{"id":2698,"date":"2010-04-20T23:54:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T03:54:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-04-20T23:56:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T23:56:46","slug":"shall-we-don-the-pince-nez-for-sweet-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/shall-we-don-the-pince-nez-for-sweet-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Shall We Don the Pince Nez for Sweet Apple?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/sweetapple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/sweetapple.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">&#8220;Good effort, but, like, they totally got the details wrong!&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve yet to hear this new record by indie supergroup <strong>Sweet Apple<\/strong> (two members of <strong>Cobra Verde<\/strong>, <strong>J. Mascis<\/strong>, and one of Mascis&#8217; bandmates in <strong>Witch<\/strong>), but I appreciated the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/baby-got-back-album-covers-are-only-1-2\" target=_blank>tribute-style album cover<\/a> the first time I saw it. I&#8217;m a Cobra Verde fan, so I&#8217;ll be picking up this album for more than one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rth_confessional_album_covers_you_ve_ple\" target=_blank>obvious reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, soon after appreciating this album cover and determining that the women were lacking some of the charms of the models on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/list_for_the_greater_good\" target=_blank><strong>Roxy Music<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Country Life<\/em><\/a>, I began to wonder whether I should don the patented RTH Pince Nez and critique all the details missed from the original album cover. Then, even sooner thereafter, I thought I should invite my fellow Townspeople to join in this critique. So put down your latest issue of <em>Cat Fancy<\/em>, blow your nose, pick up your monacle, and see if you can help me identify the <em>key missing details<\/em> that separates the women from the girls, in this case, when it comes to paying tribute to one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/list_for_the_greater_good\" target=_blank>rock&#8217;s all-time greatest album covers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to your respectful, family friendly analysis.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Good effort, but, like, they totally got the details wrong!&#8221; I&#8217;ve yet to hear this new record by indie supergroup Sweet Apple (two members of Cobra Verde, J. Mascis, and one of Mascis&#8217; bandmates in Witch), but I appreciated the tribute-style album cover the first time I saw it. I&#8217;m a Cobra Verde fan, so <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/shall-we-don-the-pince-nez-for-sweet-apple\/' 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":[179,246,183],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698"}],"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=2698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}