{"id":551,"date":"2012-04-21T14:28:39","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T13:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bassdress.wordpress.com\/?p=551"},"modified":"2019-03-10T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T18:16:53","slug":"eddie-johns-more-spell-on-you-lp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/21\/eddie-johns-more-spell-on-you-lp\/","title":{"rendered":"Eddie Johns &quot;More Spell On You&quot; LP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most people know this record as the track from which that Daft Punk stole <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3Ztzl_VYlX4#\" --=\"\"><em>that sample<\/em><\/a>.  That&#8217;s a bit of a shame, because in my opinion it&#8217;s a solid little French disco record.<\/p>\n<p>I bought it purely to add to the collection of &#8220;uninteresting records with interesting stories&#8221; that I seem to be subconsciously accumulating.  However it&#8217;s such a lovely sounding record that it&#8217;s a little more deserving than that.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a solid cover of &#8220;My Girl&#8221;, and &#8220;Fire And Soul&#8221; is a four to the floor stomper.  The title track &#8220;More Spell On You&#8221; is by far the best, and is well on par with anything Chic done of a similar vintage.  It&#8217;s quite a rare record just now, but well worth picking up.<\/p>\n<p>It did, however get me wondering if &#8220;Studio De La Grande Arm\u00e9e&#8221; where this thing was recorded, was owned by Thomas Bangalter&#8217;s father, hence them being able to rip off the sample with no acknowledgement or royalties.  Hmm&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2365,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551\/revisions\/2365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bassdress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}