{"id":68702,"date":"2019-10-10T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T20:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=68702"},"modified":"2019-10-18T23:38:50","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T04:38:50","slug":"fifty-years-ago-today-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/fifty-years-ago-today-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty years ago today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Peaches En Regalia\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HFQKP3Ehucg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The golden age of progressive rock began on this day in 1969 with the release of two classic albums, Frank Zappa&#8217;s <i><b>Hot Rats<\/b><\/i> and King Crimson&#8217;s <i><b>In the Court of the Crimson King<\/b><\/i>.<span id='easy-footnote-1-68702' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/fifty-years-ago-today-2\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-68702' title='The era was over by 1975, when the &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OXD2sK25BdU&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Electromagnets&lt;\/a&gt; couldn&amp;#8217;t get a major-label contract and &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jBxy8R6nmPU&quot; rel=&quot;noopener noreferrer&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Yezda Urfa&lt;\/a&gt; couldn&amp;#8217;t get any contract at all.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"21st Century Schizoid Man\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JLstJH23p7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Also released on that day was the Kinks&#8217; <i><b>Arthur<\/b><\/i>. It doesn&#8217;t quite qualify as &#8220;prog rock,&#8221; though it was a &#8220;concept album.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Kinks - Victoria\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z2GHlcwlT1Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I suppose I ought to comment about the historical significance of these works, with analysis of the musical techniques employed and explication of lyrics<span id='easy-footnote-2-68702' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/fifty-years-ago-today-2\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-68702' title='Never mind the lyrics. Ray Davies was a competent writer, but Peter Sinfield was at best a pretentious mediocrity.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, plus some personal notes&#8230;. Nah. The music speaks for itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The golden age of progressive rock began on this day in 1969 with the release of two classic albums, Frank Zappa&#8217;s Hot Rats and King Crimson&#8217;s In the Court of the Crimson King. Also released on that day was the Kinks&#8217; Arthur. It doesn&#8217;t quite qualify as &#8220;prog rock,&#8221; though it was a &#8220;concept album.&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/fifty-years-ago-today-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fifty years ago today&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-hS6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68702"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69147,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68702\/revisions\/69147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}