{"id":1546,"date":"2007-06-29T22:52:33","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T01:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2007-10-06T07:20:17","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:20:17","slug":"golden-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1546","title":{"rendered":"Golden Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>nd <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1545' rel='attachment wp-att-1545' title='Stranglers - Golden Brown'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/gol_den_bro_wn_strnag.thumbnail.jpg' alt='Stranglers - Golden Brown' \/><\/a>then I was humming The Stranglers&#8217; &#8216;Golden Brown&#8217; out of the blue  (<a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1547' rel='attachment wp-att-1547' title='Golden Brown sample'>sample, 30+ sec<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/videos\/relevance\/search\/Golden+Brown\/1\">Daily Motion video<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with the song, in short, it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Golden_Brown\">only hit I know that has a 6\/8 time signature<\/a>, which is one good reason to like the song. Actually, the instrumental adds another extra beat so once in while which makes this song the only (popular) song I know with a 13\/8 time signature making it hard to grasp at times. I was in my early teens when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radio538.nl\/web\/show\/id=44685\/chartid=6312\">I heard this song first<\/a>: in a later part of my life this song (when played in an out-of-town club) frequently served as a reminder to get the last train back to my home city.\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m (for the rest) not familiar with the rest of the band&#8217;s <em>repertoire<\/em>: Wikipedia calls the music of the band a mix of &#8216;intellectual absurd punk new wave&#8217; and (briefly) mentions that the band players were classical\/jazz music-trained. Additionally, the members had different opinions about musical directions, eventually leading to the (inevitable split) in the early 90s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And then I was humming The Stranglers&#8217; &#8216;Golden Brown&#8217; out of the blue (sample, 30+ sec, or Daily Motion video). If you&#8217;re not familiar with the song, in short, it&#8217;s the only hit I know that has a 6\/8 time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1546\">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":[136,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546"}],"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=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}