{"id":495,"date":"2007-05-23T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=495"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:26:27","slug":"whats-on-top-of-the-pile-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/05\/whats-on-top-of-the-pile-3.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s on top of the pile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Karlheinz Stockhausen, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Michaels Reise (Solisten-Version)<\/span><\/span> (Markus Stockhausen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Simon Stockhausen etc etc)<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s funny how as <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/03\/stockhausen-sirius-and-self-belief.html\">Stockhausen&#8217;s<\/a> messianic tendencies became more evident, his music got less hard-nosed and abstruse, more relaxed, even folksy enough at times to drop corny jokes.  It would seem that Stockhausen is a benevolent god. Perhaps the music gets a little too comfortable with itself sometimes, but it&#8217;s nice to hear old-school modernists mellow out a little.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s funnier still how when he&#8217;s writing melodies for doubled horns, in irregular rhythms with odd little leaps all over the place, he sounds just like Frank Zappa.  Complete with wacky German muttering in the background.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sonic Youth, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Daydream Nation<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Does everyone have this experience? I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever stopped this record early, but I can&#8217;t remember anything after &#8220;Candle&#8221;. I&#8217;ll have to start this disc at track 10 and see if it exists. I&#8217;ve just noticed my ancient CD player is showing &#8220;Trilogy&#8221; is indexed. That&#8217;s so cute.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/05\/whats-on-top-of-pile_16.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">(More about the pile.) <\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karlheinz Stockhausen, Michaels Reise (Solisten-Version) (Markus Stockhausen, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Simon Stockhausen etc etc) It&#8217;s funny how as Stockhausen&#8217;s messianic tendencies became more evident, his music got less hard-nosed and abstruse, more relaxed, even folksy enough at times to drop corny jokes. It would seem that Stockhausen is a benevolent god. Perhaps the music gets a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2907,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/2907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}