{"id":20449,"date":"2018-07-09T10:28:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=20449"},"modified":"2019-03-03T16:04:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T22:04:19","slug":"a-perfectly-balanced-few-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/09\/a-perfectly-balanced-few-months\/","title":{"rendered":"A Perfectly Balanced Few Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that you&#8217;re keeping track, but my musical purchases have, in fact, remained in balance the last few months.  As I&#8217;ve pointed out (originally <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/02\/not-as-varied-as-advertised\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>), 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 balance shifts if I hear more metal or more new jazz, but it always seems to return to equilibrium.  At the end of March, I last <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/03\/23\/hows-your-balance-brian-j\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">provided an update<\/a> on my music purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I&#8217;ve bought essentially ten albums since then (with some asterisks).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve gotten:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Natsumi Kiyoura <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005OMBPBW\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B005OMBPBW&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=7e128c7e1fbe3218f37ad7ec6d66fce8\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hologram<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B005OMBPBW\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>; technically, she might be pop.<\/li>\n<li>Jessy J\t<em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0012C91IW\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0012C91IW&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=f5f11d61e5bd8fb2775a73adf1645e5e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tequila Moon<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0012C91IW\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/em><\/li>\n<li>Pier Angeli\t<i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00485ADAK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00485ADAK&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=a6c2892c7ae2bb9141aefb48fc88a67e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Italia Con Pier Angeli<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00485ADAK\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i>; as you probably know, I bought this <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/28\/internet-musical-taste-setters-strike-again\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">on vinyl<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Alma Micic <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B013TZY0K8\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B013TZY0K8&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=58e34f6ae390fd1e10ea0b9b1980361b\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Introducing Alma<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B013TZY0K8\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Gloria Reuben <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00VUGWQIM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00VUGWQIM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=c29eb8d21ffe97fd51aa95bd23bab9b8\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Perchance To Dream<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B00VUGWQIM\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Three Days Grace <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0794MC5MM\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B0794MC5MM&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=a1d8e424654440896b411d65f0678e13\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Outsider<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B0794MC5MM\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Shinedown <i><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B07B1PDTYY\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B07B1PDTYY&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkId=c1cc7606811c9c13b5e298a8386d5c35\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Attention Attention<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B07B1PDTYY\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/i><\/li>\n<li>Leap Frog Studios&#8217; Leo Moracchioli <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/search?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;linkId=6ff9848d8c7117fc28102d318e2899b5&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;index=digital-music&#038;keywords=leo metal covers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Metal Covers<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;l=ur2&#038;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>; I bought about fifty of his tracks, which is, what, four or five albums&#8217; worth (he does offer CD compilations, but I made my own).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Forget the buying<\/em>, you might say.  <em>How&#8217;s the balance in listening?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Well, to be honest, the metal songs by Leo get the heaviest rotation.  They&#8217;re among the oldest selections on the list, and I burned them to CDs and listen to them in the car, so they get a lot of play then.  I only just got the Jessy J album this weekend, and the Natsumi Kiyoura CD has yet to arrive.  So it&#8217;s mostly Leo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that you&#8217;re keeping track, but my musical purchases have, in fact, remained in balance the last few months. As I&#8217;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 [&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-20449","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\/20449","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=20449"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24309,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449\/revisions\/24309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}