{"id":415,"date":"2010-02-24T19:56:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T02:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=415"},"modified":"2010-02-24T20:00:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T03:00:04","slug":"song-of-the-day-the-wonderful-future-by-our-lady-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=415","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Day – “The Wonderful Future” by Our Lady Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just went hunting in Rhythmbox for a song to yap about, because the one that I heard on my way home is a little to long for a “Song of the Day” post.\u00a0 That song, over 47 minutes long, is actually an entire album played live.\u00a0 The band is Camel, and the album is Harbour of Tears<\/a>, from 1996.\u00a0 Camel had a habit of recording concept albums and then playing them in their entirety live while on tour.<\/p>\n

It’s a very thought-provoking album. It gets me thinking every time I listen to it. It’s about Irish immigrants to the U.S. during the late 1800s.\u00a0 I’ll probably review the album properly (yeah right!) when I get around to that, so I’ll leave it there.<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, as I got home my iPod had started playing “Pictures at an Exhibition” by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.\u00a0 Speaking of long songs that are really whole albums, you know.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the song I found<\/a> to yap about today fits in with yesterday’s song.\u00a0 It’s called “The Wonderful Future” and it’s by a Canadian band called Our Lady Peace.\u00a0 This song has a verse that just happens to be about a female android.\u00a0 Observe!<\/p>\n

She builds a strong alibi
\nFrom the future that’s here
\nShe needs to know I’m alive
\nAnd that I’m flesh and I tear<\/em><\/p>\n

Maybe she’s wrong
\nBut I won’t mind my own
\nWhat do I know?
\nAnd their silicone
\nWith a touch of her soul
\nWhat do I know?<\/em><\/p>\n

She’s beautiful and wonderful
\nI can’t compare
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

Those lyrics might be off a bit… but you get the idea.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty sure it’s about a female android, anyway.\u00a0 The song, like the album, was inspired by Ray Kurzweil’s book “The Age of Spiritual Machines<\/a>“.\u00a0 To those reading this who are fans of female androids… nuff said.<\/p>\n

Here are some gratuitous images of beautiful female androids:<\/p>\n

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SCIENCE!<\/p>\n

I hope the future is as beautiful as I imagine it to be.<\/p>\n

If you’re digging the song, and you want to hear some more Our Lady Peace, just get their first 4 albums.\u00a0 After this one, they ditched their producer, the guitarist left, and they stopped using the old dude with blue eyes for their album covers.\u00a0 They wanted to get played on U.S. radio after this… so they started to suck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just went hunting in Rhythmbox for a song to yap about, because the one that I heard on my way home is a little to long for a “Song of the Day” post.\u00a0 That song, over 47 minutes long, is actually an entire album played live.\u00a0 The band is Camel, and the album is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,111,12],"tags":[80,21,204,558,202,203],"class_list":["post-415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asfr","category-dreams","category-song-of-the-day","tag-90s","tag-camel","tag-elp","tag-fembots","tag-our-lady-peace","tag-the-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":421,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415\/revisions\/421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}