Side A
Artist	Song
Judas Priest	Let Us Prey / Call For The Priest (1977)
Audioslave	Show Me How To Live (2002)
Velvet Revolver	Illegal i Song (2004)
Manic Street Preachers	Democracy Coma (1992)
The Scorpions	Under The Same Sun (1993)
Yes	Fortune Seller (1997)
The Rolling Stones	Time Is On My Side (1964)
David Bowie	The Prettiest Star (1970)
Jethro Tull	Jack-In-The-Green (1977)
Ted Nugent	Live It Up (1977)
AC/DC	Anything Goes (2008)
Pearl Jam	Nothing As It Seems (2000)
The Ramones	Psycho Therapy (1983)
Bob Dylan & The Band	I Shall Be Released (1967)
King Crimson	Lament (live version) (1974)
Black Sabbath	The Mob Rules (live version) (1982)
Slayer	The Antichrist (live version) (1991)
W.A.S.P.	Show No Mercy (1984)
Thin Lizzy	Boogie Woogie Dance (1976)
Aerosmith	Dream On (1973)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Dick Dale & His Del-Tones	Misirlou (instrumental) (1962)
Iron Maiden	Caught Somewhere In Time (1986)
Soundgarden	Nazi Driver (1988)
The Police	On Any Other Day (1979)
New Order	Everything's Gone Green (1981)
Suede	Can't Get Enough (1999)
Van Halen	Finish What Ya Started (1988)
Queen	In Only Seven Days (1978)
The New York Dolls	Fishnets And Cigarettes (2006)
Hanoi Rocks	Winged Bull (2002)
Warrior Soul	The Wasteland (1991)
The Velvet Underground	The Murder Mystery (1969)
The Doors	En-d Of The Night (1967)
At The Drive-In	Hourglass (1998)
U.K.	Nothing To Lose (live version) (1979)
King's X	Far, Far Away (1988)
Dokken	Burning Like A Flame (1987)
The Beatles	Long, Long, Long (1968)

Comment:

Another day, another mix...and the hits just keep on coming! This time around, we've got no less than four live tracks, three of which form a kil-ler trifecta toward the en-d of the first half. (No eliminations today, however...)

Time Is On My Side - The Stones' second recorded version, with the guitar intro, from the band's second British LP and the Hot Rocks compilation. (The earlier version, with just the organ on the intro, was the single version and also on the second American LP.)

Caught Somewhere In Time - And while we're on the subject of "time," let me point out that on this song Bruce Dickinson sings the refrain "Time is always on my side!" And I didn't even make the connection with the Stones track until after I had finalized both discs and played them back! The sign of an overactive subconscious...or just mere coincidence? You be the judge! [*wink*]

The Prettiest Star - Not the 1973 version from Aladdin Sane, but the original 1970 single version. (I once read something somewhere - although I forget my source - about a rumor that Marc Bolan plays on this version. Any truth at all to that??)

Anything Goes - Another number from the brand new AC/DC disc, Black Ice! Y'know, is it my imagination, or does Brian Johnson's voice actually sound a lot better than it has on the band's last couple albums. Not that he ever sounded bad or anything, but throughout most of the '90s one was halfway tempted to mail the guy a case of throat lozenges! :-) But on Black Ice, Johnson actually sounds better than he has in a long time! The exten-ded hiatus between the band's albums has obviously done him a world of good...

Psycho Therapy < I Shall Be Released - Another one of those brainstorm sequences I didn't even think of until I was in the middle of laying the tracks down! (Ha, ha!) Also, the version here of I Shall Be Released is the Basement Tapes version which was first officially released on the first Bootleg Series collection. As nice as the acoustic duet with Happy Traum from the '72 Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 compilation is, I prefer this because it includes all the verses. And it's got those gorgeous falsetto vocal harmonies from Rich-ard Manuel on the chorus which never fail to bring a tear to my eye. No lie.

The Antichrist < Show No Mercy - A shock/thrash one-two punch from two very different - and yet in their own ways equally bloody-minded - mid-'80s metal monsters. Coincidentally, Show No Mercy also happens to be the title of Slayer's first album (which includes the original version of The Antichrist)!

On Any Other Day - Quite possibly my favorite Police ditty to come from the pen of drummer Stewart Copeland. Pretty funny, as well, sung from the point of view of some sadsack suburban husband and father going through family problems, not to mention experiencing assorted unfortunate mishaps such as spilling his morning tea and cutting off his fingers in the door of his car. (OUCH!!)

The Murder Mystery - The Velvets' zany, experimental side rears its head for the last time during the band's late-'60s career. God only knows what was going through Sterling Morrison's, Maureen Tucker's and Doug Yule's heads as they (along with Lou Reed) recited/sung the avalanche of nonsensical verbiage from Reed's pen. It must be said that Doug Yule's delivery of the words "Corpulent filth" is downright suave! (Ha, ha, ha!)

Long, Long, Long - And so this George Harrison number from the Beatles' 1968 White Album brings my 125th mix to a close! Pretty damn cool way to go out, too, with that eerily noisy en-ding! :-)

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