Friday and the Random Ten (Sailing Away Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (24 Hour Disney Day Edition)

And here we go again. It's the Friday before Memorial Day so what does Disney go and do to us again? Yep, it's that deal where we stay open for a whole 24 hours. I have a 13 hour shift, but at least I am not part of the overnight crew. So to honor all us hard working cast members I am going to copy what I did in this countdown from the previous over-nighter and do a Top 24 list, instead of top 10. Yeah it's one of those special event type things. Next week will return to normal (or for what passes for normal around here).

Even though it does not apply this week, you can still check out last week's Random 10 by following this link, or trying to figure out the artists from the cool picture below: 

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

Friday and the Random 10 (Oops I Skipped a Week Edition)

So last Friday just came and went and it never clicked in my head that I was forgetting something... until Sunday. Oops. As an excuse work has been all over the place and I've been working on a few other projects (the Refrigerator Magnet Challenge for one). I mean it's not like I haven't forgotten before.

So it's May now and I'm not even going to look at the last countdown. This one is all fresh. As usual the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top.

Let's get jiggy with it!

Friday and the Random 10 (Main Street Edition)

Wait, what? I get paid vacation time? Sounds sketchy to me, but I'll try this thing out keeping a close eye on my paycheck next week. So what should I do with all this freedom? Blog! Yeah, no point in going outside. I mean it's like in the 80's outside and there's bound to be mosquitoes...and tourists. Well I could watch a whole lot of the March madness that's going on. I can't believe I never filled out a single bracket this year. Ugh.

I'll play it safe the first day and knock out some randomness. As usual the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top. Looking back at last week I see no one got banned, but everyone is fair game for an upset.

Let's bust some brackets!

Friday and the Random 10 (06/14/13)

Not a lot of time this week so this one is going to be quick. As usual the rules and whatnot are over there → to the right. Looking back at last week, Styx and Jimmy Buffett are banned, and ABWH is still serving their month in the slammer.

Let's roll the dice!

1) Velvet Revolver/Fall to Pieces - I need to listen to them more. Good song.

2) Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Anno Domine - I guess I should separate my Christmas and other seasonal music to other folders.

3) Camel/Curiosity - More smooth sounds. Good nighttime sleeping music too.

4) Bob Seger/Night Moves - He still gets me.

5) The Beatles/You've Got to Hide Your Love Away - Good advice.

6) Glass Hammer/Watching the Sky - I can't tell if this band wants to be like Yes, ELP, or Jethro Tull.

7) Van Halen/Sinner's Swing - Great stuff from the DLR years.

8) Lynyrd Skynyrd/Swamp Music - Yes. Just yes.

9) Journey/In My Lonely Feeling/Conversations - Some of my favorite music is very early Journey before Steve Perry. Listen to Neal Schon on the guitar at the 2:15 mark. Magic.

10) Emerson Lake and Palmer (ELP)/Karn Evil 9 - Completely epic. No one makes music like this anymore, or even tries. Or is even talented enough to try.

Not bad. Actually one of the better ones lately, except for the Christmas tune. The STCS for this week is Bob Seger/Against the Wind. Mind-blowingly awesome. And he gets to play us out:

Friday and the Random 10

Checking back on last week, I can see that Jon Anderson and Chicago and ineligible this week. Sorry, dem's da rules guys. The other rules are over there → to the right. I'm feeling sore from my first day back in over five months, so I have no idea how this one will turn out. Oh well, nothing to it but to do it! Let's go!

1) GTR/Spectral Mornings - This is another one of those "supergroups" from the 80's. This one had Steve Howe of Yes/Asia and Steve Hackett from Genesis. This song is some live performance with material from a second album that was never released. Oh, and welcome to the party pal!

2) Jimmy Buffet/We are the People Our Parents Warned Us About - Sad, but true.

3) Jimmy Buffet/Come Monday - Two in a row? I hope my media player isn't messing up again. Automatically eliminated for next week.

4) Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Music Box Blues - Yes, this is technically a Christmas song. I hate this version. I think the original is sweet in all its sadness. This one is annoying.

5) Jimmy Buffet/Holiday - Okay, what the hell?

6) Kansas/All I Wanted - from one of my favorite 80's albums Power. Yeah, this one:



7) Bob Seger/We've Got Tonight - Bob still gets me.

8) Journey/Why Can't This Night Go On Forever - Frontiers was acceptable after Escape, but Raised on Radio officially turned Journey into a love song singing bunch of pussies. Yeah, I said it.

9) Van Halen/Little Guitars - See, this is what we needed more of during the 80's.

10) Yes/Holding On - from the Onion Union album that I covered here.

Well this all didn't totally inspire a lot of confidence in the randomness of my media player. Maybe it was just one of those things? Who knows. The STCS for this week is The Black Eyed Peas/Imma Be. Don't be surprised! I can be cool like that sometimes. Might as well let them play us out:

Friday and the Random 10

What day is it? Friday! What do we want? A Random 10! You asked for it, you got it! If you're new here, the rules and all the details are over to the right (----> ) on the page I created. As for my other three (four? five?) constant readers welcome back! Enough wasting time, let's get down to it. I'm feeling particularly "anxious" today so I got a good feeling about this one! Here we go:

1) The Beatles/Revolution 1 - Still makes me want to buy a pair of Nike's. I like the faster version of this though. Classic album cover of nothingness:

2) The Buggles/Island - One of the bonus tracks for the re-mastered The Age of Plastic CD. These guys were both in YES at one point. The keyboard player is back with them today.

3) Red Hot Chili Peppers/Road Trippin - Haven't heard from these guys in awhile. Some of their stuff is surprisingly good.

4) Jon Anderson/Myo Maya - a short snippet from his Angels Embrace CD

5) Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe/Vultures in the City - This is the split off band formed by all the ex-Yes members that couldn't use the Yes name. Why this awesome song was not included on the ABWH album is a mystery. Give a listen:

 

6) Camel/Survival - Another great sounding track from them.

 

7) Red Hot Chili Peppers/Backwoods - Twice in the same countdown. Cool but a live version which I don't really care for.

 

8) Mozart/Serenate Part 1&2 - Don't roll your eyes at me. I've loved Mozart ever since I saw Amadeus. Plus, there was that Falco thing...

9) Bob Seger/Against the Wind - Wow. This was my divorce song. Hard time for me and Bob was there.

10) Michael Jackson/Satisfy You - Added his stuff awhile back and this is his first appearance. I don't know this song though so I will probably delete it when I'm done since he seems to be only doing the backing vocals and I have no interest in hearing this song again. So this gets two awards today! Welcome to the party pal, but you've just been deleted. Sorry.

Well that will do it for another week. The STCS this go around is The Beatles/Something. Another classic album but we already have a winner for that. Play us out Bob...

Friday and the Random 10 + 10

Well lookie here! Yeah I was so busy working last week that I totally forgot about doing my Top 10. Some of ya'll were upset I know. Maybe this week I can dig a little deeper and roll out 20 songs to make up for it! Enough talk...on with the show!

1) Lady Gaga/Monster - wow, ummm, ok...the first new music I downloaded in awhile to sample and it shows up first...I just wanted to see what all the fuss was about

2) Styx/One Way Out - a re-make of some old song I dont know who from

3) Bob Seger/Roll Me Away - Bob gets me! This is my divorce CD unfortunately

4)  Camel/Rhayader - didnt I have this exact one a few weeks ago?

5) Rick Wakeman/A Castle of Dreams - RW in da house!

6) Van Halen/The Full Bug - old school with David Lee Roth

7) Enigma/Mea Culpa - classically smooth and sexy...here's the video

8) Led Zeppelin/Good Times Bad Times - oh yeah now we're finding some good stuff!

9) Kansas/Angels Have Fallen - "Save me for now, save me forever"

10) Camel/Tell Me - more smooth sounds...

11) Tommy Shaw/Dangerous Game - from one of his early solo albums

12) Alabama/Anytime - I've really got to start deleting some of this...

13) The Beatles/Eleanor Rigby - one of my most favorite Beatles songs

14) Kansas/Andi - once Walsh left them they just werent quite the same...nice song though

15) U2/Gone - I still dont see what all the fuss is about

16) YES/Dear Father - decent song by them that kind of bounced around during the early years and never really ended up on an album until some re-masters were done

17) Third Day/Innocent - getting into them more and more

18) YES(west)/The More We Live Let Go - weird time period for YES...the band was split into 2 versions (YESwest and ABWH) that all came together for the Union album (pic below)...unfortunately it ensured that ABWH II would never happen...sigh

19) ELO/Evil Woman - wow, some good classic stuff today!

20) Tommy Shaw - Ever Since The World Began...play us out Tommy!