{"id":719,"date":"2007-07-16T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-16T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-07-17T13:50:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-17T13:50:06","slug":"long-live-rock-i-need-it-every-night-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/long-live-rock-i-need-it-every-night-and\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Live Rock, I Need It Every Night &#8212; And Especially On Fridays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/users\/frankenslade\/townhallboss.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"312\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"image_legend\">Who Can Forget the Iwo Jima of Rock?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>Townswoman Citizen Mom<\/strong> checks in with the following notification of a Philadelphia radio station countdown to which she&#8217;ll be contributing. Some of the Rock Town Hall links are nods to what might be our own would-be contributions to this party to which we&#8217;ve not be invited. [Sob.] I say, while cheering on Citizen Mom&#8217;s, we crash the party and submit our own <strong>8.85 Most Memorable Musical Moments<\/strong>. Make us proud, Mom!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Just when you thought &#8216;XPN had the whole 885 Countdown thing sussed, along comes this year&#8217;s project, the <strong>885 Most Memorable Musical Moments<\/strong> &#8212; yes, it&#8217;s a mouthful, but well suited to a list that could include <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=music&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=music&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">television performance<\/a><\/strong>, notorious band breakups, court battles, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=headbands_rock_s_most_doomed_fashion_tre&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php?title=headbands_rock_s_most_doomed_fashion_tre&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\">questionable fashion choices<\/a><\/strong>, even untimely death.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KKoAXENRsJI?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe thing I like about this is that it&#8217;s not an attempt to create any kind of canon of officially-sanctioned &#8220;rawk&#8221; moments. This seems much more personal, more of an effort to create an archive of testimony about the way music infiltrates our lives across a spectrum of sounds, visions and experiences. Check out some of the XPN staffers&#8217; offerings <a href=\"http:\/\/xponentialmusic.org\/blogs\/885mmmm\/category\/host-picks\/\" title=\"http:\/\/xponentialmusic.org\/blogs\/885mmmm\/category\/host-picks\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, being the radio station that brings it with the the 21st Century Stylie, the 885MMMM (say it with extra &#8220;mmmmmm&#8230;&#8221;) will have a strong web presence, including &#8212; you know it, you love it &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/xponentialmusic.org\/blogs\/885mmmm\/category\/guest-blogger\/\" title=\"http:\/\/xponentialmusic.org\/blogs\/885mmmm\/category\/guest-blogger\/\" target=\"_blank\">guest bloggers<\/a>, and I will be one of them!<\/p>\n<p>Each Friday throughout the countdown, watch <a href=\"http:\/\/quinnchannel.typepad.com\/tfh\/\" title=\"http:\/\/quinnchannel.typepad.com\/tfh\/\">this space<\/a>. And by all means, vote for your most memorable musical moments, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xponentialmusic.org\/885\/885_registration.php\" title=\"http:\/\/www.xponentialmusic.org\/885\/885_registration.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><ins>here<\/ins><\/strong><\/a>. [NOTE: That purple link is what us Townspeople click to stuff the ballot box with our 8.85 Most Memorable Moments.] On Mondays, it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/staergetaleht.blogspot.com\/\" title=\"http:\/\/staergetaleht.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Late Greats<\/a>, writing today about Most Memorable Concerts I&#8217;m Embarassed About. Now, you have to go a way to beat <strong>Richard Marx<\/strong>, but I&#8217;ll offer up either <strong>Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark<\/strong> or <strong>A-ha<\/strong>, both seen at the Tower circa &#8217;87, from my personal files. <\/p>\n<p>And of course, extra sloppy kisses to my friends at XPN. I&#8217;ll do you proud, poopies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who Can Forget the Iwo Jima of Rock? Townswoman Citizen Mom checks in with the following notification of a Philadelphia radio station countdown to which she&#8217;ll be contributing. Some of the Rock Town Hall links are nods to what might be our own would-be contributions to this party to which we&#8217;ve not be invited. [Sob.] <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/long-live-rock-i-need-it-every-night-and\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719"}],"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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}