{"id":7074,"date":"2011-05-09T22:53:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=7074"},"modified":"2011-05-09T22:56:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:56:55","slug":"so-chic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/so-chic\/","title":{"rendered":"So Chic!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A-3EqVDzk_Q?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Just how many songs have utilized or sampled the bass\/guitar riff from <strong>Chic<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Good Times?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, when I watched the videos included in <strong>machinery<\/strong>&#8216;s \u00a0post, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/everything-is-a-remix\/\" target=\"_blank\">Everything Is a Remix<\/a><\/em>, I was reminded that in addition to the <strong>Sugar Hill Gang<\/strong>, <strong>Queen<\/strong> prominently used it in &#8220;Another One Bites the Dust.&#8221;  And then\u2014synchronicity!\u2014while looking up some videos by The Damned&#8217;s <strong>Captain Sensible<\/strong>, I was reacquainted with his &#8220;Wot,&#8221; another song to trot out that bass line.  My beloved <strong>Orange Juice<\/strong> also used the riff in &#8220;Rip It Up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, how many songs can you add to the list?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just how many songs have utilized or sampled the bass\/guitar riff from Chic&#8216;s &#8220;Good Times?&#8221; Yesterday, when I watched the videos included in machinery&#8216;s \u00a0post, Everything Is a Remix, I was reminded that in addition to the Sugar Hill Gang, Queen prominently used it in &#8220;Another One Bites the Dust.&#8221; And then\u2014synchronicity!\u2014while looking up some <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/so-chic\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074"}],"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\/1838"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}