{"id":494,"date":"2007-08-17T11:04:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T11:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2007\/08\/17\/friday-random-ten-2\/"},"modified":"2007-08-17T11:04:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-17T11:04:21","slug":"friday-random-ten-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/friday-random-ten-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Sonic Youth, “Or”<\/b>: Very smooth for SY. But great. They’re an amazing band.<\/li>\n
  2. The Flower Kings, “Blue Planet”<\/b>: A typical track from one of my favorite neo-progressive
    \nrock bands. For the Flower Kings, this is a short one at only 10 minutes.<\/li>\n
  3. The Clogs, “Lantern”<\/b>: once again, one of my favorite classical-leaning post-rock bands. Slow,
    \nbeautiful track, featuring steel drums and oboe, and even some light vocals. <\/li>\n
  4. Mariliion, “Fantastic Place”<\/b>: one of my least favorite tracks from an amazing Marillion
    \nalbum. Overall, the “Marbles” album was fantastic, but this track just leaves me cold.<\/li>\n
  5. Darol Anger’s Republic of Strings, “Higher Ground”<\/b>: quite a change from the last
    \ncouple. Very up-tempo jazzy string-ensemble cover of a Stevie Wonder tune.<\/li>\n
  6. The National, “Baby We’ll Be Fine”<\/b>: The National are the alter ego of the Clogs; they’ve got
    \nnearly the same personnel. But the National is a slightly country-ish alt-rock band. This track
    \nhas a great psuedo-minimalist melodic pulse under it. Very cool.<\/li>\n
  7. Naftule’s Dream, “Free Klez 1 & 2”<\/b>: what happens when a group of really talented klezmer
    \nmusicians try to an Ornette Coleman style free improv? Weird stuff.<\/li>\n
  8. Navan, “Thig an T-Eathor”<\/b>: very traditional a-capella Irish songs. Not what you’d probably
    \nexpect if you’re used to instrumental Irish; songs are a totally different form<\/li>\n
  9. Mark Knopfler, “Boom, Like That”<\/b>: The guitar wizard of Dire Straights has been doing mostly
    \nsolo work lately. This is a track from his latest solo album, about (of all people) Roy Kroc, founder
    \nof McDonalds. Good song, with a nice guitar hook.<\/li>\n
  10. Marillion, “Ocean Cloud”<\/b>: another track from Marillion’s “Marbles” album – this one is an
    \nexample of just why I like this album so much: it’s an 18 minute long opus, just terrific stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sonic Youth, “Or”: Very smooth for SY. But great. They’re an amazing band. The Flower Kings, “Blue Planet”: A typical track from one of my favorite neo-progressive rock bands. For the Flower Kings, this is a short one at only 10 minutes. The Clogs, “Lantern”: once again, one of my favorite classical-leaning post-rock bands. Slow, […]<\/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_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-7Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}