Side A
Artist	Song
Saigon Kick	Cruelty (1992)
Jane's Addiction	Up The Beach (1988)
Pantera	Mouth For War (1992)
Manic Street Preachers	Prologue To History (1998)
The New York Dolls	Personality Crisis (1973)
Van Der Graaf (Generator)	Lizard Play (1977)
Thin Lizzy	The Rocker (1973)
Led Zeppelin	The Rover (1975)
Yes	Sweet Dreams (1970)
Suede	Young Men (1996)
Van Halen	Fools (1980)
Foo Fighters	Good Grief (1995)
L7	One More Thing (1992)
Skid Row	Livin' On A Chain Gang (1991)
The James Gang	Take A Look Around (1969)
Wayne Kramer	The Boys Got That Look In Their Eyes (1996)
Extreme	Get The Funk Out (1990)
Queen	Somebody To Love (1976)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
W.A.S.P.	Blind In Texas (1985)
Iggy & The Stooges	Gimme Danger (1973)
Metallica (w / Marianne Faithfull)	The Memory Remains (1997)
Motorhead	Love Me Like A Reptile (1980)
Velvet Revolver	Fall To Pieces (2004)
Sweet	Set Me Free (1973)
Inger Lorre (w / Jeff Buckley)	Thief Without The Take (1999)
Rollins Band	Grip (1992)
Chris Cornell	Wave Goodbye (1999)
Pink Floyd	The Nile Song (1969)
Enuff Z'Nuff	Takin' A Ride (1993)
King's X	Ocean (1998)
The Jimi Hen-drix Experience	May This Be Love (1967)
The Doors	The Crystal Ship (1967)
Boston	Smokin' (1976)
The Ramones	Bop 'Til You Dr-op (1987)
Peter Hammill	Birthday Special (1975)
The Sex Pistols	God Save The Queen (1977)
Pearl Jam	Parting Ways (2000)
Screaming Trees	Closer (1991)
The Dust Brothers (w / Brad Pitt)	This Is Your Life (from Fight Club) (1999)

Comment:

"This is my life...and it's en-ding one mix at a time!!" :) :) :)

Well, as you are no doubt able to ascertain, I'm doing something a little different. In lieu of an all-new mix set, I'm going to try converting my old CD mixes into the cassette format. I'll just type in an all-new cassette entry, after which I'll simply de-lete the old CD mixes! These mixes were always meant to be double sets anyway, and I think it's far better to represent both halves of the greater whole side by side. (Of course, this will result in my mixes being listed numerically out of order on my page, but hey! No situation is absolutely 100% perfect, right??)

Some people out there might have certain - for lack of a better way of putting it - aesthetic objections to putting one song by a certain kind of rock artist together on a mix disc with a song by another rock artist generally perceived to be the polar opposite of the other. I can kind of understand that up to a point: Just exactly what do punk-rock/new-wave/al-ternative icons such as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones or Joy Division have to do with pompous prog-rock behemoths like Yes, or King Crimson, or Van Der Graaf? And exactly what business do al-ternative/grunge icons such as Soundgarden, Nirvana and Pearl Jam, hairy '80s pop-metal outfits like Motley Crue and Def Leppard, and stripped-down thrashmeisters like Metallica, Pantera and Anthrax have being thrown together? And for that matter, what do classic-rock staples like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Who and Aerosmith have to do with horror-movie soundtrack pieces by Ennio Morricone, Goblin and Robert Rodriguez? For starters, music to me is about emotion, not fashion. The track listings for my own mix discs can admittedly come across as a weird, ungodly hodgepodge - but that's only because the songs (and the sequencing thereof) have a specific emotional resonance for me that I'd have to guess aren't necessarily shared by everybody else. Like I said, my goal is to transcen-d the superficial considerations of fashion and to - for lack of a better word - recontextualize my favorite songs, in the hopes of giving some new insight or new perspective through the new combinations.

Part of my problem could be that - to some extent at least - I'm a rockist surrounded by hipsters. Occasionally I'll look through other people's mixes, not know a single song, and have not a single clue as to who the artists are. It's rather rare that I look at a mix and can't identify at least one artist, but it does happen on occasion. Now don't misunderstand me, I'm certainly not trying to be negative or denigrating in any way. It's just simply an impression of mine, and perhaps not an altogether accurate one at that. One could also turn that around on me and use the word "rockist" in a pejorative sense and accuse me of not being as "hip" as I think I am - although I certainly hope you won't! :) And I've never really even thought of myself as "hip" anyway...)

I hope all that at least partially explains my motivations. Well...probably not, but you can't blame me for trying! Right?? [*wink*]

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