{"id":189708,"date":"2026-06-14T05:59:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T10:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=189708"},"modified":"2026-06-14T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T13:52:36","slug":"tune-of-the-day-273","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tune-of-the-day-273\/","title":{"rendered":"Tune of the day #273"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"8. Sherpas On Parade\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RmbOWGs52_8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s surprisingly difficult to find videos of off-track music from 1980 to 2005, even when an album had a Roger Dean cover. That was before YouTube, but too recently for the recordings to be of antiquarian interest. Consequently there is very little available to represent such eccentric bands as Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and few of their earlier recordings are available there. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.progarchives.com\/artist.asp?id=850\" target=\"_blank\">BotM<\/a> is classified as &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.progarchives.com\/subgenre.asp?style=36\" target=\"_blank\">RIO\/Avant-Prog<\/a>&#8221; at Prog Archives. Unlike most artists in that classification, they are generally fairly pleasant and not difficult to listen to, though not remotely radio-friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s surprisingly difficult to find videos of off-track music from 1980 to 2005, even when an album had a Roger Dean cover. That was before YouTube, but too recently for the recordings to be of antiquarian interest. Consequently there is very little available to represent such eccentric bands as Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, and few &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/tune-of-the-day-273\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tune of the day #273&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,710],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-tune"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-NlO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189708"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189801,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189708\/revisions\/189801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}