{"id":35155,"date":"2026-05-01T15:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=35155"},"modified":"2026-05-01T15:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T20:37:52","slug":"twenty-years-on-let-me-give-it-a-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/01\/twenty-years-on-let-me-give-it-a-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty Years On, Let Me Give It A Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my beautiful wife is at a conference in Wichita, Kansas, to close out the week, and every time she mentioned it, I would lay down the line <em>dun dun dundun dun dun dun<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0J2QdDbelmY?si=31-jlexJHpV6DfRz\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For a long time, I thought the song was called &#8220;Wichita&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You know, about that era, I had print subscriptions to <em>Spin<\/em>, <em>Maxim<\/em>, <em>FHM<\/em>, <em>GQ<\/em>, and even <em>Playboy<\/em> for a year or two .  I was staring down the barrel of turning thirty, and I was probably still steeped in both kinds of music (country and western) at the time.  So I desperately sought information on what kids those days (which is to say, people who were just a couple years younger than I was) were listening to and, I guess, wearing, although I really never have been a fashion plate.  But I remember the White Stripes were on the cover of <em>Spin<\/em>.  As were the Black Keys, I&#8217;m sure, and I didn&#8217;t pay enough attention to be able to tell them apart.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, now that their music is &#8220;oldies,&#8221; not that music is allowed to be oldies these days, I&#8217;ll give them some consideration.  Because whenever I let YouTube run on and present me new music, I am beginning to wonder if it&#8217;s a real band or if it&#8217;s AI.  And by plumbing the past with actual bands I heard of back then, maybe I&#8217;ll find something else new to me.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;m not going to like Pearl Jam or Green Day.  That&#8217;s out of the question.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my beautiful wife is at a conference in Wichita, Kansas, to close out the week, and every time she mentioned it, I would lay down the line dun dun dundun dun dun dun: For a long time, I thought the song was called &#8220;Wichita&#8221;. You know, about that era, I had print subscriptions to [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155","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=35155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35156,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35155\/revisions\/35156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}