{"id":67,"date":"2006-01-20T18:34:13","date_gmt":"2006-01-21T00:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2006-01-20T18:34:13","modified_gmt":"2006-01-21T00:34:13","slug":"rem-murmur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/rem-murmur\/","title":{"rendered":"R.E.M. &#8212; Murmur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/remmurmur.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-891\" title=\"R.E.M. -- Murmur\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/remmurmur.jpg\" alt=\"R.E.M. -- Murmur\" width=\"500\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> R.E.M.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Murmur<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1983<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 7<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Tracy<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1983 &#8211; Guessing here&#8230; Tracks in Norfolk, VA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dullsville baby, dullsville! Maybe I made a mistake by playing Judas Priest&#8217;s &#8220;Point Of Entry&#8221; album (Lemme see those horns people!) for a little afternoon pick-me-up. Then, I played R.E.M.&#8217;s &#8220;Murmur&#8221; immediately afterward. I was anticipating an all-out boredom assualt and thought a little heavy metal buffer just made sense. Instead, I think it made R.E.M. sound even more boring. You can&#8217;t follow Priest with the jingle jangle, man!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard for me now to think of myself as getting excited about R.E.M. But there was a time when that was true. I remember seeing them live early on with Dream Syndicate and maybe even when &#8220;Chronic <em>what?<\/em> Town&#8221; came out. They sounded new and different, and maybe I was more open-minded as a youngster.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this <em>is<\/em> good music. I just don&#8217;t want to hear it anymore. So, what&#8217;s my problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: R.E.M. Title: Murmur Year: 1983 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 7 Owner: Tracy Acquired: 1983 &#8211; Guessing here&#8230; Tracks in Norfolk, VA. Keeper: Yes Dullsville baby, dullsville! Maybe I made a mistake by playing Judas Priest&#8217;s &#8220;Point Of Entry&#8221; album (Lemme see those horns people!) for a little afternoon pick-me-up. Then, I played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,481,453],"tags":[507,547,46,920,1033],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-r","category-record-collection","tag-507","tag-alternative","tag-music","tag-r-e-m","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","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=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}