{"id":613,"date":"2007-06-03T00:08:19","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T04:08:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-06T10:23:23","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T10:23:23","slug":"untilted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/untilted\/","title":{"rendered":"Untilted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2mDaGu1FD8w?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong>Do you think of coming up with good song titles as an important ability for a songwriter?<\/strong>  Almost all songs are named after a few words in the song&#8217;s lyrics, usually in the chorus or hook.  There are some notable exceptions, such as <strong>Moby Grape&#8217;s &#8220;Omaha&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Today I got in the mail the Rhino Handmade reissue of <strong>T-Bone Burnett<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Proof Through the Night\/The Trap Door\/Behind the Trap Door<\/em>.  There are a few very clever song titles on there.  &#8220;Having A Wonderful Time, Wish You Were Her&#8221; is my favorite, but &#8220;The Law Of Average&#8221; and &#8220;My Life And The Women Who Lived It (No. 1)&#8221; are good too.<\/p>\n<p>This is just kind of a time-waster kind of thread.  What are your favorite song titles, irrespective of the value of the song itself?  Albums too, I guess, since the name of this thread comes from the title of the most recent <strong>Autechre<\/strong> album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think of coming up with good song titles as an important ability for a songwriter? Almost all songs are named after a few words in the song&#8217;s lyrics, usually in the chorus or hook. There are some notable exceptions, such as Moby Grape&#8217;s &#8220;Omaha&#8221;. Today I got in the mail the Rhino Handmade <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/untilted\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"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\/613"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}