{"id":434,"date":"2007-09-14T09:43:42","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T13:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2007\/09\/14\/10000-maniacs-blind-mans-zoo\/"},"modified":"2007-09-14T09:43:42","modified_gmt":"2007-09-14T13:43:42","slug":"10000-maniacs-blind-mans-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/10000-maniacs-blind-mans-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"10,000 Maniacs &#8211; Blind Man&#8217;s Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1008\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/10000maniacsblindmans.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1008\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1008\" title=\"10,000 Maniacs - Blind Man's Zoo\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/10000maniacsblindmans.jpg\" alt=\"10,000 Maniacs - Blind Man's Zoo\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1008\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">10,000 Maniacs - Blind Man&#39;s Zoo<\/p><\/div>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> 10,000 Maniacs<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Blind Man&#8217;s Zoo<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1989<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 5<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1989?<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There&#8217;s no way I will be fair to this band and record; I apologize for that. For those about to <em>not<\/em> rock&#8230; I salute you. And speaking of not rocking, Lee Gomes at The Wall Street Journal wrote a great article about how the iPod and MP3s are <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/article_print\/SB118953936892024096.html\">killing the sound of music<\/a>. The hills are alive with crappy-sounding over-compressed music tweaked to sound better for the &#8220;lowest common denominator&#8221;, iPods.<\/p>\n<p>With that rant out of the way, let us now whine about 10,000 Maniacs. I don&#8217;t know what it is about them. It may be Natalie Merchant&#8217;s voice, and probably the overall tone of their music. I&#8217;ve always found them annoying, and <em>Blind Man&#8217;s Zoo<\/em> is no exception. Mary got a couple of their records way back and now even she doesn&#8217;t want to hear them anymore. Not hatin&#8217;, I just can&#8217;t take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: 10,000 Maniacs Title: Blind Man&#8217;s Zoo Year: 1989 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 5 Owner: Mary Acquired: 1989? Keeper: No There&#8217;s no way I will be fair to this band and record; I apologize for that. For those about to not rock&#8230; I salute you. And speaking of not rocking, Lee Gomes at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,453,455],"tags":[482,483,513,547,613,759,46,1033],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-record-collection","category-t","tag-000-maniacs","tag-483","tag-513","tag-alternative","tag-college-rock","tag-jangle-pop","tag-music","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","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=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}