Side A
Artist	Song
Aerosmith	Draw The Line (1977)
MC5	Sister Ann (1971)
Tool	The Pot (2006)
Ozzy Osbourne	Black Rain (2007)
Chris Cornell	Preaching The En-d Of The World (1999)
The Police	Demolition Man (1981)
Rush	Time Stand Still (1987)
Led Zeppelin	Tangerine (1970)
Social Distortion	When She Be-gins (1992)
The Cult	Coming Down (Drug Tongue) (1994)
Nirvana	Breed (1991)
Green River	Rehab Doll (1988)
Manic Street Preachers	Spectators Of Suicide (1992)
Pantera	Fucking Hostile (1992)
Peter Hammill	Betrayed (1977)
Metallica	Damage, Inc. (1986)
Screaming Trees	Before We Arise (1991)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Pink Floyd	Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1975)
W.A.S.P.	Wild Child (1985)
Alice In Chains	Get Born Again (1999)
Kix	Loco-Emotion (1983)
Guns N' Roses	Sweet Child O' Mine (1987)
Black Sabbath	After Forever (1971)
The Velvet Underground	I'm Set Free (1969)
Van Der Graaf Generator	Pioneers Over C (1970)
Yes	Close To The Edge: The Solid Time Of Change / Total Mass Retain / I Get Up I Get Down / Seasons Of Man (1972)

Comment:

And once again, back to the ongoing task of reformatting my past mixes! Now Disc #1 turned out pretty good, I think. And once more, it's the closing sequence that turned out best! Starting from the Cult's "Coming Down" and continuing up to the en-d, things do become rather emotionally harrowing. I threw in a couple personal favorites here, including the Manic Street Preachers' lament for the failings of democracy behind the former Iron Curtain, as well as the grinding title track from Seattle proto-grunge heroes Green River's "Rehab Doll." (By the way, Green River's lineup included future Mudhoney frontman Mark Arm - and at one point future Mudhoney guitarist Steve Turner - as well as future Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard and future Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament.) Smack in between the two fast and furious thrashers from Pantera and Metallica is a brutally venomous and misanthropic ballad called "Betrayed," from Van Der Graaf Generator frontman Peter Hammill. The only two instruments are violin and acoustic guitar - not to mention the intimidating vocal cords of Hammill himself - with no drums or electric guitar whatsoever, but the song more than holds its own between Pantera and Metallica just because it's so spiteful and vitriolic. (It ought to be stated that "Betrayed" does not truly represent Hammill's worldview, it's actually a number from the 1977 album "Over," whose overall concept revolves around the disintegration of his relationship with a longtime girlfrien-d.) And after the whirlwind fury of Metallica's "Damage, Inc.," Disc #1 winds down with a melancholy yet sinister dirge from the Screaming Trees. I must say that I'm nowhere near as happy with Disc #2 as I am with Disc #1. In fact, I'd have to say that of all my mixes, this one makes the least sense in its totality. Oh well...you can't win 'em all, I guess! I do think that Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (as with "Echoes," once again it's the edited version from the 2-CD "Echoes" compilation) makes for a decent o-pener, and I think that the final four tracks (Sabbath, Velvets, Van Der Graaf and Yes) work really well in sequence, but what's in between doesn't really quite click with everything else. I have to admit that a lot of times when I'm putting a mix together, I'm performing a bit of a mop-up exercise with a lot of the songs I had wanted to put on previous compilations but never quite got around to. And sometimes in my determination to find those songs a home, I get impatient and try to sequence them all together in a way that often takes on a Frankensteinian, patchwork quality that doesn't really make much sense. I still like the songs, however. (Obviously, or else I never would have included them in the first place!) I included one of my personal faves, a perky little new-wavey hard-rock/pop number called "Loco-Emotion," from the '80s band Kix.

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