Side A
Artist	Song
Yes	Siberian Khatru (1972)
The Beatles	I Am The Walrus (1967)
Nirvana	Dive (1990)
Saigon Kick	The Way (1993)
The Ramones	I Remember You (1977)
Temple Of The Dog (w / Chris Cornell)	Pushin' Forward Back (1991)
Down	Learn From This Mistake (2002)
King Crimson	Walking On Air (1995)
The Preten-ders	Mystery Achievement (1980)
Metallica	Hero Of The Day (1996)
Black Sabbath	Changes (1972)
Manic Street Preachers	Motorcycle Emptiness (1992)
Thin Lizzy	Kil-ler Without A Cause (1977)
Patti Smith Group	Because The Night (1978)
Free	Walk In My Shadow (1968)
Mott The Hoople	All The Young Dudes (1972)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Lucky Man (1970)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Led Zeppelin	Whole Lotta Love (1969)
Pearl Jam	Jeremy (1991)
The Mamas & The Papas	California Dreamin' (1968)
Suede	Trash (1996)
Stone Temple Pilots	Glide (1999)
Renaissance	Black Flame (1974)
Megadeth	Symphony Of Destruction (1992)
David Bowie	Ziggy Stardust (1972)
Peter Gabriel	Father, Son (2000)
Keith Emerson	Mater Tenebrarum (from Inferno) (1980)
Judas Priest	Steeler (1980)
At The Drive-In	Non-Zero Possibility (2000)
The Venus In Furs (w / Jonathan Rhys Meyers)	Tumbling Down (from Velvet Goldmine) (1998)
MC5	Over And Over (1971)
Soundgarden	Never The Machine Forever (1996)
Van Der Graaf Generator	Childlike Faith In Childhood's En-d (1976)

Comment:

Another reformatting. I've gotta say that this came together quite nicely! Most of the time, they feel merely adequate, something I can live with but which doesn't always feel special. In the case of Disc #1, I picked a really good balance of well-known classic staples mixed with personal favorites and rarities, including a slow, Southern-bluesy cautionary tale from Phil Anselmo and the boys in Down, a beautiful ballad from mid-'90s King Crimson (which in my humble opinion ought to have been a huge hit!), a blustery twelve-bar rocker from Paul Rodgers and Free, an angst-ridden Nirvana B-side, and a tale of the street from the late Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy. On the somewhat better-known side we've got a psychedelic-era classic from John Lennon and The Beatles, Ozzy and Sabbath's greatest ballad, punk godmother Patti Smith's greatest hit, a glam anthem written by David Bowie which was the first big hit for Mott The Hoople, and the gentle, lilting ballad which gave ELP their first big hit! (And once again, I was able to depen-d on The Ramones to fill that pesky two-minute gap!)

Perhaps Disc #2 is a tad less cohesive than the first half, but it only gets better and better as it goes along! I'm especially proud of the sequencing of the second half of this particular disc. We've got quite a lineup here!: A gorgeous piano ballad from Peter Gabriel, a pounding Italian horror movie theme from Keith Emerson, a ferocious rocker from Judas Priest, a haunting quasi-psychedelic brooder from turn-of-the-millenium Texas alt-rockers At The Drive-In, a sad and lilting glam ballad (a Steve Harley cover) from a late-'90s Todd Haynes movie soundtrack, a blistering, politically-ch-arged plea for sanity from Detroit proto-punks MC5, an eccentric slab of vaguely sci-fi-themed prog-metal from Seattle's Soundgarden...and last, but certainly not least, a moving epic of human transcen-dence from the mighty Van Der Graaf Generator! Along the way, we get the underrated "Glide" from STP, and it's way cool how the lilting folk-prog of Renaissance's "Black Flame" deceptively leads into the mock-"Sgt. Pepper" orchestral tuneup which introduces Megadeth's "Symphony Of Destruction"!

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