Friday and the Random 10 (Let's Get It Up Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (Jive Talkin' Edition)

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

Here's a picture.

I'm not ashamed...

Friday and the Random 10 (Surprise Edition)

What's the surprise? That there actually is a random 10 this week. I know it has been awhile, and my work schedule is not very conducive to lots of blogging time. That is something I will be addressing soon. I just never seem to have any time anymore. Me no likey.

Music!

YES Family Tree

This is from the YesYears box set and shows the many incarnations of Yes, and how they connect to other bands such as King Crimson, Asia, The Moody Blues, ELP and Genesis (up to 1991).

Friday and the Random 10 (Justify My Countdown Edition)

Not much to say.

Music!

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 (Back from the Cruise Edition)

So, yeah, I missed a week. With the trains being shut down for refurbishment in the Magic Kingdom, most of us train peeps are using up all of our saved up vacation time. This year a group of us decided to do something together so we went on a cruise to the Bahamas. My first cruise ever (and yes I got me a magnet).

So now that I am back on (semi) dry land, we can get back to our normally scheduled program:

My Top 10 Favorite Instrumentals

When I first got the idea for this post I just listed a bunch of songs down the page. I noticed a lot of music acts had done several that I like. So what I did was to limit everyone to just one appearance. Get it? Got it? Good.

I'm sure I missed some obvious ones too, but here are my top ten favorite instrumentals:

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10) King Crimson/Red

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9) Kansas/Musicatto

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8) The Alan Parsons Project/I Robot

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7) Vangelis/Chariots of Fire

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6) Rick Wakeman/Catherine of Aragon

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5) Journey/Kohoutek

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4) Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12/24

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3) Rush/La Villa Strangiato

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2) Emerson Lake & Palmer/Canario

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1) Yes (Steve Howe)/Mood For a Day

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Others considered:

Yes (Steve Howe)/Masquerade

Emerson Lake & Palmer/Changing States, Fanfare for the Common Man, Hoedown

The Nice/Ars Longa Vita Brevis (4th Movt.)

Def Leppard/Switch 625

Rush/YYZ

Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Moonlight and Madness

Journey/Topaz

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

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.