{"id":10087,"date":"2014-02-27T06:11:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/cdradiantboy_brian\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:11:58","slug":"cdradiantboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdradiantboy\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: This Radiant Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22642\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/chem.jpg\" alt=\"chem\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nThis Radiant Boy<br \/>\n&#8220;Proud to be a Chemist&#8221;<br \/>\n(Ides of March)<\/h4>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been sick for the last three days. \u00a0Everything is sort of blurry because of the Ny Quil shots I&#8217;ve been slamming every half-hour. \u00a0I hate snot running down my nose. \u00a0I hate my bloodshot eyes feeling like they&#8217;re on fire. \u00a0I hate my throat feeling like it&#8217;s about to crack. \u00a0I hate This Radiant Boy. \u00a0What sort of Saturday Morning punk rock is this? \u00a0Sappy, smarmy, without an edge, without a purpose or a message, totally lacking in originality and talent, This Radiant Boy comes to us by way of Philadelphia and I wish they&#8217;d have stayed there. \u00a0Vocalist Mike Guggino has a falsetto that makes Tiny Tim sound like Jim Morrison. \u00a0Who wants to listen to that sniveling, whining stuff? \u00a0Mix in the sugary mid-tempo chords and the requisite distortion and you&#8217;ve got yourself one stinker of a compact disc. \u00a0Hold on for a second, I&#8217;ve got to blow my nose&#8230;damn, out of Kleenex&#8230;I&#8217;ll just use this here ridiculous, quasi-Dexter&#8217;s Laboratory album cover&#8230;there we go. \u00a0Where was I? \u00a0Oh yeah, this is an annoying record and I&#8217;d rather take a nap than listen to it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Radiant Boy &#8220;Proud to be a Chemist&#8221; (Ides of March) I&#8217;ve been sick for the last three days. \u00a0Everything is sort of blurry because of the Ny Quil shots I&#8217;ve been slamming every half-hour. \u00a0I hate snot running down my nose. \u00a0I hate my bloodshot eyes feeling like they&#8217;re on fire. \u00a0I hate my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22642,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[3436,3600,7758],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}