{"id":2804,"date":"2010-06-25T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T20:01:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-27T02:32:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T06:32:37","slug":"songs-you-ve-loved-by-artists-you-ve-for-whatever-reason-never-further-investigated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-you-ve-loved-by-artists-you-ve-for-whatever-reason-never-further-investigated\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs You&#8217;ve Loved by Artists You&#8217;ve, for Whatever Reason, Never Further Investigated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GrB8DXTJK2s?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIn my high school days, when staying up on Saturday nights, or whenever, to catch the half-hour syndicated, pre-cable music television show <em>Rockworld<\/em> was a highlight of my week, I&#8217;d look forward to catching some exciting New Wave artist I&#8217;d been reading about in <em>Trouser Press<\/em>, <em>Creem<\/em>, and any other off-the-beaten path rock mag I could get my hands on. One night I saw the video for <strong>The Beat<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Different Kind of Girl.&#8221; They may have already been known in the US as &#8220;Paul Collins&#8217; Beat,&#8221; to avoid confusion with the ska band, but it felt cool to refer to them as &#8220;The Beat&#8221; too. I immediately found this song really catchy and classic. The video, if memory serves, was done on a classic white background. One of the guys, maybe the drummer, wore a horizontal striped shirt. I used to think they were cool. The band members all had modified moptops, which, I&#8217;ll explain to younger folks who may be rolling their eyes as they read this, was pretty cool in the late-&#8217;70s. I wish I could find that video. I&#8217;ve remembered it and the song fondly over the last 30+ years, but today I realized that I never bothered to follow up on anything by Paul Collins and The Beat. I don&#8217;t know why, but I think I had a sense that hearing even one more song by this band might ruin the unexpectedly simple joy I got from &#8220;Different Kind of Girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I easily could have bought the album including that song. Today I could go on YouTube and watch a half dozen videos by Collins from that period. There&#8217;s probably a site where I could download that album, be it legally or not. I know he&#8217;s thought highly of among fans of New Wave and Power Pop music, styles of music I&#8217;ve got plenty of familiarity with. I used to own the first two albums by 20\/20, but I&#8217;ve never heard another song by The Beat &#8211; Paul Collins&#8217; The Beat, that is. I don&#8217;t know why. For that matter I&#8217;ve never heard a song by <strong>Nick Gilder<\/strong> other than &#8220;Hot Child in the City,&#8221; and that&#8217;s another great single from my youth!<\/p>\n<p><em>Is there a song you love by an artist you&#8217;ve never bothered to further investigate?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my high school days, when staying up on Saturday nights, or whenever, to catch the half-hour syndicated, pre-cable music television show Rockworld was a highlight of my week, I&#8217;d look forward to catching some exciting New Wave artist I&#8217;d been reading about in Trouser Press, Creem, and any other off-the-beaten path rock mag I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-you-ve-loved-by-artists-you-ve-for-whatever-reason-never-further-investigated\/' 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":[264,219,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804"}],"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=2804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}