Friday and the Random 10 (Fill in the Blank Edition)

Sometimes I have a preconceived idea for the Random 10, and other times I hope the music itself will reveal a theme. Today I'm just blah so I will let the music speak to you and you can leave comments on what it should be named. Yay for reader participation! #FutureInternetSensation #ShareThe Love

Now onto some music:

Friday and the Random Ten (College Football Returns Edition)

Well it's about time! College football returns this weekend (actually started last night) and I know millions of people are happy about it. NFL? Whatever. Take you deflated balls and go home. My beloved #3 Alabama Crimson Tide opens up tomorrow night with #20 Wisconsin. Gonna be a slobberknocker! How bout some music to get us fired up? If you're not fired up already something is wrong with you...

Friday and the Random 10 (White and Gold Dress Edition)

Apparently the big buzz on the internet though is about that damn dress on the right. Umm, it is totally white and gold and I am not sorry for seeing it that way. Maybe I am just more perceptive than others. I'm sticking with that. Black and blue? I just don't get it.

In other news, February is winding down. Oh man, if only today was the 28th then I could do an end of the month extravaganza. But alas no, we are one day short of that so it's just a basic Random 10. However, we do have some exiles on the island this time so the Tarkus may be lurking around somewhere...

As a quick review of last week, you can follow this link, or check out the artists in 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 (Tarkus Free Edition)

After last week, I am not really sure how this edition will go. Exile Island seems to be filling up, even though I have been deleting a lot of technically unnecessary crap from my music inventory. I have also been adding more "solid" stuff for a more rounded experience. I hope the effects start to show soon.

Speaking of that Exile Island, it currently looks like this:

Friday and the Random 10 (Disney Lingo Edition)

Wow, I am up way too early today. It has been another busy week at work, but at least tonight is another one of those short nights. Not NoJ this time, but MNSSHP. What? You don't speak Disney? That's Night of Joy and Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party. Yes, Halloween. In the middle of September. Bad part is this is already the third one. Third!

Enough of that though, let's get to the music. Looking back at last week, I see that The Beatles got banned, joining RW in being 101. Predictable.

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

Who is 102? Let's see...

1) Jethro Tull/Wind-Up - You know what every band needs? A lead singer that plays the flute. This is from the album Aqualung. Sound familiar? Yeah, it's what Ron Burgundy plays on his flute in the Anchorman movies.

2) RW/Slaveman RW/Minas Tirith Frank Zappa/Don't Eat the Yellow Snow - Something new I added this week. Sorry, but it's mostly crap to me. Also:

3) Frank Zappa/Louie Louie - And welcome to being banned. More crap.

4) Porcupine Tree/Blackest Eyes - The album cover winner here describes how I feel when guests ask me a dumb question:

5) Sammy Hagar/Bad Motor Scooter - Back in his days with Montrose.

6) Styx/Put Me On - Back when they seemed to start every album with a JY song. DDY does sing one part though.

7) Daft Punk/Crescendolls - Good. I needed a little credibility. However, this beat is slightly annoying.

8) Starcastle/Forces - Wow, if ever there was a band that wanted to be the American Yes then this is them. I like their music though.

9) Gentle Giant/Alucard - More of that early 70's jazz fusion that seems to be annoying the crap out of me for some reason this morning.

10) Yes/Vevey (Revisited) - A bonus track from the Going for the One re-issue. They were obviously working on a smaller part of a larger song here (probably Awaken) since it is only an organ and harp playing. Yeah, I said harp.

Well there we go for another week. I don't know why I feel irritated by this music today. At least I won't have to listen to Zappa next week because of the banning. I may go back and delete a lot of his inventory. The Beatles are now 102 and able to participate next week. RW has an ROS until September ends.

The STCS is Wendy Carlos/Ending Titles (Tron soundtrack). The original movie where everything had a computer "sound". Makes me want to call DACS.

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

Play us out boys!

Friday and the Random 10 is now 10-7 for the week. 

Friday and the Random 10

Hey, guess what? It's Friday and you know what that means! We're all hung over because yesterday was payday? Nope (although partly true), it's time for the Random 10! As usual the rules are over there → to the right and looking back at last week no one got banned, though RW is still serving out his monthly suspension.

Let the music play!

1) Emerson Lake & Palmer/Paper Blood - The last ELP album that was worth a damn. This was actually their "hit" single.

2) Jimmy Buffet/Ragtop Day - Now this is closer to the mood I'm in.

3) Porcupine Tree/Blackest Eyes - I was really digging these guys for awhile. Give a listen:

4) Styx/Lorelei - Not the original but the remake from their Regeneration CD. James Young just doesn't do it for me. This is a DDY song all the way. Also, I named my youngest daughter Lorelei after this song.

5) Styx/Children of the Land - Album cover winner, even if it does get them banned next week.

6) Yes/All in All - Song that was edited out from a much longer piece That, That Is.

7) Daft Punk/Encom Part 1 - From the Tron Legacy soundtrack. These guys are cool.

8) The Nice/Don Edito el Gruva - This was Keith Emerson's band before ELP. They did a lot of instrumentals by playing classical music (mostly Germanic composers) as rock songs. This is actually one of Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. Oh, and:

9) Yes/Siberian Khatru - Banned as well, but great song from Close to the Edge. I still don't know what a "khatru" is.

10) Steve Howe/Break Away From It All - One of his demos from Homebrew 4.

So Yes and Styx get banned for next week which isn't that surprising considering I have their entire catalogs of music. The STCS for this week is AC/DC/Sink the Pink. Uh huh. You read that right. They are so playing us out. Until next week, stay classy central Florida.

Friday and the Random 10

Well we've reached the end to another week. Could be good, could be bad, could be just meh. But it's always a party when the Random 10 comes rolling along (Lord I hope so anyway). So it's time to set your various music devices on shuffle and hope the gods of randomness are kind to you.

And away we go!

1) AC/DC/All Screwed Up - that's what I'm talking about.

2) Apollo 440/Electro Glide in Blue - I like these guys' stuff

3) Tommy Shaw/Kiss Me Hello - a great song from TS's first solo album Girls with Guns.

4) Porcupine Tree/The Sound of Muzak - they toured with Yes a few years back and I had never heard of them so I thought I would give them a try. They're kind of one of those newer prog bands.

5) The Alan Parsons Project/I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You - another band that toured with Yes, but I actually got to see them in concert (Nashville, I think). I was severely impressed by them that I don't remember much about Yes' performance. This is also they're first appearance in the Random 10!

6) Saga/Amnesia - all hail these Canadian rockers! Album cover winner for the cool 80's sunglasses.

7) Van Halen/So This is Love? - during the David Lee Roth days.

8) Extreme/It's a Monster - I love this band. They did much, much better stuff than that More Than Words song. I wish more people would give them a listen, especially Extreme II and III.

9) Def Leppard/Heaven Is - Doesn't Adrenalize sound like a continuation of Hysteria? It does to me.

10) Camel/Preparation - more smooth sounds from them. Very mellow.

Well there we have it. Not a bad mix. No one got Cyberman'd (deleted!) this time around, although I'm so ready for that to happen next time. The STCS for this week is Casting Crowns/Glorious Day. If you have any music suggestions please leave them in the comment box below. Thanks! No real video to play us out this week so I'm going to leave you with this:

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Bamageddon and the Random 10

I didn't get time to post this yesterday so i'm going to take care of it today. And today is a special day: Alabama vs LSU, #1 vs #2, good vs evil, etc. Some are calling today a game for the ages. I am calling it Bama-geddon <deep scary echoing voice>.

So anyway, I'm calling on the football gods and the gods of chance and randomness to give me a killer awesome Top 10 to take me into tonite's clash. Bring it on!

1) Daft Punk/Victory - hell yeah, is that an omen? From the Tron soundtrack.

2) Porcupine Tree/Strip the Soul - that's what Bama will do to the LSU players

3) Red Hot Chili Peppers/I Could Have Lied - nice mellow song

4) Jon Anderson/Everybody Loves You - but I love you just a little bit more...

5) Journey/In My lonely Feeling/Conversations - talk about some great old Journey! Gonna share this one:

6) Cyndi Lauper/I Drove All Night - for such a quirky person she certainly has an amazing voice

7) Third Day/I've Always Loved You - for Cat, not that she reads this or cares the way I do

8) Chicago/Loneliness is Just a Word - great early Chicago (mandatory album cover below)

9) Aerosmith/Back in the Saddle - back to #1 where we belong!

10) The Rolling Stones/Miss You - wow, alot of songs about missing, loving and being lonely but that conversation is for another time...I'll stick to the VICTORY and left Daft Punk play us out...

ROLL TIDE!