{"id":16014,"date":"2016-12-02T08:30:55","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T14:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16014"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:04:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:04:18","slug":"not-as-varied-as-advertised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/not-as-varied-as-advertised\/","title":{"rendered":"Not As Varied As Advertised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger and people asked me what music I liked, I proclaimed eclectic tastes.  I listened to oldies.  I listened to Album Oriented Rock (kids these days call it &#8220;classic rock&#8221;).  I listened to country.  I listened to pop.  I even listened to jazz when I could find it.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now I&#8217;m older, and nobody asks me that question any more because I&#8217;m old (they must assume it&#8217;s all 60s easy listening\/Sinatra\/Alpert, and they&#8217;re not far off).  But judging by my Amazon purchases over the last six months, my musical taste has streamlined into two categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Naz <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00MG9B9VM\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=d40f588c579ecc55bbd1a69a4c48e7c4\" target=\"_new\">Time After<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Trapt <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001ONPIRW\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=f5298cef27bc9d0ce5a6194fbb5c3426\" target=\"_new\">Trapt<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kristi Merideth <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003L8MP6K\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=e36e235aae445976a85daf8adb22d718\" target=\"_new\">Kristi Merideth<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Leonard Cohen <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01KN6XDS6\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=c3bf73205e8c3c4b01a86bee597a33aa\" target=\"_new\">You Want It Darker<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Shinedown <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0002ABUUC\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=5b9e5a89676965ba33b42c7cf1dd6fdf\" target=\"_new\">Leave a Whisper<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Shinedown<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0017I1FO4\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=be916642585469b7479803cef46d91ef\" target=\"_new\">The Sound of Madness<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>The Pretty Reckless<em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01LB4066Q\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=0a4f4b24705b052c47270a619e5500c2\" target=\"_new\">Who You Selling For<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Devour the Day <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00GB0OWIE\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=0d99ef2eabbda340907cc5c97bd01e91\" target=\"_new\">Time &#038; Pressure<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gabriela Anders <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0002Y4T8S\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=8f6618544465f53b3a2bfe5d6c7fb9b9\" target=\"_new\">Last Tango in Rio<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Lorde <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00EJU8ZIG\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;linkCode=ll1&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=be341ea709473344c4402e2ebd9bf85d\" target=\"_new\">Pure Heroine<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s all hard rock or jazz songbirds except for the Leonard Cohen and Lorde.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s either something to get me pumped up for the gym or something to mellow.<\/p>\n<p>Although being it is the Christmas season, the one-for-you-one-for-me Amazon ordering protocol is in effect, so the ratios may change as I buy new music on whim.  But given that I learn of new artists from the hard rock station on the radio, my Legion of Metal Friends Facebook group, or the radio stations I stream (<a href=\"http:\/\/kcsm.org\/\" target=\"_new\">KCSM<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siue.edu\/wsie\/\" target=\"_new\">WSIE<\/a>), perhaps they will not change much at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was younger and people asked me what music I liked, I proclaimed eclectic tastes. I listened to oldies. I listened to Album Oriented Rock (kids these days call it &#8220;classic rock&#8221;). I listened to country. I listened to pop. I even listened to jazz when I could find it. Well, now I&#8217;m older, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-musical-balance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23600,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16014\/revisions\/23600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}