{"id":9161,"date":"2011-09-10T09:38:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=9161"},"modified":"2011-09-10T09:42:28","modified_gmt":"2011-09-10T13:42:28","slug":"songs-possibly-only-you-like-as-much-as-you-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-possibly-only-you-like-as-much-as-you-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs Possibly Only You Like as Much as You Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9XvphWrLovM?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>I&#8217;m not a great fan of <strong>J. Geils Band<\/strong>. They have all the elements of a band I should love: Jagger-esque singer, tough guitars, all the swagger rock &#8216;n roll can handle, but usually their songs leave me flat. &#8220;One Last Kiss&#8221; is a giant exception&#8230;at least for me. I love this song. When I was a kid and it was a very minor hit on FM radio I used to wonder why I didn&#8217;t hear it more often, like as regularly as one of <strong>Blue Oyster Cult<\/strong>&#8216;s hits. It&#8217;s the only song by them beside their super-charged cover of &#8220;I&#8217;m Lookin&#8217; for a Love,&#8221; that holds my interest and doesn&#8217;t get bogged down in <strong>Peter Wolf<\/strong>&#8216;s jive act. It sounds like any number of anthemic <strong>Graham Parker &amp; the Rumour<\/strong> songs that I love. Passion is no ordinary word, but I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever run into another rock nerd who will go to the mats for &#8220;One Last Kiss.&#8221; Does anyone like this song as much as I do?<\/p>\n<p><em>What song do you possibly like more than anyone else you know? What typically unheralded song do you suspect you like more than anyone else on the planet?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a great fan of J. Geils Band. They have all the elements of a band I should love: Jagger-esque singer, tough guitars, all the swagger rock &#8216;n roll can handle, but usually their songs leave me flat. &#8220;One Last Kiss&#8221; is a giant exception&#8230;at least for me. I love this song. When I <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/songs-possibly-only-you-like-as-much-as-you-do\/' 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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161"}],"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=9161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}