{"id":6928,"date":"2011-04-28T09:03:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T13:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=6928"},"modified":"2011-04-28T10:26:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T14:26:21","slug":"songs-that-can%e2%80%99t-be-screwed-up-revisited-retracted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-that-can%e2%80%99t-be-screwed-up-revisited-retracted\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs That Can\u2019t Be Screwed Up, Revisited, Retracted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neither shorts nor too-short skirts nor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/headbands-rock-s-most-doomed-fashion-tre\/\" target=\"_blank\">headbands<\/a> nor questionable harmonies nor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/all-star-jam-all-request-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">pointy guitars<\/a> can completely ruin <strong>John Fogerty<\/strong>&#8216;s infectious &#8220;Almost Saturday Night&#8221; for me.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wf5pJHm9prQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>You may recall my feelings on the brilliance of this hopeful song, which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/songs-that-can-t-be-screwed-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">I once declared as being impossible to screw up<\/a>. I may need to retract that statement, and not because of this pedestrian version by <strong>Candystore<\/strong>. It&#8217;s the following version that&#8217;s turned my head\u2014and stomach:<!--nextpage--><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iSWxHLRDNzs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Despite the song&#8217;s seemingly\u00a0turd-proof structure and <strong>Meatloaf<\/strong> co-conspirator <strong>Karla DeVito<\/strong>&#8216;s nearly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rock-crimes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rock Crimes<\/a>\u2013resistant Italian-American cuteness, this version blows!<\/p>\n<p>I bet John was\u00a0relieved when Sunday came.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">NEWSFLASH: <\/span>Yet another band attempts to screw up this song&#8230;After the jump!<!--nextpage--><\/strong><\/em><\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0WoerEZqwmE?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This is an outrage.<\/p>\n<nav class=\"page-links\"><strong>Pages:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-that-can%e2%80%99t-be-screwed-up-revisited-retracted\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">1<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-that-can%e2%80%99t-be-screwed-up-revisited-retracted\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">2<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-that-can%e2%80%99t-be-screwed-up-revisited-retracted\/3\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"page-num\">3<\/span><\/a><\/nav>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neither shorts nor too-short skirts nor headbands nor questionable harmonies nor pointy guitars can completely ruin John Fogerty&#8216;s infectious &#8220;Almost Saturday Night&#8221; for me. You may recall my feelings on the brilliance of this hopeful song, which\u00a0I once declared as being impossible to screw up. 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