{"id":341,"date":"2007-02-08T23:41:57","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T04:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2007-02-08T23:41:57","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T04:41:57","slug":"the-fleshtones-american-beat-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/the-fleshtones-american-beat-84\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fleshtones &#8212; American Beat &#8217;84&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fleshtonesamericanbeat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-628\" title=\"The Fleshtones -- American Beat \\'84\\'\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/fleshtonesamericanbeat.jpg\" alt=\"The Fleshtones -- American Beat \\'84\\'\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> The Fleshtones<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> American Beat &#8217;84&#8217;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1984<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 8<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1984 &#8211; No clue where<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, I don&#8217;t get the extra apostrophe after the 84 either, but I&#8217;m going with it since it&#8217;s that way all over the record. Some might call a four song record an EP; IRS calls it a &#8220;Maxi Single.&#8221; The Fleshtones&#8217; &#8220;American Beat &#8217;84&#8242;&#8221; is a solid song, well-constructed and perfectly played like all their work, but it has a slight sheen of cheese. I think it was featured in the soundtrack to the Tom Hanks&#8217; movie Bachelor Party. I never saw it. Someone check that for me, please, thanks. &#8220;Super Hexbreaker&#8221; is what it sounds like, a remix, but it&#8217;s slightly less super than the original. &#8220;Mean Old Lonesome Train&#8221; is interesting because it&#8217;s more bluesy than usual for The Fleshtones <em>and<\/em> guitarist Keith Streng sings. What Keith may lack in natural vocal ability he more than makes up for with intensity and enthusiasm, a trade I&#8217;ll take every time. The standout for me is &#8220;Hall of Fame.&#8221; There are more hooks in this one song than most full length records. It&#8217;s a Fleshtones version of a &#8220;club banger&#8221; circa 1984, not that anyone would&#8217;ve called it that back then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Fleshtones Title: American Beat &#8217;84&#8217; Year: 1984 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 8 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1984 &#8211; No clue where Keeper: Yes Yeah, I don&#8217;t get the extra apostrophe after the 84 either, but I&#8217;m going with it since it&#8217;s that way all over the record. Some might call a four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,452,453],"tags":[508,682,698,46,936,993,1033],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-508","tag-fleshtones","tag-garage-rock","tag-music","tag-rock-and-roll","tag-super-rock","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","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=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}