{"id":230,"date":"2005-05-24T17:26:15","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T01:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songoose.com\/?p=26"},"modified":"2025-07-22T18:38:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T18:38:00","slug":"dogs-die-in-hot-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Dogs Die in Hot Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just love Dogs Die in Hot Cars&#8217; late summer 2004 release, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=madaio-20&#038;path=tg\/detail\/-\/B0002VEOG8 \">Please Describe Yourself<\/a><\/em>. These guys get compared to 80&#8217;s bands like Dexy&#8217;s Midnight Runners and XTC, but quite honestly I don&#8217;t know much (aside, of course, from &#8220;Come On Eileen&#8221;) about any of these bands. <\/p>\n<p>I do think that they sound a lot like a British band with lots of 80&#8217;s influence, and almost every song on this album is catchy as hell. &#8220;Godhopping&#8221;, &#8220;Lounger&#8221;, &#8220;I Love You &#8216;Cause I Have To&#8221;, and the list goes on and on. Their quirky lyrics don&#8217;t exactly probe the depths of the human condition (I love Lucy \/ I love Lucy Liu \/ Yes I love her twice as much as you \/ Now there&#8217;s Jolie \/ Angelina Jolie \/ Could you ever look as good as she), but when songs are this infectuous, it hardly matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just love Dogs Die in Hot Cars&#8217; late summer 2004 release, Please Describe Yourself. These guys get compared to 80&#8217;s bands like Dexy&#8217;s Midnight Runners and XTC, but quite honestly I don&#8217;t know much (aside, of course, from &#8220;Come On Eileen&#8221;) about any of these bands. I do think that they sound a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.mikemadaio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}