{"id":2468,"date":"2009-12-16T08:53:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T13:53:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-04T22:37:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T22:37:07","slug":"walk-on-by-or-there-may-be-no-holy-grail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/walk-on-by-or-there-may-be-no-holy-grail\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk On By, or There May Be No Holy Grail!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/spiralscratch.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Walk on by&#8230;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I was listening to the first two <strong>dB&#8217;s<\/strong> albums on my iPod the other night, and I forgot that the CD I burned to my iTunes had some singles tacked on. Years ago I landed a six-pack of early dB&#8217;s singles, which along with awesome cover art included some songs I&#8217;d never heard on the two albums I&#8217;d been playing to death in the year leading up to that purchase. Way back when and again the other night I was underwhelmed by the song &#8220;Soul Kiss.&#8221; I remembered how hearing that song became a <em>Holy Grail<\/em> issue for me when I was 18 years old. I remembered how finally hearing it didn&#8217;t live up to the advance billing I&#8217;d somehow accepted as gospel.<\/p>\n<p>Another Holy Grail that I shouldn&#8217;t have bothered chasing was that first <strong>Buzzcocks<\/strong> ep, <em>Spiral Scratch<\/em>. It took me about 10 years to finally shell out for that bad boy, and it sucks. The Buzzcocks aren&#8217;t the Buzzcocks, to me, without <strong>Pete Shelley<\/strong> singing lead. I never minded <strong>Howard Devoto<\/strong> singing for <strong>Magazine<\/strong>, despite never finding that band half as appealing as the Shelley and <strong>Steve Diggle<\/strong>-led Buzzcocks, but Spiral Scratch is not an ep I&#8217;d ever recommend tracking down and paying top dollar for &#8211; or even buying at a reasonable price as a CD reissue with bonus tracks, as I did. <\/p>\n<p>You may disagree with my particular nonrecommendations, but I&#8217;m most interested in hearing your own <em>walk-on-by<\/em> nonrecommendations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walk on by&#8230; I was listening to the first two dB&#8217;s albums on my iPod the other night, and I forgot that the CD I burned to my iTunes had some singles tacked on. Years ago I landed a six-pack of early dB&#8217;s singles, which along with awesome cover art included some songs I&#8217;d never <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/walk-on-by-or-there-may-be-no-holy-grail\/' 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":[338,323,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468"}],"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=2468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}