{"id":432,"date":"2010-08-10T11:38:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T18:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=432"},"modified":"2010-08-10T16:43:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-10T23:43:41","slug":"was-not-was-pick-of-the-litter-1980-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/was-not-was-pick-of-the-litter-1980-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"WAS (NOT WAS) + Pick of the Litter 1980-2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_433\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 410px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WAS-NOT-WAS-Pick-of-the-Litter-1980-2010-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-433\" title=\"WAS-(NOT-WAS)-Pick-of-the-Litter-1980-2010-M-Review-JanFeb2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WAS-NOT-WAS-Pick-of-the-Litter-1980-2010-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg\" alt=\"WAS (NOT WAS) + Pick of the Litter 1980-2010\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WAS-NOT-WAS-Pick-of-the-Litter-1980-2010-M-Review-JanFeb2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/WAS-NOT-WAS-Pick-of-the-Litter-1980-2010-M-Review-JanFeb2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>WAS (NOT WAS)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Pick of the Litter 1980-2010 <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Micro Werks]<\/p>\n<p>Don Was (n\u00e9e Fagenson) and David Was (n\u00e9e Weiss) established themselves as critical darlings in the 1980s by marrying clever and often absurdist lyrics to danceable music\u2014a combination that unexpectedly thrust them into the mainstream in 1988 with the irresistible hits \u201cWalk the Dinosaur\u201d and \u201cSpy in the House of Love.\u201d Don Was\u2019 emergence as an in-demand producer helped to keep the duo silent from 1990 until last year\u2019s <em>Boo!<\/em>, which was accompanied by a welcome return to live performance. Now <em>Pick of the Litter<\/em> offers a compact assessment of the duo\u2019s recorded legacy in full, ranging from their debut single (1980\u2019s \u201cWheel Me Out\u201d) to the present. All of the essential Was (Not Was) tracks are here (except the lustrous 1988 single \u201cAnything Can Happen\u201d) as well as a sampling of the duo\u2019s many fractured collaborations with off-the-wall guest vocalists like Mel Torme and Ozzy Osbourne. \u2013CN<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WAS (NOT WAS) Pick of the Litter 1980-2010 [Micro Werks] Don Was (n\u00e9e Fagenson) and David Was (n\u00e9e Weiss) established themselves as critical darlings in the 1980s by marrying clever and often absurdist lyrics to danceable music\u2014a combination that unexpectedly thrust them into the mainstream in 1988 with the irresistible hits \u201cWalk the Dinosaur\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,32,163,162,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"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=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}