Friday and the Random 10 (Hello YouTube Edition)

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Friday and the Random 10 (Rocket! Yeah! Edition)

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

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Friday and the Random 10 (Higher Power Edition)

Well things are finally getting back to normal around here. I have been working a lot more (now that I have reliable transportation) and have even started training at a new area: ESPN Wide World of Sports. Don't worry though. I'm staying on trains. Somehow in the middle of all this I managed to finish reading another book. Well I actually couldn't put it down once I started and finished it in 24 hours. It was called The Martian by Andy Weir. Highly recommended and soon to be a major motion picture with Matt Damon. Looking forward to the movie, but for now how about some tunes instead? Oh yeah!

Friday and the Random 10 (Soundtrack Edition)

Last week things got back to (semi) normal around here. It was a regular Top 10 list , but it did give us the first inhabitants of Exile Island in quite awhile. So Yes and Apollo 440 are not eligible to show up in this week's countdown. Will the Tarkus finally make an appearance in 2015? Inquiring minds wants to know, so on with the show!

Friday and the Random 10 (Testosterone Edition)

So the time has come to roll out another random 10. Sometimes it feels like a very short week in between doing these. Other times it feels like we week is just empty with nothing to blog about.

I mean I throw different things out there to see if any of them get any traction (like the polls). Also I have long term "projects" like the magnet challenge up top. Also up there is something new this week I'm trying with license plates. I'll see how that goes.

So basically if you have any ideas of something you would like to see every week just hit me with your suggestions. I'll probably make it mine in some weird way, but I will def give you credit for it.

Now let's get back to that music thing. Looking at last week, no one got banned so all is good. As usual the rules and whatnot are up top as well.

Bring it on? Oh it's been broughten!

Friday and the Random 10 (So Long Mickey Mouse Edition)

So another week has come and gone and it's basically the same routine here everyday: work with a possibility of getting rained on. Such is the Disney life. Glamorous I know.

Well as constant as a 1:15 central Florida thunderstorm is Friday's Random 10. Looking back at last week I see that no one got the ban so it's all fair game this week. As usual the rules and whatnot are up there ↑ at the top.

Let's bring the thunder!

1) The Beatles/Revolution 1 - Makes me want to buy some Nike's. Some of y'all remember.

2) Jackson Browne/Before the Deluge - How appropriate.

3) Toto/I Will Remember - And somehow I don't remember this song at all.

4) Pink Floyd/In The Flesh - Some PF I can tolerate. Classic album cover winner:

5) The Moody Blues/Talking Out of Turn - One of my favorite "personal" songs that have deep meaning to me. I love everything about this song.

6) Asia/Heroine - This was my "divorce" album, however this was one of my least favorite songs from Phoenix.

7) Return to Forever/Song Long Mickey Mouse - Ummm, what? Instrumental jazzy piece with no lyrics. Dang I was real curious.

8) Bronz/The Cold Truth - One hit wonders. This wasn't it.

9) Rachmaninoff/Piano Concerto #1 - Now all I need is a fire and glass of wine. Well, and a lady. That would help.

10) Aerosmith/Come Together - From that Sgt. Pepper's movie again. Yeah it had Aerosmith. Yeah it's awesome like that.

Well there we go for another week. I'm sure I got a lot of Disney peeps to read this because of the title. No I'm not going anywhere (for now). No one gets banned for next week which is always cool. That Tarkus hasn't been around in awhile. The STCS is Saga/The Flyer. Canada represents!

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

Play us out with sensitivity boys:

Friday and the Random 10

All I can say for all you peeps outside of Florida, damn it's been hot down here! So why not take the day off, stay inside, and check out this week's random 10? Sounds good to me. Looking back at last week we are free and clear from anyone being banned, so anything goes this time around. As usual, the rules are over there → to the right. 

Let's cool down and listen to the smooth sounds of:

1) Rick Wakeman/The Gospel According to St. John - No really, he did an album about the Gospels too. You cannot make this up.

2) Emerson, Lake and Palmer/The Only Way (Hymn) - Another one with religious undertones. This is from the album Tarkus, about an armadillo tank thingy. Take that RW! Once again, not making this stuff up:

3) America/The Last Unicorn - You know what this list needs? A unicorn reference. Done.

4) Yes/Going For the One - One of the most straight forward rock songs from them. I previously covered this album here. They mixed in some awesome lyrics in there too:

Listen in time, Taken so high

To touch to move, Listen to life

Touching touchtime, Travel twilight

Taken so high, Taking your time

Turn on to love, Turnstile to one

Tender timing, Rocking rolling

Moments decide.

Moments delight.

Moments in flight.

Talk about sending love

5) The Beatles/A Taste of Honey - This is just a weird song by them.

6) Rick Wakeman/Virgo - Hey Rick, can you do a quick album about the Zodiac? You can? Good! Huh? You're done already? Whut?

7) Toto/Out of Love - Nice and mellow. This is more of what I had in mind for today.

8) Chicago/Vote For Me - Good, old school jazzy stuff before the 80's love song crap.

9) Yes (Steve Howe)/Australia - They did an acoustic only bonus disc for one of their compilation box sets. This is technically from one of Howe's solo albums but it was included as being from Yes.

10) The Mahavishnu Orchestra/Eternity's Breath (pt.1) - This is more of that jazz/progressive rock fusion from the early 70's that interests me. Bands were just way more experimental back then. No one even tries to do stuff like this anymore.

Well that was kind of...weird. RW gets himself banned (again, and almost for the month: he does play keyboards on Going For The One). I am going to give Yes a pass on this one though. The STCS for this week is Chicago/Takin' It Uptown. Does this get them banned? I'm going to say yes because both songs are from Chicago XI. Sounds right. Until next week, stay cool central Florida.

Play us out Jon Jon and Steve and RW!

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

Another Friday has come upon us! And without any pomp or circumstance let's get right down to business in revealing this week's random 10.

1) King Crimson/Lizard - awesome! This might be the winner for every category today. Jon Anderson from YES on vocals too...

2) King Crimson/The Mincer - 2 in a row? This is going to be a good weekend...

3) The Beatles/Things We Said Today - classic

4) Toto/Hold the Line - we may have a video winner here.

5) Areosmith/Love in an Elevator - never mind, definite video winner for many, many reasons.

6) Camel/Captured - and there's Camel showing up again with their smooth sounds...

7) Third Day/San Angelo - lyrics winner

Forever seems so distant

Much further than today

You turn around and in an instant

You find that you are just as far from yesterday

The day it feels like winter

The night it feels like stone

You turn around and you remember

When you're surrounded

You can still feel so alone

8) Chicago/Skin Tight - classic jazzy Chicago before the wimpy years

9) Chicago/Caravan - from a big bang cd they made after the 80's that didnt actually suck

10) Queen/Don't Stop Me Now - play us out guys!