Friday and the Random 10 (Deflated Balls Edition)

The Super Bowl is set, but all the talk is about Deflate-Gate. Seems that when inspected after the game in which New England beat the Colts, 11 out of the 12 footballs were "improperly" inflated, or under inflated. At this point there has been no ruling or penalties or whatever. I just know it's the NFL so they won't shut up about it for probably another ten years.

You know what is properly inflated though? That's right: The Random 10. Filled  with all the randomness that probability will allow, but still as constant as the northern star.

As a quick review of last week, you can follow this link, or check out the cool picture below: 

As always the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top next to the Home tab.

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Also, The Beatles will not be joining us this week.

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1) Styx/Music Time - You know when they do that thing where they add a new studio song to a live album to get you to buy it? This is that song and yes I did buy it. This is also the time period where Tommy Shaw had had enough and went solo.

2) Soundtrack (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band)/You Never Give Me Your Money - Wow, easily one of the top five movies ever made (using Beatles songs and starring Steve Martin). Peter Frampton and the Bee Gees make this movie extra classy. Man, the 70's were awesome. I had said before that this movie is one of my guilty pleasures.


3) Boston/Magdalene - From the last great Boston album (to me anyway). This is only the fourth album they have put out since their 1976 debut. Yes, thats right. Four albums in 18 years.





4) Rick Wakeman/Dance of a Thousand Lights - From one extreme to another. RW is like the anti-Boston and is not shy at all about putting out a multitude of albums or recycling old ideas (this album for example) into new albums. I cannot criticize this one though. RW on the piano is still magic

5) Def Leppard/Switch 625 - I remember buying this cassette in 1984 at the mall at the state tournament in Prattville, Al. Weird how we recall things like that huh? This track barely missed the cut in a previous post of my Top 10 Favorite Instrumentals.

6) Robert Palmer/Respect Yourself - Man he was huge there for awhile in the 80's and early 90's thanks mostly to MTV. Sadly, he died of a heart attack in 2003.






7) Chicago/Let's Take a Lifetime - Like I have said previously: if your album sucks so bad that even the record company won't put it out, well you figure it out. I'm getting diabetes from listening to this.

8) Simon & Garfunkel/Homeward Bound - Sometimes, we just want to go home, and some songs express it better than words ever could.





9) Led Zeppelin/Friends - I am just not a big fan of them. I like their rocker songs fine enough, but I guess it's the whiny, "bluesy" songs that get on my nerves.





10) Jimmy Buffett/Growing Older But Not Up - If there was ever a song that described me this is it.

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Well we have made it this far with no exiles, and The Beatles poised to escape Exile Island. However the STCS can wreck one or both of those in one swoop. Let's roll the dice one more time:

The STCS for this week is Pink Floyd/Matilda Mother. Oh man, not this one again. That is enough to make your balls deflate. Ugh. But still, it makes everything wide open for next week.

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As always stay warm and comfy wherever you are, and Roll Tide!

I knew I was playing us out with this video as soon as it showed up. It is actually a very fun song.

Notice how TS makes a small cameo by himself towards the very end of the video?