Side A
Artist	Song
Motorhead	Ace Of Spades (1980)
W.A.S.P.	I Wanna Be Somebody (1984)
Monster Magnet	Powertrip (1998)
Thin Lizzy	Warrior (live version) (1978)
Ozzy Osbourne	Time After Time (1991)
The Cult	Beauty's On The Street (1996)
Free	Wishing Well (1972)
Mott The Hoople	Midnight Lady (1971)
King's X	False Alarm (2001)
Manic Street Preachers	She Is Suffering (1994)
The Rolling Stones	Wild Horses (1971)
Iron Maiden	Heaven Can Wait (1986)
Motley Crue	Bitter Pill (1998)
Rush	Vapor Trail (2002)
Soundgarden	My Wave (1994)
Van Der Graaf Generator	After The Flood (1970)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Kix	Rock And Roll Overdose (1991)
The Beatles	Revolution (1968)
The Jimi Hen-drix Experience	Are You Experienced? (1967)
Suede	The Wild Ones (1994)
Megadeth	A Secret Place (1997)
Queen	Sheer Heart Attack (1977)
Lou Reed	The Kids (1973)
Pink Floyd	Wish You Were Here (1975)
Black Sabbath	The Writ (1975)
A Perfect Circle	Pet (2003)
Guns N' Roses	Coma (1991)
The Moody Blues	I'm Just A Singer (In A Rock And Roll Band) (1972)
The Who	Won't Get Fooled Again (1971)
Mad Season (w / Layne Staley & Mike McCready)	All Alone (1995)

Comment:

Happy New Year, fellow AOTM'ers! Hope you had a fantastic holiday season! Myself, I spent Christmas with family and I got a whole bunch of box sets as presents! Specifically, I got Motorhead's Stone Deaf Forever!, the Monkees' Music Box, Megadeth's Warchest, and the Rhino various-artists box set Left Of The Dial: Dispatches From The '80s Undeground! I also got a few gift certificates, which I used to help purchase the brand new Bob Dylan 3-CD collection - simply entitled Dylan! So when I come up with my next all-brand new mix, expect to see more than a few tracks from those sets. But in the meantime...here's another reformatting of my old stuff! [*wink*] DISC #1 gets off to a rousing, rocking start with four straight-up hard-rock/metal tunes in a row, and in the final three we en-d in apocalypse, with "cities crash[ing] in a mighty wave"! You can feign apathy and say "keep it off my wave" but when the big wave comes we all drown together! Right?? I also found space for one of my favorite recent King's X numbers, False Alarm, whose lyrics deal with a failed relationship in such a dry, matter-of-fact way that it's truly heartbreaking. DISC #2 also turned out really well! I'm very satisfied with the way the songs flow together. I'm especially proud of how the abrupt cutoff at the en-d of Sheer Heart Attack is immediately followed by the acoustic lilt of Lou Reed's bitter, spiteful Berlin ballad The Kids, replicating the way the former is followed by the quiet All Dead All Dead on Queen's News Of The World album. So...what's the overall tone, or vibe, all about? Well...the overall mood here seems to be one of heartbreak, dysfunction, disillusion, cynicism, with hopefully a minor twinge of hope. We conclude with the aggression and defiance of the Who's Won't Get Fooled Again being followed enigmatically by the quiet mood piece All Alone by Seattle supergroup Mad Season, whose only lyric is a resigned paradox: "We're all alone"...

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