{"id":520,"date":"2007-04-25T13:12:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T17:12:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-05-14T13:19:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:19:02","slug":"late-for-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/late-for-the-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Late for the Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p0fbR-7Y6Xo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nEver feel like you were the last person to get into an artist? About 2 years ago, <strong>Townsman Kpdexter<\/strong> burned me a CD with about 25 albums on it, most of which I&#8217;d never heard. In short time, <strong>Stephen Malkmus<\/strong>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/overlookedgems.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/stephen-malkmus-face-truth.html\" title=\"http:\/\/overlookedgems.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/stephen-malkmus-face-truth.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Face the Truth<\/em><\/a> moved to the top of my playlist. I went out and bought the album, and it&#8217;s held onto the top spot as my favorite album of the 21st century ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, after years of resisting overtures from lovers of the band, including one who dumped a copy of the sacred <em>Bee Thousand<\/em> on my lap, I used a gift certificate to buy that 30-track <strong>Guided By Voices<\/strong> &#8220;best of&#8221; collection, and what do you know? Suddenly, I was the last person past the age of being able to know better to get into the band.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, a good 30+ years since first rejecting <strong>Heart<\/strong> up and down, I&#8217;m thinking I need to revisit their classic works and see if it&#8217;s not too late to sign on as a <em>fan<\/em>. I must say, Malkmus and GBV were very forgiving, even allowing me to dip into their back catalogs without mockery.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you recall ever having been late for the party?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever feel like you were the last person to get into an artist? About 2 years ago, Townsman Kpdexter burned me a CD with about 25 albums on it, most of which I&#8217;d never heard. In short time, Stephen Malkmus&#8216; Face the Truth moved to the top of my playlist. I went out and bought <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/late-for-the-party\/' 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":[258],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520"}],"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=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}