Instrumental Friday Random 10

Rest your voices, it’s Instrumental Music this Friday…

1. “Pennants” – Steve Howe, The Steve Howe Album
2. “Die Bunge” – Cluster & Eno, Cluster & Eno
3. “Ice Dance” – Geoff Downes, The Light Program
4. “Flasher” – Rick Wakeman, Rhapsodies
5. “The Spider” – Kansas, Point of Know Return
6. “Presto Vivace” – UK, Night After Night
7. “An End to History” – Synergy, Audion
8. “L’Arc en Ciel” – Alan Parsons, A Valid Path
9. “Movements II” – Vangelis, El Greco
10. “Forest” – Rubaja & Hernandez, High Plateaux

Have a great weekend!

Friday Random 10, Soundtrack Edition

Been a while since I’ve done a Friday Random 10; here’s the first ten soundtrack songs to pop up on WMP.

1. “Chores” – Jerry Goldsmith, Fierce Creatures
2. “Atreju Meets Falkor” – Klaus Doldinger & Giorgio Morodor, The Never Ending Story
3. “Angel Bell” – Joe Hisaishi, Kikujiro
4. “Midnight Sun” – Diana Krall, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
5. “Suture Self” – Ensemble Studios, Age of Mythology soundtrack
6. “Not from Dixie” – Henry Mancini, The Music from Peter Gunn
7. “Years in the Making” – Stephen Rippey, Age of Empires III soundtrack
8. “This Time the Dream’s on Me” – Allison Krauss, Midnight at the Garden of Good and Evil
9. “The Chase” – Keith Emerson, Nighthawks
10. “Saying Goodbye to Those You So Love” – James Horder, A Beautiful Mind

Have a great weekend!

A New Year Friday Random 10

WMP-fired random tracks from the external HD:

1. “Pretending to Care” – Todd Rundgren, A Capella
2. “My Baby” – Wings, Wings at the Speed of Sound
3. “Swing Street” – Bruce Hornsby, Hot House
4. “Standing on Higher Ground” – Alan Parsons Project, Gaudi
5. “Bordeaux” – John Tesh, Tour de France soundtrack
6. “Goodbye Girl” – Toto, Toto
7. “Hearing Aid” – They Might Be Giants, Flood
8. “Shangri-la” – Electric Light Orchestra, A New World Record
9. “Endless Horizon [I Love BoB mix]” – Electric Skychurch, Moog soundtrack
10. “Siberian Khatru” – Yes, Close to the Edge

Back to work!

Holiday Friday Random 10

Time to point WMP at the Christmas folder on the external HD…

1. “A Song and a Christmas Tree” – Andy Williams, The Andy Williams Christmas Album
2. “It Came upon a Midnight Clear” – The Salvation Army Brass, Christmas in Brass 2009
3. “Comfort and Joy (Thomas)” – The Salvation Army Brass, Christmas in Brass 2008
4. “Hark!  The Herald Angels Sing” – Mannheim Steamroller, A Fresh Aire Christmas
5. “Break Forth, O Beauteous Heav’nly Light” – Glad, An Acapella Christmas
6. “Jingle Bells” – Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, Jingle All the Way
7. “The First Noel” – Tom Stacy, The nu-view Christmas
8. “Holly and the Ivy” – Jon Anderson, 3 Ships
9. “Variations on the Kanon by Johann Pachelbel” – George Winston, December
10. “Angels We Have Heard on High” – London Philharmonic Orchestra, Chex Holiday Classics

Happy holidays, everyone!

Soundtrack Friday Random 10

Today needs a soundtrack!

1. “A Pure Formality (Main Theme)” – Yo-Yo Ma & Ennio Morricone, Yo-Yo Ma Plays Ennio Morricone
2. “Mike Mercurie” – John Tesh, Tour de France soundtrack
3. “Prologue” – Joe Hisaishi, Laputa: The Castle in the Sky
4. “Lullabye” – Chuck Mangione, Children of Sanchez soundtrack
5. “Movement V” – Vangelis, El Greco
6. “Father Christmas” – Harry Gregson-Williams, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
7. “Tikal” – E.S. Posthumus, Unearthed
8. “Roy and Gillian on the Road” – John Williams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind soundtrack
9. “Slow and Easy” – Henry Mancini, Peter Gunn soundtrack
10. “M386” – Brian Eno, Music for Films

A “Get My Funk On” Friday Random 10

Thank God It’s Funky

1. “Lucky 7” – Greg Howe, Victor Wooton, Dennis Chambers, Extraction
2. “Sushi Pimp” – Gnappy, Unloaded
3. “Tell Me Something Good” – Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, The Very Best of Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan
4. “Swing Funk” – Jeff Lorber Fusion, Lift Off
5. “Shining Star” – Earth, Wind, and Fire, Greatest Hits
6. “It’s Not the Same for Us” – Level 42, World Machine
7. “Scratch & Sniff” – Béla Fleck & the Flecktones, Outbound
8. “Sofistifunk” – Return to Forever, No Mystery
9. “Hot Fun” – Stanley Clarke, School Days
10. “Chameleon” – Herbie Hancock, Headhunters

Yeah!

Friday Random 10

Thank you, Tigers.

1. “1988″ – Robert Fripp, Angels in the Architecture
2. “My Obsession” – Icehouse, Man of Colours
3. “Opening Titles/Polaroid Fades” – David Julyan, Memento soundtrack
4. “No. 11″ – Chick Corea, Children’s Songs
5. “Echoes of Love” – The Doobie Brothers, Best of the Doobie Brothers Volume II
6. “Dots Thots” – Ozric Tentacles, Erpsongs
7. “Cuff Link” – Wings, London Town
8. “Everybody’s Song (bonus track)” – Yes, Tormato
9. “Uncommon Ritual” – Edgar Meyer with Béla Fleck and Mike Marshall, Uncommon Ritual
10. “Kayleigh” – Marillion, Misplaced Childhood

They ARE Giants

K is a wonderful daughter and for my Father’s Day/birthday she bought two tickets to They Might Be Giants concert at the Pageant Theater. Well, as the day arrived, she came home from college for the weekend and we (eventually) found ourselves standing just a few feet from center stage.

The Pageant is a great venue; while it might not have been sold out, it was close, but the floor was not uncomfortably crowded. The opening performer was Jonathan Coulton; he and “The Jonathan Coulton Both Stars” very much reminded me of Bowling For Soup. He opened with an amusingly entertaining version of “Mr. Fancy Pants”, performed on…something. I’ve got some Googling to do. After the rest of his band came out, they played “Code Monkeys” among other songs. If I played Portal, I might have recognized “Still Alive”.

TMBG came out firing with several hits (here’s someone’s video of their opener “Dead”), including their new single “Can’t Keep Johnny Down”, several oldies but goodies (“Don’t Let’s Start”, “Birdhouse in Your Soul”, “Ana Ng”, “The Mesopotamians”, and of course “Particle Man”). Linnell rocked the keyboard, accordian, bass clarinet, and Flansburgh, his voice reinforced by a glass of Ecstacy-laced hazelnut LSD (well, that’s what he said it was) was very entertaining. My voice was a bit sore from providing the tragically missing high third to the harmonies, and K and I found them to be a lot more fun live than we were anticipating.

performing “Particle Man” stage left

It’s safe to say a good time was had by all.