{"id":8886,"date":"2019-05-30T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=8886"},"modified":"2019-05-30T14:07:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-30T20:07:35","slug":"genesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/?p=8886","title":{"rendered":"G\u00c1\u00a9nesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, that great prog rock band from the &#8217;70s, G\u00c1\u00a9nesis.\u00a0 You know the one, from Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Or were you thinking of Genesis from England?<\/p>\n<p>So was I when I first saw G\u00c1\u00a9nesis mentioned.\u00a0 It&#8217;s basically the same name.\u00a0 I found out about this band (the one from Colombia) when I read a joke someone made about their favourite Genesis album being Yakta Mama.\u00a0 So I had to look them up.\u00a0 I was intrigued, so I had to give them a listen.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m glad that I did because I really, really liked what I heard.\u00a0 Somebody has been kind enough to rip the vinyl and put it up on YouTube, so listen while you can before the dickhead asshats at YouTube take them all down:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UsTTHljtElc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1972 G\u00c1\u00a9nesis &#8211; Gene-Sis A-Dios<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jM2hVxQ_2QQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1974 G\u00c1\u00a9nesis &#8211; G\u00c1\u00a9nesis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YYLDmVlDKwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1975 G\u00c1\u00a9nesis &#8211; Yakta Mama<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vRHPRwzO5N4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1978 G\u00c1\u00a9nesis &#8211; Reuniom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rsC0_VOKDNo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1981 G\u00c1\u00a9nesis &#8211; El paso de Los Andes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aYcvYe25bYI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1982 G\u00c1\u00a9nesis &#8211; En un Planeta Lejano<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gnU0njW_zP4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1987 G\u00c1\u00a9nesis &#8211; Absolutamente Normal<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is all really good stuff, except for the last one which is kind of straightforward &#8217;80s pop.\u00a0 But all of it is blended with a touch of Colombian folk music, which gives it a really mellow vibe in spots.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t ask me what any of the lyrics are about, I don&#8217;t understand Spanish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, that great prog rock band from the &#8217;70s, G\u00c1\u00a9nesis.\u00a0 You know the one, from Colombia. Or were you thinking of Genesis from England? So was I when I first saw G\u00c1\u00a9nesis mentioned.\u00a0 It&#8217;s basically the same name.\u00a0 I found out about this band (the one from Colombia) when I read a joke someone made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[44,57],"class_list":["post-8886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-genesis","tag-progressive-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886","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=8886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8890,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions\/8890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gratuitousscience.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}