Side A
Artist	Song
Ozzy Osbourne	Not Going Away (2007)
Krokus	Eat The Rich (1983)
Foo Fighters	I'll Stick Around (1995)
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant	Please Read The Letter (1998)
Bob Dylan	Sara (1976)
King Crimson	Waiting Man (1982)
Blue Oyster Cult	7 Screaming Diz-Busters (1973)
The Doors	The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat) (1971)
Patti Smith	One Voice (2000)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	(Wish I Could) Hideaway (1970)
David Bowie	Life On Mars? (1971)
Iggy & The Stooges	Shake Appeal (1973)
Aerosmith	S.O.S. (Too Bad) (1974)
Perry Farrell	Rev (1999)
Cream	Politician (1968)
Megadeth	The Kil-ling Road (1994)
W.A.S.P.	The Torture Never Stops (1984)
KISS	War Machine (1982)
Motorhead	1916 (1991)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Moody Blues	Departure / Ride My See Saw (1968)
The Clash	London Calling (1979)
The Police	Roxanne (1978)
The Who	The Seeker (1970)
Pearl Jam	U (1998)
Cheap Trick	Clock Strikes Ten (1977)
ZZ Top	La Grange (1973)
Lou Reed	Temporary Thing (1976)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Fire (1993)
Sir Douglas Quintet	She's About A Mover (1965)
Pantera	Walk (1992)
Manic Street Preachers	Intravenous Agnostic (2001)
Black Sabbath	You Won't Change Me (1976)
David Gilmour	I Can't Breathe Anymore (1978)
The Cult	True Believers (2001)
Metallica	For Whom The Bell Tolls (1984)
Mott The Hoople	Half Moon Bay (1970)
Rich-ard Hell & The Voidoids	All The Way (1977)

Comment:

Well, I've reached #60! I imagine that's a landmark of some sort or another. Nothing too different or special here to mark the occasion, just my usual scatterbrained, Frankensteinian mix-'n'-mash. (And hardly worse for being so, although even I find it somewhat questionable wisdom following the Sir Douglas Quintet with Pantera! Oh well...)

Quite a few lashings of classic heavy-metal thunder this time around (Megadeth, Metallica, Ozzy & Sabbath, KISS, Pantera, BOC), as well as some of the more hairier '80s outfits (W.A.S.P., Krokus)! But the funny thing is that the Motorhead track that closes out Disc #1 sounds nothing like what you'd expect from Motorhead. As a matter of fact, 1916 (the title track of their 1991 disc) is actually an old-school early '60s-style honest-to-goodness anti-war folk ballad (with just a pinch of Roger Waters)! And I promise you, if 1916 doesn't cause your eyes to well up just a little, then you just simply don't have a heart! :-(

An interesting little aside you may (or may not) find interesting: Fire, the ELP track on Disc #2, is actually a cover tune - not of Jimi Hen-drix, but of the Crazy World Of Arthur Brown (who drummer Carl Palmer played for before joining forces with Keith Emerson and Greg Lake). It's one of several all-new (or then-new) tracks which ELP recorded for their 1993 box set The Return Of The Manticore. In addition to Fire (representing Palmer's pre-ELP days), there are covers of Tim Hardin's Hang On To A Dream (which was covered by The Nice, with Keith Emerson) and King Crimson's 21st Century Schizoid Man (the original of which Lake had co-written, sang and played bass on). The funny thing is, when Ozzy Osbourne released his box set Prince Of Darkness over a decade later, he would also record covers of Fire and 21st Century Schizoid Man! But at the be-ginning of Fire, when Greg Lake delivers the o-pening invocation "I am the god of hellfire, and I bring you...fire!", he would actually sound a hell of a lot more convincing than Ozzy! Who would ever have thought that the singer of Lucky Man would ever sound more threatening than heavy metal's own Prince of Darkness?! (Having said that, Ozzy's Schizoid Man trumps ELP's, if not the Crimson original.)

As with a great many of my mix discs, there are certainly a few things that I would do differently if a possessed just a little more foresight. On Disc #2, I originally planned on en-ding the disc like this:

The Cult - True Believers (2001)
The Beatles - Sexy Sadie (1968)
Metallica - Seek And Destroy (1983)
Mott The Hoople - Half Moon Bay (1970)
Rich-ard Hell & The Voidoids - All The Way (1977)

I mean, I think that it's more or less fine just the way it is, but I was always kind of attached to the idea of putting the Beatles' Sexy Sadie in the mix, followed by Metallica's Seek And Destroy. *SIGH* Unfortunately, I neglected to make the proper time calculations, and I didn't quite have enough space for everything. But mark my words, I will include those Beatles and Metallica tracks (back to back) in my next mix!

And how do you like the idea of my closing out the set with Rich-ard Hell covering Frank Sinatra? :-)

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