{"id":11728,"date":"2016-11-10T05:30:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T10:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=11728"},"modified":"2016-11-06T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T15:36:34","slug":"album-mini-review-beach-slang-a-loud-bash-of-teenage-feelings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/11\/10\/album-mini-review-beach-slang-a-loud-bash-of-teenage-feelings\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: Beach Slang &#8212; A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11729\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beach_slang.jpg\" alt=\"beach_slang\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beach_slang.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/beach_slang-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float: right; 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=B01IF4JRF6&amp;asins=B01IF4JRF6&amp;linkId=27cc99a98498de59dc7192ab61979a19&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>Replacements<\/strong>, <strong>Paul Westerberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One one level, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with wearing one&#8217;s influences proudly; just be sure not to lose your individuality in the process. The very existence of <strong>Beach Slang<\/strong> \u2013 purveyors of high-octane punk-flavored rock with no end of memorable hooks \u2013 does force the question: does the world really need two <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2009\/05\/23\/album-reviews-the-replacements-reissues-2008\/\">Replacements<\/a>? More than a few times on <i>A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings<\/i>, the trio steps over the line into overt stylistic appropriation: there&#8217;s little about \u201cSpin the Dial\u201d that suggests it&#8217;s anything other than an attempt to copy every musical quality that made the &#8216;Mats so beloved. And \u201cPunks in a Disco Bar\u201d would have fit in nicely on Paul Westerberg&#8217;s <i>13 Songs<\/i>. It&#8217;s hard to take issue with their musical quality, but Beach Slang should assert some of its own personality \u2013 assuming such a thing exists \u2013 into the proceedings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File next to: Replacements, Paul Westerberg One one level, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with wearing one&#8217;s influences proudly; just be sure not to lose your individuality in the process. The very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11729,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[2880],"class_list":["post-11728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-beach-slang","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11728"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11737,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11728\/revisions\/11737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}