{"id":760,"date":"2009-03-27T16:17:55","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T16:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2009\/03\/27\/friday-random-10-3272009\/"},"modified":"2009-03-27T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T16:17:55","slug":"friday-random-10-3272009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/27\/friday-random-10-3272009\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random 10, 3\/27\/2009"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The Flower Kings, “Retropolis By Night”<\/b>: Not one of the best things ever by
    \nthe Flower Kings, but Roine Stolt’s mediocre is other peoples’ brilliant.<\/li>\n
  2. Porcupine Tree, “Arriving Somewhere But Not Here”<\/b>: very typical longish PT. Very good.<\/li>\n
  3. Moxy Fruvous, “The King of Spain”<\/b>: incredibly silliness. Moxy is a Toronto-based group that does mostly comic songs, frequently a capella. It’s extremely funny and very fun – particularly if you see it live. Alas, Moxy went on what seems to be
    \npermanent hiatus a few years ago, after releasing an amazingly lackluster final album.<\/li>\n
  4. Genesis, “Mad Man Moon”<\/b>: Going back and listening to old Genesis is always amazing. Even a relatively mediocre old Genesis album is enough to remind me of just why
    \nGenesis is one of the major influences of pretty much all<\/em> modern prog.<\/li>\n
  5. Pallas, “The Last Angel”<\/b>: Pallas is a neo-progressive group that got started
    \naround the same time as Marillion. They’re OK, and they deserve more attention than
    \nthey got, but they’ve got nothing on Marillion.<\/li>\n
  6. Naftule’s Dream, “Black Wedding”<\/b>: progressive Klezmer, featuring an intro by
    \nan absolutely astonishingly great trombone player. Very cool stuff.<\/li>\n
  7. Yes, “Going for the One”<\/b>: the leadoff track from one of my favorite Yes albums. Why don’t more prog bands use pedal steel? It’s got such a great sound!<\/li>\n
  8. The Wishing Tree, “Fly”<\/b>: I wrote a longish opinion of the Wishing Tree last week. More listens haven’t changed my mind.<\/li>\n
  9. Sonic Youth, “Candle”<\/b>: This is classic Sonic Youth. If you like their sound and
    \nstyle, you’ll love it. If you don’t, you won’t.<\/li>\n
  10. Happy the Man, “Il Quinto Mare”<\/b>: Sometimes, a great band should just stay dead. Happy the Man was a brilliant act when they were originally together. Last year, they got
    \nback together and recorded a new album. I wish they hadn’t. It’s terribly dull. There’s
    \nnothing technically wrong with it – it’s got the same kinds of complex time\/chord
    \nstructures as old Happy the Man, but somehow it’s all just flat. There’s no emotion,
    \nno spirit, no energy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Flower Kings, “Retropolis By Night”: Not one of the best things ever by the Flower Kings, but Roine Stolt’s mediocre is other peoples’ brilliant. Porcupine Tree, “Arriving Somewhere But Not Here”: very typical longish PT. Very good. Moxy Fruvous, “The King of Spain”: incredibly silliness. Moxy is a Toronto-based group that does mostly comic […]<\/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-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-cg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","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=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}