{"id":584,"date":"2009-04-28T12:20:12","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downthelinezine.com\/archives\/?p=584"},"modified":"2011-02-09T11:25:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T17:25:10","slug":"saudades-de-rock-by-extreme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/saudades-de-rock-by-extreme\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudades De Rock by Extreme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-585\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2009\/04\/extreme5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/>EXTREME<br \/>SAUDADES DE ROCK<\/strong><br \/>2008 Fontana Records<br \/>Purchase: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extreme-band.com\/\">Extreme-Band.com<\/a><br \/>Review by: Matt Crosslin<\/p>\n<p>Hair metal in our magazine?\u00a0 What next?\u00a0 Rap?\u00a0 Probably not, but hold on a second \u2013 Extreme never really was hair metal.\u00a0 They got marketed that way, but never really fit that label.\u00a0 Their first album was probably as close to hair metal that they ever got, but still with a healthy dose of funk.\u00a0 By the time they hit it big, the hair part was gone and the hard rock\/funk was in full effect.<\/p>\n<p><em>Saudades de Rock<\/em> seems to fit somewhere between <em>III Sides to Every Story<\/em> and <em>Waiting For the Punchline<\/em>, maybe with a little more energy than both.\u00a0 Energy is a key word here \u2013 Extreme doesn\u2019t sound like a tired old band trying to relive glory days.\u00a0 They are really in to these songs, not caring if they make another radio hit or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStar\u201d leads off the disc with the classic Extreme sound in full force.\u00a0 This is also the first single\u2026 which did get played on some classic rock stations when it came out.\u00a0 There is a ton of shredder guitar all over this song (and the whole album actually), so if that turns you off \u2013 this album won\u2019t be your thing.\u00a0 The vocals on <em>Saudades<\/em> show more than a passing nod to the Beatles.\u00a0 The funk is a little more integrated into the songs than it was their break-through <em>Pornograffitti<\/em> album, but it is there if you are listening.\u00a0 In fact, that is probably what saves Extreme from any hair metal trappings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXTREMESAUDADES DE ROCK2008 Fontana RecordsPurchase: Extreme-Band.comReview by: Matt Crosslin Hair metal in our magazine?\u00a0 What next?\u00a0 Rap?\u00a0 Probably not, but hold on a second \u2013 Extreme never really was hair metal.\u00a0 They got marketed that way, but never really fit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/saudades-de-rock-by-extreme\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[44,106],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-april-2009","category-music-review","tag-extreme","tag-fontana-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}