Side A
Artist	Song
Mudhoney	Generation Genocide (instrumental) (1991)
The Moody Blues	Steppin' In A Slide Zone (1978)
Accept	Lady Lou (1979)
Yes	Owner Of A Lonely Heart (1983)
Manic Street Preachers	Dead Passive (1996)
The Offspring	Gotta Get Away (1994)
Jane's Addiction	No One's Leaving (1990)
Extreme	More Than Words (1990)
Queen	Bicycle Race (1978)
Anthrax (w / Phil Anselmo)	Kil-ling Box (1998)
Stone Temple Pilots	Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart (1996)
Alice In Chains	Rotten Apple (1994)
Slayer	War Ensemble (1990)
Led Zeppelin (w / Sandy Denny)	The Battle Of Evermore (1971)
Janis Joplin (w / Big Brother & The Holding Company)	Ball And Chain (live version) (1967)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Black Moon (1992)
Bob Dylan	A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (1963)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Rainbow	Man On The Silver Mountain (1975)
Mindfunk	Blood Runs Red (1991)
The Who	I've Known No War (1982)
Pearl Jam	Black (1991)
Soundgarden	I Awake (1989)
Van Der Graaf Generator	Whatever Would Robert Have Said? (1970)
The Beatles	Cry Baby Cry (1968)
Aerosmith	Janie's Got A Gun (1989)
Nirvana	Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam (1994)
ABBA	The Day Before You Came (1982)
Ozzy Osbourne	Mama, I'm Coming Home (1991)
Suede	Positivity (2002)
Sy-stem Of A Down	Old School Hollywood (2005)
The Creation	Making Time (1966)
Screaming Trees	Nearly Lost You (from Singles) (1992)
Mike Oldfield (w / Bonnie Tyler & Max Bacon)	Islands (1987)
The Byrds	Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) (1965)
Bad Company	Seagull (1974)

Comment:

Well, I guess there are two questions that immediately come to mind: #1) Why have I skipped over MIX #85 and gone straight to #86? And more importantly: #2) Where the hell is Johnny?!!

The simple answer to both questions is: I've locked down #85 as the number for my Johnny mix. I hadn't actually planned on making another mix until after I had posted my little rock opera, but I was feeling rather inspired last night and so I cooked up this little batch, which I must say came together rather spontaneously!

As I've explained in the comment sections for my previous mixes, MIX #85 is going to be my first Narrative mix, and it's pretty much all-the-way finished at this point, with only one final chapter - nay, paragraph! - to make it complete. It's just that the disc I ordered for the very last song hasn't arrived at my doorstep yet, and it won't until approximately the middle of next week. So until then, I can't absolutely promise that I won't get a sudden flash of inspiration to post MIX #87 (or even #88!) before bringing my magnum opus into the light of day. So in the meantime, here's yet another of my usual Pazuzu Pizza Pies!

And what have we got this time around? Well...I guess to start with, the award for The Three Least Likely Musical Artists Ever To Kickstart A Mix Disc Together goes to... [May I have a drumroll, maestro?] :-) As for the rest, well...we've got Slayer, ABBA, a hit Pete Seeger cover, and an overall title containing the name of a former sitcom star. In other words...just another day at the office, business as usual in Pazuzuland (ha, ha)!

I've got a couple of really cool sequences that came together really well this time around: For example, Tracks #13-17 on Disc One. I thought it would be really cool - not to mention a neat little switchup - to put Slayer's War Ensemble and Led Zep's The Battle Of Evermore together. We get a punishingly brutal and aggressive tale of war followed by, in Robert Plant's words, "the woe of aftermath". I think ELP's Black Moon and Dylan's Hard Rain make for an effective closing duo, as well. If you're skeptical, well...just look at the lyric sheets for both and get back to me! [*wink*]

Tracks #7-12 on Disc Two (Beatles through Suede), I think, also makes for an effective - and oddly poignant - grouping of songs. And here's the really funny part: Putting together the SOAD number (the o-pening line of which provides this mix's title, by the way!) back to back with The Creation's Making Time just fell together really naturally without a great deal of forethought. The vocal melody of the SOAD number's chorus ("Old school Hollywood / Washed-up Hollywood!") transitions quite naturally into the guitar riff for Making Time. A lot of the time, it's just my instincts and unconscious - not to mention seren-dipity - that does a lot of this work for me! :-)

And some of you out there may be asking, "Who exactly are The Creation?" Well, Making Time is the very first song on Rhino Records' Nuggets II box set, and I have a very strong hunch that KathrynandRupert just might know a thing or two about this particular band! [*wink*]

And it's a "triple elimination" this time around!:
12. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other (1970) (Although there is a bonus B-side on the remastered version that I haven't used yet...)
13. Led Zeppelin - IV (a.k.a. ZOSO) (1971)
14. Jane's Addiction - Ritual De Lo Habitual (1990)
Stay tuned, folks, and don't touch that dial...

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