{"id":2646,"date":"2010-03-28T10:14:38","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-28T10:14:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T10:14:38","slug":"truth-in-packaging-for-better-and-for-worse-you-can-t-judge-an-album-by-its-cover-or-can-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/truth-in-packaging-for-better-and-for-worse-you-can-t-judge-an-album-by-its-cover-or-can-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Truth in Packaging (For Better and For Worse): You Can&#8217;t Judge an Album by its Cover, or Can You?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/lounew2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/lounew2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Truth?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can&#8217;t judge an album by its cover, but let&#8217;s face it: sometimes we do. <em>Based on cover art alone, which album was most likely to suck?<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lou Reed&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/img.maniadb.com\/images\/album\/177\/177685_1_f.jpg\" target=_blank>Ecstasy<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lou Reed&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/fineartamerica.com\/images-medium\/lou-reed-sally-can-david-edward-byrd.jpg\" target=_blank>Sally Can&#8217;t Dance<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lou Reed&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/vox2.cdn.amiestreet.com\/album-art\/Mistrial-by-Lou-Reed_GNroI_hSiRUx_full.jpg\" target=_blank>Mistrial<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/truth_in_packaging_for_better_and_for_wo\" target=_blank>The Blasters&#8217; debut<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Or something else?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When you finally heard that album with the lousy record cover, did it actually suck, was there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/truth_in_packaging_for_better_and_for_wo_1\" target=_blank>truth in packaging<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s a rare example of an album with a lousy cover that far surpassed your unfair expectations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth? You can&#8217;t judge an album by its cover, but let&#8217;s face it: sometimes we do. Based on cover art alone, which album was most likely to suck? Lou Reed&#8217;s Ecstasy Lou Reed&#8217;s Sally Can&#8217;t Dance Lou Reed&#8217;s Mistrial The Blasters&#8217; debut Or something else? When you finally heard that album with the lousy record <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/truth-in-packaging-for-better-and-for-worse-you-can-t-judge-an-album-by-its-cover-or-can-you\/' 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":[68,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646"}],"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=2646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}