It was March when I last updated you, gentle reader, as to my musical purchases and checked to see how balanced they were between heavy metal and jazz songbirds.
I’ve been a little naughty in buying CDs here recently, so I thought I’d go back through time to see how I’m doing.
In the last six months, I’ve purchased:
- True Love by Jessy J
- Second Chances by Jessy J
- Rewind, Replay, Rebound by Volbeat
- Cherry Blossom by Keiko Matsui
- A Drop of Water by Keiko Matsui
- Another Place by Hiroshima (I already own it on vinyl, but want it available when I am not at a working record player.)
- Meliora by Ghost
- Crossfade by Crossfade
- All I See Is War by Sevendust
- Storyteller by Morgan James
- Hunter by Morgan James
- We’ve Only Just Begun by Ashley Pezzotti
- Core by Stone Temple Pilots
- No. 4 by Stone Temple Pilots
- The Purple Album by Stone Temple Pilots
- Shangri-La Dee Dah by Stone Temple Pilots
- Tiny Music…. by Stone Temple Pilots
- Storyteller by Tine Thing Helseth
In my defense, the Stone Temple Pilots CDs came in a set that cost as much as a single CD.
So we’ve got 8 jazz songbirds, although Hiroshima is a stretch even with Barbara Long on the vocals and Morgan James considers herself to be a soul singer and not a jazz singer. We’ve got 9 metal albums. So it’s not as unbalanced as I thought. Also, one classical trumpeter who might be the second prettiest trumpeter in the world.
But it doesn’t make up for the jazz-heavy winter and spring, but there’s a new Hellyeah! album coming out next month. Which will help. Also, my opportunity to listen to metal has been curtailed. I’ve not been going to the gym that frequently lately. My job has frequent phone meetings which interrupt. And I’m not driving far enough to listen in the car.
So perhaps it is just as well, although it’s just as sad.
