Side A
Artist	Song
Bob Dylan	Tell Me, Momma (live version) (from Eat The Document) (1966)
Ozzy Osbourne	Over The Mountain (1981)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Run Through The Jungle (1970)
Buffalo Springfield	Mr. Soul (1967)
The Beatles	Sexy Sadie (1968)
Metallica	Seek And Destroy (1983)
Manic Street Preachers	Bored Out Of My Mind (1992)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Living Sin (1972)
The Thirteenth Floor Elevators (w / Roky Erickson)	You're Gonna Miss Me (1966)
Ian Hunter	Bastard (1979)
Nirvana	Sappy (Verse Chorus Verse) (1993)
Alice In Chains	Social Parasite (1988)
R.E.M.	The Great Beyond (from Man On The Moon) (1999)
The Doors	Light My Fire (1967)
King's X	The Train (1996)
Motley Crue (w / John Corabi)	Hooligan's Holiday (1994)
Pink Floyd	Careful With That Axe, Eugene (live version) (1969)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Judas Priest	Freewheel Burning (1984)
Lou Reed	The Blue Mask (1982)
The Police	Hole In My Life (1978)
Iron Maiden	Sea Of Madness (1986)
Hanoi Rocks	Underwater World (1984)
Heart (w / Layne Staley)	Ring Them Bells (1993)
Cheap Trick	Born To Raise Hell (1981)
Queen	Bring Back That Leroy Brown (1974)
The Band	Don't Ya Tell Henry (1967)
Jimmy Page & Robert Plant	Blue Train (1998)
The Who	The Real Me (1973)
Blue Oyster Cult	Career Of Evil (1974)
Pearl Jam	Down (2002)
Grim Reaper	The Show Must Go On (1984)
Aerosmith	Walk On Down (1993)
Asia	One Step Closer (1982)
Peter Hammill	Central Hotel (1981)
Def Leppard	Two Steps Behind (from Last Action Hero) (1993)

Comment:

Hello, everybody! It's me again, your frien-dly neighborhood King Frankenstein, Darth Pazuzu. (Although if he really tried, I think Captain Hi-Top could be a major conten-der for that particular crown!) Well, I've been on a major roll for the last couple of days, mixing like a possessed Sith Lord (nyuk, nyuk). In addition to MIX #61, I'm almost finished with #62 and #63 is be-ginning to take shape within my head as I speak. I know my mixes have been fewer and farther between as of late, but I'm in the zone right now and I'm on a bit of a spree. All I can say is: Stay tuned, boys and girls! :-)

Well, good news for Bob Dylan fans: On this mix alone, I've got no less than three Dylan songs! First, the set kicks off with the o-pening shot across the bow in Dylan's controversial '66 electric set (second half) with the Hawks (later the Band), Tell Me, Momma. (You can see the footage of this performance in Eat The Document, as well as Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home.) On Disc #2, Heart gives a moving performance of Dylan's '89 song Ring Them Bells, accompanied by the late, great Layne Staley on vocals. Lastly, the Band themselves deliver Don't Ya Tell Henry, a song which originated during The Basement Tapes sessions. Dylan isn't here, and their inimita-ble drummer Levon Helm gives the boisterous lead vocal.

A word of clarification: the Cheap Trick number here, a hilariously belligerent, in-your-face rocker called Born To Raise Hell, is not to be confused with the similarly-titled Gonna Raise Hell (from the '79 release Dream Police). This particular song was one of three tracks the band recorded for the soundtrack of Rock And Rule. Not having actually seen that animated feature, I can't say for certain whether it's actually in Rock And Rule, but it was never officially released on an album before until the '96 box set Sex, America, Cheap Trick.

Elsewhere, we get a couple of box-set obscurities from Nirvana and Alice In Chains...the second song written by R.E.M. about the late Andy Kaufman (written for a biopic starring Jim Carrey which takes its title from their first song)...the smash hit which put Jim Morrison and the Doors on the map...a bruising rocker from Motley Crue's underrated, self-titled '94 record with singer John Corabi...some loopy vaudeville from early Queen...the confrontational and scary title track from Lou Reed's '82 comeback record...some menacing funk from former Mott The Hoople frontman Ian Hunter, accompanied by the late, great Mick Ronson on guitar...a creepy little number from early BOC with lyrics from none other than Patti Smith...a melancholy Manics B-side...an Aerosmith rocker with a rare lead vocal from Joe Perry...

And like last time around, we get quite a few lashings of heavy-metal thunder! We get a classic from Randy Rhoads-era Ozzy...a lightning thrasher from the mighty Judas Priest...a lesser-known, underrated rocker from Iron Maiden's '86 release Somewhere In Time...a ballad from hairy, scary Hades-obsessed Brits Grim Reaper (featuring future guitar magazine columnist Nick Bowcott on lead guitar)...and a Def Leppard ballad from the soundtrack of Schwarzenegger vehicle Last Action Hero (the soundtrack disc of which is probably the best-known thing associated with that film!).

The weird thing is, for once I had absolutely no idea what my closing sequence for Disc #2 was going to be - I mean, no clue. Zero! So I was kind of winging it in the final stretch. I originally didn't inten-d to close with Def Lep's Two Steps Behind, but I personally think it works okay as a closer.

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