{"id":4097,"date":"2010-11-10T19:21:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T23:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=4097"},"modified":"2010-11-10T19:21:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-10T23:21:34","slug":"if-you-cant-say-anything-nice-about-style-councils-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-you-cant-say-anything-nice-about-style-councils-jerusalem\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can&#8217;t Say Anything Nice About&#8230;Style Council&#8217;s <em>Jerusalem<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c5WBfmzpeXk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I&#8217;d never heard of <strong>Style Council<\/strong>&#8216;s short film <em><a href=\"http:\/\/g-ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/G\/02\/ciu\/b3\/39\/7412e10e22a09fee0039f110.L._SL500_AA300_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Jerusalem<\/a><\/em> until the other day, when <strong>Townsman misterioso<\/strong> suggested that we see if we can&#8217;t say anything <em>nice<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em> about it. Because this is likely to be one of the most difficult assignments that I have ever faced, I won&#8217;t\u00a0even begin to watch this 4-part series of YouTube clips until after I&#8217;ve launched the post. As some of you may recall, I have already found\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/does-even-one-style-council\/\" target=\"_blank\">Style Council<\/a> (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-crimes-paul-weller-s-cappucino-kid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Weller<\/a>, in particular)\u00a0guilty of Rock Crimes. This film can&#8217;t be\u00a0good news for his parole officer, but I&#8217;ll be&#8230;<em>nice<\/em><em><\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modculture.co.uk\/dvd_reviews\/dvd.php?id=1\" target=\"_blank\">Modculture.com<\/a> had to say about this film:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: left;\"><p>The one that&#8217;ll leave you wondering the most, though, is \u2018JerUSAlem\u2019. Those who have seen it already will probably recall the slightly bewildering feeling one experiences when it&#8217;s viewed for the first time. Whilst I won&#8217;t admit to understanding it fully, visually it&#8217;s aged very well. The clips of the band roaring into the village square on their scooters still pleases, as do the performances of \u2018It Didn&#8217;t Matter\u2019 and \u2018Heavens Above\u2019 in particular. Whether you get it or not, it&#8217;s nice to own it and finally be able to pass judgement on it. It&#8217;s not brilliant, but it&#8217;s not entirely bad either.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note how they manage to find something nice to say. Let&#8217;s see if we can&#8217;t follow their lead. Parts 2 through 4 follow&#8230;<em>after the jump!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 2.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Sadly, I am not finding Pt. 2 on YouTube. Certainly that would be chock full &#8216;0 <em>nice<\/em> bits! If anyone finds it for us, that would be&#8230;<em>nice<\/em>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Part 3.<\/strong><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hWRrH8mW5B4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p><strong>Part 4.<\/strong><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZY87YWY5xH4?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d never heard of Style Council&#8216;s short film Jerusalem until the other day, when Townsman misterioso suggested that we see if we can&#8217;t say anything nice\u00a0 about it. Because this is likely to be one of the most difficult assignments that I have ever faced, I won&#8217;t\u00a0even begin to watch this 4-part series of YouTube <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-you-cant-say-anything-nice-about-style-councils-jerusalem\/' 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":[346,34,363],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097"}],"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=4097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4097\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}