{"id":127,"date":"2006-03-16T11:58:29","date_gmt":"2006-03-16T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=127"},"modified":"2006-03-16T11:58:29","modified_gmt":"2006-03-16T17:58:29","slug":"joe-jackson-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/joe-jackson-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Jackson &#8212; Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jacksonjoememphis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-727\" title=\"Joe Jackson -- Memphis\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jacksonjoememphis.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Jackson -- Memphis\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Joe Jackson<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Memphis<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1983<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 7 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1984 ? &#8211; When  Mary worked at Tower Records in DC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This single was part of the soundtrack to the movie &#8220;Mike&#8217;s Murder&#8221; starring Debra Winger. Yeah, I&#8217;ve never seen it either. Anyhow, the primary riff in &#8220;Memphis&#8221; sounds so much like the Spencer David Group song &#8220;I&#8217;m A Man&#8221; that I can&#8217;t help but think of <em>that<\/em> when I&#8217;m listening to <em>this<\/em>. Despite that the &#8220;Memphis&#8221; vibe is more new wave than classic rock. I like it, but it bothers me. &#8220;Breakdown&#8221; on the flip is an ethereal instrumental number, and unlike any Joe Jackson music I&#8217;ve ever heard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Joe Jackson Title: Memphis Year: 1983 Format: Vinyl 7 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: Mary Acquired: 1984 ? &#8211; When Mary worked at Tower Records in DC. Keeper: Yes This single was part of the soundtrack to the movie &#8220;Mike&#8217;s Murder&#8221; starring Debra Winger. Yeah, I&#8217;ve never seen it either. Anyhow, the primary riff [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,452,453],"tags":[507,768,46,861,902,934,1033],"class_list":["post-127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-507","tag-joe-jackson","tag-music","tag-new-wave","tag-pop","tag-rock","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}