{"id":11537,"date":"2016-09-27T05:45:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T09:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11537"},"modified":"2016-09-27T08:16:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T12:16:44","slug":"album-mini-review-the-archies-sugar-sugar-the-complete-albums-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/27\/album-mini-review-the-archies-sugar-sugar-the-complete-albums-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: The Archies &#8212; Sugar, Sugar: The Complete Albums Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11538\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/archies.jpg\" alt=\"archies\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/archies.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/archies-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: left; padding: 10px; width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ss&amp;ref=as_ss_li_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B01I6PY37Q&amp;asins=B01I6PY37Q&amp;linkId=82a9f4505b488f968550359bd4489b38&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nFile next to: <strong>Bay City Rollers<\/strong>, <strong>1910 Fruitgum Company<\/strong>, <strong>The Jackson 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After his experience with <strong>The Monkees<\/strong>, pop impresario <strong>Don Kirshner<\/strong> made the calculated decision that his next project would be one in which the artists couldn&#8217;t rebel. Thus was born <strong>The Archies<\/strong>, a cartoon group that only existed on television. Well, that&#8217;s not completely true: a real-life studio collective including <strong>Jeff Barry<\/strong>, <strong>Andy Kim<\/strong> and <strong>Ron Dante<\/strong> were \u2013 to varying degrees \u2013 responsible for five studio LPs. Most people remember \u201cSugar, Sugar,\u201d and some will recall \u201cArchie&#8217;s Theme (Everything&#8217;s Archie),\u201d but the remaining 48 songs are largely forgotten. A new 5CD set brings them back. The bubblegum songwriting and playing is surprisingly strong; there&#8217;s even a garage-rock vibe to some deep cuts. Things get a bit less interesting toward the end, but this music is better and weightier than you might expect. Some care with mastering would have helped, but the discs are perfectly listenable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Bay City Rollers, 1910 Fruitgum Company, The Jackson 5 After his experience with The Monkees, pop impresario Don Kirshner made the calculated decision that his next project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,19,51,62,65],"tags":[2848],"class_list":["post-11537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bubblegum","category-compilation","category-pop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-archies","cat-12-id","cat-19-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\/11537","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=11537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11539,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions\/11539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}