Side A
Artist	Song
Angelo Badalamenti	Jitterbug (from Mulholland Drive) (instrumental) (2001)
Ennio Morricone	Seduction And Magic (from Exorcist II: The Heretic) (instrumental) (1977)
Mike Oldfield	Tubular Bells (O-pening Theme) (instrumental) (1973)
Soundgarden	Heretic (from Pump Up The Volume) (1990)
Apocalyptica (w / Corey Taylor)	I'm Not Jesus (2008)
Paul Giovanni & Magnet	Corn Rigs (from The Wicker Man) (1973)
The Jimi Hen-drix Experience	Foxy Lady (1967)
The Beatles	Help! (1965)
Reef	Resignation (from Great Expectations) (1997)
Lenny Kravitz	Mr. Cab Driver (1989)
The Doors	Wintertime Love (1968)
Jeff Beck (w / Rod Stewart)	Rock My Plimsoul (1968)
The Ramones	Too Tough To Die (1984)
Megadeth	Use The Man (1997)
The Velvet Underground	Heroin (1967)
Corrosion Of Conformity	Goodbye Windows (1996)
Bob Dylan	Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again (1966)
Manic Street Preachers	Sen-d Away The Tigers (2007)
Seven-dust	Shine (2001)
Aerosmith	Beyond Beautiful (2001)
The Police	Deathwish (1979)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Introductory Fanfare / Peter Gunn (live version) (1977)
Iggy Pop (w / The Stooges)	Skull Ring (2003)
Nazareth	Razamanaz (1973)
The Preten-ders	What You Gonna Do About It (1980)
The Cult	White (1991)
The Rolling Stones	Monkey Man (1969)
David Johansen	My Obsession (1981)
King Crimson	Cadence And Cascade (1970)
Pearl Jam	Betterman (1994)
Willy DeVille	Pullin' My String (from Cruising) (1980)
The Venus In Furs (w / Thom Yorke)	Bitter-Sweet (from Velvet Goldmine) (1998)
Guns N' Roses	Estranged (1991)
Screaming Trees	Winter Song (1992)
Queen	Now I'm Here (1974)
Van Halen	Right Now (1991)
Peter Hammill	Rain 3AM (1974)
Chris Cornell	Sunshower (from Great Expectations) (1997)

Comment:

Well, as I had explained in my comments for the previous mix (#80), I've been planning on putting together my very first Narrative mix for some time now. Although the plan is tentative at this junction, I'm planning on giving it the title of All He Wanted Was To Be Free, And That's The Way It Turned Out To Be (and that probably gives you a rather big hint as to what one of the included songs is going to be!). The songs are going to weave together to tell the story of a young rock 'n' roll rebel named Johnny and his rise and fall. It's a rather ambitious undertaking, and it'll incorporate within its tracks a lot of big things - y'know, life and death, rock stardom, failed romance, drug addiction, war, religion...And at this stage I can just hear some of you out there snickering and thinking, "Oh yeah, ha ha, well we'll just see about that, won't we?!" Well, I can certainly understand such skepticism, but I have a feeling I'm going to pull together something rather special! And it probably won't be the next mix, or even the one after that, but I'm fairly certain I'll have it polished up and finalized very soon.

So what does all of this have to do with the mix at hand? Well, in putting together a list of songs for my "Johnny saga," I en-ded up with more material than I could ever possibly fit onto two 80-minute CD-R's! (Yeah, I suppose I could expand it to three or even four discs, but then it would seem awfully padded, wouldn't it?) So little by little, I'm whittling things down to the more reasonable standard 2-CD set, and my whittlings and castoffs I'm diverting elsewhere - toward other mix sets!

You can even get little hints of it right here within this collection - a sneak preview of things to come, if you will. I had a lot of drug-themed songs that I thought I might use (including some of the numbers on Disc One here, such as Use The Man and the Velvets classic Heroin), but a lot of them seemed like perhaps overly obvious - even cliched - choices. And on Disc Two, there are a couple of numbers (a cover of Roxy Music's Bitter-Sweet and GN'R ballad Estranged) which were meant to document the disintegration of lead ch-aracter Johnny's marriage with his wife, but I wanted to include both of them or neither of them, and they ultimately would have taken up too much running time, so I put them here instead!

Also, I've got to say that the first six tracks on Disc One probably make up one of the...well, oddest o-pening sequences I've ever cooked up! There's certainly a lot of movie material scattered throughout both discs, as well. And kicking off Disc Two are probably the only tracks in the ELP and Iggy catalogues which would make perfect sense when put together (to anyone other than poor demented ol' me, that is - ha, ha). I mean, Ron Asheton's riff for Skull Ring is practically a direct rip from Henry Mancini's Peter Gunn theme, for crying out loud! :-)

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