Side A
Artist	Song
Yes	Machine Messiah (1980)
Blue Oyster Cult	Godzilla (1977)
Soundgarden	Nothing To Say (1987)
Van Der Graaf Generator	The Undercover Man (1975)
Eric Burdon & War	Spill The Wine (1970)
X	Your Phone's Off The Hook, But You're Not (1980)
Velvet Revolver	Let It Roll (2007)
Iron Maiden	Wrathchild (1981)
Lenny Kravitz	Bring It On (2008)
Patti Smith	Redondo Beach (1975)
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers	I Wanna Be Loved (1977)
Green River	Searchin' (1987)
Skid Row	Get The Fuck Out (1991)
Alice In Chains	Died (1999)
A Perfect Circle	Gravity (2003)
Lou Reed	The Bells (1979)
Robin Trower	Ballerina (1973)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Aerosmith	Nobody's Fault (1976)
Guns N' Roses	It's So Easy (1987)
Manic Street Preachers	Roses In The Hospital (1993)
Bob Dylan	Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Jerry Cantrell	Jesus Hands (1998)
Thin Lizzy	Borderline (1976)
The Jimi Hen-drix Experience	Wait Until Tomorrow (1967)
Audioslave	Like A Stone (2005)
The Dead Boys	Flame Thrower Love (1978)
Van Halen	Top Jimmy (1984)
Queen	Sleeping On The Sidewalk (1977)
Pink Floyd	If (1970)
At The Drive-In	Cosmonaut (2000)
Pantera	I Can't Hide (1997)
Metallica	All Within My Hands (2003)
W.A.S.P.	Rock And Roll To Death (live version) (1998)
Peter Hammill	A Louse Is Not A Home (1974)

Comment:

"ELIMINATION" #7: Queen - News Of The World (1977)!

Well, nothing too unique or special here beyond what I suppose everyone's come to expect from a Pazuzu Pizza Pie. I pride myself on consistency, at least...

I thought the first four tracks would make a particularly good o-pening sequence. Machine Messiah is from Yes' Drama (1980) disc, when singer Jon Anderson and keyboardist Rick Wakeman left the band and were replaced by none other than...The Buggles! (Singer Trevor Horn and keyboardist Geoff Downes, of course.) Machine Messiah is certainly atypically heavy for what anyone would expect from members of Yes or The Buggles. It's this thundering, pounding - and yet still quirky and eccentric - epic about blind faith in technological progress...which makes it the perfect lead-in to BOC's classic Godzilla, with its famous line "History shows again and again / how nature points up the folly of men!" And I believe Van Der Graaf Generator's stately The Undercover Man follows on quite naturally from early Soundgarden bruiser Nothing To Say.

This time around, however, my masterstrokes are my closing sequences! The one for Disc #1 is one I definitely thought would be interesting, with an Earth-scorching punk/grunge/metal attack from Green River and Skid Row followed by the typically saturnine stomp of Alice In Chains (Died, the closer from the Music Bank box set) and the brooding lilt of APC...then an epic showcasing Lou Reed's highly experimental - yet still strangely emotional and affecting - side, and finally a lullaby from British blues guitar hero from Robin Trower to sen-d us out!

Disc #2's en-ding sequence be-gins with a series of frenetic punk and metal scorchers from At The Drive-In and Pantera, followed by St. Anger's closing thunderstorm (with a raging James Hetfield screaming "Kil-l, kil-l, kil-l, kil-l, kil-l!!" practically to the point of hoarseness at the en-d) and then a 12-bar rocker which concludes W.A.S.P.'s live Double Live Assassins disc - and would seem to be the ideal closer for the entire mix. But then...a creepy haunted-house-of-the-soul tale from Van Der Graaf singer Peter Hammill, functioning as a kind of A Day In The Life to the Sgt. Pepper Reprise of W.A.S.P.'s Rock And Roll To Death...if you get my meaning!

Elsewhere, we get: vintage late '70s punk from the late Johnny Thunders and the equally late Stiv Bators and his Dead Boys...the title track from what I personally believe to be Bob Dylan's greatest mid-'60s masterpiece...a Led Zep-ish rocker from the new Lenny Kravitz disc...a bluesy ballad of heartbreak, drinking and woe from Thin Lizzy...a cautionary tale about a nuclear power facility built near the San Andreas faultline (if I remember correctly) from Aerosmith...and of course much more!

FINAL NOTE: Yesterday I was watching my own DVD movie marathon and two movies I put on were David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) and Frank Darabont's film adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist from last year. And it then occurred to me what a terrific closing sequence I could use for a future mix!:

Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren (a Tim Buckley cover)

Well? How does a double-shot of 4AD sound for a closer? :-) The trouble is, what would I use before that, to lead into the Dead Can Dance number? That's kind of a tough one, actually. I'm leaning heavily towards Led Zeppelin's Since I've Been Loving You. It's a slow, sad blues with prominent organ, it's in a key which is closely related to The Host Of Seraphim, so I'm thinking "why not?" Although I am certainly o-pen to suggestions from anyone else!

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