{"id":1662,"date":"2011-03-28T15:22:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beta.mbtn.net\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2013-12-14T15:24:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T15:24:14","slug":"and-another-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/?p=1662","title":{"rendered":"And Another Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the Internet debut of “New York Mets” (aka ‘We Want a Hit’)\u00a0as posted below<\/a>\u00a0has made a small splash that we hope was heard out in Flushing but you never know with these Mets. In the story\u00a0recounted at UniWatch<\/a>, I was in the process of making a kind of Internet mix tape at the wonderful streaming site\u00a0Rdio.com<\/a>\u00a0featuring artists who were also Mets fans.<\/p>\n

Probably my favorite of these are the Hoodoo Gurus, the zany garage-pop rockers from Australia. As described in\u00a0this interview<\/a>\u00a0by Zisk Magazine, Dave Faulkner, the Gurus’ singer, founder and songwriter, is a big fan of the orange-and-blue, having lived for a time in New York in the mid-1980s, where the energy and success of the Mets must have been a major source of inspiration for someone who’s talent was rocking. Posted below is the video for “What’s My Scene” from the Gurus’ 1987 album\u00a0Blow Your Cool<\/em>. Faulkner has remarked this is one of his favorite compositions “because it has two choruses when only one is necessary.” I like the video for the costume change at 2:47 and how it gets me pumped up from the very start. Thanks, Gurus, for being on our side.
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By the way, be sure to check out the recent post<\/a> on UniWatch revealing the first wearer of the Mets jersey: Don Zimmer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the Internet debut of “New York Mets” (aka ‘We Want a Hit’)\u00a0as posted below\u00a0has made a small splash that we hope was heard out in Flushing but you never know with these Mets. In the story\u00a0recounted at UniWatch, I was in the process of making a kind of Internet mix tape at the wonderful … Continue reading “And Another Thing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-met-lovin-big-shots-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbtn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}