{"id":1516,"date":"2017-06-02T08:28:54","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T07:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/douglascowie.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2017-05-30T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T07:41:16","slug":"song-of-the-week-sunshine-and-grease-by-royal-trux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.douglascowie.net\/?p=1516","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Week: &#8220;Sunshine and Grease&#8221; by Royal Trux"},"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;Sunshine and Grease&#8221; by Royal Trux:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S4P0PoGfTGI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m at the Primavera Sound Festival this (long) weekend. One of the bands I&#8217;ve been looking forward to seeing is Royal Trux, who must be near the top of the list of 1990s bands nobody expected to resurface, even given the trend\/habit\/whateveryouwanttocallit of the last ten or fifteen years for bands of that era to reform now that their fans have expendable incomes.\u00a0 &#8220;Sunshine and Grease&#8221;, from 2000, is the last thing I recall Royal Trux releasing. I think there were two different CD single versions, or maybe I&#8217;m wrong about that, but anyway, the version I have also includes two pretty good B-sides.\u00a0 The thing I love about this song is the overall loucheness of it: the slow\/medium groove, Neil Hagerty&#8217;s vocal, even more so Jennifer Herrema&#8217;s vocal, and the guitar riff, just sitting there like it&#8217;s not even trying.<\/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%22Sunshine%20and%20Grease%22%20by%20Royal%20Trux\";<\/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. This is &#8220;Sunshine and Grease&#8221; by Royal Trux: I&#8217;m at the Primavera Sound Festival this (long) weekend. 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