{"id":10465,"date":"2013-08-12T10:18:37","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=10465"},"modified":"2013-08-12T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T17:18:56","slug":"the-three-oclock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/08\/the-three-oclock\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three O\u2019Clock"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The-Three-OClock-M-Review-No27\"The Three O\u2019Clock<\/b><\/h1>\n

The Hidden World Revealed<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

[Omnivore]<\/p>\n

In the early \u201980s, two separate yet parallel strains of Southern California rock offered different takes on \u201960s revivalism. On one end, there was the hardcore punk of Black Flag and their ilk\u2014bands that redefined \u201cloud\u201d and \u201cfast\u201d by pushing the antiestablishment rock of forefathers like Credence Clearwater Revival to hulking extremes. Punk was great for angry teenagers, but what about those with frillier tastes, fans too delicate for the mosh pit and musicians too skilled for three-chord anthems? For these folks, there was the Paisley Underground, an L.A. scene based around the experimentalism and escapism\u2014not the righteous anger\u2014of the psychedelic era. From this sea of pointy shoes and Farfisa organs there emerged only one breakout band, the Bangles, but if not for the Three O\u2019Clock, the movement might never have gotten its name.<\/p>\n

Indeed, Three O\u2019Clock frontman Michael Querico coined the phrase \u201cPaisley Underground,\u201d and as this 20-track retrospective makes clear, he also helped define its sound. Collecting material from the band\u2019s early years\u2014before it signed with Warner Bros. and recorded an album for Prince\u2019s Paisley Park imprint\u2014Hidden World<\/i> speaks for a specific time and place. Amid the jangling guitars, harpsichord keys and oft-trippy imagery (\u201cWith a Cantaloupe Girlfriend\u201d), the Three O\u2019Clock drew from more recent sounds, most notably \u201970s power-pop. And as the rough early demos reveal, the Paisleys weren\u2019t so different from the punks. One crew wanted to bash your head in\u2014the other sought to expand your mind. Either way, you were in for a trip.\u2013Kenneth Partridge<\/p>\n

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The Three O\u2019Clock The Hidden World Revealed [Omnivore] In the early \u201980s, two separate yet parallel strains of Southern California rock offered different takes on \u201960s revivalism. On one end, there was the hardcore punk of Black Flag and their ilk\u2014bands that redefined \u201cloud\u201d and \u201cfast\u201d by pushing the antiestablishment rock of forefathers like Credence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,6875,6959,6960,6958],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10469,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10465\/revisions\/10469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}