{"id":528,"date":"2007-10-12T14:35:46","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2007\/10\/12\/friday-random-ten-3\/"},"modified":"2007-10-12T14:35:46","modified_gmt":"2007-10-12T14:35:46","slug":"friday-random-ten-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/12\/friday-random-ten-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the slow posting this week, but work has been a bit intense, and I’ve also had some
\nfamily matters to take care of, which have left me with very little blogging time. Hopefully things will
\nbe a bit less insane next week. In the meantime, here’s a random bunch of weird music I’ve been listening to.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. The Mars Volta, “This Apparatus Must Be Unearthed”<\/b>: the Mars Volta is a neo-progressive band I recently discovered. They’re on the dark and noisy side. The best description I can give is that they sound sort of like what you’d get if you mixed King Crimson and Dream Theater, and then fed them too much caffeine.<\/li>\n
  2. Spock’s Beard, “Onomatapea”<\/b>: a track from the first SB album after the original bandleader left. The album as a whole is kind of hit-or-miss; this song is one of the really good ones.<\/li>\n
  3. John Corigliano, “Pianissimo Scherzo” from the Red Violin Concerto, performed by Joshua Bell<\/b>: if you like semi-atonal modern classical music – which I do – this is simply spectacular; one of the finest new compositions I’ve heard in years, performed with elegance by one of the most amazing violinists in the world.<\/li>\n
  4. Lunasa, “Mi Na Samhna”<\/b>: a beautiful Uillean pipe-led traditional Irish lament.<\/li>\n
  5. The Redneck Manifesto, “Who Knows?”<\/b>: great post-rock in the same stylistic vein as Mogwai.<\/li>\n
  6. Sonic Youth, “Titanium Expose”<\/b>: Old Sonic Youth. Noisy, strange tonality, crazy guitar playing. Brilliant.<\/li>\n
  7. Elizabeth and the Catapult, “Waiting for the Kill”<\/b>: a song by a NYC band. I’m not sure how
    \nto classify; jazzy folk-rock maybe? They’re a great band.<\/li>\n
  8. Rush, “Malignant Narcissism”<\/b>: great instrumental track by Rush.<\/li>\n
  9. Porcupine Tree, “Fear of a Blank Planet”<\/b>: the title track from Porcupine Tree’s brilliant latest album. If you like neo-progressive rock at all, this album is a must-have.<\/li>\n
  10. A Silver Mt. Zion, “Goodbye Desolate Railyard”<\/b>: a track off of another Silver Mt. Zion album that I just got. The album is “This is our punk-rock, thee rusted satellites gather+sing”. It’s my favorite of the ASMZ albums that I’ve heard, which is saying a lot. This isn’t my favorite track, mostly
    \nbecause I don’t care for the voice of the lead-singer. But a mediocre track by ASMZ would be a
    \nspectacular one by almost anyone else.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sorry for the slow posting this week, but work has been a bit intense, and I’ve also had some family matters to take care of, which have left me with very little blogging time. Hopefully things will be a bit less insane next week. In the meantime, here’s a random bunch of weird music I’ve […]<\/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-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-8w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}