{"id":591,"date":"2008-02-01T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T17:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2008\/02\/01\/friday-random-ten-5\/"},"modified":"2008-02-01T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T17:04:50","slug":"friday-random-ten-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/friday-random-ten-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li><b>Metaphor, &#8220;Call Me Old and Uninspired or Maybe Even Lazy and Tired but Thirteen Bodies in my Backyard Say You&#8217;re Wrong&#8221;<\/b>: Very cool (if silly) track from one of the best neo-progressive bands I found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bitmunk.com\">Bitmunk<\/a>. I <em>love<\/em> Bitmunk.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Beatles, &#8220;Mean Mr. Mustard&#8221;<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>The Flower Kings, &#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Danceschool&#8221;<\/b>: Brilliant instrumental piece by<br \/>\nthe Flower Kings, built around an improv by a Trumpet fed through a synth bender.<\/li>\n<li><b>Do Make Say Think, &#8220;You, You&#8217;re Awesome&#8221;<\/b>: one of my favorite post-rock groups. Very typical of their sound.<\/li>\n<li><b>Tony Trischka Band, &#8220;Woodpecker&#8221;<\/b>: Tony used to be my banjo teacher. I also think he&#8217;s the best banjo player in the world today &#8211; better even that Bela Fleck (another of his students). Tony&#8217;s playing is more sophisticated than Bela&#8217;s. He&#8217;s done more to revolutionize Banjo playing than anyone since Earl Scruggs. This track has some really interactions &#8211; unisons, and call\/response type stuff between the sax and Tony&#8217;s banjo.<\/li>\n<li><b>The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band, &#8220;Take These Hands and Throw Them Into the River&#8221;<\/b>: Absolutely incredible music from A Silver Mt. Zion. This is, quite possibly, my favorite thing by them. Very intense, rather loud for ASMZ. Amazing piece of work.<\/li>\n<li><b>Glass Hammer, &#8220;Ember Without Name&#8221;<\/b>: Very long, very good track by an American neo-progressive band. When I first listened to this album, I was rather depressed &#8211; the first track is dull and repetitive. I was expecting it to follow in that pattern. This track blew me away. It&#8217;s not quite up there with the great prog bands, but it&#8217;s really good.<\/li>\n<li><b>Mandelbrot Set, &#8220;And the Rockets Red Glare&#8221;<\/b>: math-geek post-rock; what&#8217;s not to love?<\/li>\n<li><b>Boiled in Lead, &#8220;Rasputin&#8221;<\/b>: Very, very silly. This is a comedic song by an electric folk-rock band. It tells the story of Rasputin, set to music built form Russian<br \/>\nfolk song melodies. With lyrics like &#8220;Rah Rah Rasputin, Russia&#8217;s greatest love machine&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li><b>Sonic Youth, &#8220;Incinerate&#8221;<\/b>: a truly great track from Sonic Youth.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metaphor, &#8220;Call Me Old and Uninspired or Maybe Even Lazy and Tired but Thirteen Bodies in my Backyard Say You&#8217;re Wrong&#8221;: Very cool (if silly) track from one of the best neo-progressive bands I found via Bitmunk. I love Bitmunk. The Beatles, &#8220;Mean Mr. Mustard&#8221; The Flower Kings, &#8220;The Devil&#8217;s Danceschool&#8221;: Brilliant instrumental piece by [&hellip;]<\/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-591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-9x","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591","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=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}