{"id":5470,"date":"2023-06-01T08:51:43","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T08:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2023-06-01T08:51:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T08:51:43","slug":"single-review-war-baby-tom-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/2023\/06\/01\/single-review-war-baby-tom-robinson\/","title":{"rendered":"Single Review: &#8220;War Baby&#8221; &#8211; Tom Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: War Baby\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/track\/5ZE8vHhw52QV6G2z8T3KdY?si=lVf8Wa0xTiyZgB16FVfccQ&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"744\" height=\"735\" src=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3045.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3045.jpg 744w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3045-300x296.jpg 300w, https:\/\/platinummind.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/IMG_3045-61x60.jpg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>As it\u2019s Tom\u2019s birthday today I decided to review one of his biggest hits.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This song has so much soul, mixing jazzy rhythms with a beautiful Rhodes piano and a saxophone solo &#8211; oh don\u2019t forget the crunchy guitars\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I got introduced to this song quite late in life, as I was discussing Fresh On The Net with an artist I\u2019d just met &#8211; something I invariably do, to help them understand the need to get their music heard, and when I mentioned Tom\u2019s name they lit up and said oh yeah, he wrote \u201cWar Baby\u201d, and sang me a bit of the chorus.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I had to search this song out.<\/p>\n<p>I was rewarded with a song that was so gorgeous, especially in the chorus, which we will come back to but let\u2019s break it down first\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The track starts off with the drums, kick, snare toms played with mallets. The saxophone comes in wailing mournfully, for the 80s this could sit comfortably next to \u201cCareless Whisper\u201d for its sheer simplicity. Everything comes in at 0:05 the bass playing triplets, over a simple progression, and there\u2019s an acoustic and electric guitar keeping the rhythm and fleshing out that progression. In the chorus you have a tambourine coming in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Now this is where it got me:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWar Baby &#8211; you were a<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>War Baby &#8211; this means<\/p>\n<p>War Baby &#8211; I\u2019m scared, so scared,<\/p>\n<p>Of whatever it is you\u2019re putting me through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The soulfulness of this part of the song is just perfect.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I could say so much about this song, and the time in which it was written in &#8211; pre collapse of the Berlin Wall Germany &#8211; where according to Wikipedia Tom wrote the song, and there are so many images that could be accorded with it, in fact the video for it is available on YouTube. Definitely worth checking out.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday Tom.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for all you do.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it\u2019s Tom\u2019s birthday today I decided to review one of his biggest hits.\u00a0 This song has so much soul, mixing jazzy rhythms with a beautiful Rhodes piano and a saxophone solo &#8211; oh don\u2019t forget the crunchy guitars\u2026 I got introduced to this song quite late in life, as I was discussing Fresh On &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5471,"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":[42,118,181,129,52,31,143,30,142,177,187,73,150,162,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-band","category-bass","category-blues","category-drums","category-guitar","category-keyboards","category-london","category-music","category-producer","category-rock","category-saxophone","category-singer-songwriter","category-songwriter","category-uk","category-vocals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5472,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions\/5472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/platinummind.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}