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...

 

 

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!