{"id":23657,"date":"2011-11-14T23:27:46","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T05:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23657"},"modified":"2011-11-14T23:27:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T05:27:39","slug":"the-real-eighties-the-valley-of-the-thundering-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=23657","title":{"rendered":"The Real Eighties: The Valley Of The Thundering Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week in &#8220;The Real Eighties&#8221;, we&#8217;re going to look at American music.<\/p>\n<p>The post-punk era had very different effects on both sides of the pond &#8211; if you go by stereotype at least. \u00a0Still &#8211; the stereotype was that British post-punk pop was largely technological, while in American it went back to the future.<\/p>\n<p>John Mellencamp took a break from a fairly lackluster career to dive into sixties R&#8217;nB and garage rock records, and came back with a couple of the best American albums of the era.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lkumk-7luxg\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bruce Springsteen swerved abruptly away from the top forty into Woody Guthrie territory with <em>Nebraska<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M3eu1gW-bQ8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>And it was just the beginning of one of the best ten year stretches that American popular music had had. <\/p>\n<p>More as we proceed through the week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week in &#8220;The Real Eighties&#8221;, we&#8217;re going to look at American music. The post-punk era had very different effects on both sides of the pond &#8211; if you go by stereotype at least. \u00a0Still &#8211; the stereotype was that British post-punk pop was largely technological, while in American it went back to the future. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-the-real-eighties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24383,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23657\/revisions\/24383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}