{"id":9605,"date":"2014-02-27T06:12:32","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/uncategorized\/mia\/"},"modified":"2014-02-27T06:12:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:12:32","slug":"mia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/music\/mia\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: M.I.A."},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mia.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/mia.png\" alt=\"mia\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" title=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nM.I.A.<br \/>\n&#8220;\u0093Lost Boys\u0094&#8221;<br \/>\n(Alternative Tentacles)<\/h4>\n<p>When you get so many damn CDs each month, CDs that you didn\u0092t particularly want, nearly every last one of them gets used for in-home skeet shooting. \u00a0In-home skeet shooting is much like regular skeet shooting except it\u0092s done in doors with a pistol rather than a rifle. \u00a0You scream at the wife, who\u0092s ducked down behind the couch, \u0093PULL!\u0094 and she frisbees the new Soulfly into the air.<br \/>\nKABLAM &#8211; Max Cavalera is out of his stupid misery.<br \/>\nKABLAM! &#8211; So long Digimortal! \u00a0Hahahahahahardyhar.<br \/>\nYou\u0092d think the neighbors would complain more, but they tend to keep to themselves when you\u0092re shooting up the interior of your apartment screaming, \u0093Die, you stupid junkie rock star timeserving sons of bitches, die!\u0094<br \/>\nAnyway, shit, what all this is trying to say is, I\u0092ll be keeping this M.I.A. disc. \u00a0If it didn\u0092t just come to me in the mail for, then I may have even gone out to purchase the damn thing. \u00a0Full of those typical Socal soaring melodies of the eighties punk and hyperactive drumming and dancing bass strings, it really takes a guy back to when punk wasn\u0092t just for prime time network television and Hot Topics mall crawlers.<br \/>\nProblems: production. \u00a0Much of this compilation of songs spanning the first half of the eighties (1980-1985) sounds like it was recorded through single microphone in a big empty room. \u00a0For all I know it was, but it doesn\u0092t necessarily get the proper power into the jumpin\u0092 slammin\u0092 punk rock action on this little orange disc. But, I guess, some people would say that\u0092s just punk. \u00a0And in some ways it is. \u00a0At least the soul is there. \u00a0At least it\u0092s real. \u00a0At least it isn\u0092t sucked dry Blink-182, Green Day, passionless corporate dreck. \u00a0I\u0092ll take M.I.A. over that tripe anyday. \u00a0Let this compilation stand as another fine example as to what punk is before it\u0092s shanghaied, trimmed, cleaned-up, perfumed and spun dry round and round in the Capital building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>M.I.A. &#8220;\u0093Lost Boys\u0094&#8221; (Alternative Tentacles) When you get so many damn CDs each month, CDs that you didn\u0092t particularly want, nearly every last one of them gets used for in-home skeet shooting. \u00a0In-home skeet shooting is much like regular skeet shooting except it\u0092s done in doors with a pistol rather than a rifle. \u00a0You scream [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22212,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[350,3589,4415],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605"}],"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=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}