Side A
Artist	Song
Van Halen	1984 (instrumental) (1984)
Van Halen	Jump (1984)
Steppenwolf	Born To Be Wild (1967)
The Beatles	Drive My Car (1965)
Bob Dylan	She Belongs To Me (1965)
Journey	Stone In Love (1981)
Peter Hammill	The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning (1975)
The Doors	Spanish Caravan (1968)
Rollins Band	Hard (1989)
Rage Against The Machine	How I Could Just Kil-l A Man (2000)
Metallica	Last Caress / Green Hell (1987)
Cheap Trick	High Roller (1978)
Queen	Fight From The Inside (1977)
The Who	I Don't Even Know Myself (1971)
Loudness	In My Dreams (1987)
Guns N' Roses	Don't Cry (1991)
Patti Smith	Land: Horses / Land Of A Thousand Dances / La Mer (De) (1975)
King's X	Visions (1988)
Pearl Jam	Yellow Ledbetter (1992)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Iron Maiden	Kil-lers (1981)
Judas Priest	The Ripper (1976)
Motorhead	Iron Horse/Born To Lose (1977)
Pink Floyd	Empty Spaces (1979)
Pink Floyd	Young Lust (1979)
Stone Temple Pilots	Hollywood Bitch (2001)
Lou Reed	Sally Can't Dance (1974)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Brain Salad Surgery (1973)
Manic Street Preachers	4 Ever Delayed (2002)
The Preten-ders	Everyday Is Like Sunday (from Boys On The Side) (1995)
Lenny Kravitz	Can't Get You Off My Mind (1995)
Mott The Hoople	Trudi's Song (1974)
The Ramones	Highest Trails Above (1983)
Led Zeppelin	Ramble On (1969)
Van Der Graaf Generator	Squid 1 / Squid 2 / Octopus (1971)
Aerosmith	Major Barbra (1974)
Yes	Starship Trooper: Life Seeker / Disillusion / Wurm (1971)

Comment:

Well, I certainly have been a busy bee lately! In addition to PAZUZU MIX #72, I've been working on my collaboration with Captain Hi-Top, THE LOVE COMMANDER VS. THE DAEMON KNIGHT, so it's quite understandably been a little while since my last posting (well, last before today, anyway!). But a little hiatus certainly doesn't hurt once in a while (and is probably beneficial, anyway).

First off, I hope my Rollins/RATM/Metallica sequencing provides a certain level of amusement! If you think about it, cumulatively those three songs display a kind of escalation of macho ultraviolence: Henry Rollins boasts of being "all the way hard!" (And without a doubt there's a double-enten-dre there - never let it be said that ol' Henry doesn't have a sense of humor!) Rage covers Cypress Hill's How I Could Just Kil-l A Man. And then Metallica (covering Glenn Danzig's Misfits) trumps them all, declaring "Oh, you think that's 'hard', huh? You could just kil-l a man?! Well, that ain't nothing, man! 'Cause I just kil-led your baby today, and it doesn't matter much to me as long as she's dead!! So how ya like them apples, huh?!" (Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk! And although it's kind of stretching things a bit, lyrically speaking, the Cheap Trick and Queen numbers could be seen as a sort of "point/counterpoint" extension of the more aggressive trio which preceded them!)

Elsewhere, we get the first of Patti Smith's exten-ded free-form poetic epics (all the while channeling Chris Kenner)...The Preten-ders covering Morrissey (and while I haven't heard the man's original, I don't even think that he could do a ren-dition quite as heartbreaking as Chrissie Hynde and company do here!)...a pair of back-to-back love songs from Lenny Kravitz and Mott's Ian Hunter (Trudi being Ian's wife)...the title track from ELP's classic '73 album Brain Salad Surgery which didn't even make the cut there (see also Led Zep's Houses Of The Holy, Queen's Sheer Heart Attack and The Doors' Waiting For The Sun for further examples!)...outlaw biker classics from Steppenwolf and Motorhead...vintage British steel from Maiden and Priest (both songs about prowling, knife-wielding murderers)...classic '80s Van Halen with David Lee Roth...a whimsical ode to a madhouse gone up in flames from Van Der Graaf frontman Peter Hammill (a favorite number of John Lydon's, actually!), as well as a tumultuous epic from Van Der Graaf themselves...a welcome-back gesture toward the now-reformed STP (let's hope Weiland can keep his nose clean and avoid the pokey)...a classic Pearl Jam B-side...a cool rarity from Aerosmith...and as usual, much much more!

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