{"id":187,"date":"2006-05-30T20:28:24","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T01:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=187"},"modified":"2006-05-30T20:28:24","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T01:28:24","slug":"joe-jackson-blaze-of-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/joe-jackson-blaze-of-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Joe Jackson &#8212; Blaze of Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jacksonjoeblazeofglory.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-725\" title=\"Joe Jackson -- Blaze of Glory\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/jacksonjoeblazeofglory.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Jackson -- Blaze of Glory\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Joe Jackson<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Blaze of Glory<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1989<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1989 &#8211; Our store RIP Records in Norfolk, VA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Joe Jackon&#8217;s &#8220;Blaze of Glory&#8221; is very much an &#8220;adult&#8221; album. And I&#8217;m not usually in a very adult mood. The first time I played this the other day I was distracted, but also stunned by what I initially perceived as over-production and even some&#8230; cheesiness. At first I didn&#8217;t get it at all, despite being an adult, sorta. After a couple more proper listens it&#8217;s starting to make sense. This is a very complex, some might say &#8220;concept&#8221;, album. There are few if any audible gaps between the songs, and the lyrics move from youth to the reality beyond it. It feels almost like a musical.<\/p>\n<p>It seems the single &#8220;Nineteen Forever&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Jackson_(musician)#Singles\">made it up the charts<\/a>, but I don&#8217;t remember hearing it on the radio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This album is dedicated to my generation.&#8221; &#8212; Joe Jackson (from the liner notes)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Joe Jackson Title: Blaze of Glory Year: 1989 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: Mary Acquired: 1989 &#8211; Our store RIP Records in Norfolk, VA. Keeper: Yes Joe Jackon&#8217;s &#8220;Blaze of Glory&#8221; is very much an &#8220;adult&#8221; album. And I&#8217;m not usually in a very adult mood. The first time I played [&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":[513,761,768,46,902,934,1033],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-j","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-513","tag-jazz","tag-joe-jackson","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-rock","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","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=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}