{"id":24281,"date":"2021-05-27T20:08:51","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=24281"},"modified":"2021-05-27T20:09:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T00:09:39","slug":"beside-loose-does-any-song-warrant-opening-with-a-banshee-wail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/beside-loose-does-any-song-warrant-opening-with-a-banshee-wail\/","title":{"rendered":"Beside &#8220;Loose,&#8221; Does Any Song Warrant Opening With a Banshee Wail?"},"content":{"rendered":"\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=\"U2 - New Year&#039;s Day (Official Music Video)\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jeYCyCaK_5k?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>Driving home after a wonderful anniversary dinner tonight, U2&#8217;s &#8220;New Year&#8217;s Day&#8221; came on the radio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There are enough U2 songs I like.&#8221; I said to my disinterested wife, &#8220;I wish this one would go away.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She is expert in tuning me out when I go on such tangents, so I continued my conversation in my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Why do you particularly dislike this song?&#8221; I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s nothing but the overly emotive crap that I can&#8217;t stand about Bono,&#8221; I said. Then I added, &#8220;And he ruins it right out of the gates with an unnecessary banshee wail.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bono has had more space to emote than any person in earth. He does a pleading banshee wail on every U2 song. Did he really need to start this one with a pleading banshee wail?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then &#8220;we&#8221; (is, I and I) got to talking. Beside The Stooges&#8217; &#8220;Loose,&#8221; does any song warrant opening with a banshee wail?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Daltry, Lennon, Jim Morrison, or PJ Harvey, some of rock&#8217;s best wailers, opened a song with a banshee wail. I could be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving home after a wonderful anniversary dinner tonight, U2&#8217;s &#8220;New Year&#8217;s Day&#8221; came on the radio. &#8220;There are enough U2 songs I like.&#8221; I said to my disinterested wife, &#8220;I wish this one would go away.&#8221; She is expert in tuning me out when I go on such tangents, so I continued my conversation in <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/beside-loose-does-any-song-warrant-opening-with-a-banshee-wail\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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\/24281"}],"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=24281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}