{"id":8951,"date":"2011-08-29T18:15:21","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=8951"},"modified":"2011-08-30T10:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T14:45:07","slug":"echo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/echo\/","title":{"rendered":"Echo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a new wave kid in the &#8217;80s, I probably wore holes in the first three <strong>Echo &amp; the Bunnymen<\/strong> albums, drove up to NYC to see them, etc. I recently downloaded the first two albums off iTunes\u2014and I gotta say they still hold up.<\/p>\n<p>I always thought they were the heaviest of the &#8220;romantic&#8221; bands. Way heavier and more angular than <strong>The Cure<\/strong>, <strong>U2<\/strong>, etc. That drummer&#8217;s military fills are the serious backbone of why I loved these guys.\u00a0And they had a lot of songs about taking LSD, which at the time made them seem mysteriously cool.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>Burt Bacharach<\/strong> sweater in the video not withstanding, they did know how to rock under those haircuts.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jCAKE1v2oFU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a new wave kid in the &#8217;80s, I probably wore holes in the first three Echo &amp; the Bunnymen albums, drove up to NYC to see them, etc. I recently downloaded the first two albums off iTunes\u2014and I gotta say they still hold up. I always thought they were the heaviest of the &#8220;romantic&#8221; <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/echo\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1244,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[508,264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951"}],"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\/1244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}