Side A
Artist	Song
Cheap Trick	Hello There (1977)
Celebrity Skin	Hello (1991)
Bad Company	Rock And Roll Fantasy (1979)
Van Halen	And The Cradle Will Rock... (1980)
Janis Joplin (w / Big Brother & The Holding Company)	Piece Of My Heart (1968)
ZZ Top	My Head's In Mississippi (1990)
Yes	The More We Live - Let Go (1991)
The Rolling Stones	Honky Tonk Women (1969)
Queen	Fat Bottomed Girls (1978)
Aerosmith	Mama Kin (1973)
Mike Oldfield (w / Maggie Reilly)	To France (1984)
Syd Barrett	Gigolo Aunt (1970)
A Perfect Circle	Blue (2003)
Jeff Beck (w / Rod Stewart)	I'm Drinking Again (1968)
At The Drive-In	This Night Has O-pened My Eyes (1998)
Screaming Trees	Transfiguration (1987)
The Beatles	You Never Give Me Your Money (1969)
The Beatles	Sun King (1969)
The Beatles	Mean Mr. Mustard (1969)
The Beatles	Polythene Pam (1969)
The Beatles	She Came In Through The Bathroom Window (1969)
The Jimi Hen-drix Experience	Rainy Day, Dream Away (1968)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Jimi Hen-drix Experience	Still Raining, Still Dreaming (1968)
Led Zeppelin	Misty Mountain Hop (1971)
The Doors	Hello, I Love You (1968)
Nazareth	This Flight Tonight (1973)
Judas Priest	Diamonds And Rust (1976)
Frankie Lee (er, um...I mean Bob Dylan!)	One More Cup Of Coffee (Valley Below) (1976)
Manic Street Preachers	Dead Trees And Traffic Islands (1996)
Paul Giovanni & Magnet (w / Lesley Mackie)	Willow's Song (from The Wicker Man) (1973)
Smashing Pumpkins	Drown (from Singles) (1992)
The Who	Athena (1982)
Mott The Hoople	No Wheels To Ride (1970)
The Police	Landlord (1979)
Soundgarden	Drawing Flies (1991)
Inger Lorre	Yard Of Blonde Girls (1999)
Jane's Addiction	Been Caught Stealing (1990)
Metallica	Devil's Dance (1997)
Justin Hayward & Jeff Wayne	Forever Autumn (1978)
David Bowie	Rock 'N' Roll Suicide (1972)
The Beatles	Golden Slumbers (1969)
The Beatles	Carry That Weight (1969)
The Beatles	The En-d (1969)
The Beatles	Her Majesty (1969)

Comment:

No, no, it's not here yet!! (ha, ha, ha) :-) :-) :-)

Okay, okay, here's the deal...The big magnum opus I've been crowing about forever, my "rock opera" about a rock 'n' roller named Johnny, is almost...almost finished. In fact, Disc #1 is completed and finalized. It's just that I have yet to receive my rare copy of Howard Shore's soundtrack to the 2002 David Cronenberg film Spider (starring Ralph Fiennes), and there's just one track left to go! The last number on Disc #2 - the finale - is going to be...well, if anyone out there has actually seen the movie, they'll remember that lovely little Elizabethan ballad that plays during the o-pening credits. Yup, that's gonna be my closer! But fear not, for I know for a fact that I'll be receiving the Spider disc sometime next week, and then the very last piece will be in place - and my mix-meisterwerk will be complete at last!

And when I post it, I shall make every attempt to make it available to everybody out there in AOTM-land! That's right, for the first time ever, I'm going to try posting a link here to one of my mixes. However...not being particularly computer-savvy myself, I must rely on the assistance (and good graces) of relatives who do know a thing or two about such things. So, depen-ding on the breaks, this may or may not take a little time. But I'll get there eventually. Stay tuned for further details, folks! :-)

Now, then...to the mix at hand! I guess the most obvious thing to mention is that I have committed the most flagrant violation of my own "no more than one song by the same artist" rule. I mean, I've got nine Beatles songs on the same mix, for crying out loud!! Like, what gives, eh?! Well...because, silly! You can't just put one song from the Big Abbey Road Medley - you have to have the whole damn thing! :-) However, I did take the liberty of splitting it between discs. (And I trust that my Hen-drix violation is self-explanatory!)

Elsewhere, what have we got? Well...a handful of cool B-sides (Jeff Beck, Manics, Police)...a couple of cool covers (including a back-to-back pair of souped-up and hot-rodded numbers originally penned by '60s folk songstresses)...and...some more music from The Wicker Man! In this case, I've got Britt Ekland's...how shall I say?...extremely memorable song-and-dance number from that 1973 classic! [*wink*]

Also, on this mix as well as the previous three (#81-83), I've used a lot of songs that were at some point conten-ders for use in my "Johnny saga." And as you can see, with this mix I'm still kind of in my "Johnny groove," because in a weird way this mix has a decidedly similar sort of arc to it. I suppose it will all make a great deal more sense once I've finally posted my little rock opera mix. But in the meantime, think of this as getting the Outtakes/De-leted & Exten-ded Scenes section before you get to see the main feature! :-)

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