Friday and the Random 10 (Blue Brains Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (Snowblind Edition)

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

Here's a picture.

JY is a bad mofo.

Friday and the Random 10 (Walk This Way Edition)

So last week I started messing with the format again and I think I am going to stick with it for awhile. I have also been singing Xanadu all week but that's neither here nor there. So below you will see only album covers from this week's Random 10.

Friday and the Random 10 (Xanadu Edition)

You know, I was looking at last week's Random Ten and, like all the others before it, I kinda realized that the picture for the post has nothing to do with the current post itself. So this week I am calling an audible and trying something new. The following picture contains the albums from today's Random Ten:

Friday and the Random 10 (Snowmageddon Edition)

The big news lately I guess has been the weather up north. Like OMG, it's like snowing...in winter! I bet it snowed this time last year too. Apart from having Jim Cantorgasms over the thunder snowstorm (okay, that was actually cool), down here in Florida it just doesn't seem like y'all live on the same planet as I do. I mean look at the 10 day forecast over there on the right. Over the weekend we are expected to be close to the 80's. And you know what? I hate it. Give me a freaking winter for at least a month please. I will trade you some of this sunshine and humidity for just a few inches of snow. I wish there was somebody we could talk to about this...

Anyway, I guess there is nothing I can do about that. What we can do is think happy thoughts and let the gods of randomness show favor upon us by blessing us with some great music for the soul. Last week was Friday the 13th, which is a day we celebrate around these parts. As a quick review, you can follow this link, or check out 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 (Rockin' Edition)

Right now we find ourselves poised on the precipice of the holiday season (I don't count Halloween). By this time next week, we will have passed out into our Tryptofan comas after experiencing severe meat sweats. Others will head into the madness that is Black Friday. Me? Oh I work for Disney so I will be working. A lot. Like 80+ hours in the next week. Makes for a decent paycheck but the only family I will be seeing is my coworkers. #CastMemberLife

Friday and the Random 10 (Viggle Edition)

I have been playing around with this app called Viggle. Some of you may know about it already. Apparently you can earn points just for watching TV that you can redeem for gift cards and such. I haven't gotten that far just yet, but I have noticed that it also has a music option that will identify what you are playing for points as well. Been using that on my drive to and from work. Figured I might as well use it here as well. Points are points right?

Well anyway, looking back at last week I see there was a lot of activity. The Beatles got the monthly ban, and Mr. Pina Colada-burg got Tarkus'd so we won't be seeing him this week either (I have no idea how to make the tilde over the "n"). As always the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top.

Let's Viggle away!

1) Van Halen/Girl Gone Bad - Yeah that's the way to start off. Classic album cover:

2) Ratt/Back for More - Oh it looks like we're rockin' this week.

3) Billy Joel/The Longest Time - Well at least it was still in the 80's.

4) Camel/Drafted - Wow, Viggle identified this before I could figure it out who it was. I still love their sound.

5) The Beatles/Tell Me Why

5) Kansas/The Pinnacle - Completely epic. No one does music like this anymore.

6) Chicago/Where Do We Go From Here - Now this is some old school stuff back when they were still hippies.

7) Casting Crowns/Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me) - Wow, it's been a long time since they've shown up.

8) Styx/Kiss Your Ass Goodbye - Okay apparently Viggle doesn't work too well with live versions. Sounds crappy anyway.

9) Steve Howe/Never Stop Learning - Viggle had a hard time with this demo but it eventually matched it. Yes, this demo did end up on ABWH as Brother of Mine.

10) Jimi Hendrix/May This Be Love - Believe it or not I'm not very familiar with a lot of his stuff. Working on changing that.

Well there it is. The Fab Four tried but the Tarkus got them. Everything else was pretty cool. The STCS this week is Jimmy Buffett/Creola Err, umm, no. I'm going to ignore that and go with the next one which is Jimi Hendrix/Purple Haze. Much better, but now Jimi can't show up next week. Ugh. That's the way it goes.

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

Play us out magnificently boys!

Friday and the Random 10 (Gloomy Weather Edition)

I know a lot of yall out there have more reason than I do to complain about the weather but c'mon Florida! Yes it was 84 degrees a few days ago...in February...but two days later it's in the 40's?!? And today its dark and gloomy. Be consistent already! Ugh!

You know what is consistent? That's right, Friday and the Random 10! Looking back at last week, I see that Kansas gets a weekly ban and The Moody Blues get to take the whole month off. Will the Tarkus arise for the first time in 2014? Inquiring minds want to know...

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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Friday and the Random Ten

Well here we go with another week of randomness. Same rules as always: set it to random and list the first ten songs that pop up.

1) Trans-Siberian Orchestra/The Moment - the have a couple of non-Christmas albums. This is from Beethoven's Last Night

2) The Moody Blues/Your Wildest Dreams - cool 80's song

3) Thomas Dolby/Urges - I still love his stuff

4) Styx/Show Me the Way - remember when they did this song with a mash up from clips about the Gulf War? Styx was relevant again...for awhile...

5) Yes/Five Percent For Nothing - this is a small 35 second instrumental piece from Fragile (album cover winner!). It was named after the band giving 5% of the profits to the record company to pay for some equipment. They felt it was a waste, obviously.

6) The Beatles/If I Needed Someone - some oldie stuff before they got really interesting

7) Casting Crowns/Glory - my fave Christian group

8) Alabama/She Can - I just cant get into country. I just keep them because of the name.

9) Dennis DeYoung/Desert Moon - probably the best solo song from any of the Styx members. I so wanted to be just like DDY in the 80's. Easy video winner.

10) Rush/The Pass - not one of their better songs or albums

Well there we go. The STCS for this week is Chicago/Must Have Been Crazy. Weird album by them trying to survive the disco era.

Play us out quickly Bill Bruford!

Friday and the Random 10 (Tempus Fugit Edition)

Well another Friday is upon us and you know what that means! No, Von sitting at home without a date is not the answer (though sadly true). This is Spring Break week for me and my girls, but they've had more free time than I have. So I've taken some time away from our movie marathons and hours of Kingdom Hearts to spread a little randomness into everyone's week. I hope it doesn't suck like last week...

1) Genesis/It's Gonna Get Better - they cranked out some awesome music for awhile there back in the 80's until Phil went all solo

2) Alabama/Moonlight Lounge - I deleted alot of their stuff after last week but it looks like some of it is still trying to break through

3) The Beatles/Dizzy Miss Lizzie - way way old stuff from them...back when they sounded like everybody else...not impressed

4) ABWH/Themes - easy album cover winner here...this hangs over the couch in my living room

5) YES/Tempus Fugit - wow, back to back "alternate" YES bands...this was the first album without Jon Anderson...RW was also gone, but sadly not for the first time...all this mess is what started the dominoes falling which eventually led to ABWH...people wanted out, people wanted to move forward, enter The Buggles, and so on and so forth...this is also where the idea from the 2011 YES album Fly From Here originated all those years ago...yes, how time flies...

6) Alabama/Gonna Have a Party - again?...what the hell?... I've got more deleting to do...

7) Camel/Survival - I really need to listen to these guys more...very very nice smooth sounding music

8) Styx/Golden Lark - a really nice DDY song from Man of Miracles..at least it's not a love song

9) Led Zeppelin/The Rain Song - I still cant get into Zep that much...some of it rocks but I don't like the bluesy whiny stuff

10) YES/Yours is No Disgrace - Epic song. Epic album. Epic lyrics.

Yesterday a morning came, a smile upon your face.

Caesar's palace, morning glory, silly human race,

On a sailing ship to nowhere, leaving any place,

If the summer change to winter, yours is no disgrace.

Battleships confide in me and tell me where you are,

Shining, flying, purple wolfhound, show me where you are,

Lost in summer, morning, winter, travel very far,

Lost in musing circumstances, that's just where you are. 

Well there goes another week, but I know I have one less reader from now on (RIP Donna). The Spinal Tap Commemorative Song for this week is Casting Crowns/Stained Glass Masquerade. Good song but I'm gonna let ABWH play it out...

Friday and the Random 10 (Until the Whole World Reads)

Well I finally got to sleep in today and get some well needed rest. I still have to work tonite but I feel refreshed! And now for this week's Random 10. Put that mp3 player or Ipod on random and list the first 10 songs that pop up, no matter how embarrassing (at least in my respect). And away we go...

1) Van Halen/Spanked - when Sammy was still in the band

2) RHCP/Freaky Styley Jam - donwnloaded their whole catalog and need to get rid of these "live" performances, which I've never been a fan of anyway...even for YES (gasp!)

3) Steve Howe/The Go Between - this is from one of his "Homebrew" cd's that had alot of his demos from his home studio that eventually ended up part of ABWH/YES songs...this became the guitar part for the beginning of "Quartet" from ABWH and also parts sound like "New State of Mind" from Yes's Open Your Eyes

4) Velvet Revolver/Just Sixteen - havent listened to this much

5) Casting Crowns/Until the Whole World Hears - love me some CC! Video winner:

6) Esquire/Sunshine - great voice but overdoes it I think

7) Dennis DeYoung/Beneath the Moon - another love song but damn that man can sing

8) Alabama/I'll Be There Call on Me - about the only country I like but this one just plain sounds weird

9) Camel/Rhayader - more smooth jazz

10) YES/Rhythm of Love (remix) - another one of those bonus dance remixes from Big Generator (mandatory album cover below)

Friday and the Random 10

Another week, another date with randomness. Set your Ipod or mp3 player (or media player in my case) to random and list the first 10 songs that pop up, no matter how embarrassing or tacky.

And away we go again!

1) Van Halen/Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now) - with crap like this I can see why VH booted him for Sammy

2) The Buggles/Astroboy (and the Proles on parade) - great album with a great sound...I still dont know what a "Prole" is...give a listen though

3) YES/Owner of a Lonely Heart (Extended Dance Mix) - remember when everything was made into a dance mix back in the late 80's early 90's? Yeah this is a neat little tidbit but no as awesome as the original song

4) Kansas/Nobody's Home - love love love this song...album cover winner here

5) Dennis DeYoung/Call Me - still trying to right the next great love song for the band that doesnt want him anymore...

6) Casting Crowns/Praise You in this Storm - awesome song...I still praise God in the middle of my storms

7) Casting Crowns/Who Am I - wow a double shot of CC! Maybe God is trying to tell me something...

8) U2/Even Better Than the Real Thing - I never got them and still dont see what the big deal is...they did some nice songs but I wouldnt anoint them kings of anything

9) Dire Straits/Money for Nothing - I cant just not show the video for this one

10) Foreigner/Break It Up - from "4" - another awesome album cover!

And thats it for another week. Maybe some RW next time? Until then...YES!