5 on Friday -- Set 277

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

This week's set is dedicated to Misha Collins and all GISHWHES participants.

Misha plays the angel Castiel on my favorite show, the show for which I drop everything, sitting to watch it properly rather than staying on the computer and half-watching out of the corner of my eye: Supernatural

This is what Misha looks like in character as Castiel.

This is what Misha looks like, normally.

Pretty good arms, actually.

Shouldn't lean so much, though.

Hard to keep the center!

Much harder than it looks. Those ballet dancers are doing themselves no favors, most of the time, making it all seem so effortless.

Anyway, because Misha's big scavenger hunt is beginning tomorrow, today's 5 on Friday goes out to all GISHWHES participants. Good luck! Have fun!

1 - The Final Countdown - Europe 

2 - Seven Nation Army - White Stripes 

3 - Fishin' Blues - Taj Mahal 

4 - You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff

5 - A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight - Firehouse Five Plus Two 

  

5 on Friday -- Set 276

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

I didn't know until a few years ago that there was such a thing as a selenophile -- someone who loves the moon, is captivated by the moon, who feels a sense of excitement as dusk settles and night takes over.

All I knew was that I loved the moon and moonlight in a way that sunworshippers seem to love their sunny days. Actually, no -- the sun lovers' relationships to sunny days seems to be more of an extrovert thing, while they fill their blue-sky days with lots of activity and feel happy doing it.

My relationship with the moon and the night fits with my introverted self, filling me with a quiet joy, yet a very intense joy. It's just me and the night and no desire to do anything but be. 

1 - Moonlight Bay - Leon Redbone 

2 - By the Light of the Silvery Moon - A Capella Trudbol (Julien Neel) 

3 - Moonlight and Roses - Jim Reeves 

4 - Harvest Moon - Neil Young 

5 - Moonlight Drive - The Doors 

  

5 on Friday -- Set 275

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

I know I keep saying this, but after the winter we had this past year, everyone in this neck of the woods is enjoying the sweetness of summer like we never have before.

For this week's set, let's fling ourselves into the sounds of summer.

1 - Beach Baby - The First Class 

2 - Twisting by the Pool - Dire Straits 

3 - Summer Fling - k d lang 

4 - You, Me and the Sea - The Flamingos 

5 - The Tide is High - Blondie 

  

5 on Friday -- Set 274 -- Our 23rd Anniversary Edition

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

Tomorrow on July 11th we'll be celebrating our 23rd anniversary.

Here's a special set dedicated to 'the road so far', as they say on my favorite show Supernatural.

1 - Sensual World - Kate Bush 

2 - This Guy's in Love With You - Herb Alpert  

3 - Ain't No Mountain High Enough - Diana Ross and The Supremes 

4 - Perfect Day - Harry Nilsson 

5 - It Had to be You - Harry Connick Connick Jr 

  

5 on Friday -- Set 273

Spinning Friday tunes since 2010...

For anyone who wants to join in, simply choose five pieces of music and post them for other bloggers to enjoy. Then check out the set posted by the other 5 on Friday blogger -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

This year I'll be taking a once-a-month look at specific instruments and showcasing five songs or tunes which place that instrument front and center.

This year's feature is called Spotlight On...

...and for our seventh installment, I'm venturing out from the primal body instruments of hand-clapping, whistling and vocal harmonies to explore percussion. Following April's look at drums, May's look at the vibraphone or vibes, and June's look at piano, here are five songs which shine a spotlight on the cowbell.

1 - Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult - 1976

On April 8th, 2000 as season 25 of Saturday Night Live was drawing to a close, a sketch originally titled Behind the Music: Blue Oyster Cult but now commonly referred to as More Cowbell aired to immediate acclaim. It has only grown more popular in the fifteen years since it was first broadcast.

Cowbells as part of the percussive instruments is more common in salsa music, but has a recurring place in pop and rock music. Apparently the 1970s enjoyed something of a cowbell renaissance.

Don't Fear the Reaper is one of many classic rock songs attached to one my favorite shows of all time -- Supernatural. To be honest, however, for me it will always belong to the 1994 miniseries The Stand. 

2 - Low Rider - War -1975 

3 - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet - Bachman Turner Overdrive - 1974

4 - Incense and Peppermints - Strawberry Alarm Clock - 1967

5 - Honky Tonk Women - The Rolling Stones - 1969