Side A
Artist	Song
Anthrax	Contact (instrumental) (2003)
Anthrax	What Doesn't Die (2003)
The Police	Fallout (1977)
King's X	King (1988)
Van Halen (w / Gary Cherone)	Fire In The Hole (1998)
Thin Lizzy	Showdown (1974)
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers	Let Go (1977)
Bad Company	Too Bad (1976)
Yes	Universal Garden (1997)
King Crimson	Book Of Saturday (1973)
The Beatles	No Reply (1964)
Aerosmith	Chip Away The Stone (1978)
New Order	All Day Long (1986)
Patti Smith	Paths That Cross (1988)
Pearl Jam	Thin Air (2000)
Ted Nugent	Hey Baby (1975)
The Scorpions	Virgin Kil-ler (1976)
Tony Iommi (w / Billy Corgan)	Black Oblivion (2000)
Dokken	Lightnin' Strikes Again (1985)
Manic Street Preachers	Repeat (U.K.) (1992)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Bob Dylan	All The Tired Horses (1970)
U.K.	Alaska (instrumental) (1978)
U.K.	Time To Kil-l (1978)
Alice In Chains	Junkhead (1992)
Metallica	Sweet Amber (2003)
Judas Priest	Stained Class (1977)
Black Sabbath	Psycho Man (1998)
Whitford St. Holmes	Sharpshooter (1981)
The Who (w / Leslie West)	Love Ain't For Keeping (1971)
The Doors	Soul Kitchen (1967)
Whitesnake	Judgement Day (1989)
Mott The Hoople	Until I'm Gone (1971)
Temple Of The Dog (w / Chris Cornell)	Call Me A Dog (1991)
David Bowie	Look Back In Anger (1979)
Iron Maiden	Gangland (1982)
Manic Street Preachers	Repeat (Stars And Stripes) (1992)
Soul Asylum	En-dless Farewell (1988)
Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe	Let's Preten-d (1989)

Comment:

Let's see, today I've made two eliminations:
78. Thin Lizzy - Dedication: The Very Best Of Thin Lizzy [compilation] (1991) (#124 - 10/27/08)
79. The Who - Who's Next (1971) (#124 - 10/27/08)

Love Ain't For Keeping - A word or two of clarification regarding the "elimination" of Who's Next, which I guess you could call a de facto elimination: I've never used the Who's version of My Wife, but on a past mix I did use John Entwistle's solo version from his 1973 Rigor Mortis Sets In release. True, it's not a band version, but it's performed by the song's original author, so in my opinion it qualifies as an "elimination." (And in my humble opinion, Entwistle's solo version simply rocks out with a lot more conviction than the Who's Next!) And for this mix, I used an al-ternate version of Love Ain't For Keeping, with Pete Townshen-d on lead vocal and featuring Leslie West on guitar. The original album version with Roger Daltrey on vocal just seemed a trifle abbreviated and a bit too laid back by comparison...

Fire In The Hole - A number from Van Halen's much-maligned 1998 release with Extreme's Gary Cherone on lead vocals. You can actually hear this song in the movie Lethal Weapon 4. Remember the scene with the mad pyromaniac torching the streets of L.A.? Well, this is the song that guy's listening to on his headphones! (It truly is a sign of just how far one's pop-cultural stock has fallen when some faceless pyromaniac is playing one of your songs in some Hollywood action thriller! Ha, ha, ha.) Seriously, though, this is actually a pretty groovy hard-rock number, with clever and witty lyrics from Cherone, and some cool background "hey-hey-hey!"s during the chorus.

Let Go < Too Bad - For some reason, I just never go wrong when I put Johnny Thunders and Bad Company back to back! Go figure...

No Reply < Chip Away The Stone < All Day Long < Paths That Cross < Thin Air - I knew I wanted to use all of these songs on this mix, but until it actually came time to stick my blank CD-R in my dual-deck machine, I had no idea what order I'd put the songs in! And actually, I think this particular sequence works rather well - like gangbusters in fact, and not least of all because there's a very logical progression in terms of each song's respective home keys (C, G, D, A, E - with Thin Air be-ginning in E and en-ding in B. Each song's home key is exactly a fourth interval away from that of the one preceding it!)

Thin Air < Hey Baby < Virgin Kil-ler - In the past, I've often had this admittedly snide habit of subverting Ted Nugent's right-wing politics by following one of his songs with a song which functions as a kind of "counterpoint." A good example would be where one time I followed up Weeken-d Warriors with Pearl Jam's Glorified G. But this time around, I allowed Pearl Jam to come before Nugent...and left the subversion to the Scorps instead!! (Ha, ha, ha!!)

All The Tired Horses < Alaska < Time To Kil-l < Junkhead < Sweet Amber - Well, what he have here could very well be the be-ginnings of a rock opera about down-and-out equestrian alcohol and drug abusers in a certain VP nominee's home state. In fact, it really isn't. But, y'know, it could very well be! [*wink*]

Black Oblivion - Ever had this idle curiosity about just what exactly a Brundlefly-style genetic fusion between Black Sabbath and Smashing Pumpkins would sound like? Well, look no further! :-)

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