{"id":170,"date":"2012-01-21T10:05:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-01-21T10:05:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-21T15:05:49","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-18-scratchy-45-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/21\/my-musical-evolution-part-18-scratchy-45-days\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 18 Scratchy 45 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a few posts back I told you that I was going to experiment with the format? I did a post of some random songs from <em>The Scratchy 45 Days<\/em>\u00a0then I do a post focused on an Artist. I&#8217;m still not crazy about the results. One thing that comes to mind is the tag cloud at the bottom of the page. The more a particular tag is used, the larger it becomes. Looking at it now, I feel that the tag cloud might have been a valuable tool to demonstrate the presence of a particular artist. This is where doing a post on ABBA undercuts their presence in the tag cloud. 7 songs and only one tag.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t posted anything for a few days now because I&#8217;m trying to understand what it is I&#8217;m trying to accomplish and I&#8217;m wondering if I&#8217;m going about this in the best way. Second thoughts. While I don&#8217;t foresee a complete tear down and rebuild, there might be significant changes to the approach and I&#8217;m hesitant to keep building. \u00a0While I think about this, you can check out this next stack of 7.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nBread &#8211; <em>Everything I Own<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-Q1kB0R4Ijs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nChicago &#8211; <em>If You Leave Me Now<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MikRS_EEGcQ?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nCreedence Clearwater Revival &#8211; <em>Lookin&#8217; Out My Back Door<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QNczeP33Yk0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOlivia Newton-John &#8211; <em>If You Love Me Let Me Know<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gIUafCVG5q0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe Carpetners &#8211; <em>Top Of The World<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M1u6628Rdqs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nPaul MsCartney &#038; Wings &#8211; <em>Band On The Run<\/em> If I give it a moment of serious thought. I think that I like Paul the most of the ex-Beatles. Then George and then John. John lennon had a couple of good songs that are firmly planted in <em>My Musical Evolution<\/em> but they weren&#8217;t ever as &#8220;beloved&#8221; as Paul&#8217;s or George&#8217;s. I wonder if that is something subliminally political. I really don&#8217;t care for &#8220;pop stars&#8221; who start to view themselves as &#8220;artists&#8221; that become &#8220;activists&#8221; because they feel that we must obey their opinions. John Lennon, Madonna, Prince, Bono, The Dixie Chicks and Lady Ga Ga are a few that have followed that disappointing path. Just do what you do best and entertain. Don&#8217;t use the stage as your soapbox.  Maybe I take secret pleasure in knowing that it infuriated John Lennon to be outsold by Paul. Lennon chose <em>message<\/em> Paul chose <em>music<\/em>.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S7D65IomNYY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nPaul Anka &#8211; <em>Having My Baby<\/em><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CZYNA6qUNTE?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember a few posts back I told you that I was going to experiment with the format? I did a post of some random songs from The Scratchy 45 Days\u00a0then I do a post focused on an Artist. I&#8217;m still not crazy about the results. One thing that comes to mind is the tag cloud &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/01\/21\/my-musical-evolution-part-18-scratchy-45-days\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Musical Evolution &#8211; Part 18 Scratchy 45 Days&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[106,126,148,454,465,469,542,626],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-musical-evolution","tag-bread","tag-chicago","tag-creedence-clearwater-revival","tag-olivia-newton-john","tag-paul-anka","tag-paul-mccartney-wings","tag-scratchy-45-days","tag-the-carpenters","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}