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Friday Random Ten CLXXXV

The “getting rusty” edition.

  1. Coheed & Cambria – [Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV #13] The Willing Well II – From Fear Through The Eyes Of Madness
  2. Matchbox Twenty – [Yourself or Someone Like You #05] Girl Like That
  3. Dream Theater – [When Dream And Day Unite #04] The Killing Hand
  4. The Samuel Jackson Five – [Easily Misunderstood #07] No Name
  5. Opeth – [Orchid #08] Into The Frost Of Winter
  6. Nightingale – [The Breathing Shadow #02] Sleep…
  7. Havergal Brian – [Symphony No. 1 "Gothic" CD2 #07] VI. Te ergo quaesumus
  8. Queens of the Stone Age – [Era Vulgaris #04] Into The Hollow
  9. Borknagar – [Quintessence #02] The Presence Is Ominous
  10. Black Ox Orkestar – [Nisht Azoy #05] Ratsekr Grec

Interesting sidenote: Matchbox 20’s Yourself or Someone Like You was my favorite album from about 1996 until 2000; even then, it remained among my top ten rock/pop albums of all time (still does—and to my unending consternation, no Matchbox 20 album since then has come anywhere close to replicating the phenomenon).

Friday Random Ten CLXXXIV

The “Philadelphia tomorrow” edition.

  1. Andrew Bird – [Weather Systems #02] I
  2. Farmakon – [A Warm Glimpse #05] Same
  3. The Polyphonic Spree – [The Fragile Army #06] Section 26 [We Crawl]
  4. Souvenir’s Young America – [An Ocean Without Water #03] Dark Was the Night Cold Was the Ground
  5. Tool – [Undertow #09] Flood
  6. The Smashing Pumpkins – [Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness CD1 #12] Muzzle
  7. Spiritual Beggars – [Ad Astra #12] Mantra
  8. Sergei Rachmaninov – [24 Preludes, Sonata No. 2 CD1 #07] Prelude, op.23 no.6 in E flat major
  9. Ours – [Distorted Lullabies #01] Fallen Souls
  10. Oasis – [(What's the Story) Morning Glory? #05] Hey Now!

Friday Random Ten CLXXXIII

The “Windows 7″ edition.

  1. Radiation 4 – [Wonderland #06] John vs. The Elephant
  2. Stars – [Do You Trust Your Friends? #11] He Lied About Death (Metric)
  3. VAST – [Visual Audio Sensory Theater #11] Untitled
  4. Ulver – [Themes from William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven & Hell CD1 #10] A Memorable Fancy, Plates 12-13
  5. Té – [It Be The Thinking As 'the Song' Of Realistic Sound From The World Which Resounds #10] Human Being Is Doing The Ability That Destroys Self Oneself By Reason ‘有’
  6. Ben Folds – [Ben Folds Live #08] Fred Jones Part 2
  7. Atheist – [Piece Of Time #07] Why Brother?
  8. Grails – [Doomsdayer's Holiday #01] Doomsdayer’s Holiday
  9. Nine Inch Nails – [Purest Feeling #09] Down In It
  10. Tori Amos – [Scarlet's Walk #05] Carbon

Friday Random Ten CLXXXII

The “RIP, Leo Frankowski” edition.

  1. Forcefeed – [Soil #01] Soil
  2. Aereogramme – [My Heart Has A Wish That You Would Not Go #01] Conscious Life For Coma Boy
  3. VAST – [Nude #03] Don’t Take Your Love Away
  4. Frédéric Chopin – [Complete Collection [disc 13 of 17] #02] Sonata No.1 Op.4 in C minor – II. Menuetto – Allegretto
  5. Arcturus – [Aspera Hiems Symfonia, Constellation, My Angel CD1 #02] Wintry Grey
  6. Estradasphere – [Palace of Mirrors #04] The Terrible Beautypower Of Meow
  7. Virgin Black – [Requiem - Mezzo Forte #04] …and I am Suffering
  8. Insomnium – [In the Halls of Awaiting #03] Medeia
  9. World’s End Girlfriend – [Hurtbreak Wonderland #04] Grass Ark
  10. Efterklang – [Tripper #03] Step Aside

Friday Random Ten CLXXXII

The “swing and a miss” edition

  1. Missy Higgins – [On A Clear Night #09] Peachy
  2. Mogwai – [Come on Die Young #02] Cody
  3. Opeth – [My Arms, Your Hearse #02] April Ethereal
  4. Joaquin Rodrigo – [Concierto de Aranjuez (Romero) #10] Invocation et danse: 2. Allegro moderato: Polo
  5. Nightingale – [I #02] Still In The Dark
  6. Foo Fighters – [There Is Nothing Left To Lose #09] Headwires
  7. Swarm Of The Lotus – [When White Becomes Black #09] Episode Infinity
  8. Jason Falkner – [Presents Author Unknown #05] She Goes To Bed
  9. Michael Jackson – [Bad #04] Liberian Girl
  10. Gustav Mahler – [The Complete Symphonies CD9 #01] Symphony No.7 in E Minor – 1a. Langsam (Adagio)

Friday Random Ten CLXXXI

The “Eastwood Charts” edition

  1. Nine Inch Nails – [The Downward Spiral #04] March of the Pigs
  2. Nine Inch Nails – [With Teeth [5.1] #12] Beside You In Time
  3. Virgos Merlot – [Signs of a Vacant Soul #12] Disregarding
  4. Beirut – [The Flying Club Cup #02] Nantes
  5. Sergio – [Swords #02] The Spendthrift
  6. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – [Nocturama #03] Right Out Of Your Hand
  7. John Vanderslice – [Pixel Revolt #09] Dear Sarah Shu
  8. Mogwai – [Happy Songs for Happy People #02] Moses? I Amn’t
  9. Mew – [And The Glass Handed Kites #05] Apocalypso
  10. Grails – [Doomsdayer's Holiday #01] Doomsdayer’s Holiday