{"id":255,"date":"2007-02-09T22:46:01","date_gmt":"2007-02-10T03:46:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-02-09T23:30:23","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T23:30:23","slug":"critical-upgrade-a-taste-of-honey-boogie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/critical-upgrade-a-taste-of-honey-boogie\/","title":{"rendered":"A Taste of Honey Through the Eyes of a Mature, Sensual Being"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y_BnJM_apS8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe Best New Artist of 1978, <strong>A Taste of Honey<\/strong>, is considered by many to be the most shameful winner in GRAMMYS history. The band won the award based on its smash disco hit, &#8220;Boogie Oogie Oogie&#8221;, but the real critical beef here is not the band&#8217;s hit song but, rather, the fact that GRAMMY voters had the nerve to overlook <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNone of us could look into the future in 1978. Who was to know that A Taste of Honey would all but fade while Costello would reel off a remarkable, dizzying run of albums before investing in a <strong>Yamaha DX7<\/strong> and, soon thereafter, growing a beard. Let&#8217;s re-examine this vote based solely on what we knew in 1978.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I am still incapable of looking into the future. I can, however, look back into the past of a typical, whining Rock Town Hall member &#8211; still ready to foam at the mouth at the mere thought of A Taste of Honey &#8211; and say with confidence that this person was not getting laid. The young Costello was the patron saint of teenage rock fans who were not getting laid. It was a match made in a locked bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Now that some of you have enjoyed the wonders of another human&#8217;s touch &#8211; it <em>is<\/em> safe to assume this development over the last 29 years &#8211; see if you can&#8217;t clear your mind and <em>enjoy<\/em> the subtle, percolating funk of &#8220;Boogie Oogie Oogie&#8221; not to mention the sweet, classy Look of the singer\/bassist, <strong>Janice Marie Johnson<\/strong>. It&#8217;s time for closure, fanboys and fangirls. It&#8217;s time to look back through the eyes of a mature, sensual being and acknowledge the simple delights of &#8220;Boogie Oogie Oogie&#8221;.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7jqflC-OVdE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Best New Artist of 1978, A Taste of Honey, is considered by many to be the most shameful winner in GRAMMYS history. The band won the award based on its smash disco hit, &#8220;Boogie Oogie Oogie&#8221;, but the real critical beef here is not the band&#8217;s hit song but, rather, the fact that GRAMMY <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/critical-upgrade-a-taste-of-honey-boogie\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}