{"id":7919,"date":"2014-02-27T06:10:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=7919"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:10:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:10:37","slug":"cdkickedintheheadcd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/cdkickedintheheadcd\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Kicked in the Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/kick.jpg\" alt=\"kick\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nKicked in the Head<br \/>\n&#8220;Salita&#8221;<br \/>\n(Resurrection A.D.)<\/h4>\n<p>This is my first CD review of the month and it&#8217;s an EP. \u00a0Just a little five-tracker. \u00a0That might not mean much to you, but that&#8217;s because you don&#8217;t have thirty-plus damn reviews to write. \u00a0During the laborious music review process I usually save the EPs I get as a little break for myself. \u00a0You know, less music means fewer words to write and all. \u00a0But here I am, eating my desert first, in a manner of speaking. \u00a0And my desert doesn&#8217;t even taste that good.<\/p>\n<p>Kicked in the Head combines elements from a few other rock bands and the result is a generic sort of Rock &#8216;N Roll that is self-important and a little pompous. \u00a0If it&#8217;s your first record you can&#8217;t be sitting back singing about &#8220;those were the days, yeah, those were the days&#8221;-save that for when your supple young bodies have been ravaged by alcoholism and late nights with women whose names you don&#8217;t remember. \u00a0The guitars are prevalent and heavy throughout &#8220;Salita&#8221; and are best used on &#8220;Arizona&#8221;, a good driving song. \u00a0Unfortunately, I&#8217;m sitting at my PC instead of on the PCH (pretty clever, huh?) and the Stone Temple Pilots routine is getting a little stale. \u00a0Included on this enhanced CD is a live video that didn&#8217;t work on my computer. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t really that upset about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kicked in the Head &#8220;Salita&#8221; (Resurrection A.D.) This is my first CD review of the month and it&#8217;s an EP. \u00a0Just a little five-tracker. \u00a0That might not mean much to you, but that&#8217;s because you don&#8217;t have thirty-plus damn reviews to write. \u00a0During the laborious music review process I usually save the EPs I get [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23810,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[3609,4005,5926],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919"}],"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=7919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}