{"id":882,"date":"2007-09-24T13:09:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T17:09:28","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-09-24T13:09:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T13:09:28","slug":"favorite-album-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/favorite-album-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Favorite Album by &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion about <em>Meditations<\/em> vs <em>A Love Supreme<\/em> reminds me of a facet of record collecting I\u2019ve noticed many times before. The first album you acquire by an artist is the one that will always be your favorite by that artist. [Note the <strong>First Album Exclusionary Rule<\/strong> \u2013 if you start following an artist with his\/her\/their first album, said first album is not necessarily going to be your favorite, though it frequently may be.]<\/p>\n<p>For example, I resisted <strong>Tom Waits<\/strong> for a long time. Then at some point in the mid-80s, I was in a chain record store in Nashville, and I bought a remaindered cassette of <em>Rain Dogs<\/em>. I <em>loved<\/em> it. I have bought pretty much every Tom Waits record since that time (plus the one before it, <em>Swordfishtrombones<\/em>), and I\u2019m a big fan, but I will never love any Tom Waits CD as much as I love <em>Rain Dogs<\/em>.  <\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1OLA6AiZlVw?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>This pattern has been repeated for me many times over. Does your experience match this pattern?  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discussion about Meditations vs A Love Supreme reminds me of a facet of record collecting I\u2019ve noticed many times before. The first album you acquire by an artist is the one that will always be your favorite by that artist. [Note the First Album Exclusionary Rule \u2013 if you start following an artist with <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/favorite-album-by\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}