{"id":386,"date":"2009-01-18T12:43:23","date_gmt":"2009-01-18T01:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=386"},"modified":"2010-01-28T15:50:21","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T04:50:21","slug":"mark-steyn-on-progressive-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Mark Steyn on Progressive Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing his new book <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynstore.com\/product57.html\">A Song for the Season<\/a><\/em> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/rn\/counterpoint\/\">&#8216;Counterpoint&#8217; on ABC Radio<\/a>, Canadian writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marksteyn.com\/\">Mark Steyn<\/a> remarks:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span>I think I say somewhere in the book, while it&#8217;s not technically true that inside every great freeform progressive rock classic there&#8217;s a cheesy, easy listening cover version waiting to get out, it&#8217;s certainly true in this case.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The &#8216;this case&#8217; he&#8217;s talking about is &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Light_My_Fire\">Light My Fire<\/a>&#8216; by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Doors\">The Doors<\/a>. The Doors aren&#8217;t usually titled a progressive rock band, with Wikipedia preferring &#8216;Psychedelic Rock, Blues, Rock&#8217;, but I&#8217;ve always thought that some of their earlier lengthy classics like &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_End_(The_Doors_song)\">The End<\/a>&#8216; and &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/When_The_Music%27s_Over\">When the Music&#8217;s Over<\/a>&#8216; were so close to progressive rock that splitting the difference would be impossible.<\/p>\n<p>This was brought to mind as I was listening to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Emerson,_Lake_%26_Palmer\">Emerson Lake and Palmer<\/a>&#8216;s 1971 album <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tarkus\">Tarkus<\/a> this morning. Except that the twenty minute long title track seems to me to have three or four &#8216;cheesy, easy listening cover version[s] waiting to get out&#8217;, and I love them all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In discussing his new book A Song for the Season on &#8216;Counterpoint&#8217; on ABC Radio, Canadian writer Mark Steyn remarks: I think I say somewhere in the book, while it&#8217;s not technically true that inside every great freeform progressive rock &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=386\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}