{"id":74,"date":"2006-01-28T00:24:33","date_gmt":"2006-01-28T06:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=74"},"modified":"2006-01-28T00:24:33","modified_gmt":"2006-01-28T06:24:33","slug":"ideal-der-ernst-des-lebens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2006\/ideal-der-ernst-des-lebens\/","title":{"rendered":"Ideal &#8212; Der Ernst Des Lebens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/idealderernst1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-699\" title=\"Ideal -- Der Ernst Des Lebens\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/idealderernst1.jpg\" alt=\"Ideal -- Der Ernst Des Lebens\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"recdata\">\n<li><strong>Artist:<\/strong> Ideal<\/li>\n<li><strong>Title:<\/strong> Der Ernst Des Lebens<\/li>\n<li><strong>Year:<\/strong> 1981<\/li>\n<li><strong>Format:<\/strong> Vinyl 12 in.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rating (1-10):<\/strong> 6<\/li>\n<li><strong>Owner:<\/strong> Mary<\/li>\n<li><strong>Acquired:<\/strong> 1981 &#8211; Mary bought it in Germany when she was an exchange student.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keeper:<\/strong> Yes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this one from Virginia Beach, we&#8217;re house hunting, but I did actually play the next week&#8217;s worth of records, just all yesterday before we hit the road. Also, this really isn&#8217;t an &#8220;I&#8221; day, but I misplaced this one earlier in this pass through the alphabet. Back on track with my favorite letter, &#8220;X&#8221;, tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>You may <em>think<\/em> this band&#8217;s name is pronounced I-DEEL, but it&#8217;s really i-dee-ALL. They are German, very German. All of the lyrics are in German, and I&#8217;m not sure if that makes me like it more or less than I would if knew what they were saying.<\/p>\n<p>Stylistically Ideal are all over the place. One song may sound like Missing Persons, another will have steel drums(?) with more of a pop\/ska feel. Some of this apparent eclecticism may come from the alternating of vocalists. Sometimes the one woman in the group is the lead singer and other times it&#8217;s a man. One of the more manly songs is &#8220;Sex in der W\u00c3\u00bcste&#8221;, or &#8220;Sex in the Desert.&#8221; Remember what I said about not understanding the lyrics? I&#8217;m guessing on this one it&#8217;s better that way. This song is so arty, so early &#8217;80s that it you can imagine it being the inspiration for any number of skits on Saturday Night Live. And now&#8230; we dance.<\/p>\n<p>(You probably won&#8217;t get good search results unless you add some other words like the song title above.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist: Ideal Title: Der Ernst Des Lebens Year: 1981 Format: Vinyl 12 in. Rating (1-10): 6 Owner: Mary Acquired: 1981 &#8211; Mary bought it in Germany when she was an exchange student. Keeper: Yes I&#8217;m writing this one from Virginia Beach, we&#8217;re house hunting, but I did actually play the next week&#8217;s worth of records, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,452,453],"tags":[505,745,46,855,861,1033],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-505","tag-ideal","tag-music","tag-neue-deutsche-welle","tag-new-wave","tag-vinyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74","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=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}