{"id":25343,"date":"2019-12-04T07:45:48","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T13:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=25343"},"modified":"2019-12-04T08:30:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T14:30:49","slug":"scoring-low-on-a-rolling-stone-quiz-is-no-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/04\/scoring-low-on-a-rolling-stone-quiz-is-no-shame\/","title":{"rendered":"Scoring Low On A <i>Rolling Stone<\/i> Quiz Is No Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some twenty-year-old has compiled a list called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/the-25-greatest-christmas-albums-of-all-time-148740\/weezer-a-weezer-christmas-2008-173388\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How many do I own?  Answers in bold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Weezer, <em>A Weezer Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Christmas Joy in Latvia \u2013 Latvian Christmas Cantatas<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nJacob Miller, <em>Natty Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nSufjan Stevens, <em>Songs for Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nBob Dylan, <em>Christmas in the Heart<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\n<em>New Wave Xmas: Just Can<\/em><\/li>\n<li>t Get Enough<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nCee Lo, <em>Cee Lo&#8217;s Magic Moment<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nShe &#038; Him, <em>A She &#038; Him Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\n<em>Christmas on Death Row<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nCarpenters, <em>Christmas Collection<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nJohnny Cash, <em>Christmas With Johnny Cash<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\n<em>A Very Special Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nFrank Sinatra, <em>A Jolly Christmas From Frank Sinatra<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nThe Ventures, <em>The Ventures<\/em><\/li>\n<li> Christmas Album<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nWillie Nelson, <em>Pretty Paper<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nElla Fitzgerald, <em>Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\n<em>Soul Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li><b>Bing Crosby, <em>White Christmas<\/em><\/b><\/li>\n<li>\nBeach Boys, <em>Beach Boys<\/em><\/li>\n<li> Christmas Album<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nLouis Armstrong and Friends, <em>The Best of Christmas Songs<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\n<em>A Motown Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\n<em>A Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\nJames Brown, <em>James Brown<\/em><\/li>\n<li>s Funky Christmas<\/em><\/li>\n<li> <b>Elvis Presley, <em>Elvis&#8217; Christmas Album<\/b><\/em><\/li>\n<li>\n<em>A Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of the ones I&#8217;m missing, I might only want a couple.  Ella, Louis Armstrong, maybe the <em>Charlie Brown Christmas<\/em>, the Sinatra,  maybe the Phil Spector one.  Am I allowed to want the last?  He went to jail for murdering his wife.  I mean, it&#8217;s not the same as touching a woman on the bum who later decided she didn&#8217;t want to be touched on the bum.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, one wonders how many Christmas records a modern journalist has or plays at all.<\/p>\n<p>You know <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/category\/christmas-albums\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I do<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/ace.mu.nu\/archives\/384545.php\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ace of Spades HQ<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some twenty-year-old has compiled a list called The 25 Greatest Christmas Albums of All Time. How many do I own? Answers in bold: Weezer, A Weezer Christmas Christmas Joy in Latvia \u2013 Latvian Christmas Cantatas Jacob Miller, Natty Christmas Sufjan Stevens, Songs for Christmas Bob Dylan, Christmas in the Heart New Wave Xmas: Just Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-albums","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25343","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=25343"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25359,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25343\/revisions\/25359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}