{"id":5855,"date":"2011-02-16T10:05:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=5855"},"modified":"2011-02-16T15:23:45","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T19:23:45","slug":"whats-so-bad-about-soul-asylum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-so-bad-about-soul-asylum\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s So Bad About Soul Asylum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jPxUDd5q-Rk?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>What&#8217;s so bad about <strong>Soul Asylum<\/strong>? Why does mere mention of them make the likes of <strong>Townsman misterioso<\/strong> &#8220;shiver?&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Was their music all that bad, from their indie, poor man&#8217;s Replacements stuff to their giant hit song, &#8220;Runaway Train&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>Is it the fact that they far exceded the popularity of their groundbreaking Twin Cities colleagues?<\/li>\n<li>Was it the expiration date passing on <strong>Dave Pirner<\/strong>&#8216;s rat&#8217;s nest hair and severely ripped jeans?<\/li>\n<li>Was it the other guitarist&#8217;s lank mall-rat hair?<\/li>\n<li>Was it the fact that Pirner dated <strong>Winona Ryder<\/strong> while you didn&#8217;t?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Is it the fact that their commercial stuff and its &#8220;pro&#8221; production exposed them and much of that &#8220;heartland&#8221; &#8217;80s &#8220;alternative rock&#8221; as little more than wannabe 1970s-era AOR, the kind of stuff Rock Town Hall&#8217;s patron saint of mediocrity, <strong>Bob Seger<\/strong>, and the likes of <strong>REO Speedwagon<\/strong> cranked out? Did Soul Asylum, The Replacements, et al suddenly pale next to a simple, direct artist from the tail end of &#8217;70s AOR like <strong>Tom Petty<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re on the subject, what&#8217;s going on with Pirner&#8217;s hair and jeans these days, and when&#8217;s the last time you thought about those big, honking cardboard boxes they used to house CDs in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s so bad about Soul Asylum? Why does mere mention of them make the likes of Townsman misterioso &#8220;shiver?&#8221; Was their music all that bad, from their indie, poor man&#8217;s Replacements stuff to their giant hit song, &#8220;Runaway Train&#8221;? Is it the fact that they far exceded the popularity of their groundbreaking Twin Cities colleagues? <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/whats-so-bad-about-soul-asylum\/' 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":[332,61,127],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855"}],"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=5855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}