{"id":811,"date":"2007-08-31T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-16T11:28:41","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T11:28:41","slug":"rock-changeups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-changeups\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Changeups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIx7k2gYT1I?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI was listening to The Clash&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;Train in Vain&#8221;<\/strong> the other day, and I got to wondering if it&#8217;s one of rock&#8217;s most effective changeups. The music is not too foreign for anything the band had done to that point &#8211; it&#8217;s not a simple stylistic move, like Led Zeppelin tackling reggae on <strong>&#8220;D&#8217;yer Maker&#8221;<\/strong>. And while <strong>Mick Jones<\/strong> was always good for an autobiographical song about an old mate, the band never tackled the topic of anything beyond platonic love. Even &#8220;Lover&#8217;s Rock&#8221;, a track earlier on side 4 of <em>London Calling<\/em>, is more of a &#8220;politics with a small &#8216;p'&#8221; song, as Paul Simonon might explain.<\/p>\n<p>So I ask our Townspeople&#8230;<strong>What&#8217;s your favorite rock changeup and what about it makes it a special one?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to The Clash&#8217;s &#8220;Train in Vain&#8221; the other day, and I got to wondering if it&#8217;s one of rock&#8217;s most effective changeups. The music is not too foreign for anything the band had done to that point &#8211; it&#8217;s not a simple stylistic move, like Led Zeppelin tackling reggae on &#8220;D&#8217;yer Maker&#8221;. <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rock-changeups\/' 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\/811"}],"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=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}