{"id":1547,"date":"2010-08-24T21:24:37","date_gmt":"2010-08-25T03:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2010-09-06T18:26:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:26:20","slug":"song-of-the-day-radio-by-supersister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=1547","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “Radio” by Supersister"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I’ve listened to some of that thar Supersister I bought.\u00a0 And before I progress… that’s a slight pun there… I’ll emphatically state that this is NOT the prefabricated British pop girl group from a couple years ago.\u00a0 No, this is Robotman’s blog, dawgonnit, and I’m a gonna blabber on about obscure progressive rock groups from the early 70s until your fucking eyes bleed.<\/p>\n

This song<\/a> is from Supersister’s 3rd album, 1972’s “Pudding en Gesteren”.\u00a0 Translated from Dutch, that means “Pudding and Yesterday”.\u00a0 The remastered CDs I bought all came with nicely presented liner notes with essays written about the band’s history and the stories behind the album.\u00a0 I haven’t read them yet, but I have looked at the pictures.\u00a0 There’s a naked redhead chick on one of their album covers.\u00a0 20 years ago, that would have blown my fucking mind.\u00a0 These days… meh.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this album is a “concept album”, and as far as I can tell, it was written as music to be performed as an actual ballet… with.. you know… like actual ballet dancers prancing around on a stage and stuff.<\/p>\n

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\nYep, JUST like that.<\/p>\n

And this song gives a good idea of what Supersister did.\u00a0 You have your nice melodic tuneful part, some menacing and powerful parts, and a bit of tongue in cheek throughout.<\/p>\n

I haven’t listened much, but already I’m quite glad I bought these albums.\u00a0 Good stuff.\u00a0 I will have to read those liner notes to find out just what all this business about pudding is with these guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, so I’ve listened to some of that thar Supersister I bought.\u00a0 And before I progress… that’s a slight pun there… I’ll emphatically state that this is NOT the prefabricated British pop girl group from a couple years ago.\u00a0 No, this is Robotman’s blog, dawgonnit, and I’m a gonna blabber on about obscure progressive rock […]<\/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":[101,57,377],"class_list":["post-1547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-song-of-the-day","tag-70s","tag-progressive-rock","tag-supersister"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","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=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}