{"id":282,"date":"2006-10-02T19:42:51","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T23:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=282"},"modified":"2006-10-02T19:42:51","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T23:42:51","slug":"gang-of-four-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/gang-of-four-hard\/","title":{"rendered":"Gang of Four &#8212; Hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gangoffourhard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-647\" title=\"Gang of Four -- Hard\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/gangoffourhard.jpg\" alt=\"Gang of Four -- Hard\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Gang of Four<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Hard<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1983<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 9<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1983, not sure where&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Server migration, DNS propagation lag, Charter Communications&#8230; All of you, can kiss my ass. Now where were we?<\/p>\n<p>Right! Gang of Four&#8217;s late period album, <em>Hard<\/em>. My collection is missing the previous album <em>Songs of the Free<\/em> and that gap makes this record sound like a rather abrupt change to a more pop sound. Even though <em>Hard<\/em> is full of classic pop <em>sounds<\/em>, things like soulful backing vocals and staccato strings, the music is just as strange and interesting as their earlier work. Of course, the lyrics are fantastic too. I played the crap out this record way back, and you can tell from the grime on the cover. My favorite song is &#8220;A Man With a Good Car.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Who is that?<br \/>\nJust what is your business?<br \/>\nFate is in your hands<br \/>\nAnd your decisions<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>A man with a good car needs no justification<br \/>\nFate is in my hands and in the transmission<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Gang of Four Title: Hard Year: 1983 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 9 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1983, not sure where&#8230; Server migration, DNS propagation lag, Charter Communications&#8230; All of you, can kiss my ass. Now where were we? Right! Gang of Four&#8217;s late period album, Hard. My collection is missing the previous album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[469,452,453],"tags":[507,696,46,861,905,1033],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-g","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-507","tag-gang-of-four","tag-music","tag-new-wave","tag-postpunk","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","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=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}