{"id":8304,"date":"2011-07-18T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8304"},"modified":"2011-07-18T09:35:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T13:35:31","slug":"showdown-choose-one-who-made-better-use-of-easy-rider-for-their-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/showdown-choose-one-who-made-better-use-of-easy-rider-for-their-video\/","title":{"rendered":"SHOWDOWN (Choose One): Who Made Better Use of <em>Easy Rider<\/em> for Their Video?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rbY9ePebWB8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I like both <strong>The Fiery Furnaces<\/strong> and <strong>The Dead Milkmen<\/strong>, and I recently learned that the former made a video based around the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/rebuilding-team-hippie-for-the-modern-ag\/\" target=\"_blank\">most-influential movie of my childhood (and, possibly, entire life), <em>Easy Rider<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0Each video follows for your review. Leaving the music out of it if you must\u2014because if you&#8217;re like me you might find that the song in one of these two videos is not anywhere near a favorite in the band&#8217;s catalog\u2014which band made better use of its source material? Choose one&#8230;<em>after the jump!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>The Fiery Furnaces, &#8220;Even in the Rain&#8221;<\/h2><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wVSstQ8_dHA?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><h2>The Dead Milkmen, &#8220;Smokin&#8217; Banana Peels&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/mediaservices.myspace.com\/services\/media\/embed.aspx\/m=1704184,t=1,mt=video\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/mediaservices.myspace.com\/services\/media\/embed.aspx\/m=1704184,t=1,mt=video\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re hashing this out, are there other rock videos based around <em>Easy Rider<\/em>?<\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-107\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_107\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blogs\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_107_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"63626f15e8\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which band made better use of the film Easy Rider in their video, The Fiery Furnaces (\"Even in the Rain\") or The Dead Milkmen (\"Smokin' Banana Peels\")?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-107-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-444\" name=\"poll_107\" value=\"444\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-444\">The Fiery Furnaces<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"radio\" id=\"poll-answer-445\" name=\"poll_107\" value=\"445\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-445\">The Dead Milkmen<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(107);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(107); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-107-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like both The Fiery Furnaces and The Dead Milkmen, and I recently learned that the former made a video based around the most-influential movie of my childhood (and, possibly, entire life), Easy Rider.\u00a0Each video follows for your review. Leaving the music out of it if you must\u2014because if you&#8217;re like me you might find <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/showdown-choose-one-who-made-better-use-of-easy-rider-for-their-video\/' 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":[28,418,34,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304"}],"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=8304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}