{"id":35266,"date":"2026-03-04T18:44:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35266"},"modified":"2026-03-04T18:44:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:44:34","slug":"no-that-cant-be-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35266","title":{"rendered":"No, That Can&#8217;t Be Right"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twitter tells me that Elbow&#8217;s <i>Build a Rocket Boys!<\/i> came out fifteen years ago today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On this day in 2011, elbow released \u2018Build A Rocket Boys!\u2019.<br><br>A record about growing up, memories, and the places and people that stay with you.<br><br>Do you have a favourite track? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XdSEpjDJu6\">pic.twitter.com\/XdSEpjDJu6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; elbow (@Elbow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Elbow\/status\/2029140238296072194?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Fifteen years!  That can&#8217;t be right!  Yeah, it was back during the Obama years&#8230; but fifteen?  <i>Fifteen!<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nah, time doesn&#8217;t work like that.  It can&#8217;t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never reviewed the album at the time, though I shared some thoughts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5654\">the first single<\/a>, then there was the disaster of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5727\">tour book<\/a> being left by the postman in the rain, and finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=6037\">seeing them on their North American tour in September<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never did go to the National Museum of Art with my niece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll put on <i>Build a Rocket Boys!<\/i> this evening.  I haven&#8217;t listened to it in full in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter tells me that Elbow&#8217;s Build a Rocket Boys! came out fifteen years ago today. Fifteen years! That can&#8217;t be right! Yeah, it was back during the Obama years&#8230; but fifteen? Fifteen! Nah, time doesn&#8217;t work like that. It can&#8217;t. I never reviewed the album at the time, though I shared some thoughts on the<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=35266\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;No, That Can&#8217;t Be Right&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[4117,5422],"class_list":["post-35266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-elbow","tag-manchester","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}