I always include an 11th song, the Spinal Tap Commemorative Award (11th, get it?). This came about when I would let the music continue playing as I typed and finished up, and the next song would be awesome. So this is how I included it.
Bannings: If someone shows up twice in the same countdown, then they are sent to Exile Island (it's a Survivor thing) and banned the following week. Three times gets a monthly ban. Sometimes they try to show up the next week, but I let the Tarkus take care of them:
This came about because of #8 in this countdown. It became a thing. Also, if you get "Tarkus'd", your banning gets extended for another week.
The current co-mayors of Exile Island are Rick Wakeman (6) and The Beatles (6), followed by Chicago (5), Yes (3), Rush (2), Billy Joel (2), Return to Forever, The Moody Blues, REO Speedwagon, Styx, Opeth, Daft Punk, Faith No More, and John Cougar Mellencamp.
I award songs if they're from an album with an awesome cover, have great lyrics, or have an awesome video.
Album Cover Winners*:
- AC/DC/Highway to Hell
- Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe (2)
- Asia/Asia, Alpha, Phoenix, Gravitas
- The Beatles/Abbey Road (2), White Album, Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band
- Bon Jovi/Slippery When Wet
- Boston/Third Stage (2)
- Camel/A Nod and a Wink
- Chicago/II, III, VI, VII
- Def Leppard/Hysteria, Pyromania
- ELO/Discovery, Time
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer/Brain Salad Surgery, Tarkus
- Enigma/The Cross of Changes
- Extreme/Pornograffiti
- Jon Anderson/Song of Seven
- Journey/Dream After Dream, Evolution (2), Infinity, Next
- Kansas/Audio Visions (2), Kansas (2)
- King Crimson/Discipline
- Led Zeppelin/Led Zeppelin (2), Led Zeppelin II
- The Moody Blues/Days of Future Passed
- No Doubt/Tragic Kingdom
- Pink Floyd/The Wall
- The Police/Ghost in the Machine
- Prince/Purple Rain (2)
- REO Speedwagon/Riding the Storm Out
- Rush/2112
- Saga/Worlds Apart
- Styx/Styx I, Equinox, Grand Illusion (2), Man of Miracles (2), Paradise Theater (2), Pieces of Eight (2)
- Tommy Shaw/Girls with Guns
- Van Halen/1984
- Yes/90125, 9012Live, Fragile (2), The Ladder, Union
* This was discontinued as I started using album covers for every song.
Viggle is a recognition app I use that gives you points for "checking in" with songs (and also TV shows). You can redeem the points for various things.
I welcome them if it's their first appearance on the list with this from Die Hard. The movie line is "Welcome to the party, pal!"
If it's a horrible sounding song, they get the Picard Award:
If it's so embarrassing or awful that I have to completely delete it, they get the Cybermen Award:
The "Warehouse of _____" is an homage to a phrase often used by a friend of mine (@hellokerra on Twitter), which was first used in this Random 10.
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