{"id":8472,"date":"2011-07-29T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T13:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8472"},"modified":"2011-07-30T17:54:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T21:54:43","slug":"parting-is-such-sweet-sorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/parting-is-such-sweet-sorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8475\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/parting-is-such-sweet-sorrow\/the_psychedelic_furs_-_forever_now-3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8475 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The_Psychedelic_Furs_-_Forever_Now2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The_Psychedelic_Furs_-_Forever_Now2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The_Psychedelic_Furs_-_Forever_Now2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/The_Psychedelic_Furs_-_Forever_Now2.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a rare, reflective moment, the white suits over at <strong>RockTownHall Labs<\/strong> were recently gazing bleary-eyed at the various records and cds contained in the climate-controlled vault when, in an even more rare moment of sudden group awareness, and without the aid of the RTH topic generator, it occurred to several of us that we own records we haven&#8217;t listened to in years, records we can&#8217;t seem to get rid of.<\/p>\n<p>Was this (anal) retention the result of some childhood trauma?\u00a0A clinging to nostalgia for our 17\u201323 musical coming-of-age demographic frollic in the rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll sun, after which our musical tastes ossified along with the bones in our lower spine (males only)?\u00a0A passive form of denial, or at least an unwillingness to deal with the clutter, physical and emotional, of our present and past, respectively?\u00a0Are we really ever going to play that third <strong>Psychedelic Furs<\/strong> record ever again?\u00a0The <strong>CCR<\/strong> <em>Best of<\/em> record?\u00a0Hasn&#8217;t culture blunted our need to spin those songs ever again in our own homes?\u00a0And what of all those &#8217;90s bands that had a great song and so we bought 3\u20134 albums and some 7-inches by them hoping in vain that they&#8217;d replicate the success?\u00a0RTH Labs now invites our readers to stand up, state your name, and join the conversation in a show of healing and in a concerted effort to\u00a0 move onward past the doldrums of self-inflicted record collection melancholy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare, reflective moment, the white suits over at RockTownHall Labs were recently gazing bleary-eyed at the various records and cds contained in the climate-controlled vault when, in an even more rare moment of sudden group awareness, and without the aid of the RTH topic generator, it occurred to several of us that we <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/parting-is-such-sweet-sorrow\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[133,180,126,99],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472"}],"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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}