{"id":2411,"date":"2009-11-06T22:31:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T03:31:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-11-09T10:33:23","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T10:33:23","slug":"morton-s-fork-still-rock-n-roll-to-me-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/morton-s-fork-still-rock-n-roll-to-me-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Morton&#8217;s Fork: &#8220;Still Rock &#8216;n Roll to Me&#8221; or &#8220;Rock and Roll Band&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kGIAc3DHa6I?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Yesterday, while flipping stations in my car, I was faced with an extremely challenging <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Morton%27s_Fork\" target=\"_blank\">Morton&#8217;s Fork<\/a>; that is, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. All of the stations I had programmed in were on commercial break <em>except<\/em> for our local Oldies station and our local Classic Rock station. The Oldies station was playing <strong>Billy Joel<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Still Rock and Roll to Me&#8221;; the Classic Rock station was playing <strong>Boston<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Rock and Roll Band.&#8221; I really felt like listening to <em>something<\/em> on the radio <em>with a beat<\/em>. That&#8217;s right, the local AAA station, which is commercial free, was playing some acoustic thumbsucker with a whiny voice: &#8220;N\/A.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Usually, when faced with <em>any<\/em> Joel vs Boston choice I&#8217;d go with the well-crafted but not smug Boston selection, unless it was Joel&#8217;s &#8220;Uptown Girl&#8221; on the radio, the one Joel song I kind of like. I&#8217;d never considered that any other Joel song could have a chance when stacked up against any mediocre Boston song until this match up. <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/boston.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"324\" \/><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;a mediocre achievement of the highest order that nevertheless left nowhere lower to go&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Rock and Roll Band&#8221; makes my flesh crawl. It&#8217;s a song that should have been taken behind a shed and shot. The same might be said for anything following Boston&#8217;s debut album, a mediocre achievement of the highest order that nevertheless left nowhere lower to go. For the first time in my life I chose to listen to &#8220;Still Rock &#8216;n Roll to Me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s my choice. Feel free to comment on the wisdom of my decision or, better yet, <em>throw an equally less-than-mediocre staple of Oldies or Classic Rock radio in the ring against my selection and see what the next Townsperson chooses<\/em>. Then that person can toss a contestant into the ring against his or her choice. I&#8217;m curious to see what song is left on the scrapheap. Maybe, as a punishment, we can then burn the master recording.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while flipping stations in my car, I was faced with an extremely challenging Morton&#8217;s Fork; that is, I was stuck between a rock and a hard place. All of the stations I had programmed in were on commercial break except for our local Oldies station and our local Classic Rock station. The Oldies station <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/morton-s-fork-still-rock-n-roll-to-me-or\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[208],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}