{"id":9669,"date":"2016-01-01T05:45:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-01T05:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=9669"},"modified":"2015-12-16T15:32:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T15:32:09","slug":"album-mini-review-dm3-west-of-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/01\/album-mini-review-dm3-west-of-anywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Mini-review: DM3 &#8212; West of Anywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9670\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/dm3.jpg\" alt=\"dm3\" width=\"280\" height=\"248\" \/><\/p>\n<p><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=ss_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=musoscribe-20&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=B0116CI7LO&amp;asins=B0116CI7LO&amp;linkId=UIEDGDC64SJBNH4I&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>File Next to: <b>Shoes<\/b>, <b>Cheap Trick<\/b>, <b>Raspberries<\/b><\/p>\n<p>If you were American and into power pop, the 1990s was a decade filled with riches. You could blissfully ignore all that dreadful hair metal and the wooly, flannel-shirted grunge scene, and instead enjoy the high-octane, hook-filled pleasures of music from <b>Jellyfish<\/b>, <b>Redd Kross<\/b>, <b>Matthew Sweet<\/b>, <b>Michael Penn<\/b>, <b>The Posies<\/b>&#8230;on and on. And though they made little commercial inroads in the USA, Australia&#8217;s DM3 caught the attention of American critics. Unashamed to claim the phrase \u201cmaximum power pop,\u201d the group managed to place one of their tunes \u2013 the delightful \u201cShow You\u201d \u2013 onto the last in the celebrated <i>Yellow Pills<\/i> compilation series. But there&#8217;s so much great music in the relatively slim DM3 catalog that this best-of compilation doesn&#8217;t (and doesn\u2019t need to) include that tune. Filled with shoulda-beens and never-weres, <i>West of Anywhere<\/i> is eighteen tracks of melodic, infectious powerpop in the grand tradition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File Next to: Shoes, Cheap Trick, Raspberries If you were American and into power pop, the 1990s was a decade filled with riches. You could blissfully ignore all that dreadful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9670,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,49,51,55,62,65],"tags":[2565],"class_list":["post-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-compilation","category-new-release","category-pop","category-powerpop","category-rawk","category-review","tag-dm3","cat-19-id","cat-49-id","cat-51-id","cat-55-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669","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=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9894,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions\/9894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}