{"id":8,"date":"2007-05-01T23:03:33","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T03:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/so-i-guess-that-would-be-a-no-then\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T23:03:33","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T03:03:33","slug":"so-i-guess-that-would-be-a-no-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2007\/05\/01\/so-i-guess-that-would-be-a-no-then\/","title":{"rendered":"So I Guess That Would Be a &#8220;No&#8221;, Then?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ended up at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\/archives\/albums_of_the_year\/the_top_10_albums_of_1981.php\" title=\"Yay, a Top 10 list !!!\">this page <\/a><em>via<\/em> one of my daily web stops, \u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.themorningnews.org\" title=\"Always Interesting!\">The Morning News<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 The page contains a list of the &#8220;10 Greatest Albums of 1981&#8221; according to TMN founder Andrew Womack.\u00a0 \u00a0Since I have oddly enough had a recurring premonition that someone is going to demand to know\u00a0<em>my<\/em> opinion on this very critical issue,\u00a0I of course want to have something intelligent to say.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Consider that link clicked.\u00a0\u00a0 The second item on the list (at number 9, in true &#8220;countdown to suspense&#8221; fashion) refers to the album &#8220;Wilder&#8221; by the group <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Teardrop_Explodes\" title=\"Go to Wikipedia entry\">The Teardrop Explodes<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is the part that made me spit my tea all over the place:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When recording the follow-up to this, their second album, \u201cartistic differences\u201d within the band finally caused the Teardrop Explodes to, um, implode. Singer Julian Cope would soon embark on a formidable career as a solo artist, and later <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headheritage.co.uk\/unsung\/albumofthemonth\/reviewer\/6\">as a music critic<\/a>. Though the chances of a reunion are slim: When asked if the Teardrop Explodes might ever reform, he responded: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headheritage.co.uk\/drude\/qa\/cope_music.php\">\u201cWould you ever return to having your mother wipe your asshole?\u201d<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dude.\u00a0 A simple &#8220;nuh uh&#8221; would have been <em>totally<\/em> enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ended up at this page via one of my daily web stops, The Morning News. The page contains a list of the &#8220;10 Greatest Albums of 1981&#8221; according to TMN founder Andrew Womack. Since I have oddly enough had a recurring premonition that someone is going to demand to know my opinion on this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}