matter. The fact that they were so good in all those incarnations is one of the reasons they belong on the Mount. I\u2019ll leave it to the other better musical explicators on the list to explain just how good, just how innovative, and just how timeless (40+ years later we now know that) they are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Talking Heads - Burning Down the House LIVE Los Angeles &#039;83\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FBUe_v6Mi70?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>Frantz\/Weymouth-type complaints aside, what criticisms can you level against them, unless you want to hold then to account for the pale white-boy funk imitators that followed in their wake?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who else shares the Mount with them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who belongs on the Mount Rushmore of New Wave? Wow, there\u2019s a broad category, huh? And I\u2019m not going to try to define it or narrow it down; that\u2019s up to Rock Town Hall. Whatever the definition, I say Talking Heads has to be there. Three-piece, four-piece, expanded funk version, it doesn\u2019t matter. The fact <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/the-mount-rushmore-of-rock-roll-new-wave-edition\/' 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\/23858"}],"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=23858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}