{"id":57092,"date":"2018-06-19T09:56:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T07:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=57092"},"modified":"2018-06-19T11:10:01","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T09:10:01","slug":"its-a-wide-open-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/its-a-wide-open-road\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a wide open road&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/its-a-wide-open-road\/maxresdefault-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-57094\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignn-full wp-image-57094\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Danmarks VM-dyst mod Australien torsdag giver os grund til at dykke ned i noget musik derovre fra. Her nummer 23 p\u00e5 rettighedsorganisationen APRA&#8217;s &#8211; ja, det er s\u00e5 Australiens svar p\u00e5 KODA &#8211; officielle top-30 liste over bedste australske sange nogensinde, Perth-bandet The Triffids&#8217; 1986-gennembrudssang &#8216;Wide Open Road&#8217;. Med gennembrud menes her mest opm\u00e6rksomhed, for Triffids-sangskriver David McComb&#8217;s dramatisk ladede widescreen-musik faldt aldrig i den helt brede smag. The Triffids havde i slut-80&#8217;erne et solidt navn p\u00e5 den alternative scene i Europa, men det var s\u00e5 vist ogs\u00e5 det. Som den slags desv\u00e6rre ofte g\u00e5r, sled bandet sig op gennem endel\u00f8se turn\u00e9er uden m\u00e6rkbare resultater at h\u00f8ste derfor. At den lysende sangskriver og yderst karismatiske frontfigur David McComb s\u00e5 endda endte i stofmisbrug og en tragisk tidlig d\u00f8d g\u00f8r ikke noget mindre hovedrystende. Den anderledes store musikalske vinder blandt de seks Triffids-medlemmer m\u00e5 siges at v\u00e6re deres engelske bassist Martyn P. Casey, der siden opl\u00f8sningen i 1989 har v\u00e6ret fast medlem af Nick Cave &amp; The Bad Seeds&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7N5akOOlGTI?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>&#8211; I started the song at Julian Wu&#8217;s house in Melbourne. Ah, the end of a beautiful era One morning I sat bolt upright in bed and virtually all the lyrics appeared instantly. I just tried to keep it as blunt and direct as possible, even if the results made myself or the listener squirm. I finished the music at a sound-check somewhere in Europe. Like the rest of the Born Sandy Devotional album, it seemed to naturally evoke a particular landscape, namely the stretch of highway in between Caiguna and Norseman, where the Triffids&#8217; Hi-Ace monotonously came to grief with kangaroos.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>David McComb, The Triffids<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/its-a-wide-open-road\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/its-a-wide-open-road\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danmarks VM-dyst mod Australien torsdag giver os grund til at dykke ned i noget musik derovre fra. Her nummer 23 p\u00e5 rettighedsorganisationen APRA&#8217;s &#8211; ja, det er s\u00e5 Australiens svar p\u00e5 KODA &#8211; officielle top-30 liste over bedste australske sange nogensinde, Perth-bandet The Triffids&#8217; 1986-gennembrudssang &#8216;Wide Open Road&#8217;. Med gennembrud menes her mest opm\u00e6rksomhed, for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/its-a-wide-open-road\/\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s a wide open road&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/its-a-wide-open-road\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/its-a-wide-open-road\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-calcio","category-rocknroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}