{"id":701,"date":"2011-01-07T21:51:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T01:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=701"},"modified":"2011-01-07T21:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-08T01:52:32","slug":"adventures-in-utopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Adventures in Utopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/e\/e0\/Adventures_In_Utopia.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>All in a row, 10 great songs. Individually, 8 of them stand on their own. All in all, I have always liked this album. <\/p>\n<p>I first got it when I was in my hard rock\/metal phase, when just about everything I bought was either hard rock or metal. I&#8217;d read good things about Utopia, and liked their song &#8220;Caravan&#8221;, so I tried out this LP when I saw it for cheap at Half-Price Books at their old Richardson location off of Belt Line. I bought it, raised an eyebrow at the preppy look of the band on the cover, put it on the turntable, and got hooked.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite from the album is still &#8220;Caravan&#8221;, but I also keep a warm spot for &#8220;Set Me Free&#8221;, &#8220;Rock Love&#8221;, and &#8220;Second Nature.&#8221; The overall style of the album is accessible pop, edged in the last days of progressive rock and the first glimmers of electronica. Todd Rundgren always finds a way to innovate without alienating with his projects, and this album shows that talent at its best. It&#8217;s fun, the overall mood is bright, and only some of the songs make me want to skip them after I&#8217;ve listened the album 7 or 8 times in a row. 9 out of 10 for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All in a row, 10 great songs. Individually, 8 of them stand on their own. All in all, I have always liked this album. I first got it when I was in my hard rock\/metal phase, when just about everything I bought was either hard rock or metal. I&#8217;d read good things about Utopia, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":703,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zzzptm.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}