{"id":524,"date":"2007-07-31T13:03:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-31T13:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=524"},"modified":"2011-10-29T12:44:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T17:44:23","slug":"the_magic_numbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/the_magic_numbe.html","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Numbers &#8230;SOUND LIKE&#8230; The Muppets ??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, call me crazy, but I SWEAR there is a sample of &#8220;The Rainbow Connection&#8221; in the middle of &#8220;<strong>Boy<\/strong>&#8221; from <strong>The Magic Numbers<\/strong>&#8216; new album &#8220;<strong>Those the Brokes<\/strong>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Why else would I find myself humming &#8220;the lovers, the dreamers, and me&#8221; ?  Seriously, give it a listen, I SWEAR it&#8217;s there.<\/p>\n<p>As to the rest of the album:  Thumbs up!  It&#8217;s still the bouncy relentless POP of their earlier album (you really can&#8217;t call this anything other than &#8220;pop&#8221;!), but there&#8217;s some touches that are a little blue-sier, a little funk-ier, a little more sass-a-fras.  They make such pretty harmonies, there just aren&#8217;t that many people out there that can do it better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, call me crazy, but I SWEAR there is a sample of &#8220;The Rainbow Connection&#8221; in the middle of &#8220;Boy&#8221; from The Magic Numbers&#8216; new album &#8220;Those the Brokes&#8220;. Why else would I find myself humming &#8220;the lovers, the dreamers, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/07\/the_magic_numbe.html\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5,6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sounds_like","category-album","category-listenin","category-tunes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2072,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}