{"id":588,"date":"2008-01-25T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-25T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2008\/01\/25\/friday-random-ten-4\/"},"modified":"2008-01-25T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T15:24:53","slug":"friday-random-ten-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/25\/friday-random-ten-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor, “Antennas to Heaven”<\/b>: What can you really say about the greatest post-rock ensemble ever?<\/li>\n
  2. The Windmill, “Please Keep War Stories to a Minimum”<\/b>: a recent post-rock discovery of mine, via bitmunk. Excellent group.<\/li>\n
  3. Rachel’s, “An Evening of Long Goodbyes”<\/b>: Rachel’s is one of the more classical-leaning post-rock groups. They’re wonderful.<\/li>\n
  4. Peter Schickele, “Listen Here, Tyrannosaurus Rex”<\/b>: The discoverer of PDQ Bach, actually doing something really goofy in his own name. Fun, but silly.<\/li>\n
  5. The Flower Kings, “Man Overboard”<\/b>: The Flower Kings are, without the slightest doubt, one of the greatest, if not the<\/em> greatest of the neo-progressive bands, and they could give the best of the original proggers a run for their money. This track is part of their double-album “Unfold the Future.” It’s an interesting piece – it starts off as a
    \nwhat seems like a simple little ballad, but the chorus involves a bunch of wonderfully strange chords and time changes. Just brilliant. <\/li>\n
  6. The Redneck Manifesto, “Bring Your Own Blood”<\/b>: Another great post-rock band in,
    \nroughly speaking, the Mogwai vein. Another really great group – The Redneck Manifesto is one of my favorites. <\/li>\n
  7. Marillion, “Toxic”<\/b>: a live version of Marillion covering a Britney Spears song. Who knew that a Britney tune could be anything other than total trash? Still not exactly a brilliant piece of music, but it’s not garbage, either.<\/li>\n
  8. Apothecary Hymns, “The Marigold”<\/b>: A nifty track by a very hard to categorize
    \nband. They’re sort of vaguely like early Fairport Convention, but with a very modern instrumental sound. I first heard these guys on New York’s NPR station. They’re really good.<\/li>\n
  9. Mogwai, “I know you are but what am I?”<\/b>: Mogwai – among the best post-rock out there. Not enough good things that I can say about them. This track is an ethereal wonder.<\/li>\n
  10. Spock’s Beard, “Onomatapea”<\/b>: the first track off SBs first album after the
    \noriginally band leader found religion and quit. I know a lot of SB fans dislike this album, and particularly dislike this song, but I really don’t know why. It’s the first SB song I heard, and I still think it’s terrific – better than a lot of the older Morse-written stuff.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Godspeed You! Black Emperor, “Antennas to Heaven”: What can you really say about the greatest post-rock ensemble ever? The Windmill, “Please Keep War Stories to a Minimum”: a recent post-rock discovery of mine, via bitmunk. Excellent group. Rachel’s, “An Evening of Long Goodbyes”: Rachel’s is one of the more classical-leaning post-rock groups. They’re wonderful. Peter […]<\/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-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-9u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","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=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}