{"id":357,"date":"2007-03-20T18:24:06","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2007-03-20T18:24:06","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T23:24:06","slug":"the-leather-nun-force-of-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/the-leather-nun-force-of-habit\/","title":{"rendered":"The Leather Nun &#8212; Force of Habit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/leathernunforceofhabit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-769\" title=\"The Leather Nun -- Force of Habit\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/leathernunforceofhabit.jpg\" alt=\"The Leather Nun -- Force of Habit\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> The Leather Nun<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Force of Habit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1987<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 6<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1987 &#8211; Bought it when I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records in Hampton, VA<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Maybe<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yeah, I don&#8217;t really know much about The Leather Nun. I thought they were interesting back then because they had a hard rock edge when there wasn&#8217;t enough of that around. I would&#8217;ve guessed <em>Force of Habit<\/em> was their only album, but it&#8217;s not. If I remember correctly the pseudo-political &#8220;Pink House&#8221; was a college radio alterna-hit. I got to see them open for someone, can&#8217;t remember the headliner now, at the Richmond Mosque. Maybe I&#8217;m imagining the whole show.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, Wikipedia describes the band as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Leather_Nun\">Sweden&#8217;s dark answer to ABBA<\/a>.&#8221; There&#8217;s even a cover of ABBA&#8217;s &#8220;Gimme Gimme Gimme&#8221; on side two. Singer Jonas Almqvist is really more of a talker, and the lyrics are&#8230; eh. The music is interesting, but I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a keeper. Is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: The Leather Nun Title: Force of Habit Year: 1987 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 6 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1987 &#8211; Bought it when I worked at Mother&#8217;s Records in Hampton, VA Keeper: Maybe Yeah, I don&#8217;t really know much about The Leather Nun. I thought they were interesting back then because they had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[474,452,453],"tags":[511,547,724,797,46,934,997,1033],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-l","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-511","tag-alternative","tag-hard-rock","tag-leather-nun","tag-music","tag-rock","tag-sweden","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}