5 on Friday -- Set 216

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 bloggers -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

I've been meaning to do an instrumental set for awhile now. So today's the day!

Here are five tracks done by groups normally known for the full meal deal.

  

1 - Frankenstein -- Edgar Winter Group

2 - The Other Way of Stopping -- The Police

3 - Immigrant Punk -- Gogol Bordello

4 - Oscillate Wildly -- The Smiths

5 - YYZ -- Rush

5 on Friday -- Set 214

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 bloggers -- you can sign in over at Golch Central's Rambling Stuff.

I was recently tagged on Facebook by Anna Campbell to list the top ten albums that have stayed with me over the years. Talk about a challenge for a 5 on Friday blogger!

Five albums were full ballet scores or film soundtracks. The other five were these artists:

  

1 - Look Around -- Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66

2 - Sexy Sadie -- The Beatles

3 - Please, Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want -- The Smiths

4 - Behind the Wheel -- Depeche Mode

5 - P Machinery -- Propaganda

5 on Friday - Set 98

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Travis at Trav's Thoughts invites everyone to lay down a set of music that launches with Song 1 and proceeds on a musical journey for this special 5 on Friday.

All of the 5 on Friday players are taking a look back at 2011 this week. Let's see what this year was like for me.

1 - Frankly Mr. Shankly - The Smiths

This is how I've greeted the start of every year since graduating from film school in 1995, and then working in a succession of unrelated jobs ever since.



2 - Montage from the Team America: World Police soundtrack - Trey Parker

...and then...the 16-year drought ended. I made my book trailers.



3 - New York, New York - Frank Sinatra

And went to the writers' conference in New York!



4 - Woo Hoo - The 5.6.7.8's

And released my debut novel.



5 - Celebration - Madonna

Yeah, baby.

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5 on Friday - Set 57

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.













Welcome to the 1980s!

This is not the first 5 on Friday where I featured 80s tunes - my 9th set was devoted to the music of my youth:

CLICK HERE for my 5 on Friday - Set 9

As Coco mentioned last week:

"How do you narrow down the songs? That would, to me, seem an insurmountable task!"

It is - believe me. How do I choose five songs to represent an entire decade of pop music? Do I go for the quintessential stars of that decade? Do I try to cover the prevailing sound of that era? Basically, I focus on my own favorites and chip away from there.

The 80s were my twenties decade, and that's generally the music that lives closest to a person's heart - the time when we struck out on our own, discovered who we were, what we believed in and what was worth pursuing in life.

So naturally I've snuck in five extra tunes this week...!

1 - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da - The Police - 1980

Don't think me unkind
Words are hard to find

There are only cheques I've left unsigned
From the banks of chaos in my mind

And when their eloquence escapes me
Their logic ties me up and wrecks me

- Sting



2 - Welcome to the Pleasuredome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood - 1984

Shooting stars never stop
Even when they reach the top

There goes a supernova
What a pushover, yeah

We're a long way from home
Welcome to the Pleaduredome
On our way home
Going home where lovers roam
Long way from home

Welcome to the Pleasuredome

- Gill / Johnson / Nash / O'Toole



3 - I Didn't Mean to Turn You On - Robert Palmer - 1985

You
Read me wrong
I wasn't trying to lead you on
Not like you think

I didn't mean to turn you on

I
Know you
Expected a one-night stand
When I refused

I knew you wouldn't understand

I'm sorry, baby
I didn't mean to turn you on

- Harris / Lewis



4 - Cemetery Gates - The Smiths - 1986

A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're happy
And I'll meet you at the cemetery gates

Keats and Yates are on your side

A dreaded sunny day
So let's go where we're wanted
And I'll meet you at the cemetery gates

Keats and Yates are on your side
But you lose

Because Wilde is on mine

- Marr / Morrissey



5 - Personal Jesus - Depeche Mode - 1989

Feeling unknown and you're all alone
Flesh and bone by the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer

I will deliver
You know I'm a forgiver

Reach out, touch faith
Your own Personal Jesus
Reach out, touch faith

- Martin Gore

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For my 5 on Friday crowd - if you scroll down to yesterday's post, my sister just published her debut Tween book, Princess Callie and the Totally Amazing Talking Tiara! Pretty excited over here!