{"id":2845,"date":"2008-08-08T14:40:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T19:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cgm13.net\/wordpress\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2008-08-08T15:37:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T20:37:14","slug":"first-listen-the-cure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":"First Listen: The Cure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 1987, MTV was showing the Top 20 Video Countdown in syndication. It was the only way I could watch music videos as we live too far away from a main road for cable. So, I was a religious watcher until one night the show came on and annoucer said it was their last in syndication. That night they played a weird mix of videos and <a href=\"http:\/\/thecure.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Cure<\/strong><\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Why_Can%27t_I_Be_You%3F\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Why Can&#8217;t I Be You<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; was right smack in the middle.<\/p>\n<p>I had heard of The Cure for a while but had never heard them. I remember Jim Barton would run around school in his The Cure T-Shirt (&#8220;Head on the Door&#8221; logo version). I was always curious as the cool art kids seemed to know who they were. Well, after seeing the video, I knew who they for sure and was out purchasing my first Cure album (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kiss_Me%2C_Kiss_Me%2C_Kiss_Me\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me<\/strong><\/a>&#8220;) the next week.<\/p>\n<p>And here I am, over 20 years later and there&#8217;s a new Cure album coming out in about two months. I can tell you I am gonna be just as excited about purchasing it as I was purchasing my first one.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MI0a9hTh5AU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way back in 1987, MTV was showing the Top 20 Video Countdown in syndication. It was the only way I could watch music videos as we live too far away from a main road for cable. So, I was a religious watcher until one night the show came on and annoucer said it was their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8EnCu-JT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theboywonder.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}