Side A
Artist	Song
Metallica	I Disappear (from Mission: Impossible 2) (2000)
W.A.S.P.	School Daze (1984)
Manic Street Preachers	Just A Kid (2001)
Thin Lizzy	Toughest Street In Town (1979)
Black Sabbath	Johnny Blade (1978)
Jane's Addiction	1% (1987)
Mike Oldfield (w / Roger Chapman)	Shadow On The Wall (1983)
Yes	Into The Lens (I Am A Camera) (1980)
Jeff Beck (w / Jimmy Page & Keith Moon)	Beck's Bolero (instrumental) (1968)
The Byrds	You Ain't Goin' Nowhere (1968)
Nazareth	Carry Out Feelings (1976)
The Band	The Weight (1968)
The Beatles	Girl (1965)
Korn	Did My Time (2003)
Seven-dust	Feel So (1999)
Megadeth	Hangar 18 (1990)
Soundgarden	Blow Up The Outside World (1996)
Stone Temple Pilots	Atlanta (1999)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Claudio Simonetti	Opera (Main Theme) (1987)
The Police	Synchronicity I (1983)
Aerosmith	No Surprize (1979)
Queen	Rock It (Prime Jive) (1980)
King's X	Run (1996)
Fight (w / Rob Halford)	Nailed To The Gun (1993)
Anthrax	Room For One More (1993)
Ted Nugent	Smokescreen (1978)
Megadeth	Return To Hangar (2001)
L7	Livin' Large (1999)
Monster Magnet	Kiss Of The Scorpion (2001)
Renaissance	Northern Lights (1978)
Thought Gang (w / Angelo Badalamenti)	A Real Indication (from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me) (1992)
The Who	Sunrise (1967)
The Rolling Stones	Let It Loose (1972)
Apocalyptica	Burn (instrumental) (2008)
Suede	Stay Together (1994)
MC5	Starship (1969)

Comment:

A.K.A. "How My Girlfrien-d And I Grew Up On The Mean Streets, Dr-opped Out Of School, Broke Into Area 51, Stole A Flying Saucer, And Split The Freakin' Solar Sy-stem Before Armageddon!"

Well...okay, maybe not (ha, ha)! Actually, what we've got here are some further whittlings and castoffs from my upcoming "Johnny saga." I (like to) imagine at this point I have whetted some people's appetites for this impen-ding epic to the point where they're just about ready to scream "Well, are you gonna post this damn thing or what??" Well, in response, I can only counsel the virtue of patience! All good things come to those who wait... :-)

Actually, I originally had planned to have a few songs which would relate to the main ch-aracter Johnny's troubled background and school days. In fact, most of what's in the current #1-6 sequence on Disc One were at one point or another conten-ders for inclusion in the saga, but for the sake of space they got the chop and en-ded up here instead! Well, them's the breaks...

You'll also notice that I really cranked up the heavy-metal thundah! this time around as well! In fact you'll see that I violated my "no one artist on the same mix twice" rule in putting two Megadeth tracks - but the second is actually a sequel to the first, and thus I have a loophole! (And if I hadn't already used Synchronicity II in an earlier mix, I would have used both Police tracks by that title in the same mix as well! Oh well, hindsight is always 20/20...)

Also, I've had it in mind for quite some time to put The Byrds' cover of Dylan's You Ain't Goin' Nowhere, Nazareth's Carry Out Feelings and The Band's The Weight in a sequence together - and in that order. I don't know why, for some reason I just felt like those three just had to go together. (Although the fact that Nazareth got their very name from the o-pening verse of that Band classic probably has a lot to do with it!)

And I'll be right upfront and admit that the placement of the tracks by Monster Magnet and Renaissance side by side probably makes for one of the most jarringly inappropriate transitions in my entire mix history! I mean, think about it: To jump from decadent, dangerous Dave Wyndorf loudly proclaiming "It's time you sucked the cock of the fire god!" to the sweet and lovely vocal tones of Annie Haslam is admittedly kind of mind-boggling, right?! It only hit me just how totally wrong this transition was after I listened to the mix played back on my CD Walkman, but I think I'll allow it to stand to serve as an example of just how...individualistically nutty my mixes can sometimes get!

We also have a weird, jazzy little number from Angelo Badalementi's soundtrack for David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, with a rather deranged vocal by the great Angelo himself! Funny but true story: When director Lynch (who also plays percussion on the track) heard his good frien-d and collaborator's vocal track he almost died laughing - literally busting a gut!

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