{"id":6862,"date":"2003-06-03T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-03T15:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/03\/6862\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T17:04:48","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T22:04:48","slug":"6862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/03\/6862\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;More Than Words&#8221; Is Different From &#8220;More Than Words Can Say&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All right, for the last time, let&#8217;s get this straight.  Although it&#8217;s easy to confuse them, <b>Extreme<\/b> did the song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsdomain.com\/lyrics\/9742\/\" target=\"new\">More Than Words<\/a>&#8220;, which does, in fact, differ from the <b>Alias<\/b> song &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesonglyrics.com\/a_artists\/lyrics\/alias_lyric1.html\" target=\"new\">More Than Words Can Say<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, anyone can confuse two sweet-sounding power ballads from late 80s hair bands.  And Alias and Extreme, or was it Extreme and Alias?  But remember, although Alias was truly a one-hit wonder, Extreme was a <b>two-hit wonder<\/b>.  They also charted with &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsdomain.com\/lyrics\/9750\/\" target=\"new\">Hole Hearted<\/a>&#8221; off of the same album (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000002GJ7\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000002GJ7&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=767862008d41caf9261390f272dab58f\" target=\"new\"><i>Extreme II: Pornograffitti<\/i><\/a>) and made a valiant attempt to follow that album up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000002G0P\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000002G0P&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=af75c8106a82155031ca0fa77ad96839\" target=\"new\"><i>III Sides to Every Story<\/i><\/a> (how clever!), but to no avail.  &#8220;Hole Hearted&#8221; is the better of their two hits, in my opinion.<\/p>\n<p>So keep it straight from now on.  I don&#8217;t want to have to discuss this with you again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All right, for the last time, let&#8217;s get this straight. Although it&#8217;s easy to confuse them, Extreme did the song &#8220;More Than Words&#8220;, which does, in fact, differ from the Alias song &#8220;More Than Words Can Say&#8220;. Of course, anyone can confuse two sweet-sounding power ballads from late 80s hair bands. And Alias and Extreme, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21217,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions\/21217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}