{"id":2958,"date":"2010-09-21T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T21:46:16","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T18:55:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T22:55:11","slug":"why-didn-t-anyone-tell-me-that-was-on-this-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/why-didn-t-anyone-tell-me-that-was-on-this-album\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Didn&#8217;t Anyone Tell Me That Was On This Album!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uoCs-qDTaog?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I went to a Record Show the other day, which is something I have always liked to do.  Lately, they&#8217;ve been like having a mega Record Store all to yourself, but last Sunday was different.  It was packed!  The way it used to be in the early &#8217;80s. [Which reminds me, if you have never been to one, and you go, don&#8217;t put your bag on a row of records and look through the one next to it. I know, there isn&#8217;t anywhere else to put your records, but I got tired of asking people to get their shit off the crate next to them.] That was good to see, and prices were still generally three bucks for the records I want anyway. Since Alive Naturalsound started reissuing <strong>The Nerves<\/strong>&#8216; and <strong>Breakaways<\/strong>&#8216; stuff, I&#8217;ve been getting more interested in <strong>Paul Collins<\/strong>&#8216; side of things. I always liked <strong>Peter Case<\/strong>, but didn&#8217;t really follow Paul at all. I found the first <strong>Beat<\/strong> album, and loved it.  I found a more recent one, <em>Ribbon of Gold<\/em>, and I loved that, too. So I was kind of surprised to find the second Paul Collins Beat album, <em>The Kids Are the Same<\/em> at the show I was at, and I figured I had to grab it. I was expecting another good power pop kind of album, and I think it holds up well.<\/p>\n<p>This came out in &#8217;81 or &#8217;82, which is about when I started raising a family on $4.50 an hour. Cable TV was something I did not even think of having, so I missed whatever MTV airplay Wikipedia said this album got. What I did have was a radio and we listened to it all night at work on the night shift. I can remember hearing this song, &#8220;On the Highway,&#8221; and it was one of those songs that I instantly loved and instantly thought was a perfect nighttime song, like &#8220;Marquee Moon.&#8221; The problem is, I knew who sang &#8220;Marquee Moon,&#8221; but back then college kids spent way more time playing records than telling you what they played, so I never knew who sang this, what album it was on, or <em>anything<\/em> about it. I put it on yesterday afternoon and was feeling pretty good about my purchase (nice clean record, not noisy, flat and sounds great) and this song that I <em>loved<\/em> came out of nowhere and was cranking out right there in my own living room!<\/p>\n<p>Has that ever happened to you? It&#8217;s happened once or twice to me, but it&#8217;s been a long time. I think that&#8217;s like the best feeling of all in a Rock Music Nerd&#8217;s Life (or lack thereof). It happens so seldom, but I have a feeling it&#8217;s what keeps me digging through crates and reading about music instead of living a normal life. What song jumped off a record unexpectedly on you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went to a Record Show the other day, which is something I have always liked to do. Lately, they&#8217;ve been like having a mega Record Store all to yourself, but last Sunday was different. It was packed! The way it used to be in the early &#8217;80s. [Which reminds me, if you have never <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/why-didn-t-anyone-tell-me-that-was-on-this-album\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[315,317,316,219,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958"}],"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\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}