This Day in Music History: Guns 'N' Roses/Appetite for Destruction (07/21)

Hello world, meet Axl Rose! On this date in 1987, Guns N' Roses released their kick-ass debut album Appetite for Destruction. It reached #1 on the Billboard album chart and sold over 18 million copies.

The album included such classics as "Welcome to the Jungle", "Sweet Child o' Mine", and my personal favorite "Paradise City".

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Friday and the Random 10 (I Thought That They Were Angels Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (Existential Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (Black Friday Edition)

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

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Friday and the Random 10 (Urgent Edition)

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

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Friday and the Random 10 (Escape the Voice Edition)

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

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Friday and the Random 10 (Neal Schon's Afro Edition)

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

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Afros are cool

Friday and the Random 10 (Pokemon Go Edition)

So yeah, I think it is about time I mentioned the craze that is currently sweeping the nation: Pokemon Go. And, no I don't play it because, in the words of my friend Scott, "I'm a grown ass man". However, I knew it was going to be huge. How? Well I play another little app called Ingress, which is also developed by Niantic, just like Pokemon GO. 

As a matter of fact, all the Pokemon locations (whatever they're called) are actually the locations of portals in Ingress. Like copied straight over. Ingress portals are near objects of art, parks, and historical areas (that's why you can catch Picazulu at places like the Holocaust Museum...it wasn't meant to be disrespectful, it's that it was considered an important location in the other game).

So right now I am working on combining this countdown with a list of the Top 10 Pokemon(s?...Pokemen?...Pokemai?) as told to me by my daughters Wendy and Lorelei. It will probably suck, but here goes: 

Friday and the Random 10 (John Snow is Alive Edition)

Oh you knew he was alive. You, just like everyone else, kept staring at that table and expected him to open his eyes or jump up. The question is, was he alive already, or did the red witch actually bring him back? I never read the books so I don't know any future spoilers. #JohnSnowLives #GameOfThrones

Music is coming...

Friday and the Random 10 (NFL Draft Edition)

You know, I just don't get it. I know I am a big Bama homer, but one guy drafted in the first round? And not even a defensive player? Am I the only one that actually watched football this past season? I saw team after team "reaching" for player after player, including the Ole Mess players with drug/assault problems. Hey guys, there's a reason your team was 3-13 last year and you have a new head coach every other season. #Idiots #ICanDraftBetterThanThat

I suppose there's always Round 2 today. Ugh...

Friday and the Random 10 (Post Plague Edition)

Oh man, yeah I know I missed last week but I had a good reason: the plague. Yeah I have been kinda sickly which caused me to miss several days of work. Luckily, I had the sick pay on file to take care of it. Now that I am 85% back to "normal" I can try to get things back on track. How about some music?

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Friday and the Random 10 (Work in Progress Edition)

If you tuned in last week you may have noticed down at the bottom I added an actual podcast. I encountered a few problems with the music from YouTube, but hopefully I have most of that sorted out. Don't judge me too hard, it was a first attempt and definitely still a work in progress. Oh well, here we go again. Second verse, same as the first:

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This Day in Music History: Guns N' Roses/Use Your Illusion I&II (09/17)

Released on this day in 1991, Guns N' Roses gave the world not one, but two albums at the same time: Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II.

Friday and the Random 10 (Broken Down Car Blues Edition)

So yeah on the way home from a magical kingdom Monday I had a bit of a car problem. There was a break in the attachment where the radiator hose goes and all of my water leaked out on the highway. This caused my car to overheat badly (duh) and basically burn itself up. Thanks to a friend I was able to get home and all, but the car is toast. Literally. So now I have no car and no way into work. That's been my week, how is yours?

So last week I celebrated the end of July with a special Random 10 31. That's how we roll around here. Unfortunately that's the only rolling going on lately. Car joke, get it? Anyway, so this week's randomness comes from these albums below:

Friday and the Random 10 (Easter Chocolate Edition)

We another week has passed us by yada yada yada. What exactly does "yada" mean anyway? No idea. But I digress. Looking back at last week I see that no one got banned so this week should be smooth sailing. As usual the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top.

No whammies!

Friday and the Random 10 (Friday the 13th Edition)

Yeah I know it's been a few weeks since I have rolled one of these out, but you know how the holidays go (especially when you work for the Mouse). And don't worry, the weekly tradition will continue into 2014 as well, plus a few other things I have up my sleeve.

Enough of that Von, get down to the music!

Friday and the Random 10 (When dreams are fading...)

Yeah, I know the blog posts have kind of slowed down a bit. Remember back when I was blogging like all the time? Yeah, that was when I was unemployed. Work takes up so much time now. Heck, I even forgot it was Friday there for a while. But fear not I won't let you  all down!

Friday and the Random 10

Now that I have finished that other wimpy post, it's time for something manly. How about some music? And let's make it random! Yeah, you know the deal. The rules and whatnot are over there → to the right as always. Looking back at last week I see that Chicago and, ummm who would that be, oh yeah Rick Wakeman are banned for this week. On a side note, I deleted a lot of RW last week, only leaving the actual classics. The rest was just...unnecessary.

And now for the manly music!

Friday and the Random 10

Never fear, the Random 10 is here! Not as early as I would have liked today, but hey life happens. The rules are still over there to the right → along with other information. But enough wasting time. Let's get down to it!

1) King Crimson/Book of Saturday - Nice mellow way to start from Lark's Tongue in Aspic.

2) Jon Anderson/Top of the World (The Glass Bead Game) - This is actually one of the better songs from his solo album City of Angels which has a lot of the musicians from Toto.

3) Steve Howe/Solar Winds II - from his Homebrew 4 album which is full of all his demo tracks and things that evolved into many, many Yes songs.

4) Guns N' Roses/Live and Let Die - Yeah. Just yeah.

5) Yes/America - Yet another live version of this song. Must be the short version at only 16:18. I have really got to go in and clean some of this stuff out.

6) Styx/Castle Walls - DDY and the boys at their best in the 70's. Instant album cover winner.

7) Def Leppard/Lady Strange - Awesome early stuff from them.

8) Aerosmith/Come Together - From the Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band movie soundtrack. Say what you want, but this is one of my guilty pleasures. I love this movie. It ranks right up there with Xanadu. I'm not ashamed.

9) Red Hot Chili Peppers/Good Time Boys - I still like their sound.

10) Britney Spears/Oops, I Did It Again - Well, f*ck! I had just got my Man Card™ back...

Let's face it, I'm not recovering from that last one. Maybe the STCS will cancel it out? Drumroll please: Hall & Oates/Wait For Me. Crap (but welcome to the countdown by the way). Things started out so well. I get to hang my head in shame over this one for a whole week. I can hear the comments now.

I'm going to go cry in a corner while Jon Jon plays us out.

 

 

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...