{"id":518,"date":"2007-07-20T15:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-20T15:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=518"},"modified":"2010-01-02T23:23:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T23:23:04","slug":"whats-on-top-of-the-pile-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/07\/whats-on-top-of-the-pile-5.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s on top of the pile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Triffids, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In The Pines<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve just played this for the first time in years and it&#8217;s not as worthless as I remember it.  Superfluous, yes, but music needs superfluousness.  Maybe I&#8217;m just homesick.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Pierre Boulez: <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">R\u00e9pons, Dialogue de l&#8217;Ombre Double<\/span><\/span> (Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez, Alain Damiens)<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/brahms.ircam.fr\/compositeurs\/textes\/c00000011\/n00000300\/\">Musical institutions<\/a> are like the military, inasmuch as their use of technology is obsolete by the time it is implemented.  Imagine trying to get excited about Herbie Hancock using synths if he released <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/02\/continuing-intimations-of-senescence.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rockit<\/span><\/a> in 1998, and you pretty much have a shorthand experience of listening to <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">R\u00e9pons&#8217;<\/span> interactive electronics.  At least its gaucherie makes Boulez seem almost charmingly human for once.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s a coupon attached to the cover you could send off for a free CD containing a special headphone mix of the same disc.  Any of those left?<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2007\/06\/whats-on-top-of-pile-blind-item.html\">(More from the pile)<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Triffids, In The Pines I&#8217;ve just played this for the first time in years and it&#8217;s not as worthless as I remember it. Superfluous, yes, but music needs superfluousness. Maybe I&#8217;m just homesick. Pierre Boulez: R\u00e9pons, Dialogue de l&#8217;Ombre Double (Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez, Alain Damiens) Musical institutions are like the military, inasmuch as [&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\/518"}],"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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}