Friday and the Random 10 (Emotions in Motion Edition)

Welcome to a new and improved, simplified and stripped down Random 10! 

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Friday and the Random 10 (Smashing Pumpkins Edition)

So yes, Hurricane Matthew came and closed Disney last Friday, but fortunately that's all he did. We avoided the heavy rains in my area, while enjoying the full on breezy evening. Best of luck to the others who were not so lucky though.

October and pukey orange only means one thing where I'm from (no not pumpkin spice flavored anything): Alabama versus Tennessee! Welcome to Hate Week.

Friday and the Random 10 (Hurricane Matthew Edition)

Oh yeah, it's THAT time of the year down in the FL too. People ask me, does Disney close for hurricanes? Yep. If it's a matter of guest safety then they will close (last time was in '04 I believe). They even have "rideout crews" that you can sign up for to do sandbags, move trashcans, etc. I always sign up for that because it sounds fun. And they put you up in a nice hotel.

UPDATE: Disney is closed today Friday, Oct 7.

So let's pass some time to randomized music while watching to see if Jim Cantore shows up on Main Street, USA.

Friday and the Random 10 (1987 Blockbuster Album Edition)

Well here we go for yet another week of randomness. I'm still feeling out the new format to see if I like it or not. I'm still worried about the time it takes, but as long as I can keep my Friday's off I should be okay. Yay for off days!

As a quick review of last week, you can follow this link, or check out the cool picture below: 

Highlights from last week

Yeah, that's a new thing too. Might as well use some of these programs I have all over my computer. This blog hasn't been this exciting since I started using verbs!

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

Friday and the Random 10 (Where Did July Go? Edition)

Wow, I can't believe it's August already. Seems at Disney we gear up so much for the 4th of July that once it's passed the summer just flies by. Unfortunately the temperatures are not affected one bit. It's still miserable...

Well at least a new month gives us new hope. The Moody Blues could not escape last week's countdown, but at least The Beatles are free as a bird now. As usual the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top.

Let's see what August hits us with...

1) Jane Child/Biology - I've spoken of my crush on her before. I think it was that chain that connected her earring to her nose ring that got me going. Yowza!

2) Genesis/Heathaze - Typical 80's Phil Collins sound.

3) Enigma/In the Shadow, In the Light - Turn everything off and break out the candles...

4) Apollo 440/White Man's Throat - Man so far everything is jazzy and funky.

5) Chicago/Elegy: Canon - Nice, horns only segment of a much larger piece. Album cover winner too:

6) The Human League/Life on Your Own - Another song of theirs I have never heard of, but if you had asked me who it was I could have told you right away.

7) Styx/Kiss Your Ass Goodbye - Glenn Burtnik song when he was still in the band. I love this song.

8) Tommy Shaw/Outside in the Rain - Speaking of Styx, this is when Tommy went solo and left the band to DDY (chills). Burtnik on #7 was actually his replacement.

9) The Moody Blues/Your Wildest Dreams

9) America/Political Poachers - Yeah, umm okay. No idea. I thought they only did love songs and sang about horses in the desert.

10) Velvet Revolver/Psycho Killer - Still haven't gotten into them much yet.

Wow, those Moody Blues don't know when to quit do they? Just one more week and they could have been free and clear, but no they go and get Tarkus'd again. Oh well.

The STCS for the first week in August is Journey/Sand Castles. Bet you've never heard that one have ya? It's from the soundtrack of a Japanese film called Dream, After Dream. It's actually one of my favorite Journey albums. Cool.

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

I'll let my 80's crush play us out!

Friday and the Random 10 (Too Moody Edition)

So here we go again. Last week was a mess of sorts I suppose. We have The Beatles, Jimmy Buffett and Jimi Hendrix all unavailable for this week's countdown. That's the most I can ever recall at the same time. Don't know what I'm talking about? Check the rules and whatnot up there ↑ at the top.

Moving on. Some of you may wonder how I name each "edition". Well I really have to wait until the end to see how things actually played out. That is how randomness works. Anyway, let's fire up Viggle (yeah I'm still playing with that) and the music and see what we get.

Here we go!

1) The Human League/The Lebanon - Never heard this one before. A whole 80's edition would be awesome though.

2) Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Tracers - One of their non-Christmas CD's. This one was called Night Castle and parts of it are just plain wicked. In a good way.

3) The Moody Blues/Evening:The Sunset:Twilight Time - Awesome album with an orchestra. Album cover winner:

4) The Moody Blues/Running Out of Love - Ugh they can never show up just once it seems. Banned.

5) Joan Jett & The Blackhearts/You Don't Know What You've Got - Keep on rocking you sexy thang!

6) Van Halen/(Oh) Pretty Woman - They got to a point where they did a lot of other people's songs. I don't know why.

7) Jon Anderson/Good Day Morning - Even Viggle couldn't figure out what the Hell Jon was singing about.

8) Asia/The Last to Know - Great, great song from Alpha.

9) The Mahavishnu Orchestra/Sister Andrea - Cool. Haven't heard from these guys in awhile.

10) Enigma/Callas Went Away - Wow, Viggle couldn't sort out the Jon Anderson song, but gets this right away from birds chirping? Dang.

Well there we go for another week. None of the three got Tarkus'd, but The Moody Blues did get banned. Both Jimmy's get set free, but The Beatles still have to wait until the month is over. That's how the rules work.

The STCS this week is Yes/Something's Coming, which is a song I never knew about until I got the YesYears box set. It's from the West Side Story. Yeah, back when they would take popular songs and "Yesify" them. Good, creative stuff.

And there we have it. 

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

Play us out solemnly boys...

Friday and the Random 10

Another week gone and time to do one of my favorite weekly posts. Not that it is wildly popular, it's just something that's fun for me to do. A look back at last week shows me that good ole RW got a monthly ban. Oh well, we will all survive somehow. As usual, the rules and whatnot are over there → to the right.

 

Let's get this train a rolling!

1) Tommy Shaw/Love You Too Much - This was during the post Styx/pre Damn Yankees period where he did a few solo albums. Some good songs in there but you would have thought they would have been better.

2) Foreigner/I'll Get Even With You - Some good ole stuff from Head Games.

3) Trio/Da Da Da - Okay, I had to Google this one to get the name of the band. It's on some miscellaneous 80's album. You know, this song that will be stuck in your head all day now:

4) Saga/The Sound of Strangers - Canadian rockers! It seems I am stuck in the 80's.

5) C2T/Close to the Hype - What is the worst rap sampling dance mix you can possibly imagine? Hey, let's use a lot of Yes's lyrics in a rap and get Jon Anderson to sing on it. On a side note, I actually like this and there was no video for it so I made one.

 

6) Boston/Surrender to Me - And the ass kicking continues! Right before they fell off a cliff.

7) Pink Floyd/Vera - Still cant get into them but classic album cover.

8) The B-52's/Rock Lobster - I have no words,

9) The Human League/(Keep Feeling) Fascination - I looked. I learned. I moved on.

10) Kanas/What's On My Mind - From Leftoverture. Classic and Kansas at their peak.

Well there we have it. It seems I had a hard time getting out of the 80's, which isn't such a bad thing. No one got banned, probably because I cleaned out a lot of crap last night. The STCS for this week is Chicago/Devil's Sweet. Well it's been that kind of countdown so might as well let them play us out...

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 Night and the Random 10

You know, I've really got stop doing these so late at night. Well, at least they're getting done. The way it works is this: set your Ipod or mp3 player or media player on random and list the first 10 songs that pop up, no matter how embarrassing...

Another week, another 10!

1) Extreme/Little Girls - this is from their 1st cd before they hit it (kinda) big

2) Dennis DeYoung/This I Pray - from his The Hunchback of Notre Dame musical that he wrote...it's ok I guess

3) Deep Purple/Smoke on the Water - wow, how can you get more classic than this?...the holy trinity of rock!

4) Styx/Lonely Child - hey DDY shows up again (you know, before they kicked him out)...classic album cover

5) YES/Roundabout (single edit) - this was a bonus track on the remastered Fragile cd....and it's kind of a bad edit anyway...just doesnt flow for me

6) Alabama/When We Make Love - yeah, weak....

7) The Human League/Heart Like a Wheel - the 80's called and they want this song back, and as far as I'm concerned they can have it

8) Alabama/If You're Gonna Play in Texas (You Gotta Have a Fiddle in the Band) - you know, I actually deleted alot of the Alabama that I had just a few days ago so it's kinda weird that they've shown up twice so far....karma? Payback?

9) The Beatles/Please Please Me - see, I do have good taste!

10) The Beatles/Eleanor Rigby - awesome song, but i'm feeling my random 10 isn't very random tonite

And the Spinal Tap salute this week is Rush/New World Man. I really hope someone is getting that reference... Anyway, there it is, I'll let DP play us out!