{"id":1497,"date":"2010-08-20T20:14:53","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T02:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1497"},"modified":"2010-08-22T19:38:29","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T01:38:29","slug":"song-of-the-day-the-sound-of-the-atom-splitting-by-pet-shop-boys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1497","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “The Sound of the Atom Splitting” by Pet Shop Boys"},"content":{"rendered":"

What a delightful little ditty!<\/a><\/p>\n

This is about as experimental and “avant-garde” as this duo of gay dudes ever got.\u00a0 And I’ve never actually written “avant-garde” before.\u00a0 I had to look it up.\u00a0 And now I’ve gone and used it twice in quick succession.<\/p>\n

Can you dance to this?\u00a0 Would you want to?\u00a0 I’m not much of a dancer.\u00a0 Me dancing probably looks like this:<\/p>\n

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\nI can’t take credit for that animated gif.\u00a0 It doesn’t look animated on this blog, but if you click on it, you will see the glory.\u00a0 Check out this website for some funny stuff.<\/a><\/p>\n

Back to the song.\u00a0 I don’t have anything interesting to say about it, I just think it’s neat.\u00a0 Let’s make fun of Vanilla Ice some more.<\/p>\n

Here is Jim Carrey making fun of Vanilla Ice on In Living Color.<\/a><\/p>\n

GOD DAMN, what a funny man.\u00a0 And Jim Carrey was pretty funny too.<\/p>\n

So while we’re on the subject of electronically produced music, let’s talk about the Pet Shop Boys again.\u00a0 I bought a bunch more of their albums… and now I have them all.\u00a0 Still have to listen to the later ones because my ability to listen to music like this comes and goes.\u00a0 Now, I’m in the mood mainly to listen to 70s Progressive Rock.\u00a0 So I’m listening to all my Camel albums again.\u00a0 There’s something about the combination of guitar, bass, organ and drums that produced a great sound all its own.<\/p>\n

And most of the time, dance music just seems uninteresting to me.\u00a0 Unless it’s plain odd and weird, like this song.\u00a0 Which is cool.<\/p>\n

EDIT: What a surprise!\u00a0 WordPress can now handle animated GIFs!\u00a0 Welcome to the 1990s, WordPress!\u00a0 YO!\u00a0 V.I.P.!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What a delightful little ditty! This is about as experimental and “avant-garde” as this duo of gay dudes ever got.\u00a0 And I’ve never actually written “avant-garde” before.\u00a0 I had to look it up.\u00a0 And now I’ve gone and used it twice in quick succession. Can you dance to this?\u00a0 Would you want to?\u00a0 I’m not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[80,21,50,219,57],"class_list":["post-1497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-90s","tag-camel","tag-dance-music","tag-pet-shop-boys","tag-progressive-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1497"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1500,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497\/revisions\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}