{"id":502,"date":"2007-04-18T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-04-18T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T11:28:32","slug":"wanted-arthur-and-yu-fans-profile-of-th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wanted-arthur-and-yu-fans-profile-of-th\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted: Arthur &amp; Yu Fans (Profile of the Cliched Indie Rocker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/townhallapocalypse.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"212\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In the introduction to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phawker.com\/?p=3211\" title=\"http:\/\/www.phawker.com\/?p=3211\" target=\"_blank\">streaming audio of the new <strong>Arthur &amp; Yu<\/strong> album<\/a>, my good friends at <strong>Phawker<\/strong> wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>WARNING, ONLY HIT PLAY IF YOU LIKE:<\/strong> The Velvet Underground, Lee Hazlewood &amp; Nancy Sinatra, Margo Guryan, Karen Dalton, Harry Nilsson, The Everly Brothers, Joe Meek, The Hollies, Serge Gainsbourg &amp; Jane Birkin, Them, Bobbi Gentry, Leslie Gore, Velvet Underground, Skip Spence, Silver Apples, United States of America, Donovan, Leonard Cohen, The Soft Machine, Vashti Bunyan, Marianne Faithful, The Vaselines, The Flaming Lips, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Zombies, Nico, Tonight\u2019s the Night, Don\u2019t Look Back, All Things Must Pass \u2014 if not, we feel sorry for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, I know we&#8217;re all supposed to feel sorry for <strong>Mr. Mod&#8217;s goat<\/strong> having been got, but what about mine? <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Lee Hazlewood &amp; Nancy Sinatra?<\/strong> Proto-Thrifty Music turd!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Serge Gainsbourg &amp; Jane Birkin?<\/strong> <em>Merde!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bobbi Gentry?<\/strong> Yeah, I like big, lacquered hair too.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Skip Spence?<\/strong> Bargain-bin keeeeee-raaaaaaaa-zzzzzzy!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I could go on, but how much longer do we have to live with having these <strong>third-rate, dollar-bin oddities<\/strong> pushed down our throats as serious influences by the Indie Rock Community? It&#8217;s like saying you books or movies are influenced by &#8217;50s pulp fiction and kung fu movies. What&#8217;s it lead to? <strong>Tarrantino!<\/strong> We&#8217;ve fostered musical Tarrantinos long enough. Can&#8217;t these guys grow up and get into jazz or classical music already? It&#8217;s getting so I miss the days when every Tom, Dick, and Harry finally got around to discovering The Kinks&#8217; golden age.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll check out this album and report back. I encourage you to do the same, whether you fit this profile or not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the introduction to a streaming audio of the new Arthur &amp; Yu album, my good friends at Phawker wrote: WARNING, ONLY HIT PLAY IF YOU LIKE: The Velvet Underground, Lee Hazlewood &amp; Nancy Sinatra, Margo Guryan, Karen Dalton, Harry Nilsson, The Everly Brothers, Joe Meek, The Hollies, Serge Gainsbourg &amp; Jane Birkin, Them, Bobbi <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wanted-arthur-and-yu-fans-profile-of-th\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"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\/502"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}