Side A
Artist	Song
The Electric Prunes	I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) (1967)
Nirvana	Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991)
Guns N' Roses	Welcome To The Jungle (1987)
Thin Lizzy	Jailbreak (1976)
The Venus In Furs (w / Thom Yorke)	2HB (from Velvet Goldmine) (1998)
Seven-dust	Prayer (1997)
Quiet Riot	Slick Black Cadillac (1983)
Queen	Long Away (1976)
The Rolling Stones	Ventilator Blues (1972)
Jerry Cantrell	Mother's Spinning In Her Grave (Glass Dick Jones) (2002)
Renaissance	I Think Of You (1974)
Audioslave	Your Time Has Come (2005)
The Sex Pistols	Problems (1977)
Pantera	13 Steps To Nowhere (1996)
Metallica	One (1988)
Pink Floyd	Comfortably Numb (1979)
The Beatles	I Want You (She's So Heavy) (1969)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Yes	The Prophet (1970)
Iron Maiden	Tailgunner (1990)
Patti Smith Group	Pumping (My Heart) (1976)
Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)	Len-d Your Love To Me Tonight (1977)
Velvet Revolver	She Builds Quick Machines (2007)
Cream	I Feel Free (1966)
The Yardbirds	Heart Full Of Soul (1965)
Corrosion Of Conformity	Born Again For The Last Time (1996)
Cheap Trick	Heaven Tonight (1978)
The Police	Secret Journey (1981)
ZZ Top	Sure Got Cold After The Rain Fell (1972)
Soundgarden	Loud Love (1989)
Hanoi Rocks	Boulevard Of Broken Dreams (1984)
R.E.M.	It's The En-d Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (1987)
Fight (w / Rob Halford)	In A World Of My Own Making (1995)
Suede	Still Life (1994)
Led Zeppelin	Bring It On Home (1969)

Comment:

Yet another reformatting! In contrast to past discs where I stacked too many "en-ders" in a row (the LOTR: ROTK Syndrome, if you will), this time around I probably stacked too many o-peners on Disc #1! Any of the first four songs could conceivably have served as an o-pening number on this or any other of my discs, but they all just happen to be here!

I'm still not entirely sure about the idea of putting the pretty Renaissance ballad I Think Of You right smack in the middle of all this other hard-edged stuff on Disc #1, but I like the idea of having at least one oasis of calm, because the seas get a lot stormier near the finish. And even when the Pantera/Metallica heavy-metal thunderstorm subsides, the Floyd and Beatles numbers which conclude the set do not lighten the mood, so thunderheads remain darkening the sky until the finish.

As for Disc #2, well, I must say that I did a pretty okay job there as well! Diverse, and with quite a few overlooked gems: An early Yes mini-epic, a ferocious Patti Smith rocker, a solo ballad from ELP's Greg Lake (from the group/solo hybrid double-album Works, Vol. 1), the spooky title track from Cheap Trick's third album, and a melancholy early ZZ Top blues epic.

And I'm especially proud of Disc #2's closing sequence! I've got an absolutely devastating piano dirge-ballad from Fight (the mid-'90s metal outfit of once-and-future Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford), and an equally devastating epic ballad from '90s Brit rockers Suede. I was going to close the disc with both those songs, but then I thought twice about that: I mean, the Fight and Suede ballads are so overwhelmingly emotional, and I didn't want to leave everybody crying, so I decided to have Led Zeppelin close out the set on an upbeat, celebratory and rocking note! :-)

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