{"id":8169,"date":"2011-07-12T06:50:26","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T10:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8169"},"modified":"2011-07-12T08:26:45","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T12:26:45","slug":"rth-glossary-update-hershey-squirting-finally-defined-and-ready-for-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-glossary-update-hershey-squirting-finally-defined-and-ready-for-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"RTH Glossary Update: Hershey Squirting Finally Defined and Ready for Usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The following Glossary term was submitted by Rock Town Hall&#8217;s favorite Dylanologist, E. Pluribus Gergely.<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hershey Squirting:<\/strong> An artist&#8217;s continual release of uninspired singles and LPs that do nothing but soil a back catalog of solid work<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that that&#8217;s taken care of, I&#8217;d like all RTHers to carefully examine the catalogs of our beloved heroes to determine which artist has done the most Hershey squirting. To qualify for the designation, the artist in question has to have a back catalog of some merit. In other words, choosing someone like <strong>The Replacements<\/strong> or <strong>Tom Petty<\/strong> is totally unacceptable.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_wvFN92WQAo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>My choice, and I defy and RTHer to come up with a more deserving nominee, is <strong>Bob Dylan<\/strong>. Bob&#8217;s Hershey squiriting started right after <em>Desire<\/em> and hasn&#8217;t shown any sign of abating. Dylan diehards stand tall and firm behind the so called nuggets found on <em>Infidels<\/em>, <em>Empire Burlesque<\/em>, <em>Time Out of Mind<\/em>, etc., claiming that the <em>deep trax<\/em> on the noted long players are every bit as good as the stuff found on the holy trinity of Dylan&#8217;s first three electric LPs. That is simply not true. Ever take one of those nasty penicillin influenced dumps that make you gag while you&#8217;re wiping your hiny? If so, then you know what I think of tunes like &#8220;Tight Connection to My Heart.&#8221; There isn&#8217;t a single Dylan number recorded after <em>Desire<\/em> that even comes close to the dartboard of the electric trinity&#8217;s snoozers, to something like <em>Blonde on Blonde<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Temporary Like Achilles.&#8221; The post-<em>Desire<\/em> slop is lyrically, structurally, melodically, instrumentally, and sonically chronically inferior to anything pre-<em>Desire<\/em>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Truth be told the magic show really ended after <em>Blonde on Blonde<\/em>, but I give the man credit for a load of &#8220;at least I tried&#8221; releases before hitting the ball out of the park again with <em>Blood on the Tracks<\/em>. <em>Desire<\/em> is more or less <em>Son of Blood on the Tracks<\/em>, and that&#8217;s fine. What isn&#8217;t fine is handing in D+ &#8220;I could care less&#8221; work for the next 35 years. Shame on You, Bob! You could have developed an interest in stamp collecting, home brewing, macrame, whatever. Instead, you continued to desecrate your Mona Lisa years with a mustache, black teeth, an eye patch, etc. Really, is she even worth a look anymore?<\/p>\n<p>(And God bless you, Ricky Gervais, for the clean finality of <em>The Office<\/em>. With that move, you&#8217;ve preserved the perfection of what may be the greatest sitcom of all time. Expect a high five in heaven from John, Paul, and Ringo for knowing when to pull the plug at the right time. Nobody else appears to know why it should be done.)<\/p>\n<p>Dylan too is most deserving of the recognition because the contrast of good and bad is so black and white. Honestly, how can anyone who&#8217;s ever heard &#8220;Tombstone Blues&#8221; find anything enjoyable in some dreck like this:<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/giidVZLhYAc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Is that an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/groundbreaking-research-by-rth-labs-earring-declared-a-sign-of-weakness\/\">earring<\/a> I see?<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon who&#8217;s got the trots worse than Bob?<\/p>\n<p>Hope to hear from you soon,<\/p>\n<address>E. Pluribus<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following Glossary term was submitted by Rock Town Hall&#8217;s favorite Dylanologist, E. Pluribus Gergely. Hershey Squirting: An artist&#8217;s continual release of uninspired singles and LPs that do nothing but soil a back catalog of solid work Now that that&#8217;s taken care of, I&#8217;d like all RTHers to carefully examine the catalogs of our beloved <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/rth-glossary-update-hershey-squirting-finally-defined-and-ready-for-usage\/' 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":[342,17],"tags":[54,461],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169"}],"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=8169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}