{"id":1480,"date":"2007-04-21T22:35:25","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T01:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1480"},"modified":"2007-10-06T09:53:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T12:53:17","slug":"fraction-too-much-friction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1480","title":{"rendered":"Fraction Too Much Friction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">B<\/span>ack <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1482' rel='attachment wp-att-1482' title='Tim Finn'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/tim_fi_nn_fract.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Tim Finn' \/><\/a>in 83 or 84, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tim_Finn\">Tim &#8220;Split Enz&#8221; Finn&#8217;s<\/a> had a hit with &#8216;Fraction Too Much Friction&#8217; in Europe (or maybe it was only a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio538.nl\/web\/show\/id=44685\/chartid=6158\">hit in The Netherlands<\/a> <sup>1<\/sup>). I mention this song because out of the blue, the last couple of weeks, I have been humming this song&#8217;s melody too frequently (<a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1481' rel='attachment wp-att-1481' title='The song!'>20+sec fragment<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>So, what&#8217;s so special about this song (Finally now at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=zAqmHgL8lmM\">YouTube<\/a>)? Nothing really: except for that it has a catchy tune and it has this elaborate musical arrangement that includes saxophones and other horns. Quite different from the standard 80s hits. Oh, and if I remember correctly, Tim Finn&#8217;s voice was often compared with the voice of that other great 80s singer Stevie Wonder.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> Browsing through those Historical (Dutch) Top 40 pages linked above, I think the youth of those days were exposed to (generally) rather obnoxious music. It makes no sense. Maybe the Eighties made no sense.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 83 or 84, Tim &#8220;Split Enz&#8221; Finn&#8217;s had a hit with &#8216;Fraction Too Much Friction&#8217; in Europe (or maybe it was only a hit in The Netherlands 1). I mention this song because out of the blue, the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1480\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[136],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}