{"id":899,"date":"2007-10-02T07:38:59","date_gmt":"2007-10-02T11:38:59","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-01-13T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T16:17:10","slug":"his-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/his-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"His Girl, My Girl, Our Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0xBcpq2Dn3g?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/TheBudosBand_RideOrDie.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/TheBudosBand_RideOrDie.mp3\">The Budos Band, &#8220;Ride or Die&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been listening to and enjoying the new album by <strong>The Budos Band<\/strong> album, their second (and hence titled <em>II<\/em>). It&#8217;s quite simply an amazing slice of &#8217;70s style instrumental funk with hints of Afro-beat, as you can hear on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/TheBudosBand_RideOrDie.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/TheBudosBand_RideOrDie.mp3\">&#8220;Ride or Die&#8221;<\/a>, from the album. In particular, I&#8217;m quite curious how <strong>saturnismine<\/strong> (who is also a fan of the bands on the Daptone label) and <strong>hrundivikbashi<\/strong> will react to this. I suspect the latter will really dig it and, as such, I sense a healing opportunity on the horizon over the downloading issue addressed earlier in another post.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/TheBudosBand_HisGirl.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/TheBudosBand_HisGirl.mp3\">The Budos Band, &#8220;His Girl&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pince Nez alert!<\/strong> In addition, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigtakeover.com\/essays\/the-sins-of-pitchfork-1\" title=\"http:\/\/www.bigtakeover.com\/essays\/the-sins-of-pitchfork-1\" target=\"_blank\">check out this maneuver on a scribe from Pitchfork<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>The Budos Band also do a re-working of &#8220;My Girl&#8221; on this album, calling it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/TheBudosBand_HisGirl.mp3\" title=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/RockTownHall\/TheBudosBand_HisGirl.mp3\">&#8220;His Girl&#8221;<\/a>. To my ears, it&#8217;s hard to tell the similarity until <strong>2:43<\/strong> of the way through. It&#8217;s a clever arrangement, although I&#8217;m not trained enough to know that the BPM is higher and that it&#8217;s played in a minor instead of a major key. I think the writer in the piece linked above is being way too hard on the guy from <em>Pitchfork<\/em>, though. <em>What do you all think?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Budos Band, &#8220;Ride or Die&#8221; I&#8217;ve been listening to and enjoying the new album by The Budos Band album, their second (and hence titled II). It&#8217;s quite simply an amazing slice of &#8217;70s style instrumental funk with hints of Afro-beat, as you can hear on &#8220;Ride or Die&#8221;, from the album. In particular, I&#8217;m <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/his-girl\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899"}],"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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}