{"id":1123,"date":"2015-09-25T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T08:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2015-09-16T09:21:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T08:21:20","slug":"song-of-the-week-rat-patrol-by-naked-raygun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Rat Patrol&#8221; by Naked Raygun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is &#8220;Rat Patrol&#8221; by Naked Raygun:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/unoRsQL1ocY\" width=\"375\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When I was in junior high school, a lot of the older high school guys I looked up to were into Naked Raygun, and wore Naked Raygun t-shirts.\u00a0 So I liked Naked Raygun long before I heard them. But then, eventually, I heard them. Naked Raygun hits a lot of my musical sweet spots: loud, razorlike guitars, melodic and driving basslines, choruses that you can sing along to, and which teeter on the edge of full-blown anthem.\u00a0 Naked Raygun practically founded the punk scene in Chicago, and without that scene, a bunch of bands that later became favorites, from Big Black to Screeching Weasel to Seam, might not have found the same kind of platform.\u00a0 Also, they were called <em>Naked Raygun<\/em>, which still seems impossibly stupid and awesome all at once&#8211;they wanted to\u00a0 be the Sex Pistols.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"DouglasCowie\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Song%20of%20the%20Week%3A%20%22Rat%20Patrol%22%20by%20Naked%20Raygun\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each Friday I pick a song\u2013new, old, borrowed, blue\u2013that\u2019s been on my mind and in my ears, and write a short post about it. 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