{"id":5165,"date":"2011-01-05T17:15:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T21:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2011-01-05T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T21:16:09","slug":"ipod-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ipod-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sb3TWNzMSr0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>So work has had me on the train quite a bit and that means going through my <strong>iPod<\/strong> more than usual. Two interesting thoughts\/observations:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been listening to the old Canadian, all-girl group <strong>Plumtree<\/strong>. They wrote the song &#8220;Scott Pilgrim&#8221; that spawned the graphic novel, movie, etc&#8230; They play pretty good, guitar driven pop-rock, which I dig. Here&#8217;s my dilemma: If they were GUYS making the same music, I&#8217;d probably hate it and think it was kinda weak. But being that it&#8217;s gals, I more than give it a pass, I kinda give them points for rocking. Is this sexism? (Reverse sexism???) Anyone else feel this way regarding &#8220;chick&#8221; bands?<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve listened to the <strong>White Stripes<\/strong>&#8216; <em>Icky Thump<\/em> and have some thoughts on them. I was given their first album by a coworker back in the day and dismissed them as being a gimmick. (<em>What? No bass???<\/em>) And I&#8217;m generally suspect of musicians-as-celebrities-actors-daters-of-actresses like <strong>Jack White<\/strong>. But&#8230;over the years I have to say, every time I&#8217;ve heard a new White Stripes song on the radio\u2014or of his offshoot bands\u2014I&#8217;ve always admired that the guy consistently puts out Rock music with a capital R. I mean the guy is the only mainstream act to put out heavy, chunky, thuddy rock. And I shake my head and say, &#8220;Man, I gotta hand it to that dude, he&#8217;s heavy.&#8221; So&#8230;this <em>Icky Thump<\/em> album is pretty darn good in a odd country\/blues\/rock meld that works. And, the drummer who gets a horrible rap&#8230;is pretty f&#8217;n good. Or at least she works perfectly for this style\u2014behind the beat rock, which I also dig. Am I alone with my respect for Jack White?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Sorry for the long post \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So work has had me on the train quite a bit and that means going through my iPod more than usual. Two interesting thoughts\/observations: I&#8217;ve been listening to the old Canadian, all-girl group Plumtree. They wrote the song &#8220;Scott Pilgrim&#8221; that spawned the graphic novel, movie, etc&#8230; They play pretty good, guitar driven pop-rock, which <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/ipod-dive\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[56,409,408,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}