{"id":8561,"date":"2011-08-01T22:16:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-02T02:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2011-08-01T23:15:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-02T03:15:05","slug":"have-you-guys-seen-this-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/have-you-guys-seen-this-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Guys Seen This Before?"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Lx2vH2Q5yo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I caught this video on VH1 Classic about 4 years ago and, despite the fact that it blew my mind, I forgot everything about the song that would enable me to search for it once I got on the internet. What can I say? It was early in the morning, and I&#8217;m really no good until my second cup of coffee. Fortunately, I found it on a blog this morning &#8212; after all, lots of people are posting their favorite early-&#8217;80s videos in commemoration of MTV&#8217;s 30th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The intro to this video is weird and goofy and corny as all get out. (Be careful, the first few seconds of this YouTube file are quieter than the rest.) Yet it makes me incredibly happy that it exists, that someone involved in rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll thought to do this. For those of you who were paying more attention to music (particularly power pop and new wave) back then, had you seen this before? What were your thoughts then? And how about now?<\/p>\n<p>Also, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Producers_(band)\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, this band was from Atlanta, GA. I call upon <strong>jungleland2 <\/strong>to provide any special insight he might have.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I caught this video on VH1 Classic about 4 years ago and, despite the fact that it blew my mind, I forgot everything about the song that would enable me to search for it once I got on the internet. What can I say? It was early in the morning, and I&#8217;m really no good <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/have-you-guys-seen-this-before\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[264,219,211],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561"}],"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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}