{"id":440,"date":"2010-08-08T14:12:55","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T14:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/?p=440"},"modified":"2010-08-08T14:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T14:12:55","slug":"breaking-up-is-hard-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Up Is Hard To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tracey+Thorn+Tracey.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-441\" title=\"Tracey+Thorn+Tracey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tracey+Thorn+Tracey-215x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tracey+Thorn+Tracey-215x300.png 215w, https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tracey+Thorn+Tracey.png 355w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I first came across <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/tracey_thorn?from_source=onebox\">Tracey Thorn<\/a> when I heard\u00a0 a beautiful, very articulate love song called &#8216;Plain Sailing&#8217; on a sampler cd in the early 80&#8217;s. I put it on the first mix tape I made for my partner.\u00a0 Tracey met her partner, Ben Watt, at university and they formed Everything But The Girl. Nearly thirty years on, they&#8217;re still together, but a lot of their friends aren&#8217;t. Her second solo album, &#8216;Love And Its Opposite&#8217; came out recently and is a kind of concept album about divorce.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a brilliant record, full of thought provoking, intelligent songs that are also growers. Here&#8217;s the one that keeps getting stuck in my head. Initial copies of the album came with a Berlin Demos bonus disc and this version is from that. I urge you to check out the finished version and the full album.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/02-Singles-Bar-Berlin-Demo.mp3\">Tracey Thorn &#8211; Singles Bar (Berlin Demo)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first came across Tracey Thorn when I heard\u00a0 a beautiful, very articulate love song called &#8216;Plain Sailing&#8217; on a sampler cd in the early 80&#8217;s. I put it on the first mix tape I made for my partner.\u00a0 Tracey met her partner, Ben Watt, at university and they formed Everything But The Girl. Nearly thirty years on, they&#8217;re still together, but a lot of their friends aren&#8217;t. Her second solo album, &#8216;Love And Its Opposite&#8217; came out recently and is a kind of concept album about divorce.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a brilliant record, full of thought provoking, intelligent songs that are also growers. Here&#8217;s the one that keeps getting stuck in my head. Initial copies of the album came with a Berlin Demos bonus disc and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440\/revisions\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidbelbin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}