{"id":137,"date":"2006-03-30T21:13:54","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T03:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=137"},"modified":"2006-03-30T21:13:54","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T03:13:54","slug":"u-men-solid-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/u-men-solid-action\/","title":{"rendered":"U-Men &#8212; Solid Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1107\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1107\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1107\" title=\"U-Men -- Solid Action\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/umensolidaction.jpg\" alt=\"U-Men -- Solid Action\" width=\"500\" height=\"250\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1107\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U-Men -- Solid Action<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not the only guy who likes the U-Men. I can see from my Google Analytics account that, on a pretty regular basis, people end up at this site by searching for the band. Hard to believe that ImHeavyDuty.com is the first link when you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=u-men+step+on+a+bug\">search for &#8220;U-Men Step On A Bug&#8221; on Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From the homemade look of the packaging you would think that the U-Men are some typical punk\/hardcore band. (I swear that it looks like someone touched up the cover of my record with a Sharpie; it bled through. Were they making these one-at-a-time?) But this is an edgy, arty, and just plain noisy single. I&#8217;ll stick with the lazy Birthday Party comparison. Although Mary thinks it sounds more like Primus. What!? Anyhow, I doubt &#8220;Solid Action&#8221; or the flipside &#8220;Dig It A Hole&#8221; will get your foot tapping, but at least it&#8217;s interesting.<\/p>\n<p>A little <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_U-Men\">more info at Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not the only guy who likes the U-Men. I can see from my Google Analytics account that, on a pretty regular basis, people end up at this site by searching for the band. Hard to believe that ImHeavyDuty.com is the first link when you search for &#8220;U-Men Step On A Bug&#8221; on Google. From [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,456],"tags":[46,913,1023,1033],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-u","tag-music","tag-punk","tag-u-men","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","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=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}