{"id":3339,"date":"2006-04-26T22:06:02","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T03:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=161"},"modified":"2006-04-26T22:06:02","modified_gmt":"2006-04-27T03:06:02","slug":"madness-absolutely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/madness-absolutely\/","title":{"rendered":"Madness &#8212; Absolutely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/madnessabsolutely.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-809\" title=\"Madness -- Absolutely\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/madnessabsolutely.jpg\" alt=\"Madness -- Absolutely\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Madness<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Absolutely<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1980<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 10<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1982 ? &#8211; Olsson&#8217;s in Georgetown, DC.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday the packing tornado ripped the turntable out of my sweaty hands and it&#8217;s about consume this keyboard. The moving truck comes tomorrow morning, and what&#8217;s not already in a box will be shortly. But, yes, I did in fact play the records I hope to log over the next week in flurry of rock and roll yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Today is an &#8220;M&#8221; day. Madness, the band, strikes again. They&#8217;re always popular at our house, no pun intended. This record, &#8220;Absolutely&#8221;, has the super-fun-hit-that-everybody-knows&#8230; &#8220;Baggy Trousers.&#8221; On matters of Madness I always defer to Mary.<\/p>\n<p>Me: What would you rate this?<br \/>\nMary: A 10.<br \/>\nMe: &#8220;Absolutely&#8221;?<br \/>\nMary: It&#8217;s Madness!<\/p>\n<p>Not sure I like it as much as &#8220;One Step Beyond&#8221;, but she has a point. It <em>is<\/em> Madness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Madness Title: Absolutely Year: 1980 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 10 Owner: Mary Acquired: 1982 ? &#8211; Olsson&#8217;s in Georgetown, DC. Keeper: Yes Yesterday the packing tornado ripped the turntable out of my sweaty hands and it&#8217;s about consume this keyboard. The moving truck comes tomorrow morning, and what&#8217;s not already in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[475,452,453],"tags":[503,523,811,46,902,967,1033],"class_list":["post-3339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-m","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-503","tag-2-tone","tag-madness","tag-music","tag-pop","tag-ska","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339","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=3339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}