{"id":4237,"date":"2012-01-29T17:40:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T22:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4237"},"modified":"2018-08-04T02:07:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T06:07:25","slug":"street-dogs-back-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4237","title":{"rendered":"Street Dogs\u2019 \u201cBack to the&nbsp;World\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/StreetDogs-BackToTheWorld.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4238\" title=\"StreetDogs-BackToTheWorld\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/StreetDogs-BackToTheWorld-150x150.jpg\" alt width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/StreetDogs-BackToTheWorld-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/StreetDogs-BackToTheWorld.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\"><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You might rec\u00adog\u00adnize the voice of Mike McCol\u00adgan, for\u00admer lead singer of <em>Drop\u00adkick Mur\u00adphys<\/em> in this album.&nbsp;After a stint away from the music scene to work as a Boston fire\u00adfight\u00ader, he came back with a new punk band.&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">DM<\/span> was sort of an Amer\u00adi\u00adcan ver\u00adsion of the Pogues with a bit of Clash mixed in.&nbsp;This band seems to be less celtic-sound\u00ading.&nbsp;The polit\u00adi\u00adcal lyrics, a kind of nos\u00adtal\u00adgic Boston Southie, AFofL\/<span class=\"caps\">CIO<\/span> ambi\u00adence, are sim\u00adi\u00adlar to those of <span class=\"caps\">DM<\/span>, as exem\u00adpli\u00adfied by the last track, \u201cUnions and the Law.\u201d&nbsp;\u201cYou Alone\u201d and the album title track are catchy songs. A punk band is only as good as its drum\u00admer, and Joe Sirois, for\u00admer\u00adly in the <em>Mighty Mighty Bos\u00adstones<\/em>, is extreme\u00adly good.&nbsp;The album is a good lis\u00adten, with no dull patch\u00ades and lots of pro\u00adfes\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adism, but noth\u00ading that real\u00adly grabs me and shakes me.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might rec\u00adog\u00adnize the voice of Mike McCol\u00adgan, for\u00admer lead singer of Drop\u00adkick Mur\u00adphys in this album.&nbsp;After a stint away from the music scene to work as a Boston fire\u00adfight\u00ader, he came back with a new punk band.&nbsp;<span class=\"caps\">DM<\/span> was&nbsp;sort&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4237\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[947,934],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-listening","category-co-listening-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7638,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4237\/revisions\/7638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}