{"id":19670,"date":"2018-03-23T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=19670"},"modified":"2018-09-11T10:17:19","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T15:17:19","slug":"hows-your-balance-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/23\/hows-your-balance-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"How&#8217;s Your Balance, Brian J.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you might recall, gentle reader, for the last part of a year, I&#8217;ve highlighted how my CD purchases tend to be balanced between heavy metal or hard rock bands and female jazz singers. (See <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/not-as-varied-as-advertised\/\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/17\/the-hard-rock-cd-that-the-blogosphere-insisted-i-get\/\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/13\/balance-has-returned-to-the-music-library\/\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>You might also wonder if the trend continues.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed it does.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the last ten CDs I got:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\nEverclear <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000TERM4E\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000TERM4E&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=5f0562c9c15f279f07cced3cd1de763b\" target=\"_new\">Ten Years Gone<\/em><\/a> (Resulting in this <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/13\/parenting-goal\/\" target=\"_new\">parenting goal<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>\nKeiko Matsui <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00006J3ZU\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00006J3ZU&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=c0656f1b31fa0e77e1f07b90859880ac\" target=\"_new\">The Ring<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<li>\nKeiko Matsui <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0000A5A36\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0000A5A36&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=e4a7233878180325449510c17e54a729\" target=\"_new\">Sapphire<\/a><\/em> (Who mentioned this artist?  I don&#8217;t think she appeared on WSIE, but I&#8217;m not sure.)<\/li>\n<li>\n10 Years <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B074V4G5PJ\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B074V4G5PJ&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=18d478f195a29ccd4ff52287a555c25e\" target=\"_new\">How To Live As Ghosts<\/a><\/em> (The one bright spot on the Q102 playlist currently.)<\/li>\n<li>\nHard Loss <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07BFH6T5Y\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B07BFH6T5Y&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=1c571878371564098aef82934a577c8a\" target=\"_new\">Never Better<\/em><\/a> (A St. Louis Blues loving group that an Internet friend likes&#8211;I got their EP.)<\/li>\n<li>\nTestament <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001OGNOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B001OGNOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=6cc28fca3f2c64b87dd043589acfd7df\" target=\"_new\">The New Order<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nTestament <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B01LD657P2\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B01LD657P2&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=23aa8e0a03be158686643e9100620ad4\" target=\"_new\">Brotherhood of the Snake<\/a><\/em> (A middle school friend and member of the Legion of Metal Friends Facebook group posted some Testament; he was a little reluctant to post old stuff because he was sure we were already familiar with it.  As I came to metal late, I was not, so I bought something old and something new.)<\/li>\n<li>\nSara Gazarek <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000A2H9IO\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B000A2H9IO&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=2d13aa1112025bb322e0fe584ec62a6f\" target=\"_new\">Yours<\/a><\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nSara Gazarek <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B007ZU6H1E\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B007ZU6H1E&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=af75e158a025a5a74f5ae15141ea0b9f\" target=\"_new\">Blossom &#038; Bee<\/a><\/em> (WSIE played her, and she&#8217;s on the vocal spectrum near Sacha Boutros, so I picked up a couple of albums.)<\/li>\n<li>\n<em>New Noise #5<\/em>  (I got this CD when I bought a copy of the new <em>Metal Hammer<\/em> magazine.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/metalhammer.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>You might be asking, &#8220;Did Brian J. buy the magazine for the CD because he is disappointed with what he&#8217;s hearing on the radio or because Floor Jansen is on the cover?&#8221;  <em>Yes.<\/em>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So I bought like ten CDs (well, <em>nine<\/em> the Hard Loss EP was a digital download) this quarter.  You can tell when I&#8217;ve been working a full time contract for a couple of months as my CD expenditures go up.  As do our trips to restaurants.  Which, if I trim the latter expense, <em>I can get more music.<\/em>  Depending upon the contents of the sampler CD and the new albums from Shaman&#8217;s Harvest and Pop Evil, I might need all the help I can get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you might recall, gentle reader, for the last part of a year, I&#8217;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 [&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-19670","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\/19670","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=19670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23604,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19670\/revisions\/23604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}