The Random 10 (Saturday Edition)

So yeah I spent a full day at a theme park yesterday and didn't get the chance to randomize my music collection. Looking at last week I see that Yes is ineligible and ABWH is banned in the month of June altogether. As usual, the rules are over there → along with awards and whatnot.

Here we go...

1) Hall & Oates/You've Lost That Loving Feeling - Sucky remake. Not an awesome start.

2) Absolute Elsewhere/Toktela - Some kind of jazzy electronic music from the 70's.

3) Jon Anderson/Surrender - Even I am getting tired of his stuff.

4) Yes/If Only You Knew, Yes/Perpetual Change Jimmy Buffet/Why Don't We Get Drunk - Sounds like a plan to me.

5) The Beatles/Rocky Raccoon - Sometimes I don't even think they were trying. Or maybe they were into some really good drugs.

6) Skye Sweetnam/Tangled Up In Me - Okay this is one of those teen female singers I occasionally get hung up on.

7) Tommy Shaw/The Outsider - From Tommy's early solo days.

8) Pink Floyd/The Narrow Way (pt. 2) - Not to be confused with parts one or three. No idea here.

9) Styx/Lords of the Ring - This was from way before the movies, and is totally unrelated. Album cover winner for sure though.

 

10) Jimmy Buffet/The Captain and the Kid - Another boat and sailing song. Nice, but it got him banned for next week.

 

Well there it is. I'm not that enthusiastic about it either. The STCS for this week is Styx/Aku Aku. Wow, same album as above. Might as well ban them next week too. Meh, whatever.

 

Play us out Skye!

 

Friday and the Random 10

Never fear, the Random 10 is here! Not as early as I would have liked today, but hey life happens. The rules are still over there to the right → along with other information. But enough wasting time. Let's get down to it!

1) King Crimson/Book of Saturday - Nice mellow way to start from Lark's Tongue in Aspic.

2) Jon Anderson/Top of the World (The Glass Bead Game) - This is actually one of the better songs from his solo album City of Angels which has a lot of the musicians from Toto.

3) Steve Howe/Solar Winds II - from his Homebrew 4 album which is full of all his demo tracks and things that evolved into many, many Yes songs.

4) Guns N' Roses/Live and Let Die - Yeah. Just yeah.

5) Yes/America - Yet another live version of this song. Must be the short version at only 16:18. I have really got to go in and clean some of this stuff out.

6) Styx/Castle Walls - DDY and the boys at their best in the 70's. Instant album cover winner.

7) Def Leppard/Lady Strange - Awesome early stuff from them.

8) Aerosmith/Come Together - From the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band movie soundtrack. Say what you want, but this is one of my guilty pleasures. I love this movie. It ranks right up there with Xanadu. I'm not ashamed.

9) Red Hot Chili Peppers/Good Time Boys - I still like their sound.

10) Britney Spears/Oops, I Did It Again - Well, f*ck! I had just got my Man Card™ back...

Let's face it, I'm not recovering from that last one. Maybe the STCS will cancel it out? Drumroll please: Hall & Oates/Wait For Me. Crap (but welcome to the countdown by the way). Things started out so well. I get to hang my head in shame over this one for a whole week. I can hear the comments now.

I'm going to go cry in a corner while Jon Jon plays us out.