{"id":798,"date":"2009-08-14T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2009-08-14T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2009\/08\/14\/friday-random-ten-august-14\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T16:41:30","slug":"friday-random-ten-august-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/14\/friday-random-ten-august-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, August 14"},"content":{"rendered":"
    \n
  1. Peter Hamill, “The Unconscious Life”<\/b>: A track from an amazing live
    \nperformance. In general, I’m not a big fan of live recordings – you really need
    \nto be there<\/em> for a live performance. There’s a dynamic between the performer
    \nand the audience in live music, and in a recording, you’re listening to it from
    \nthe outside – so you can feel that there’s something missing. This recording has an
    \nintensity, an intimacy, which is extraordinary. And it’s a great song, too.<\/li>\n
  2. Valley of the Giants, “Whaling Tale”<\/b>: Valley of the Giants has taken its
    \nplace as my favorite post-rock band – surpassing even “Godspeed You Black Emperor!”.
    \nThis track is very godspeed-like, but it manages to carry it out better than
    \neven Godspeed would have.<\/li>\n
  3. Black Math Horseman, “Deerslayer”<\/b>: This is a hard group to describe.
    \nIt’s sort of like a cross between Mogwai, Sonic Youth, and King Crimson. They’re not really post-rock, and they’re not really prog rock, but they’ve got elements of both. They’ve got a really great sound. I haven’t listened to them enough to get a really
    \ngood feel, but they’re definitely worth a listen.<\/li>\n
  4. The Flower Kings, “The Rainmaker”<\/b>: What can I say about the Flower Kings
    \nthat I haven’t said before?<\/li>\n
  5. Marillion, “The Only Unforgivable Thing”<\/b>: a vaguely poppy track from
    \nMarillion’s second-best album. It’s slow, with the feel and structure
    \nof a pop ballad, but the lyrics are very un-ballad-like, and it’s got a ton
    \nof subtle complexity. Classic Marillion.<\/li>\n
  6. Riverside, “Cybernetic Pillow”<\/b>: I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned
    \nRiverside before. They’re a really fantastic neo-progressive band from
    \nPoland that I discovered lately. They’re really remarkable – they’ve got
    \nan amazing sound, which is very distinct from anything else. Most neo-prog
    \nbands, you can listen to, and say their main inspiration is Genesis, or Yes,
    \nor Pink Floyd, or whatever. With Riverside, I can’t do that. They sound like
    \nthemselves, and nothing else. I’ve embedded a Youtube live video of this
    \nsong below.<\/li>\n
  7. Gong, “Damaged Man”<\/b>: A very typical Gong track, if there is such a thing.<\/li>\n
  8. Porcupine Tree, “Sentimental”<\/b><\/li>\n
  9. Rush, “Red Lenses”<\/b>: a nice old classic Rush track.<\/li>\n
  10. The Reasoning, “Shadows of the Mind”<\/b>: another recent discovery for me;
    \nThe Reasoning is a decent neo-prog band. They’re not great, but they’re good,
    \nand they do some terrific multipart vocal harmony.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Peter Hamill, “The Unconscious Life”: A track from an amazing live performance. In general, I’m not a big fan of live recordings – you really need to be there for a live performance. There’s a dynamic between the performer and the audience in live music, and in a recording, you’re listening to it from the […]<\/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-798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-cS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798","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=798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}