Friday and the Random 10 (Survival Camping Edition)

I am having to prep this post a little ahead of time because I am taking some time off work to do some survival camping with a friend this weekend. And by "survival" I mean no wireless and no internet. There may be electricity, running water, and bathrooms however (when you're a man everywhere is a bathroom! Grunt grunt) so it's not totally roughing it. I just need to get away from tourists and people for awhile, get my line wet and do some fishing. 

Next up, on Naked and Afraid...

Friday and the Random 10 (Triskaidekaphobia Edition)

Florida is still not cooperating y'all. They filmed a lot of the Christmas Day events at the Magic Kingdom this week (in case of bad weather) and most of the time it was a chilly 90+ degrees. It just ain't right. I'm gonna move to Michigan, or Hoth, I hear they're about the same in winter...

Anyway, at least there is one thing to perk me up a bit. Today is one of my favorite days: Friday the 13th! I have detailed before my love for thirteen. Wore it all through high school and college. So, when the Random 10 falls on this particular day I get to share more songs.

The Lucky 13:

Friday and the Random 10 (Stuck Whistle Edition)

You know, some days on the Walt Disney Railroad just never seem to amaze me. This year has seen some crazy things happen that has shut down our operation: a turtle laying her eggs in the gravel by Fantasyland Station, mystery lumberjacks cutting down trees on the backstretch, and well, a balloon. Yeah, a balloon. This week we got to add another thing to the list. The whistle on one of out trains got stuck open, and it was like loud. L-O-U-D. Like OMG I can't even hear myself think loud. Needless to say, it got replaced. I tell ya, it's always something...

Now on to our regularly scheduled randomness!

Friday and the Random 10 (Walk This Way Edition)

So last week I started messing with the format again and I think I am going to stick with it for awhile. I have also been singing Xanadu all week but that's neither here nor there. So below you will see only album covers from this week's Random 10.

Friday and the Random 10 (R2-D2 and C-3PO Edition)

Finally a day off where I can take my time and do this thing right. I am sorry last week was such a rush job, but you know how that goes with the holidays and all. The occupancy of Exile Island has changed though: RW is a free man (for now) and had his place taken by another piano man. Interesting...

Friday and the Random 10 (Warehouse of Suck Edition)

I was hit with an interesting idea this week of actually making the Random 10 a weekly video, possibly on YouTube. I am currently entertaining that idea. I mean I could see where the video could be at the top of the post with the normal write up underneath. The whole thing has some merit and it's got me thinking...a lot...

But until then, it's back to the normal format. Looking back at last week I see that Frank Zappa is banned, but no worries because I went ahead and deleted all of his stuff anyway. Just not my thing. And it's still September so all RW will be ignored as well.

As usual the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top.

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On with da show!

1) Steve Howe/More About You - This was one of his Homebrew demos that became part of ABWH's "Quartet".

2) Chicago/Song for You - Weak love song from them right between the good years and the "warehouse of suck"© that was coming in the future. Ugh.

3) Yes/Astral Traveller - I have never really been crazy over this song. As with most older Yes, I covered this song here.

4) No Doubt/Hey You - Who me? I do like their sound.

5) Extreme/Peacemaker Die - This is probably the greatest album no one has heard. If you do not have a copy of Extreme/III Sides to Every Story get it yesterday.

6) Chicago/Elegy:When All the Laughter Dies in Sorrow - They used to care and actually had a message. Banned, but a great spoken piece off Chicago III:

When all the laughter dies in sorrow

And the tears have risen to a flood

When all the wars have found a cause

In human wisdom and in blood

Do you think they'll cry in sadness

Do you think the eye will blink

Do you think they'll curse the madness

Do you even think they'll think

When all the great galactic systems

Sigh to a frozen halt in space

Do you think there will be some remnant

Of beauty of the human race

Do you think there will be a vestige

Or a sniffle or a cosmic tear

Do you think a greater thinking thing

Will give a damn that man was here

7) Red Hot Chili Peppers/Road Trippin' - These guys do some great sounding stuff sometimes. Never heard this song before but I like it.

8) Cherry Poppin' Daddies/Ding Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line - I also can't say no to a good caboose!

9) The Mahavishnu Orchestra/Awakening - If you're going to be jazzy, this is how you bring it. Man, I can hear some Yes/Relayer in this song. No wonder JA said he was influenced by them.

10) Michael Jackson/Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - C'mon it's like the greatest selling album of all time. No shame here. Go get'm Captain EO!

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And there we go for another week. Chicago gets banned again, but at least RW didn't try to show up. I did delete some of his inventory as well. I go back and forth with him but it is just so much material.

The STCS this week is Lynyrd Skynyrd/Sweet Home Alabama. Gulp.

I just had a Vongasm.

Hold on...let me recover...

As always stay cool and dry wherever you are, and Roll Tide!

Do I even need to say it?

Friday and the Random 10 (Tragic Kingdom Edition)

August is finally in full bloom and I'm not sure what I am most excited about: Doctor Who in 16 days(!) or Alabama football in 23(!!). At least they won't be on at the same time so I won't be faced with a difficult dilemma like the whole Capt Jack/Tony Stark debate (still time to vote...just saying...).

Anywayz, let's focus on the here and now and get down to the random 10. Last week shows us how persistent some bands can be, with The Moody Blues still trying to sneak past the Tarkus to no avail. Hopefully they can stay away for just one week and make themselves eligible again. Here's hoping.

Time to spin the wheel of fate...

1) Dream Theater/Only a Matter of Time - My brother Scott has been on me for a long time to listen to these guys. I finally relented and they show up right away. You know what that gets:

2) No Doubt/Happy Now? - Gwen Stefani. Yes please. Album cover winner:

3) Def Leppard/Stagefright - Oh yeah we're rocking now.

4) Dennis DeYoung/Pilate's Dream - DDY did a Broadway album with this song from Jesus Christ Superstar. I give him a lot of crap but he has an amazing voice.

5) Van Halen/Little Guitars (intro) - Eddie plays a mean acoustic guitar too.

6) Nektar/You're Alone - Thanks for pointing that out guys. Oh and Viggle has no clue what song this is.

7) The Nice/Rondo (69) - This is Keith Emerson's band before he was in Emerson Lake & Palmer. Great experimental stuff.

8) Return to Forever/Celebration Suite Pt.1 - Here's more of that late 60's/early 70's jazz fusion rock stuff.

9) Bronz/Harder Than Diamond - Viggle has no idea from this one hit wonder. Once again, this wasn't the hit. You know what, time to bring the Cybermen Award back:

10) Jon Anderson/Hurry Home (Song for the Pleiades) - This was JonJon's solo album (with members of Toto) that he did right before the ABWH album. I see some elements here that he used later.

And there we have it. I'm thinking of making a "Viggle rule" that if it cannot be identified then it gets deleted. I'm not sure about that though. I'll have to think on that some more.

The STCS song for this week is Trans-Siberian Orchestra/The Safest Way into Tomorrow. Let us rejoice for The Moody Blues have finally been set free! Also, no one got banned this week either. Awesome.

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

I'm gonna let Jon play us out.

Friday and the Random 10 (Roll Tide Edition)

College football has finally started! Last night was battle of the Carolinas (with a long weather 101), followed by a great back and forth SEC game between Vandy and Ole Miss. But that's all just the appetizer. The Main course starts tomorrow as Bama takes on Va Tech. I am so pumped!

And nothing better to help me get more pumped up than a Random 10! Looking back at last week, I see that no one was banned. Cool. As usual, the rules and whatnot are over there → to the right.

Time for the kickoff!

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

Well that time is once again upon us peeps! Time to roll the dice and chance the hands of fate by turning the controls of media player over to the gods of randomness. Will they be kind to us? Or will they make me an object of ridicule? Will I be a man or a mouse? There's only one way to find out, so here we go!

1) Rick Wakeman(!)/Angel Falls - Apparently his album about his tribute to water. He hasn't shown up for quite awhile. If you don't know the joke with him, check out the size of his discography, particularly in the 90's. If there was a topic, he did an album about it.

2) Kansas/I Counted On Love - The follow up album to Power, which had its moments but wasn't as good.

3) The Moody Blues/Meet Me Halfway - Sounds exactly like you think it would.

4) Brittany Spears/Piece of Me - Here, take my man card. Time to break out the new award. Britney, this song has fallen to the Cybermen.

5) Chicago/Prelude to Aire - Little jazzy intro on Chicago VII. Album cover winner for the third time, therefore I think it goes into retirement after this.

6) YES/Roundabout - Finally some redemption! I'm in the middle of covering this album right now. Check out Side 1, which includes this song, right here.

7) The Human League/All I Ever Wanted - So 80's, which makes it awesome by default.

8) Sammy Hagar/Two Sides of Love - Welcome to the party pal! First appearance!

9) The Moody Blues/To Share Our Love - Meh. Almost sounds like it's from the 50's.

10) Fleetwood Mac/Gypsy - Was there ever a more perfect song for Stevie Nicks than this? Classic.

Could have been better I guess. I lost my man card, we broke out a new award, retired an album cover, and welcomed a new artist. That's actually quite a lot for one week. The Spinal Tap Commemorative Song (STCS) is Jon Anderson/Hurry Home (Song for the Pleiades).

Play us out Stevie, while I go see about that man card...

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Friday and the Random 10

I must say, this is my favorite post to write every week. I don't write it ahead of time either or fudge the results. I truly have no idea what will play when I start this. So here I am setting my media player on random and waiting to see what shows up. And away we go!

1) Korn/For No One - Well that was a heavy way to start the day. Not really my style. Just trying them out because of a friend.

2) The Moody Blues/Words You Say - Don't know this song. Very over the top with the orchestra.

3) The Buggles/Living in the Plastic Age - Video winner because a video actually exists of this song:

4) Steve Howe/Cruise Control - From Homebrew 3, which is the third (duh) collection of his at home demos that evolved into other songs or parts of other songs. I was really surprised at how much of Yes' music came from him. This piece eventually became New Languages on The Ladder album.

5) U2/The Fly - I do not really know much, or really cared about their music. This sounds cool though.

6) Yes/Harold Land - Now here's some classic stuff that I've already shared here.

7) Syd Barrett/Waving My Arms in the Air - I tried some of his stuff because of the whole Pink Floyd thing and from an episode of The X Files. IMHO, his music is complete crap and gets the Picard Award (brand new!)

8) ELO/Starlight - I love bands that have a certain sound and no matter what they play you know it's them.

9) Korn/Ball Tongue - I don't even know how to comment on this one. I'm just not a fan of the dark angry music. They might get the (so far unused) Cybermen Award before too long.

10) Phil Collins/In The Air Tonight - You know, the song where everyone (including Mike Tyson) knows the drum parts.

Well there we go for another week. I keep waiting for something new to show up, and for that matter, we haven't seen RW in quite awhile either! No album cover winner this week? Odd. The STCS for this week is Chicago/What Else Can I Say. Good, older stuff from them before the 80's happened.

Play us out Phil! Everyone drum along!