{"id":2588,"date":"2008-05-10T08:08:24","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T08:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/10\/accelerate-and-switch\/"},"modified":"2008-05-10T08:08:24","modified_gmt":"2008-05-10T08:08:24","slug":"accelerate-and-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/05\/10\/accelerate-and-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerate and Switch"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a lot of talk about REM’s decision to finally sound like a rock band again for their new album, Accelerate<\/cite>. I rather like the first single, “Supernatural Superserious,” which sounds like the REM I remember, rather than some bloodless adult contemporary act.<\/p>\n

So I bought the album, and it’s been of shuffle play with a bunch of other stuff for a few weeks now. And you know what? The rest of it is pretty tedious. It is<\/strong> a departure from their recent stuff in that it’s at least loud and tedious, rather than adult-contemporary tedious, but I’m not liking it all that much.<\/p>\n

I just wanted to throw that out there. Feel free to suggest other recent releases which are less likely to be disappointing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been a lot of talk about REM’s decision to finally sound like a rock band again for their new album, Accelerate. I rather like the first single, “Supernatural Superserious,” which sounds like the REM I remember, rather than some bloodless adult contemporary act. So I bought the album, and it’s been of shuffle play… Continue reading Accelerate and Switch<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}