{"id":419,"date":"2011-02-25T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/?p=419"},"modified":"2024-02-14T21:16:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T21:16:03","slug":"the-instigators-we-dont-know-what-we-want-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-instigators-we-dont-know-what-we-want-7\/","title":{"rendered":"The Instigators- We Don&#8217;t Know What We Want 7&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rare US entry to the new wave scene with a 2 track 7&#8221; from 1985. A complete obscurity, with nothing to be found on the internet or elsewhere. The a-side is a great guitar driven track with a few great synth hooks in tow. Almost sounds as if R.E.M. ditched the American underground and went for a more European aesthetic. It also kind of reminds me of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/vhf-1st-impressions-lp\/\">VHF LP<\/a>, for those who enjoyed that particularly rare gem. A little gloom, but catchy all the same.<\/p>\n<p>The b-side is far less interesting to me, with a more happy-go-lucky melody that recalls The Kinks, but different strokes for different folks. I&#8217;ll leave it for you all to decide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/the-instigators-we-dont-know-what-we-want-7\/instigators\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3473\" src=\"http:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/instigators-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/instigators-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/instigators-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/instigators.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Instigators- <i>We Don&#8217;t Know What We Want<\/i> 7&#8221;<br \/>\n1. We Don&#8217;t Know What We Want<br \/>\n2. Electric Blanket<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/SOR\/i-wdkwww.zip\">download it here<\/a>*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rare US entry to the new wave scene with a 2 track 7&#8221; from 1985. A complete obscurity, with nothing to be found on the internet or elsewhere. The a-side is a great guitar driven track with a few great synth hooks in tow. Almost sounds as if R.E.M. ditched the American underground [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,109,183,19,616,143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1980s","category-109","category-new-wave","category-post-punk","category-the-instigators","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5720,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions\/5720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.systemsofromance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}