Friday and the Random 10 (Royalty Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (Florida Sucks Edition)

Well last week was the Halloween edition with a song for every day in October. Now it is time to turn the calendar over to November and start worrying about the holidays to come. Yeah, it's all out there in front of us. The Magic Kingdom is all decked out for Christmas already with decorations and the big tree going up. I walked through Town Square today with "Winter Wonderland" playing at a nice chilly 88 degrees. Florida sucks y'all.

Music, please take me away from this madness...

Friday and the Random 10 (Where Did July Go? Edition)

Wow, I can't believe it's August already. Seems at Disney we gear up so much for the 4th of July that once it's passed the summer just flies by. Unfortunately the temperatures are not affected one bit. It's still miserable...

Well at least a new month gives us new hope. The Moody Blues could not escape last week's countdown, but at least The Beatles are free as a bird now. As usual the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top.

Let's see what August hits us with...

1) Jane Child/Biology - I've spoken of my crush on her before. I think it was that chain that connected her earring to her nose ring that got me going. Yowza!

2) Genesis/Heathaze - Typical 80's Phil Collins sound.

3) Enigma/In the Shadow, In the Light - Turn everything off and break out the candles...

4) Apollo 440/White Man's Throat - Man so far everything is jazzy and funky.

5) Chicago/Elegy: Canon - Nice, horns only segment of a much larger piece. Album cover winner too:

6) The Human League/Life on Your Own - Another song of theirs I have never heard of, but if you had asked me who it was I could have told you right away.

7) Styx/Kiss Your Ass Goodbye - Glenn Burtnik song when he was still in the band. I love this song.

8) Tommy Shaw/Outside in the Rain - Speaking of Styx, this is when Tommy went solo and left the band to DDY (chills). Burtnik on #7 was actually his replacement.

9) The Moody Blues/Your Wildest Dreams

9) America/Political Poachers - Yeah, umm okay. No idea. I thought they only did love songs and sang about horses in the desert.

10) Velvet Revolver/Psycho Killer - Still haven't gotten into them much yet.

Wow, those Moody Blues don't know when to quit do they? Just one more week and they could have been free and clear, but no they go and get Tarkus'd again. Oh well.

The STCS for the first week in August is Journey/Sand Castles. Bet you've never heard that one have ya? It's from the soundtrack of a Japanese film called Dream, After Dream. It's actually one of my favorite Journey albums. Cool.

As always, stay cool and dry central Florida, and Roll Tide!

I'll let my 80's crush play us out!

Friday and the Random 10 (Sir Psycho Sexy Edition)

Blah. Exactly. I'm not exactly feeling it this morning, but I don't want to disappoint my two or three fans. Everybody say "ugh".

Once again, no one got banned last week so anything is possible. As usual the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top.

Ready for the meh? Here it is...

1) Foreigner/Hot Blooded - Off to a good start. Classic.

2) Pink Floyd/One of the Few - Slow and creepy, about what you would expect.

3) Kansas/No One Together - Third classic band in a row. Album cover winner:

4) The Rolling Stones/Gimme Shelter - Shout out to Tabitha on this one.

5) Starship/Good Heart - Basic 80's crap.

6) Cherry Poppin' Daddies/We'll Always Have Paris - More rocking than swinging on this one. Eh.

7) Red Hot Chili Peppers/Sir Psycho Sexy - I hereby nominate this as my new nickname.

8) Jimmy Buffett/Domino College - Working vacation in a third word nation. I'll be studying the World Cup?

9) America/Daisy Jane - Because, 'merica.

10) The Cars/Moving in Stereo - Another great one.

I know I didn't start this one with great enthusiasm, but there were some really great songs this time around. Not "meh" at all. Maybe if I go into it next time with low expectations... Yeah.

So once again no one gets banned and the Tarkus might be dying a slow death. We'll need to feed that thing soon. The STCS for this week is Jimmy Buffett/Margaritaville. Ha! Ask and you shall receive! No blonde strangers next week (see what I did there?) And Jimmy, there's always a woman to blame.

As always stay cool and dry central Florida, and Roll Tide!

Play us out boys!

Friday and the Random 10 (24 Hours of Disney Edition)

Well today is the day a lot of us have been dreading. Ever since Disney did that thing a few years back on leap year where we stayed open for a full 24 hours they find reasons to do it again. And this time they found ways to make it better worse. This time the trains will be running all night as well. That's right, all of the 1920-ish steam trains will be running for basically an entire day. Uh huh. We'll see how that goes...

And also, this time cast members are blocked out from attending. You know all those wonderful "perks" we are supposed to have? Bet you didn't know that are main gate passes are invalid basically all summer. You know when friends and family actually visit Florida and want us to get them in the parks. Wanna see the castle? Nope. How about a tree in a park nobody wants to go to? It's a glorious life.

Anyway, So in honor of this day the Top 10 is going to be the Top 24. Usual rules are up there ↑ at the top, but the bannings do not matter this time around.

Here's a song for every hour we are open today!

Friday and the Random 10

All I can say for all you peeps outside of Florida, damn it's been hot down here! So why not take the day off, stay inside, and check out this week's random 10? Sounds good to me. Looking back at last week we are free and clear from anyone being banned, so anything goes this time around. As usual, the rules are over there → to the right. 

Let's cool down and listen to the smooth sounds of:

1) Rick Wakeman/The Gospel According to St. John - No really, he did an album about the Gospels too. You cannot make this up.

2) Emerson, Lake and Palmer/The Only Way (Hymn) - Another one with religious undertones. This is from the album Tarkus, about an armadillo tank thingy. Take that RW! Once again, not making this stuff up:

3) America/The Last Unicorn - You know what this list needs? A unicorn reference. Done.

4) Yes/Going For the One - One of the most straight forward rock songs from them. I previously covered this album here. They mixed in some awesome lyrics in there too:

Listen in time, Taken so high

To touch to move, Listen to life

Touching touchtime, Travel twilight

Taken so high, Taking your time

Turn on to love, Turnstile to one

Tender timing, Rocking rolling

Moments decide.

Moments delight.

Moments in flight.

Talk about sending love

5) The Beatles/A Taste of Honey - This is just a weird song by them.

6) Rick Wakeman/Virgo - Hey Rick, can you do a quick album about the Zodiac? You can? Good! Huh? You're done already? Whut?

7) Toto/Out of Love - Nice and mellow. This is more of what I had in mind for today.

8) Chicago/Vote For Me - Good, old school jazzy stuff before the 80's love song crap.

9) Yes (Steve Howe)/Australia - They did an acoustic only bonus disc for one of their compilation box sets. This is technically from one of Howe's solo albums but it was included as being from Yes.

10) The Mahavishnu Orchestra/Eternity's Breath (pt.1) - This is more of that jazz/progressive rock fusion from the early 70's that interests me. Bands were just way more experimental back then. No one even tries to do stuff like this anymore.

Well that was kind of...weird. RW gets himself banned (again, and almost for the month: he does play keyboards on Going For The One). I am going to give Yes a pass on this one though. The STCS for this week is Chicago/Takin' It Uptown. Does this get them banned? I'm going to say yes because both songs are from Chicago XI. Sounds right. Until next week, stay cool central Florida.

Play us out Jon Jon and Steve and RW!

Friday and the Random 10

Well here we go again. It's been another long, fun week and what better way to head into the weekend than with some randomness. Looking back at last week I see that Styx and Yes are both banned, but since it's August now, RW has been set free. I'm sure he will return with a vengeance. As usual, the rules and whatnot are over there → to the right.

On with the show!

1) U2/Hawkmoon 269 - What is "Songs I've Never Heard Of" for $200, Alex? I just never got into these guys.

2) Pink Floyd/On The Turning Away - Yet another band I never truly embraced.

3) Camel/Squigely Fair - Now these guys I like. And album cover winner too:

4) Van Halen/Top of the World - Is it blasphemy to say I liked the Hagar years better than the David Lee Roth era?

5) Jimmy Buffet/Sending the Old Man Home - Is this what they say at the end of my shifts every night?

6) Rick Wakeman/The Spider Crab - RW! This must be his album about things you can find on a beach.

7) Red Hot Chili Peppers/This is the Place - Yep.

8) Wendy Carlos/The Light Sailor - from the Tron (original) soundtrack. Oh, and this Wendy chick used to be a dude. No, really.

9) Yes/Heart of the Sunrise Boston/Higher Power - Now that's what I'm talking about!

10) America/Tin Man - Classic song.

Well that wasn't so bad. No one got banned (though Yes tried to sneak in there) and RW made his comeback. The STCS for this week is Trans-Siberian Orchestra/The Safest Way Into Tomorrow from their non-Christmas Night Castle CD. Overall, not bad. Until next week, stay classy central Florida.

Play us out boys!

Sound Chaser

This is a song that was recorded around the time of Fragile and/or Close to the Edge. I've already covered Fragile, here Side 1 and here Side 2. America shows up as bonus tracks in different versions on both of the re-mastered albums. It was another one of those songs taken by the band and "Yesified". The original is by Simon and Garfunkel and lasts 3:38. The Yes version is slightly longer at 10:32!

 

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Friday and the Random 10

I made a little page last week which you can see listed to the right over there (--------->), that explains all the ins and outs of the random 10. It's also an archive of terms and special awards, so if you're late to the party here it will help you understand some of my ramblings.

Anyway, here we go. Ready! Set! Random!

 

1) Stevie Nicks/After the Glitter Fades - From her classic album Bella Donna.

 

2) Yes/Dangerous - Demo for the Union (onion) album. I have an upcoming post on this mess of an album. This song even had several dance mixes. Yeah, you read that right.

 

3) Syd Barrett/Love Song - Thought I had gotten rid of this crap. Time for the Cybermen.

 

 

4) America/Sandman - Another new artist for the countdown. Welcome to the party!

 

 

5) AC/DC/Are You Ready - Love these Aussie rockers!

 

6) Jon Anderson/Days - This is another one of those Yes demos that didn't quite pan out and ended up on a solo album. Album cover winner in Song of Seven.

 

 

 

7) Styx/Unfinished Song - This is a song that shows up on some versions of the Man of Miracles album but not others. Nice little DDY song from the Wooden Nickel years.

 

8) Yes/Love Conquers All - Yet another Yes demo. This is basically a Trevor Rabin song that didn't make it onto 90125. It was one of those unreleased songs that appeared on the YesYears box set.

 

9) Pink Floyd/The Fletcher Memorial Home - I'm trying but I still cant get into them.

 

10) Chicago/Take the "A" Train - This is from their big band album Night and Day. Still trying to recover from those 80's, but at least they picked the right genre.

 

Well that will do it for another week peeps. Seems like there were a lot of demo/unreleased type songs this go round. The STCS for this week is Guns N' Roses/Welcome to the Jungle. Wow, wish we could have opened with that, but I'll let them play us out. Until next week...