{"id":714,"date":"2008-12-12T17:41:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T17:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2008\/12\/12\/friday-random-ten-6\/"},"modified":"2008-12-12T17:41:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-12T17:41:37","slug":"friday-random-ten-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/12\/friday-random-ten-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Elizabeth and the Catapult, “Golden Ink”<\/b>: a mellow track from a very
    \ngood NY area band. This really isn’t one of my favorites of their songs. It’s rather on the dull side.<\/li>\n
  2. Miles Davis, “Ray’s Idea”<\/b>: Miles is one of the great geniuses of the 20th century. What more need be said?<\/li>\n
  3. Do Make Say Think, “Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!”<\/b>: DMSY is one of the very
    \nbest post-rock ensembles you’ll find. They’re another group that overlaps with
    \nGodspeed You Black Emperor, and they approach the brilliance that is Godspeed.
    \nThis is a nice mellow track, with some lovely steel guitar playing.<\/li>\n
  4. The Tangent, “Photosynthesis”<\/b>: great neo-progressive stuff. This band started off as a collaboration between Roine Stolte of the Flower Kings and
    \nAndy Tillson. This is off the first Tangent album after Stolte and Tillson had a falling out. The band still features some members of tFK, but the writing is now
    \npretty much all Tillson. They’re an excellent band, but I did prefer their sound with Stolte.<\/li>\n
  5. Marillion, “Splintering Heart”<\/b>: the best track off of a frankly lousy
    \nMarillion album. <\/li>\n
  6. Gogol Bordello, “Not a Crime”<\/b>: Gypsy punk rock, with brilliant fiddle
    \nplaying. What could be cooler than that?<\/li>\n
  7. Mel Brooks, “Springtime for Hitler”<\/b>: A song from one of the most brilliantly offensive shows of all time. The original movie remains one of my very favorite movies. Come on, how can you not love the blue blankie? Or Mel Brooks stepping out of a dance line to sing “Don’t be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the nazi party?”<\/li>\n
  8. Marillion, “Throw Me Out”<\/b>: something off of Marillion’s new double album. I love<\/em> this album. It’s the best thing from Marillion in ages. I can’t stop listening to it. This<\/em> is why I love Marillion. Brilliant songwriting, amazing technical performances, music loaded with feeling, and those astonishingly wonderful Marillion transitions. Even a short little song like this manages to be just
    \nbrilliant, with so many little treasures hidden in it.<\/li>\n
  9. Pink Floyd, “The Dogs of War”<\/b>: It’s a damn shame that David Gilmour got control of the Pink Floyd name, and chose te release so much crap under it. He’s a wonderful guitarist, but frankly, he’s a pretty rotten songwriter. All of his compositions have this dull droning quality to them. This is typical. There’s some nice guitar work in the live version, but the song itself is just dreck.<\/li>\n
  10. Happy the Man, “Maui Sunset”<\/b>: I was delighted when I heard Happy the Man was getting back together. I wasn’t so delighted once I heard what they did. It’s got all of the technical qualities of good progressive rock: complex melodies and harmonies, interesting chord progressions, complex and irregular rythyms. But it’s cold<\/em>. It sounds like music performed by a computer. There’s not a trace of humanity to it. Technically brilliant, but ultimately remarkably dull.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Elizabeth and the Catapult, “Golden Ink”: a mellow track from a very good NY area band. This really isn’t one of my favorites of their songs. It’s rather on the dull side. Miles Davis, “Ray’s Idea”: Miles is one of the great geniuses of the 20th century. What more need be said? Do Make Say […]<\/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-714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-bw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714","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=714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}