{"id":6773,"date":"2018-01-30T11:01:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T15:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=6773"},"modified":"2024-08-31T22:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T02:02:44","slug":"i-should-have-thought-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2018\/01\/30\/i-should-have-thought-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"I Should Have Thought of This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stereogum writer Tom Breihan has started a series where he is writing about every song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously if I owned an alley, this would be right up it.<\/p>\n<p>Now he\u2019s still very early in the series, so not all the songs are terribly relevant or interesting to most of us. But last week he covered \u201cThe Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don\u2019t Be Late)\u201d from December 1958, and I thought one line in particular would make that entry a fun read for everyone.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs a parlor trick and a feat of engineering, \u201cThe Chipmunk Song\u201d is just staggering. As a piece of music, it sucks shit.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stereogum.com\/1980078\/the-number-ones-the-chipmunks-david-sevilles-the-chipmunk-song-christmas-dont-be-late\/franchises\/the-number-ones\/\">The Number Ones<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stereogum writer Tom Breihan has started a series where he is writing about every song to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Obviously if I owned an alley, this would be right up it. Now he\u2019s still very early in the series, so not all the songs are terribly relevant or interesting to most of us. But last week he covered \u201cThe Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don\u2019t Be Late)\u201d from December 1958, and I thought one line in particular would make that entry a fun read for everyone. As a parlor trick and a feat of engineering, \u201cThe Chipmunk Song\u201d is just staggering. As a piece of music, it sucks shit. The Number Ones<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,27,9],"class_list":["post-6773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-links","tag-media","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13475,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6773\/revisions\/13475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}