Side A
Artist	Song
Van Der Graaf Generator	Arrow (1975)
Greg Lake (w / Gary Moore)	Nuclear Attack (1981)
Patti Smith Group	Ghost Dance (1978)
Korn	Word Up! (2004)
Billy Idol	Dancing With Myself (1983)
Led Zeppelin	Out On The Tiles (1970)
Mink DeVille	Let Me Dream If I Want To (Amphetamine Blues) (1976)
Peter Gabriel	I Don't Remember (1980)
The Ramones	Poison Heart (1992)
King Crimson	Matte Kudasai (1981)
The Pixies	Monkey Gone To Heaven (1989)
Roger Waters	The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range (1992)
The Mamas & The Papas	Straight Shooter (1966)
Steve Harley (& Cockney Rebel)	Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) (1974)
Anthrax	Got The Time (1990)
U2	Everlasting Love (1989)
Warrior Soul	Generation Graveyard (1995)
Shooting Gallery (w / Andy McCoy)	Little Bit Of Magic (1992)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	The Night Time Is The Right Time (1969)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Journey	Only The Young (1985)
Sweet	Fox On The Run (1975)
Queen	Dragon Attack (1980)
Nirvana	School (1989)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Knife-Edge (1970)
The Sex Pistols	Sub-Mission (1977)
Suede	Lazy (1996)
Rock Star Supernova	It's On (2006)
Inger Lorre	It Could Happen To You (1999)
Tool	The Patient (2001)
ZZ Top	Just Got Paid (1972)
Ian Hunter	Standin' In My Light (1979)
The New York Dolls	Punishing World (2006)
Manic Street Preachers	Imperial Bodybags (2007)
Cheap Trick	Heaven's Falling (1983)
Stone Temple Pilots	Days Of The Week (2001)
The Beatles	Ticket To Ride (1965)
Soundgarden	Like Suicide (1994)
Yes	The Solution (1997)

Comment:

Yet another reformatting of older mix discs! And once more, per usual, Disc #1 is highly eclectic. Sometimes, there's a definite bit of oddball stream-of-consciousness going on with some of my song choices. By way of example, Monkey Gone To Heaven by The Pixies is followed up by The Bravery Of Being Out Of Range by Roger Waters, from his Amused To Death album - of which the concept centers around an experimental monkey!

Kicking off the proceedings, however, is a dark and heavy British prog epic from the always-reliable Van Der Graaf Generator (one of my all-time faves!). Also, quite a few covers strewn about the place here and there - nu-metallers Korn doing funkmeisters Cameo, thrash-metallers Anthrax doing new-waver Joe Jackson, and U2 doing an old '70s pop hit from Love Affair (a Rattle And Hum-era B-side, by the way)!

Also, I accidentally violated one of my own rules on Disc #1: No less than two different musicians turn up on two songs on the same disc: Guitarist Robert Fripp and bassist Tony Levin play on both I Don't Remember and Matte Kudasai! Whoops!! But I'm letting myself off the hook with another loophole: If they're actual band members on one track (King Crimson) and merely session players on the other (Peter Gabriel), you can skate by with a warning - provided it doesn't happen again! [*wink*]

If anything, Disc #2 is probably just a tad superior to #1. No Ozzy or Sabbath in this particular volume (Disc 15 or 16), but if you put the closing two titles together (Soundgarden and Yes), you've almost got yourself a homage. (Ha, ha, ha - I seriously crack myself up sometimes!!) Also, ELP and The Sex Pistols incongruously turn up back to back, there's a catchy pop number penned for Cheap Trick by none other than Todd Rundgren (who produced their Next Position Please album), a rocker by the reunited New York Dolls, and another song by a reality-show supergroup!

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