Side A
Artist	Song
At The Drive-In	Pattern Against User
from Relationship Of Command (2000)
Manic Street Preachers	Sleepflower
from Gold Against The Soul (1993)
Aerosmith	Spaced
from Get Your Wings (1974)
The Beatles	Hey Bulldog
from Yellow Submarine [O.S.T.] (1969)
Iggy & The Stooges	I Need Somebody
from Raw Power (1973)
Metallica	Holier Than Thou
from Metallica [The Black Album] (1991)
Guns N' Roses	Nightrain
from Appetite For Destruction (1987)
Robin Trower	Hannah
from Twice Removed From Yesterday (1973)
Helmet	Exactly What You Wanted
from Aftertaste (1997)
Social Distortion	Bad Luck
from Somewhere Between Heaven And Hell (1992)
Queensryche	The Voice Inside
from Hear In The Now Frontier (1997)
The Cult	Lay Down Your Gun
from Best Of Rare Cult [2000 compilation] (1988)
Patti Smith	Distant Fingers
from Radio Ethiopia (1976)
Blue Oyster Cult	Stairway To The Stars
from Blue Oyster Cult (1972)
The Doors	I Can't See Your Face In My Mind
from Strange Days (1967)
Demolition 23 (w / Michael Monroe)	Dysfunctional
from Demolition 23 (1994)
Cheap Trick	The Ballad Of T.V. Violence (I'm Not The Only Boy)
from Cheap Trick [1977] (1977)
King Crimson	One More Red Nightmare
from Red (1974)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Brian Eno	Needle In The Camel's Eye
from Here Come The Warm Jets (1973)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Still...You Turn Me On
from Brain Salad Surgery (1973)
Led Zeppelin	In The Light
from Physical Graffiti (1975)
Van Der Graaf Generator	Door
from The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome [bonus track] (1977)
Wayne Kramer	Bad Seed
from The Hard Stuff (1995)
Rush	The Big Money
from Power Windows (1985)
Mott The Hoople	Violence
from Mott (1973)
Soundgarden	Uncovered
from Louder Than Love (1989)
Renaissance	Midas Man
from Novella (1977)
Willy DeVille	It's So Easy
from Cruising [O.S.T. - V/A] (1980)
Pearl Jam	Comatose
from Pearl Jam (2006)
Steel Grave	Knights Of The Night
from Opera [O.S.T. - V/A] (1987)
Queen	Mustapha
from Jazz (1978)
Thin Lizzy	Vagabond Of The Western World
from Vagabonds Of The Western World (1973)
The Moody Blues	You And Me
from Seventh Sojourn (1972)
Television	Torn Curtain
from Marquee Moon (1977)
Yes	To Be Over
from Relayer (1974)

Comment:

This...is...it! The beginning. The prototype. The little number that started it all. The 2-CD mix that started me on my way toward developing an extremely addictive hobby! Believe it or not, I've actually put together 46 of these mixes so far! They're actually meant to be in groups of two, every two discs making up one volume.

Well, I guess I'm what you might call a 21st-Century Rock Neo-Classicist, in the sense that all the bands and artists that I'm into could be described as "rock" in one sense or another, but my tastes within that rather broad category are quite eclectic! I'm into all the major artists you hear on all the "classic rock" stations, but I'm also into a lot of heavy metal, glam, progressive rock, punk, post-punk and alternative outfits.

I have a hard and fast rule about the bands I include within each volume: No individual band or artist has more than one song on every volume (two discs). In other words, if a Beatles song is on Volume I, Part I (Disc 1), I can't put a Beatles song on Volume I, Part II (Disc 2). And I can only put a Led Zeppelin song on Part II if there hasn't already been one on Part I!

However...take heart, for there is a loophole!: If you have a song by Ozzy Osbourne on Part I, you can have a song by Black Sabbath on Part II, even if it's sung by Ozzy! There's no rule against having songs played or sung by the same musicians...as long as they're on different discs within each volume!

If anything, the second disc is even more weirdly eclectic than the first half...if I do say so myself.

When I come up with the track listing in my head, I'm thinking in terms of what would make a good opening sequence and what would make a good closing sequence. Then with that particular arc in mind, I make sure that everything in between flows together nicely and has enough variation in mood and feel at the same time. (A more difficult balance to maintain than it sounds, believe me!)

Believe it or not, lyrical content is not really my primary consideration when putting the list together. I just go by the overall feel of the songs. But lyrics can be a contributing factor to the general vibe, and in this case I sort of conjured up this kind of running social commentary that weaves its way through some of the songs on this particular disc. (I won't go into specifics here, but if you look up the lyrics to the songs on this disc elsewhere online, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about!)

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