5 on Friday -- Set 294

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.

As we head for my 300th set, coming up in six weeks, let's look back on some of the sets that have led to this milestone.

This is a typical set from 5 on Friday's heyday, with six active participants all posting their own sets, and lots of discussion about music in the comments section.

My sets over the years have had a vast array of inspiration. Sometimes they were part of a larger project (like this year's Spotlight On individual instruments,) sometimes they were part of my creative process while working on writing projects, and sometimes they reflected on the time of year or what was going on for me personally.

This set is a mix of late 70s/80s/early 90s tunes, a look at my typical tastes during that period.

  

For my look back as we approach the next milestone set, here is:

5 on Friday -- Set 110  

5 on Friday -- Set 207

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 was in a Pretenders mood earlier this week, setting up a playlist on You Tube which included the first song on this week's set list. One thing led me to another, and I sought out these songs written by artists when they took on the new role of parent. 

  

1 - Show Me -- The Pretenders

2 - Stay Up Late -- Talking Heads

3 - Little Star -- Madonna 

4 - To Zion -- Lauryn Hill

5 - Isn't She Lovely -- Stevie Wonder

5 on Friday -- Set 194

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

I've just wrapped up my second annual Spooky Stories Author Series here at A Piece of My Mind. In case you're just finding out about them now, here are the links to this year's interviews with authors who write stories that tend toward the spooky side of things:

13 Questions for Stephen MacLean, Screenwriter for Wisp

13 Questions for Sherri Browning Erwin, Author of Jane Slayre and Grave Expectations

13 Questions for Kate Robbins, Author of Bound to the Highlander

13 Questions for Norah Wilson, Co-author of Enter the Night

Thanks to all the writers who shared their shivery tales and favorite scary movies, and who answered my favorite question from this series of interviews: Why do you think people like to be scared?

As we head ever closer to the spookiest night of all, let's enjoy some tunes that have eerie themes or which have videos with a decidedly Halloween feel to them.

1 - Wide Awake - Katy Perry 

2 - What You Waiting For? - Gwen Stefani

3 - Li'l Red Riding Hood -- Sam the Sham & The Pharaohs

4 - I Put a Spell on You - Screamin' Jay Hawkins

5 - Burning Down the House - Talking Heads

5 on Friday - Set 135

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

Last week in the Big City. How I shall miss it.

1 - Come Undone - Duran Duran

2 -  In the End - Linkin Park

3 - Hysteria - Muse 

4 - Crosstown Traffic - Jimi Hendrix

5 - Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads

5 on Friday - Set 110

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.





Travis' 80's set last week is completely responsible for this week's tune selection. Why that should be so, when track number one was released in 1979, track number two was seeding early ground in 1977, while track number three came out in 1990, I leave to you...

1 - Candy-O - The Cars



2 - Psycho Killer - Talking Heads



3 - Love My Way - The Psychedelic Furs



4 - Suicide Blonde - INXS



5 - She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

5 on Friday - Set 95

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

This week's set goes out to all you Walking Dead fans out there, or lovers of apocalyptic fiction.

1 - It's the End of the World as We Know It - R.E.M.



2 - Until the End of the World - U2



3 - The End - The Doors



4 - The End of the World - Skeeter Davis



5 - Nothing But Flowers - Talking Heads

5 on Friday - Set 26

Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a short set of music that takes their fancies for his 5 on Friday meme.

Maybe it was hanging with my high school pals last weekend, but I'm feeling rather wild this week.

1 - Wild World - Cat Stevens

But if you want to leave
Take good care
Hope you make a lot of
Nice friends out there

But just remember
There's a lot of bad
And beware

Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby it's a wild world
I'll always remember you
Like a child, girl

- Cat Stevens



2 - Wild, Wild Life - Talking Heads

Like sitting on pins and needles
Things fall apart
It's scientific

Sleeping on the interstate
Getting wild, wild life
Checking in
Checking out
I got a wild, wild life

Spending all of my money and time
Done too much wild, wild life
We wanna go where we go
Where we go
I doing wild, wild life

I know it, that's how we start
Got some wild, wild life
Paint a picture of me in the daylight
And it's a wild, wild life

- David Byrne



3 - Real Wild Child - Iggy Pop

Gonna meet all my friends
Gonna have ourselves a ball
Gonna tell my friends
Gonna tell them all
That I'm a wild one
Ooo yeah, I'm a wild one

Gotta break it loose
Gonna keep 'em movin' wild
Gonna keep a-swingin' baby
I'm a real wild child

- Greenan / O'Keefe / Owens



4 - Wild Thing - The Troggs

Wild thing
You make my heart sing
You make everything groovy
Wild thing

Wild thing
I think I love you
But I wanna know for sure
Come on, hold me tight
I love you

- Chip Taylor



5 - Born to Be Wild - Steppenwolf

Yeah darlin', go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never want to die

Born to be wild

- Mars Bonfire



Mike Golch says Wild Thing, I have not heard that one in ages! Boy am I showing my age.

Akelamalu says Wild Thing brought back a whole load of memories! ;)

Shelley Munro says Awesome selction, Julia. I love Born to Be Wild and Wild Thing. They're classics.