{"id":3885,"date":"2012-03-20T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=3885"},"modified":"2012-03-20T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:56:06","slug":"tony-sly-sad-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2012\/03\/20\/tony-sly-sad-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Sly \u2013 Sad Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3886\" href=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/2012\/03\/20\/tony-sly-%e2%80%93-sad-bear\/sadbearcover_450-300x300\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3886\" title=\"sadbearcover_450-300x300\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sadbearcover_450-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div><span id=\"internal-source-marker_0.06436093989759684\"><br \/>\nThis second solo release from Tony Sly \u2013 former front-man of \u201990s whiny-punk-heroes <a href=\"http:\/\/nouseforanamemusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">No Use For A Name <\/a>\u2013 is for the most part a painful way to spend 30-odd minutes of your life.<!--more--> Tunes like \u201cTherapy,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LbuReUXGJMg\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDiscomfort Inn,\u201d<\/a> and \u201cIn The End\u201d are nauseating at best, though a couple of the tracks, like the opening <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MzPs-8hCU-o\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cDark Corner\u201d<\/a> and \u201cBurgies, Basics and You,\u201d almost save the disc from being a complete wash. Following the current trend of punk rock front men \u2013 see Frank Turner, Chuck Ragan, and Tim Barry for good examples \u2013 going all solo and working-class hero, Sly\u2019s effort here leans heavily towards themes explored during his time during No Use: personal trials and tribulations of the suburban white male at the end of the American Empire. If you can still stomach No Use\u2019s output after all these years, you\u2019ll probably enjoy this platter, appropriately titled <em>Sad Bear<\/em>. If you\u2019re like me, though, and you skipped through their tunes on any of the first four Fat comps to get to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lfn3DOBiJr0\" target=\"_blank\">Propagandhi<\/a> or Sick of It All tracks, you\u2019ll probably fucking hate this album. (Fat Wreck Chords, <a href=\"http:\/\/fatwreck.com\" target=\"_blank\">fatwreck.com<\/a>) <strong>Sheldon Birnie<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This second solo release from Tony Sly \u2013 former front-man of \u201990s whiny-punk-heroes No Use For A Name \u2013 is for the most part a painful way to spend 30-odd minutes of your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24,337,766],"class_list":["post-3885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-acoustic","tag-fat-wreck-chords","tag-punk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}