{"id":369,"date":"2009-05-15T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-05-15T10:06:10","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T10:06:10","slug":"your-personal-rock-n-roll-mendoza-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-personal-rock-n-roll-mendoza-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Rock ‘n Roll Mendoza Line"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Here’s an oldie but goodie I thought might be worth revisiting. Please read the set-up closely: the Rock ‘n Roll Mendoza line is meant to identify something more than a 1-hit wonder not even worthy of further consideration as a strong artist. The first time this ran we had some good feedback from a number of Townspeople who’ve been less active of late or checked out altogether. Now that you’re here, feel free to extend this discussion.<\/em><\/p>\n

This post initially appeared 0\/13\/07.<\/code><\/p>\n

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You know what baseball’s Mendoza Line<\/a> is, right? Named after former Pittsburgh Pirates’ light-hitting shortstop, Mario Mendoza, it refers to a sub-.200 batting average, the surest sign of offensive failure in the sport.<\/p>\n

Today I’d like to hear about Your Rock ‘n Roll Mendoza Line<\/strong>, that point at which an artist who has at least 1 song that you really like<\/em> yet has by demerit of the bulk of said artist’s output completely failed in your ears and eyes. Is there a particular band or artist that defines Your Rock ‘n Roll Mendoza line?<\/p>\n

Click here to watch Frank Black’s “Headache” video.<\/a> (Thanks, Viacom!)<\/strong>
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\nFor me it’s Frank Black. I was never a fan of The Pixies beside a song or two on Doolittle<\/em>, so right there we’re talking 2 for the band’s entire output. Then I heard a single from his first solo album, “Headache”, and I thought this guy might turn out to be my new, favorite artist. Do you know this song? It sounds like something Pere Ubu might do in a poppier moment. Really fun video to boot!<\/p>\n

I rushed out and bought the album, Teenager of the Year<\/em>. This album has about 22 songs on it, maybe a few more than that. There had to be some other gems on it. But nooooooooooooo<\/em>! All the other songs on the album were atrocious. I’ve held onto the album for that one song and in hopes of eventually finding other songs with charms I’d missed the first 20 times through. So far, no dice!<\/p>\n

To me, this critically acclaimed artist with only 3 songs I really like spread across probably 6 to 8 albums I’ve heard defines My Personal Rock ‘n Roll Mendoza Line. Remember, Frank Black is not some 1-hit wonder. It’s not like I’m bitching about not hearing more good song from the complete works of Mungo Jerry<\/strong>. I’d like to hear about the band or artist that defines your line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s an oldie but goodie I thought might be worth revisiting. Please read the set-up closely: the Rock ‘n Roll Mendoza line is meant to identify something more than a 1-hit wonder not even worthy of further consideration as a strong artist. The first time this ran we had some good feedback from a number […]<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"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=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}