{"id":379,"date":"2012-12-17T22:48:54","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T09:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/?p=379"},"modified":"2019-12-11T22:29:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T09:29:41","slug":"willy-moon-i-wanna-be-your-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/willy-moon-i-wanna-be-your-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Willy Moon &#8212; I Wanna Be Your Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Willy Moon sounds like a fist fight between Jack White and Elvis Presley on the set of a David Lynch film.&#8221; If I were a music writer I would probably say something like that. Thankfully I&#8217;m not, so I&#8217;ll just say that I love the combination of the raw, very old style and the witty modern flourishes. I also love the fact that Willy Moon favours short songs &#8212; he says that most songs only have two minutes&#8217; worth of ideas anyway, so why bother going on longer?<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Willy Moon - I Wanna Be Your Man\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uVnJhf_L3f0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/radionz\/programmes\/nat-music\/audio\/2540959\/willy-moon\">Willy Moon interview<\/a> on Radio NZ. He has a lot of perceptive things to say about pop music.<\/p>\n<p>Willy Moon is originally from New Zealand. This track makes me think of a great NZ track from a few decades ago: Tex Pistol&#8217;s <cite>The Game of Love<\/cite>. That song could be a spiritual forebear to <cite>I Wanna Be Your Man<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start NZ On Screen - The Game of Love Size: 100% by 410 --><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nzonscreen.com\/embed\/e6657c571dbe9d35\" width=\"100%\" height=\"410\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- End NZ On Screen - The Game of Love --><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radionz.co.nz\/national\/programmes\/music101\">Music 101<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Willy Moon sounds like a fist fight between Jack White and Elvis Presley on the set of a David Lynch film.&#8221; If I were a music writer I would probably say something like that. Thankfully I&#8217;m not, so I&#8217;ll just say that I love the combination of the raw, very old style and the witty&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/willy-moon-i-wanna-be-your-man\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read Willy Moon &#8212; I Wanna Be Your Man\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[140,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thunderguy.com\/unlisten\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}