Side A
Artist	Song
Pink Floyd	When The Tigers Broke Free (from Pink Floyd: The Wall) (1982)
Metallica	Battery (1986)
Megadeth	Devil's Island (1986)
Accept	Objection Overruled (1993)
Joy Division	Dead Souls (1980)
Black Sabbath	Electric Funeral (1970)
Pere Ubu	Final Solution (1976)
King Crimson	Thela Hun Ginjeet (1981)
The Who	The Acid Queen (1969)
Guns N' Roses	Bad Obsession (1991)
L7	Everglade (1992)
Slade	Knuckle Sandwich Nancy (1981)
Patti Smith	Stride Of The Mind (2004)
Aerosmith	Woman Of The World (1974)
The Doors	Easy Ride (1969)
Journey	Ask The Lonely (1984)
Soundgarden	Burden In My Hand (1996)
Bob Dylan	I'll Keep It With Mine (1965)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Loudness	S.D.I. (1987)
Judas Priest	Tyrant (1976)
Grim Reaper	Dead On Arrival (1984)
The Rolling Stones	Rocks Off (1972)
Peter Hammill	Pushing Thirty (1978)
The Beatles	Think For Yourself (1965)
Manic Street Preachers	Ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayitsworldwouldfallapart (1994)
The Clash	I'm So Bored With The U.S.A. (1977)
X	Make The Music Go Bang (1983)
Cinderella	Still Climbing (1994)
Twisted Sister	The Price (1984)
Evanescence	Hello (2003)
Pearl Jam	Drifting (1999)
Jane's Addiction	Ain't No Right (1990)
Mudhoney	Touch Me I'm Sick (1988)
Hanoi Rocks	In The Year 79 (It's Too Late) (1982)
Stone Temple Pilots	Pretty Penny (1994)
Heart	You're The Voice (live version) (1991)
Led Zeppelin	Moby Dick/Bonzo's Montreux (instrumental) (1969/76/90)
Motley Crue	On With The Show (1981)
Yes	Nine Voices (Longwalker) (1999)

Comment:

I don't know what it is, but I always seem to be the most "in the zone" whenever I bring The Metal. True, I've done quite a few cool mixes in which I've indulged my taste for garage, punk, and obscure novelty tracks, but somehow my mixes ten-d to gel a lot better when they've got a metal spine holding them together.And this time around, I'm bringing the metal hammer down bigtime! For the overture, Roger Waters tells the autobiographical tale of his father's death in World War II (featured in the film version of The Wall, but not the album). But then...then it's an all-out, full-on metal firestorm with some vintage Metallica and Megadeth from '86, followed by the title track from Teutonic titans Accept's '93 comeback record (which seems to have lapsed out of print in the States - what a crime!). From there on in, the pace slows a bit, but things are certainly no less heavy, with an apocalyptic nuclear-fallout dirge from Sabbath's Paranoid flanked on both sides by intimidating heavyweights from alt-rock icons Joy Division and Pere Ubu!It's been a while since I've included anything from Slade in any of my mixes, so I'm heartily dedicating Track #12 on Disc #1 to TornadoZ! (And if you've noticed, I've "sandwiched" the Brit glambangers between tough punk femmes L7 and Patti Smith - nyuk, nyuk! I swear, sometimes I crack myself up so bad that I'm afraid one of these days I just may en-d up sharing the fate of that poor bald-headed sap from the o-pening scene of that '98 sci-fi thriller Cube!)Disc #2 o-pens up with another trio of highly aggressive '80s metal merchants, roughly parelleling Tracks #2-4 on Disc #1, but this time it's Japanese and British steel instead of American and German thrash. (Hittori Hanzo would be most impressed, I think!)Elsewhere...we get a pair of scathing critiques of the American political and pop-culture landscapes from the Manics and the Clash...a jittery rocker from early-'80s King Crimson (with sampled conversation from Adrian Belew relating a scary encounter with a group of street thugs on the way to the studio!)...an acoustic homage to White Album-era Fab Four from STP...a folky '99 Christmas fan club single from Pearl Jam (one of my favorite tracks from the outtakes/rarities collection Lost Dogs)...a stirring live anthem from Heart...Dylan's gorgeous piano ren-dition of a song later recorded by Judy Collins and Nico (this version not officially released until Biograph in '85)...Mudhoney's raucous debut single from '88...a vicious and punky rarity from Finnish '80s glamsters Hanoi Rocks...a hybrid of two different John Bonham drum showcases from the Led Zeppelin box set...and the Who's original version of a Tommy album number later made famous in the '75 film version by Tina Turner!SPECIAL NOTICE: Captain Hi-Top and I have recently joined forces for a mix collaboration. Stay tuned for further details! Same bat time, same bat channel... :-)

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