{"id":20210,"date":"2021-12-25T21:34:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-25T21:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/?page_id=20210"},"modified":"2021-12-25T21:36:15","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T21:36:15","slug":"1985-nme-reviews-foetus-of-excellence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/press\/interviews-and-reviews\/1985-nme-reviews-foetus-of-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"1985 NME Reviews Foetus of Excellence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOXING CLEVER<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/foetus.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/text\/FOE%20box%20NME%2021%20Sep%201985.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View original<\/a><br \/>\nPROOF THAT, where records are concerned, packaging has become far more important than the music, has now been confirmed by the release of Jim Foetus&#8217; The Foetus Of Excellence&#8217;, a Some Bizzare boxed-set that contains no records but merely a crest adorned T-shirt in a fetching shade of black.<\/p>\n<p>Playing the shirt on the resident Dansette, massed NME critic offered no judgment on the release&#8217;s musical value &#8211; though one was heard to claim that it was equal to Stiff&#8217;s memorable &#8216;Wit and Wisdom Of Ronald Reagan&#8217; though hi-fi freaks among the gathering were unanimous in there verdict that the sound quality was decidedly on the woolly side.<\/p>\n<p>If the box now charts &#8211; and it could qualify undr(sic) BPI regulations as long as no free album is attached as an added come-on-expect Phil Collin&#8217; &#8216;No Jacket Required&#8217; to be reissued as a parcel pullover, Spear Of Destiny&#8217;s &#8216;World Service&#8217; to appear as a leather bound copy of Radio Times and U2&#8217;s &#8216;Unforgettable Fire&#8217; to be refurbished as limited edition box of Bryant and Mays.<\/p>\n<p>Source: NME 21 September 1985, Author, Fred Dellar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOXING CLEVER View original PROOF THAT, where records are concerned, packaging has become far more important than the music, has now been confirmed by the release of Jim Foetus&#8217; The Foetus Of Excellence&#8217;, a Some Bizzare boxed-set that contains no records but merely a crest adorned T-shirt in a fetching shade of black. Playing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":210,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20212,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20210\/revisions\/20212"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foetus.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}