{"id":639,"date":"2006-09-28T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T05:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=639"},"modified":"2026-01-01T20:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:57:35","slug":"entry-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"Com-Pak Music Theater: When Guitars Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two recent (to me) media sources have proved to be a lot of fun for me lately: XM Satellite Radio and YouTube. Long-time readers (or people with way too much time their hands) may remember a post where I talked about \u201c<a href=\"\/?p=32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Com-Pak music<\/a>\u201c. Basically, it means what was playing on the local hits station when I was working at my first job. I mentioned \u201cJoyride\u201d by Roxette specifically, but there are a whole list of songs that snap my mind back to that time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s where XM comes in. I\u2019ve found myself spending a surprising amount of minutes listening to songs on the 90\u2019s channel, and several of the songs have turned out to be Com-Pak music. Tonight I heard another one on the way back to the house, and I decided that sharing some of these might be a fun way to kill some posts on the site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enter YouTube. It\u2019s pretty difficult for me to find whole songs to link to in audio format, but if a song had a video, someone has probably posted it to YouTube. The added fun is that since I didn\u2019t have cable or satellite TV in high school, this is the first time I\u2019ve seen a lot of these videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, without further ado, here\u2019s tonight\u2019s edition of Com-Pak Music Theater:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wHqqraFrrd0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sweet Sensation: If Wishes Came True (1990)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a perfectly happy little bubblegum love tune that wants nothing more than to be an <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Expos%C3%A9_(group)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Expos\u00e9<\/a> song when it grows up. Except, out of nowhere, the 80\u2019s attack with full-force power ballad guitars! There\u2019s even a guitar solo bridge complete with modulation! Whoa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The video\u2019s great, too. The choreographed-synchronized posing complete with wind machine and fake rain (could it be <em>warm September<\/em> rain?) is my favorite part. They really <em>do<\/em> want to be Expos\u00e9 when they grow up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two recent (to me) media sources have proved to be a lot of fun for me lately: XM Satellite Radio and YouTube. Long-time readers (or people with way too much time their hands) may remember a post where I talked about \u201cCom-Pak music\u201c. Basically, it means what was playing on the local hits station when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,4,5],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-com-pak-music-theater","tag-memories","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slidingconstant.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}