{"id":40569,"date":"2013-12-23T12:15:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T18:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40569"},"modified":"2013-12-20T10:22:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T16:22:05","slug":"things-im-supposed-to-hate-but-like-a-tiny-bit-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=40569","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;m Supposed To Hate But Like A Tiny Bit Of: America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the subject was Crosby, Stills and Nash, it&#8217;s probably time to turn to one of their seventies Cali-pop offspring; America.<\/p>\n<p>The band &#8211; three American air force brats who met in England during the mid-sixties &#8211; generally wrapped up all that was the worst about the entire California pop scene that Crosby, Stills and Nash helped spawn; oblique, tired-sounding minor-key noodling wrapped in ornate three-part harmony that never made me want to dance, sing, fight, cuddle or do much of anything but change the station.<\/p>\n<p>Ventura Highway? \u00a0Horse With No Name? \u00a0Muskrat Freaking Love? \u00a0 Whatever else they did? \u00a0Never could stand it. \u00a0Bores me stiff. \u00a0Move along.<\/p>\n<p>Except for <em>Sister Golden Hair<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LzUQZw3wfro\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Why, of all of America&#8217;s somnolent <em>oeuvre<\/em>, do I like &#8220;Sister?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I dunno. \u00a0Because it has a beat? \u00a0A slide guitar?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe because the vocal harmony harkens back to doo-wop more than Haight-Ashbury?<\/p>\n<p>Dunno. \u00a0But in a band whose entire catalog works on me faster than an Ambien\/NyQuil speedball, &#8220;Sister Golden Hair&#8221; makes me smile.<\/p>\n<p>Why ask why?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the subject was Crosby, Stills and Nash, it&#8217;s probably time to turn to one of their seventies Cali-pop offspring; America. The band &#8211; three American air force brats who met in England during the mid-sixties &#8211; generally wrapped up all that was the worst about the entire California pop scene that Crosby, Stills and [&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],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-40569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-love-and-hate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40569","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=40569"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40645,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40569\/revisions\/40645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}