{"id":854,"date":"2010-04-23T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2010\/04\/23\/friday-random-ten-4232010\/"},"modified":"2010-04-23T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:30:21","slug":"friday-random-ten-4232010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/23\/friday-random-ten-4232010\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, 4\/23\/2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Stellardrive, Inlandsix<\/b>: Reasonably good instrumental prog. They’re
    \nnot particularly exceptional, but they’re decent.<\/li>\n
  2. Gong, “The Octave Doctors and the Crystal Machine”<\/b>: Gong is a
    \nperfect example of one of the differences between the great prog bands,
    \nand a lot of the neo-progressive stuff. I can’t quite describe exactly what it
    \nis – but you listen to a band like Gong, and you never get bored. You can listen
    \nto it over, and over – and it’s always interesting. Even though the individual
    \nfeatures of the music are similar to what a lot of less brilliant bands do,
    \nthey manage to put them together in a different way. I can listen to a neo-prog
    \nband like Jadis or Frost once or twice a month; if I listen to them more than
    \nthat, they start to bug me. But I can listen to Gong twice a day, and never
    \nlose interest.<\/li>\n
  3. Parallel or 90 Degrees, “Backup”<\/b>: One of the really great neo-progressives.
    \nPo90 is Andy Tillison’s other band, and they are brilliant. Not as brilliant as
    \ngroups like Gong, but pretty damned amazing.<\/li>\n
  4. Jadis, “All You’ve Ever Known”<\/b>: Here’s exactly what I’m talking about.
    \nThe beginning of this Jadis track is actually sort-of like the Gong track above.
    \nBut somehow, it’s dull<\/em> when Jadis does it. Listening to them right after
    \nGong and Po90, they frankly sound terrible. I really like Jadis, but they can’t
    \nhold a candle to the prog greats.<\/li>\n
  5. And So I Watch You From Afar, “If it Ain’t Broke, Break It”<\/b>: Really good
    \npost-rock. ASIWYFA is on the louder end of post-rock, and they’re really good
    \nat it. They’re one of my most recent post-rock discoveries, after being recommended
    \nto me by a reader of the blog, and I’m really enjoying them.<\/li>\n
  6. Genesis, “Your Own Special Way”<\/b>: And now, my favorite band of all time.
    \nI love Genesis. Even after Peter Gabriel left, they still wrote some of the
    \nbest prog rock of all time. There’s a reason why so many neo-prog bands were
    \ninspired by them. Even when they’re doing a song like this, which is basically a silly sappy ballad,
    \nthey make it into something really special.<\/li>\n
  7. Jacob Hoffman with Kandel’s Orchestra, “Doina and Hora”<\/b>: an incredibly old
    \nrecording of traditional klezmer, led by probably the greatest Klezmer xylophone player
    \never. If you have any appreciation for Klezmer, this will absolutely knock your
    \nsocks off. <\/li>\n
  8. The Flower Kings, “Soul Vortex”<\/b>: Ah, the Flower Kings. The only
    \nneo-progressive band that I’ve found that’s really as good as the original
    \nprog guys. Whatever that elusive “it” that the great bands had that made them
    \nendlessly listenable was, Roine Stolt and the Flower Kings have it.<\/li>\n
  9. Transatlantic, “The Return of the Giant Hogweed”<\/b>: On their latest album,
    \nTranslatlantic added a disk of covers of their influences. Naturally, no
    \ngroup made up of members of the best neo-progressive bands could possibly
    \nnot<\/em> include a classic Genesis track. It’s a very faithful cover, and
    \nit works really well.<\/li>\n
  10. Marillion, “Forgotten Sons”<\/b>: An old favorite of mine: one of the
    \nlesser known tracks from Marillion’s very first full album. From the
    \nvery start, Marillion was really something special.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Stellardrive, Inlandsix: Reasonably good instrumental prog. They’re not particularly exceptional, but they’re decent. Gong, “The Octave Doctors and the Crystal Machine”: Gong is a perfect example of one of the differences between the great prog bands, and a lot of the neo-progressive stuff. I can’t quite describe exactly what it is – but you listen […]<\/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-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-dM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","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=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}