{"id":1565,"date":"2012-10-16T22:49:28","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T22:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2024-02-14T20:41:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T20:41:13","slug":"the-laughing-apple-the-ha-ha-hee-hee-e-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/the-laughing-apple-the-ha-ha-hee-hee-e-p\/","title":{"rendered":"The Laughing Apple- The Ha Ha Hee Hee! E.P."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent minimal post-punk 7&#8221; from 1981, as donated by the great <a href=\"http:\/\/bx59cppw.blogspot.com\/\">bx-59cppw<\/a>.\u00a0 Most notably, The Laughing Apples were the springboard for Creation Records&#8217; Alan McGee.\u00a0 After a handful of private releases, McGee and bandmate Andrew Innes would form both Biff Bang Pow! and Revolving Paint Dream, two early Creation staples.\u00a0 The label would grow to prominence with bands such as Slowdive, Adorable, and My Bloody Valentine.\u00a0 Innes is also a member of Primal Scream, one of the label&#8217;s most lucrative bands.<\/p>\n<p>This 7&#8221; should appeal to fans of They Must Be Russians, Marquis De Sade, and Product of Reason, not to mention McGee&#8217;s garage rock fascination.\u00a0 Be sure to listen carefully, or it&#8217;ll be over before you know it!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/the-laughing-apple-the-ha-ha-hee-hee-e-p\/laughingapple\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3134\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3134\" src=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/laughingapple-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/laughingapple-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/laughingapple.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Laughing Apple- <em>The Ha Ha Hee Hee! E.P.<br \/>\n<\/em>1. Sometimes I Wish<br \/>\n2. Chips For Tea<br \/>\n3. Upstairs Downstairs<br \/>\n4. I&#8217;m Okay<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/systemsofromance.com\/SOR\/la-ha.zip\">download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellent minimal post-punk 7&#8221; from 1981, as donated by the great bx-59cppw.\u00a0 Most notably, The Laughing Apples were the springboard for Creation Records&#8217; Alan McGee.\u00a0 After a handful of private releases, McGee and bandmate Andrew Innes would form both Biff Bang Pow! and Revolving Paint Dream, two early Creation staples.\u00a0 The label would grow to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,108,739,740,183,19,741,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-108","category-alan-mcgee","category-creation-records","category-new-wave","category-post-punk","category-primal-scream","category-synth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5583,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/5583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}