{"id":10997,"date":"2016-06-21T05:30:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T09:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=10997"},"modified":"2016-06-10T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T17:23:27","slug":"album-mini-review-those-pretty-wrongs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/21\/album-mini-review-those-pretty-wrongs\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Those Pretty Wrongs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/those_pretty_wrongs.jpg\" alt=\"those_pretty_wrongs\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10998\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/those_pretty_wrongs.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/those_pretty_wrongs-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><iframe style=\"float: right; padding: 10px; width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ss&#038;ref=as_ss_li_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B01DPPVH44&#038;asins=B01DPPVH44&#038;linkId=6ef33031a5639397c938dd23684975cb&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <strong>Starling Electric<\/strong>; <strong>Teenage Fanclub<\/strong>, <strong>The Posies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jody Stephens<\/strong> was the <strong>George Harrison<\/strong> of legendary Memphis power pop group Big Star: though these days <strong>Chris Bell<\/strong> and <strong>Alex Chilton<\/strong> get the lion&#8217;s share of credit for the transcendent melodies they served up on <i>#1 Record<\/i> and <i>Radio City<\/i>, Stephens&#8217; contributions are too often overlooked. He&#8217;s raised his profile via his involvement with the ongoing Big Star 3<sup>rd<\/sup> project, but Stephens&#8217; new collaborative effort with <strong>Luther Russell<\/strong> should earn him well-deserved recognition for his current work. \u201cOrdinary\u201d sounds incredibly like a great lost cut off one of those first two Big Star records. \u201cEmpty City\u201d is informed by <strong>The Beach Boys<\/strong>&#8216; <i>Pet Sounds<\/i>. Stephens&#8217; achingly vulnerable voice conveys bucket loads of emotion, and the jangle quotient is delightfully high throughout the album. <i>Those Pretty Wrongs<\/i> delivers winsome and tuneful pop of the highest order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Starling Electric; Teenage Fanclub, The Posies Jody Stephens was the George Harrison of legendary Memphis power pop group Big Star: though these days Chris Bell and Alex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,51,62,65],"tags":[307,2740,2742,2741],"class_list":["post-10997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-big-star","tag-jody-stephens","tag-luther-russell","tag-those-pretty-wrongs","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10999,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10997\/revisions\/10999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}