{"id":793,"date":"2009-07-31T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T16:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2009\/07\/31\/friday-random-ten-july-31\/"},"modified":"2009-07-31T16:52:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T16:52:27","slug":"friday-random-ten-july-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/31\/friday-random-ten-july-31\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, July 31"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Russian Circles, “Youngblood”<\/b>: post rock, in the Mogwai style. Very nice stuff. Not the
    \nmost exciting PR band around, but good.<\/li>\n
  2. The Flower Kings, “World Without a Heart”<\/b>: typical FK. Since I pretty much worship the ground
    \nthat Roine Stolte walks on, you can guess what I think of this.<\/li>\n
  3. Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, “Transit”<\/b>: would you believe sort-of progressive
    \nbig-band jazz? That’s pretty much how I’d describe this. Big band jazz is not my usual cup of tea, but
    \nthis is damned impressive, and a good solid listen. Definitely very cool stuff.<\/li>\n
  4. Naftule’s Dream, “Yid in Seattle”<\/b>: Naftule’s Dream is an alternate name for a wonderful
    \nKlezmer group called Shirim. When they’re doing weird stuff, they record as ND; when they’re doing
    \ntraditional, they record as Shirim. ND is klezmer the way that John Zorn and his radical jewish
    \nculture guys play it. Wild stuff. Brilliant.<\/li>\n
  5. Sonic Youth, “Leaky Lifeboat (for Gregory Corso)”<\/b>: a track from the newest Sonic Youth
    \nalbum. This actually sounds more like older SY. In general, they’ve mellowed a bit over
    \ntime; in particular, they’re last album had fewer rough edges. This one keeps the smooth
    \nproduction, but brings the edge back to the sound. SY just keeps getting better.<\/li>\n
  6. The Tangent, “The Ethernet”<\/b>: the Tangent started out as a collaboration between
    \nRoine Stolte of the Flower Kings, and Andy Tillison of Parallel or 90 Degrees. Stolte eventually
    \nquit, leaving Tillison running the band. It’s completely replaced Po90D as Tillison’s main band.
    \nIt’s not quite up there with tFK, but it’s damned good.<\/li>\n
  7. Keith Emerson Band, “Prelude to Hope”<\/b>: This is an astonishing track. It’s Keith Emerson
    \nplaying something beautiful and subtle<\/em>. I’m a big Emerson fan. He’s a brilliant pianist.
    \nI love his style, and I usually love his compositions. But my opinion of him in the past was that
    \nif anyone were to suggest that perhaps he should try being a bit more subtle, he’d
    \nbe likely to bash their head in with a sledgehammer, put the body through a wood chipper,
    \ncollect up the bits and burn them to ashes, and then piss on the ashes – just to make sure
    \nthat he made his point clear. And yet… This is a beautiful, subtle piece of playing, from
    \na frankly terrific album.<\/li>\n
  8. Echolyn, “Lovesick Morning”<\/b>: Echolyn is one of my favorite recent discoveries. They’re
    \nnot exactly a new band – they formed in the early 90s, broke up in 95, and then reformed
    \na couple of years later. But they’re a thoroughly excellent neo-progressive band, with a very
    \ndistinct sound. They don’t sound like they’re trying to be Genesis, or the Flower Kings, or Yes… They
    \nsound like nothing but themselves. <\/li>\n
  9. Frank Zappa, “Drowning Witch”<\/b>: Typical Zappa. Very strange, wonderfully erratic
    \nbut great music, and incredibly silly lyrics delivered in that strange Zappa style.<\/li>\n
  10. Dream Theater, “Wither”<\/b>: Dream Theater’s newest. DT is a great progressive
    \nmetal band. Their last few albums were a bit uninspired in my opinion. This one is really
    \nquite good. Unfortunately, this is one of the weaker songs on the album. Not bad, but not
    \nexactly what I’d choose to try to turn someone on to Dream Theater.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Russian Circles, “Youngblood”: post rock, in the Mogwai style. Very nice stuff. Not the most exciting PR band around, but good. The Flower Kings, “World Without a Heart”: typical FK. Since I pretty much worship the ground that Roine Stolte walks on, you can guess what I think of this. Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, […]<\/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-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-cN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}