{"id":52,"date":"2006-06-30T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2006\/06\/30\/friday-random-ten-june-30\/"},"modified":"2006-06-30T12:49:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T12:49:00","slug":"friday-random-ten-june-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2006\/06\/30\/friday-random-ten-june-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, June 30"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of the week again, when I bore you with my bizzare taste in music. Quite an eclectic mix this week.<\/p>\n

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  1. Spock’s Beard, “Thoughts”<\/b>. A track from an oldish Spock’s Beard album. SB is an American neoprog band, which sounds something like a blend of old Genesis, Kansas, and Rush. Very good band. This isn’t my favorite of their albums (that would be “V”).\n
  2. Gentle Giant, “Way of Life”<\/b>. A classic song off of a classic album.\n
  3. Whirligig, “Mister Fox”<\/b>. An interesting little ballad by a wonderful NYC based Irish band.\n
  4. Peter Gabriel, “San Jacinto”<\/b>. Peter Gabriel at his absolute best. He’s never done anything to match the “Security” album, and this is one of my favorite tracks off of there. Starts off mellow and kind of mysterious sounding, and gradually builds, and then fades.\n
  5. The Clogs, “Lady Go”<\/b>. A track with vocals from one of those “post-rock ensembles” that I love so much. Very strange sounding; partly a capella falsetto; lots of dark rythmic stiff in other parts.\n
  6. Broadside Electric, “Tam Lin”<\/b>. The old traditional ballad performed by a really cool local electric folk band. (And one of the members of the band is actually a math professor at Suny Stonybrook! But she hadn’t joined yet on this album.)\n
  7. Mel Brooks & broadway cast of “The Producers”, “Springtime for Hitler”<\/b>. The original producers is one of my all-time favorite comedy movies. I still haven’t managed to get in to see the show. But the soundtrack is absolutely brilliant.\n
  8. Psychograss, “Looks like a Duck”<\/b>. Psychograss is a thoroughly amazing band: Tony Trischka, David Grier, Mike Marshall, Darol Anger, and Todd Phillips. They’re mostly bluegrass, but with various strange influences mixed in. This track has some of the most subtly amazing banjo playing you’ll ever hear, not to mention a knockout fiddle bit at the end.\n
  9. John Corigliano (performed by Stanley Drucker), “Clarinet Concerto, movement ii: Antiphonal Toccata”<\/b>. I’m actually a classically trained clarinetist. I used to think that I didn’t like Stan Drucker’s playing. Then I heard this. I’ve since learned that while his performances of some of the old classical standards for Clarinet (Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, the Weber concertos, etc.) are rather uninspired, he is utterly magnificent when it comes to modern music. He clearly loves playing the newer stuff, and it shows. This is also the most technically challenging piece for Clarinet that I’ve ever heard.\n
  10. Vasen, “Sluken”<\/b>. Vasen is a Swedish folk band. The lead player plays a peculiar instrument called the Nyckelharpa<\/a> – it’s a violin with a keyboard. They’re a great band, especially if you get to see them live.\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It’s that time of the week again, when I bore you with my bizzare taste in music. Quite an eclectic mix this week. Spock’s Beard, “Thoughts”. A track from an oldish Spock’s Beard album. SB is an American neoprog band, which sounds something like a blend of old Genesis, Kansas, and Rush. Very good band. […]<\/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":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chatter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","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=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}