{"id":9933,"date":"2012-08-09T21:19:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T03:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=9933"},"modified":"2012-08-31T09:16:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T15:16:04","slug":"you-are-what-you-hear-my-musical-canon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/you-are-what-you-hear-my-musical-canon\/","title":{"rendered":"You are what you hear &#8211; my musical canon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I shared my <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/my-life-canon\/\" title=\"My life canon\">Life Cannon<\/a>. I&#8217;ve considered going back and updating it &#8211; maybe I will someday soon.<\/p>\n<p>But for now, I was intrigued by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/deceptivecadence\/2012\/08\/08\/158442642\/you-are-what-you-hear-what-your-favorite-music-says-about-you\" target=\"_blank\">an article on NPR Music<\/a> that suggested a similar idea based solely on music.<\/p>\n<p>The article asks a few questions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What was the first song you ever bought?<\/li>\n<li>What song always gets you dancing?<\/li>\n<li>What song takes you back to your childhood?<\/li>\n<li>What is your perfect love song?<\/li>\n<li>What song would you want at your funeral?<\/li>\n<li>Time for an encore. One last song that makes you, you.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nMusic is a pretty big part of my life and a lot of these answers could probably change from year to year &#8211; but I&#8217;ll give it a shot for today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was the first song you ever bought?<\/strong> &#8211; I believe the first cassette tape I ever bought was from Christian rap group &#8211; P.I.D. (Preachers in Disguise). It was followed shortly by dcTalk&#8217;s Nu Thang. The first CD I ever purchased was the One single by U2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What song always gets you dancing?<\/strong> &#8211; Hard to say as I&#8217;m not <em>much<\/em> of a dancer. But one song that&#8217;s been able to get me rockin&#8217; every time I hear it the last couple years has been Knights of Cydonia by Muse.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What song takes you back to your childhood?<\/strong> &#8211; Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys. I remember recording a copy of that song off the radio and wearing the cassette tape out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is your perfect love song?<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m gonna go with a song we had sung at our wedding &#8211; I Have and I Always Will by Dave Barnes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What song would you want at your funeral?<\/strong> &#8211; This one&#8217;s changed over the years. Perhaps all of these can be played. It Is Well (traditional hymn), Friendly, Friendly World by Ken Darby (made famous by Andy Kaufman) and We&#8217;ll Meet Again by Ross Parke (made famous by Dr Strangelove). Recently I&#8217;ve also considered Time To Say Goodbye (Con te partir\u00c3\u00b2).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time for an encore. One last song that makes you, you.<\/strong> &#8211; I&#8217;m gonna go with U2&#8217;s Grace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So what about you? What&#8217;s your musical canon? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back I shared my Life Cannon. I&#8217;ve considered going back and updating it &#8211; maybe I will someday soon. But for now, I was intrigued by an article on NPR Music that suggested a similar idea based solely on music. The article asks a few questions: What was the first song you ever &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/you-are-what-you-hear-my-musical-canon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You are what you hear &#8211; my musical canon<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[1012,1035,4647,4345,74],"class_list":["post-9933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-canon","tag-life-canon","tag-music","tag-musical-canon","tag-npr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-2Ad","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}