{"id":766,"date":"2011-02-14T13:19:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/?p=766"},"modified":"2011-02-14T13:32:35","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T19:32:35","slug":"thunder-beach-by-crumbacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/thunder-beach-by-crumbacher\/","title":{"rendered":"Thunder Beach by Crumb\u00e4cher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-767\" title=\"Crumbacher Thunder Beach\" src=\"http:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/files\/2011\/02\/Crumbacher-Thunder-Beach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" \/><\/strong>I chose to review this Crumb\u00e4cher disc, but it should be noted that Escape <em>From the Fallen Planet<\/em> should be re-mastered and available by the time you read this. I wanted to cover <em>Thunder Beach<\/em> simply because although it might not be their most popular piece of work, it was the first Christian album that I got when I was growing up. I still remember my aunt purchased <em>Thunder Beach<\/em> for me as a Christmas present. I also got some Twila Paris cassette at the same time (woe is me!). Anyway, I love the packaging on this disc, the silhouetted outlines of the band members are really cool. This is one of the best pop discs that came out at the time. This release saw the band progress away from the synth pop sound and incorporate a more pop rock feel with edgier tracks like \u201cOnce In A Heartbreak\u201d and the title track \u201cThunder Beach\u201d. There are also straight up pop tracks here that are a lot of fun, an instrumental track and a couple of ballads thrown in for good measure. I\u2019ve never been a big fan of ballads, but I absolutely love \u201cTough Act To Follow\u201d, the words are timeless and the sentiment is deep. Check out iTunes for this release!<\/p>\n[1987 Frontline Records | Purchase:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/album\/thunder-beach\/id385380224\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chose to review this Crumb\u00e4cher disc, but it should be noted that Escape From the Fallen Planet should be re-mastered and available by the time you read this. I wanted to cover Thunder Beach simply because although it might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/thunder-beach-by-crumbacher\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93,24],"tags":[120,121],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-january-2011","category-music-review","tag-crumbacher","tag-frontline-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downthelinezine.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}