{"id":766,"date":"2010-01-16T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T15:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2016-03-16T15:25:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T15:25:02","slug":"thats-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/16\/thats-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the most visual songs I can recall. Listening to it or even just reading it always sends me to the place that Weller is describing. Very few songs can do that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That&#8217;s Entertainment<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Paul Weller\" title=\"Paul Weller\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul%20Weller\" rel=\"tag\">Paul Weller<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A police car and a screaming siren &#8211;<br \/>\nA pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete &#8211;<br \/>\nA baby wailing and stray dog howling &#8211;<br \/>\nThe screech of brakes and lamplights blinking &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>A smash of glass and the rumble of boots &#8211;<br \/>\nAn electric train and a ripped up &#8216;phone booth &#8211;<br \/>\nPaint splattered walls and the cry of a tom cat &#8211;<br \/>\nLights going out and a kick in the balls &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>Days of speed and slow time Mondays &#8211;<br \/>\nPissing down with rain on a boring Wednesday &#8211;<br \/>\nWatching the <a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newsledge.com\"><font color=\"#555555\">News Ledge<\/font><\/a> and not eating your tea &#8211;<br \/>\nA freezing cold flat and damp on the walls &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>Waking up at 6 a.m. on a cool warm morning &#8211;<br \/>\nOpening the windows and breathing in petrol &#8211;<br \/>\nAn amateur band rehearsing in a nearby yard &#8211;<br \/>\nWatching the tele and thinking about your holidays &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Waking up from bad dreams and smoking cigarettes &#8211;<br \/>\nCuddling a warm girl and smelling stale perfume &#8211;<br \/>\nA hot summers&#8217; day and sticky black tarmac &#8211;<br \/>\nFeeding ducks in the park and wishing you were faraway &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s entertainment. <\/p>\n<p>Two lovers kissing amongst the scream of midnight &#8211;<br \/>\nTwo lovers missing the tranquillity of solitude &#8211;<br \/>\nGetting a cab and travelling on buses &#8211;<br \/>\nReading the graffiti about slashed seat affairs &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s entertainment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Albums:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FSound-Affects-Jam%2Fdp%2FB000006TZB%2F&#038;tag=lyricsarepoet-21&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738\">Sound Affects<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=lyricsarepoet-21&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=2\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulweller.com\">Paul Weller Official Website<\/a><\/p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/wiki_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Wikipedia\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Paul Weller\" title=\"Paul Weller\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul%20Weller\">Paul Weller<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Jam\" title=\"The Jam\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The%20Jam\">The Jam<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-images\/technorati_small.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"15\" alt=\"Technorati\"\/><\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Lyrics\" title=\"Lyrics\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Lyrics\" rel=\"tag\" >Lyrics<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"The Jam\" title=\"The Jam\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/The%20Jam\" rel=\"tag\" >The Jam<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" alt=\"Paul Weller\" title=\"Paul Weller\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Paul%20Weller\" rel=\"tag\" >Paul Weller<\/a><br\/><!--46366311f333dcb6a19af25d31b8fa17--><!--4dcb79128483d2cc8946ee26107c4ab2--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2021\/02\/07\/the-storm-a-teen-and-a-musical-poem\/\" title=\"The Storm &#8211; 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Listening to it or even just reading it always sends me to the place that Weller is describing. Very few songs can do that. That&#8217;s Entertainment Paul Weller A police car and a screaming siren &#8211; A pneumatic drill and ripped up concrete &#8211; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/01\/16\/thats-entertainment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;That&#8217;s Entertainment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1,10,5],"tags":[228,154,153],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-lyrics","category-music","tag-lyrics","tag-paul-weller","tag-the-jam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwn4r-cm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6247,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.icemark.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}