Friday and the Random 10 (Still Stuck in the Hotel Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (Best I Can Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (Hello November Goodbye October Edition)

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

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Friday and the Random 10 (Emotions in Motion Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (You Wish All Musicals Were This Good Edition)

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Still not ashamed...

Friday and the Random 10 (Abacab Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (Florida Sucks Edition)

Well last week was the Halloween edition with a song for every day in October. Now it is time to turn the calendar over to November and start worrying about the holidays to come. Yeah, it's all out there in front of us. The Magic Kingdom is all decked out for Christmas already with decorations and the big tree going up. I walked through Town Square today with "Winter Wonderland" playing at a nice chilly 88 degrees. Florida sucks y'all.

Music, please take me away from this madness...

Friday and the Random 10 (24 Hour Disney Day Edition)

And here we go again. It's the Friday before Memorial Day so what does Disney go and do to us again? Yep, it's that deal where we stay open for a whole 24 hours. I have a 13 hour shift, but at least I am not part of the overnight crew. So to honor all us hard working cast members I am going to copy what I did in this countdown from the previous over-nighter and do a Top 24 list, instead of top 10. Yeah it's one of those special event type things. Next week will return to normal (or for what passes for normal around here).

Even though it does not apply this week, you can still check out last week's Random 10 by following this link, or trying to figure out the artists from 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 (Black Friday Edition)

As you can tell around these parts I have barely had any time at all to update the blog any. It's a holiday week at Disney and that means one thing: long days with long hours. Nothing like a 73 hour work week to get you all excited for a holiday you can't even spend with your family. #CastMemberLife

However, I just could not let Friday come and go without doing a Random 10. It may be brief and concise, but it is getting done.

Looking back at last week, Exile Island has a lone occupant. Take a big guess who. Yep:

As usual, the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top.

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 (Friday the 13th Edition)

Well it looks as if the rainy season has finally hit the sunshine state. Thunderstorms daily. Back to the norm. Today also happens to be one of my favorite days, Friday the 13th. I've never considered it a bad luck day seeing that I'm not one of the Knights Templar (for those of you that know your history). I even wore 13 in high school and college.

Either way, it's time to roll out another random 10. You know what? Let's make that a random thirteen! Looking back at last week I see that AC/DC and Foreigner are banned for this week.

As usual the rules and whatnot are there ↑ at the top.

Get lucky!

1) Love Conquers All/Yes - This is a demo/Trevor Rabin song that didn't make it onto 90125.

2) A Day in the Life/Soundtrack (Sergeant Peppers) - One of my guilty pleasures. The Bee Gees singing this with Peter Frampton.

3) Vultures (In The City)/Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe - Bonus track that did not make it onto the ABWH album. How, I have no idea since this song is awesome. Give a listen:

4) Droned/Phil Collins - From his album with his face on the cover. No not that one. Or that one or that one or that one. Yeah, that one.

5) Mainstream/Kansas - The 80's were not too good to them either.

6) First Time/Styx - This is the song that actually broke the band up when they refused to release another wimpy love song.

7) Piano Concerto in E Flat/Soundtrack (Amadeus) - I've already told you of my love for Mozart.

8) It's Getting Better All The Time/The Beatles - You may have heard of this album:

9) 51st Anniversary/Jimi Hendrix - Just added this and it shows up right away. Cool.

10) Send Her My Love/Journey - Right smack dab in the middle of the 80's love song destruction.

STCS: More About You/Steve Howe - Another one of his demos that ended up rewritten for ABWH.

12) Simply Irresistible/Robert Palmer - Classic.

13) Recycle Countdown/Nektar - One day I'm going to actually listen to their music.

Well there we go for another week. No one gets banned and we didn't have an opportunity for the Tarkus to show up either. At least we added some new blood with the Hendrix. I'm still fine tuning my music y'all. Don't give up on me yet. I'm always welcome to suggestions!

So stay cool and dry central Florida, and as always Roll Tide!

Play us out Robert!

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

Well here we are back again for another round of randomness. As usual, the rules are over there → to the right. I see from last week, that Yes is banned again, and it's still June so ABWH is still serving out their sentence. Let's get down to it!

1) Phil Collins/This Must Be Love - Haven't heard from him in awhile.

2) Camel/Drafted - These guys sure do show up a lot. I'm surprised they haven't been banned yet.

3) Return to Forever/Return to Lo - More of that space age jazzy sleeping music.

4) Michael Jackson/2 Bad - At first I thought this was Bad, which would have given me a cool video to add, but alas no. I don't really know this song.

5) Styx/A Man Like Me - Old school Wooden Nickel Styx before Tommy Shaw. Album cover winner.

6) Rush/Face Up - They got to a point in the 80's/90's that all their music sounded the same to me.

7) The Black Eyed Peas/Labor Day - Sometimes I can bring the funk.

8) Jimmy Buffet/Manana - Makes me want to get drunk(er).

9) Camel/Running from Paradise - Ask and ye shall receive. Banned for next week.

10) Billy Joel/Shameless - Eh, ok I guess.

Not a bad mix this week I suppose. The STCS for this week is Chicago/Mah Jong, from that mysterious Stone of Sisyphus album. Neat story. Anyway, there it is and now that it's done...

Play us out retro Styx!

 

 

Friday and the Random 10

I must say, this is my favorite post to write every week. I don't write it ahead of time either or fudge the results. I truly have no idea what will play when I start this. So here I am setting my media player on random and waiting to see what shows up. And away we go!

1) Korn/For No One - Well that was a heavy way to start the day. Not really my style. Just trying them out because of a friend.

2) The Moody Blues/Words You Say - Don't know this song. Very over the top with the orchestra.

3) The Buggles/Living in the Plastic Age - Video winner because a video actually exists of this song:

4) Steve Howe/Cruise Control - From Homebrew 3, which is the third (duh) collection of his at home demos that evolved into other songs or parts of other songs. I was really surprised at how much of Yes' music came from him. This piece eventually became New Languages on The Ladder album.

5) U2/The Fly - I do not really know much, or really cared about their music. This sounds cool though.

6) Yes/Harold Land - Now here's some classic stuff that I've already shared here.

7) Syd Barrett/Waving My Arms in the Air - I tried some of his stuff because of the whole Pink Floyd thing and from an episode of The X Files. IMHO, his music is complete crap and gets the Picard Award (brand new!)

8) ELO/Starlight - I love bands that have a certain sound and no matter what they play you know it's them.

9) Korn/Ball Tongue - I don't even know how to comment on this one. I'm just not a fan of the dark angry music. They might get the (so far unused) Cybermen Award before too long.

10) Phil Collins/In The Air Tonight - You know, the song where everyone (including Mike Tyson) knows the drum parts.

Well there we go for another week. I keep waiting for something new to show up, and for that matter, we haven't seen RW in quite awhile either! No album cover winner this week? Odd. The STCS for this week is Chicago/What Else Can I Say. Good, older stuff from them before the 80's happened.

Play us out Phil! Everyone drum along!

Friday and the Random 10

Well we've come to the end of the week and you know what that means! Time to set that media/mp3 player or Ipod on random and list the first ten songs that pop up and hope for nothing embarrassing. Or for any Rick Wakeman, which we have seem to avoided the last few weeks (old joke). And now, on with the show!

1) Yes/Soon - this is actually the end part of a much larger piece of music (Gates of Delirium) which was edited as a single. It might be the most beautiful music Yes has ever done.

2) Pink Floyd/The Gunner's Dream - so we are starting off today mellow I see...

3) RHCP/Taste the Pain - wow, haven't heard anything from the Peppers in awhile

4) Tommy Shaw/Love You Too Much - one of his early 80's solo albums in between Styx and Damn Yankees

5) Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Bach Lullaby - from one of their non-Christmas CD's. Short and sweet. Like me.

6) Def Leppard/Rock! Rock!(Till You Drop) - album cover winner here!

7) Disney's Hercules/The Big Olive - whuh?

8) Def Leppard/Excitable (Orgasmic Mix) - ok, did they do like 10 mixes for every song on Hysteria?

9) Camel/Lunar Sea - whoa, for a second there when it started playing I thought it was RW

10) Styx/Heavy Water - go JY!

Well that wraps up another week. Nothing too bad there, even though I'm not sure why Hercules is in there. Now if Little Mermaid had popped up that would be a different story. The Spinal Tap CS this week is Phil Collins/If Leaving Me is Easy. Start mellow, end mellow.

Umm, no. Play us out boys!

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...