{"id":408,"date":"2007-06-06T21:04:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T21:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/musical-youth\/"},"modified":"2007-06-06T21:04:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T21:04:35","slug":"musical-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/musical-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK <a href=\"http:\/\/nubiana.co.uk\/2007\/06\/06\/music-meme-1998\/\" target=\"_new\">Nubiana.<\/a> Normally this sort of this sort of viral thing scares me but I&#8217;ll call it. Here are the rules:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popculturemadness.com\/Music\/\" target=\"_new\">www.popculturemadness.com\/Music<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Pick the year you turned 18.<\/li>\n<li>Get yourself nostalgic over 5 of the songs of the year.<\/li>\n<li>Write something about how the songs affected you.<\/li>\n<li>Pass it on to 5 friends.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here we go:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Funky Cold Medina &#8211; Tone Loc<\/b>  &#8211; This track, and the whole album in fact, was exactly what I was looking for in the musical misery of the &#8220;Madchester&#8221; era. While everyone else was talking in a mock-manc accent and waving their arms about to a bunch of lame, derivative, half-arsed, psychedlia-lite claptrap, I was funking my 18-year-old (skinny at the time) arse off to this in Planet-X in Liverpool: the only club I&#8217;ve ever really liked. There&#8217;s not a dud on this album.<\/li>\n<li><b>Wild Thing &#8211; Tone Loc<\/b> &#8211; See above. Same album.<\/li>\n<li><b>Buffalo Stance &#8211; Nenah Cherry<\/b> &#8211; This is too easy. The catchiest Tim Simenon tune ever, fronted by someone with a superb voice and a body that did bad things with my excitable teenage hormones. My girlfriend at the time reluctantly bought me the album after a lot of pestering.<\/li>\n<li><b>Back to Life &#8211; Soul II Soul<\/b> &#8211; This track  and &#8220;Jazzie B&#8217;s theme&#8221; really helped provide a window of sanity in the jingle-jangle claptrap that I was trying, so hard, to avoid at the time. I was in Liverpool, and it was so London and so, so  good.<\/li>\n<li><b>Me, Myself and I &#8211; De la Soul<\/b> &#8211; I really don&#8217;t have to explain this one do I ? Come on. It&#8217;s a daisy age&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh shit &#8211; that&#8217;s my five! Runners up were Tom Petty and the Beastie Boys. Why weren&#8217;t Sonic Youth on the list ?<\/p>\n<p>The fellow bloggers I tag:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/p10.hostingprod.com\/@spyblog.org.uk\/drk\/\" target=\"_new\">Dr K<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/nettyfunk\" target=\"_new\">Netty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/longestmostliquidlunch.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Daddy Mention<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/barkingfuzzy.livejournal.com\/\" target=\"_new\">Ange<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/originalsmallonion\" target=\"_new\">El Mi&ntilde;o<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK Nubiana. Normally this sort of this sort of viral thing scares me but I&#8217;ll call it. Here are the rules: Go to www.popculturemadness.com\/Music Pick the year you turned 18. Get yourself nostalgic over 5 of the songs of the year. Write something about how the songs affected you. Pass it on to 5 friends. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}