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So my post yesterday about the band Toto got me to thinking. I have a whole category here on “Musical Balance” wherein I describe the music I have purchased recently and how it falls into two camps: Either it’s metal, or it’s jazz songbirds. And I thought I might be due for a post because […]
As you might remember, gentle reader, I often posit that my musical purchases are evenly balanced between jazz songbirds and heavy metal, although the heavy metal often has female lead singers, so maybe my taste in music is pretty and lovely sounding women. Well, since the end of August, my music balance has become all […]
So I just got Diamante’s album American Dream: I first heard Diamante in the song she sings with Bad Wolves, a band that the local rock station loves and whose new singles they play all the time: Diamante, not so much. But I picked up her previous album, Coming In Hot, based on liking what […]
This spring, my musical balance was awobble as I bought some pop music. I’ve been accumulating more music this summer, and my normal musical balance has been upended a bit as well. As you might remember, gentle reader, my CD purchases tend to even out between heavy metal and jazz songbirds. However, I seem to […]
Forgive me, Father; it has been five months (November 11, 2020) since my last confession about my musical purchasing balance. Perhaps I was holding off because my musical purchases were unbalanced. Perhaps I held off because I’m not sure that anyone reads these posts. Perhaps I was being lazy because I really have been buying […]
St. Louis Blues announcer Charles Glenn and Larry Barker have a single song called “My Attorney Bernie” which is not available for purchase, but is on Soundcloud. I would buy a Charles Glenn jazz album. Unfortunately, there does not appear to be any such thing. Hopefully, that’s only not yet.
Ah, 2020. What a year. I was gainfully employed for much of it and housebound, which meant I comfort purchased CDs at an astounding clip. My musical balance post from May indicates covered nine months and included 18 albums and three MP3 singles. Before I start tabulating the results in real time here as I […]
Today, I received four CDs that I ordered at the beginning of May, but I don’t think I’ll be putting them in my computer to rip them. Imperial Age is a symphonic metal band. I ordered these CDs from the band’s Web site, signed, and then I got to thinking. Because Imperial Age is a […]
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 […]
I go on and on about how my musical purchases tend to fall neatly into two camps: Heavy metal and jazz songbirds (or maybe three if you include “Pop Music Recommended By Mr. Hill). But the truth is much more complicated. Okay, it’s not. I will also buy CDs of local artists when I find […]
Well, perhaps it’s not the music library and more the recent purchases. As I’ve mentioned, my music purchases tend to fall into two camps: Heavy metal and female jazz vocalists. However, the I recently noted that I’d bought a run of metal: Danger Danger Return of the Great Guildersleeves Fozzy Judas Danger Danger Danger Danger […]
“I have eclectic music tastes. And a gift card to use.” On Wednesday, as part of our comebackation, we ran some errands. Basically, the youngest needed new shoes, and the Entertainmart is just down the road a couple of shopping centers. My beautiful wife got me a gift card for our anniversary much like she […]
As I have mentioned, gentle reader, I support friends’ and acquaintances’ artistic endeavours. I mean, I will buy books, I will buy CDs, and I will even go to see friends in musical theatre productions. I prefer CDs and book because I do not like musicals, and musicals tend to cost several hundred dollars instead […]
It’s been last August since I’ve spoken of my musical purchasing balance. As you might recall, I tend to end up buying fairly equal amounts between jazz songbirds and metal. When last we spoke, I’d boughten slightly more metal than jazz songbirds (eight to seven, I think, over four months) which sort of balanced a […]
You know, WSIE, the former jazz station and now smooth jazz “The Sound” from Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, is not afraid to mix in some interesting musical choices. In addition to Sacha Boutros, Janet Evra, and Ashley Pezzotti (along with other favorites like Hiroshima, Keiko Matsui, Cindy Bradley, Al Jarreau, and so on). Sometimes, they mix […]
It’s been like eight months since I posted about my musical balance, wherein I prove yet again that my musical taste runs in jazz songbirds and heavy metal. Well, Brian J., you ask. How have you done over the Christmas season, where the One For You/One For Me protocol takes effect? Well. Last Christmas, the […]
So I listened to Perry Como’s By Request, and it has the song “Once Upon A Time” as the lead song on side 2. And I thought, You know who else does this song? Frank Sinatra. You know, I think Frank Sinatra is best when he does songs of reminiscence and regret; this song appears […]
Not that you’re keeping track, but my musical purchases have, in fact, remained in balance the last few months. As I’ve pointed out (originally here), my music purchases tend to be two types of music: Jazz songbirds and heavy metal. Over the last year and a half, this balance has been remarkably consistent. Sometimes, the […]
As you might recall, gentle reader, for the last part of a year, I’ve highlighted how my CD purchases tend to be balanced between heavy metal or hard rock bands and female jazz singers. (See here, here, and here.) You might also wonder if the trend continues. Indeed it does. Here are the last ten […]
on a warm spring night, a little chilled white wine is a treat. You know who agrees with me?