{"id":46827,"date":"2014-09-05T12:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46827"},"modified":"2014-09-01T20:29:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T01:29:28","slug":"things-im-supposed-to-hate-but-secretly-enjoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=46827","title":{"rendered":"Things I&#8217;m Supposed To Hate, But Secretly Enjoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know. \u00a0ABC was a Brit synth-pop band, famous for their haircuts and their beeping\/squawking genre.<\/p>\n<p>Worse? \u00a0It was part of the generation of &#8220;British Soul&#8221; that gave us a few useful apeings of sixties and seventies American soul music (Simply Red, Allison Moyet, Eurhythmics) and a whole lot of dreck.<\/p>\n<p>And ABC, over the course of three major US albums (and many more in the UK) a bunch of the eighties music I&#8217;ve filed under the &#8220;I&#8217;d just as soon forget&#8221; file; The Look Of Love, Poison Arrow, When Smokey Sings, and on and on.<\/p>\n<p>ABC &#8211; it&#8217;s really mostly singer Martin Fry, honestly &#8211; could largely be forgotten with no great loss&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;except for &#8220;All Of My Heart&#8221;, the third and least-known single off of their US platinum-seller\u00a0<em>Lexicon of Love&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lfph3043yZU\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which is a song Smokey Robinson and the Miracles or the Four Tops (or, in the deeper recesses of my imagination, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes) could have done with a straight face. \u00a0 Of the whole mediocre raft of eighties Brit synth-&#8220;soul&#8221; singers, Fry was one of precious few that could carry Smokey&#8217;s gig bag (in the same way that Simply Red&#8217;s Mick Hucknall could at least hint toward the Four Tops&#8217; Levi Stubbs&#8217; vocal chops).<\/p>\n<p>And it doesn&#8217;t get much better than that &#8211; among eighties Brit &#8220;soul&#8221; haircut pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know. \u00a0ABC was a Brit synth-pop band, famous for their haircuts and their beeping\/squawking genre. Worse? \u00a0It was part of the generation of &#8220;British Soul&#8221; that gave us a few useful apeings of sixties and seventies American soul music (Simply Red, Allison Moyet, Eurhythmics) and a whole lot of dreck. And ABC, [&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-46827","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\/46827","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=46827"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46843,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46827\/revisions\/46843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}