Side A
Artist	Song
Led Zeppelin	Achilles Last Stand (1976)
The Doors	Not To Touch The Earth (1968)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Trilogy (1972)
The Who	Water (1973)
Iron Maiden	Can I Play With Madness (1988)
Patti Smith Group	Dancing Barefoot (1979)
Soundgarden	Ugly Truth (1989)
Queen	The Prophet's Song (1975)
The Cult	Dreamtime (1984)
Montrose	The Dreamer (1974)
Lou Reed	Kil-l Your Sons (live version) (1984)
Perry Farrell's Satellite Party	Insanity Rains (2007)
R.E.M.	Finest Worksong (1987)
The Beatles	Because (1969)
D Generation (w / Jesse Malin)	Working On The Avenue (1994)
Motorhead	Die You Bastard (1983)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
King Crimson	21st Century Schizoid Man (1969)
MC5	Kick Out The Jams (1969)
Jane's Addiction	Just Because (2003)
The James Gang	Ashes, The Rain And I (1970)
David Bowie	Strangers When We Meet (1995)
Sparta	Light Burns Clear (2002)
Black Sabbath	She's Gone (1976)
Mick Ronson	Empty Bed (Io Me Ne Andrei) (1975)
Peter Hammill	Forsaken Gardens (1974)
Three Dog Night	Shambala (1973)
The Yardbirds	Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor (1967)
Hanoi Rocks	Up Around The Ben-d (1984)
Thin Lizzy	Sha La La (1974)
Pearl Jam	Wishlist (1997)
John Lennon	Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (1971)
Mott The Hoople	When My Mind's Gone (1970)
Manic Street Preachers	No Surface All Feeling (1996)
Yes	Take The Water To The Mountain (1991)

Comment:

Just this reformatting and one more to go afterwards, then it's all new mixes!

I started Disc #1 with nothing planned beyond the first three songs (Led Zep, Doors, ELP), not having any idea what I was going to put after that, and having it turn out smashingly regardless! All in all, I'd have to say this one came together rather nicely. As far as the Cult and Montrose "dream" songs being put back-to-back, it honestly did not occur to me when I first thought of it. I just really liked both songs. (Honest!) Actually, when the realization hit me that they both had the word "dream" in the title, my initial notion was "Aw, shoot! Now I can't put them together!" But then just as quickly, another voice occurred to me and practically screamed "Yes! Yes! That's absolutely perfect!" So believe it or not, it wasn't actually planned or anything, but it just came together perfectly!

Elsewhere on Disc #1, we get a live performance of a pseudo-autobiographical Lou Reed number about electric shock therapy and drugs and angry fathers taking axes to kitchen ta-bles and other fun stuff like that, a punky little number from Perry Farrell's new band, a trip down memory lane with singer/songwriter Jesse Malin's former '90s glam/punk outfit, and a mad thrashing scorcher from Motorhead to go out with a bang!

Now, as far as Disc #2 is concerned: Well, well, well! What happened here exactly?! Things sure did take a turn for the melancholy, didn't they? Once again, it was something that I wasn't really expecting when I started out. But after getting things off to a rousing, hard-hitting start with the first three numbers (Crimson, MC5, Jane's), things start to get kind of autumnal and gloomy. There are no less than three sad acoustic ballads here with string arrangements, and it was only after that when I decided to include Peter Hammill's Forsaken Gardens! (I mean, hey! The damage was already done, right?? Ha, ha, ha...)

I attempted to bring the excitement level back up a bit with the next three numbers, and I must say that putting Pearl Jam's Wishlist back-to-back with John Lennon's Christmas standard was a neat bit of cleverness on my part, but then right after that we're plunged back into the gloom with Mott The Hoople's When My Mind's Gone. Oh well, like I always say, it is what it is. In retrospect, I blame it on a subtle form of seasonal affect - perhaps an impen-ding awareness of the impen-ding autumn and coming winter...

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