Side A
Artist	Song
Slayer	Angel Of Death (1986)
Hedwig & The Angry Inch	Angry Inch (from Hedwig & The Angry Inch) (2001)
Mudhoney	In 'N' Out Of Grace (1988)
Suede	We Are The Pigs (1994)
Bad Company	Bad Company (1974)
Wayne Kramer	The Rats Of Illusion (1996)
Alice In Chains	I Stay Away (1994)
Rollins Band	All I Want (1997)
The Rolling Stones	Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) (1973)
The Beatles (w / Yoko Ono)	The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill (1968)
Manic Street Preachers	If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next (1998)
Screaming Trees	Dollar Bill (1992)
Queen	You're My Best Frien-d (1975)
Aerosmith	Big Ten Inch Record (1975)
The Velvet Underground	Train Round The Ben-d (1970)
Metallica	Wherever I May Roam (1991)
Black Sabbath	Dirty Women (1976)
Pink Floyd (w / Clare Torry)	The Great Gig In The Sky (1973)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
U2	Discotheque (1996)
Mott The Hoople	Walkin' With A Mountain (1970)
Pantera	Clash With Reality (1990)
Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers	Baby Talk (1977)
The Yardbirds	I Ain't Done Wrong (1965)
Joy Division	Kokamino (1980)
The Clash	Broadway (1980)
Peter Hammill (w / Randy California)	Red Shift (1974)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Abaddon's Bolero (instrumental) (1972)
Robin Trower	Daydream (1973)
Nirvana	Clean Up Before She Comes (1988)
Julian Cope	World Shut Your Mouth (1986)
The Jimi Hen-drix Experience	Love Or Confusion (1967)
Mother Love Bone	Capricorn Sister (1990)
Led Zeppelin	The Crunge (1973)
The Who	We're Not Gonna Take It / See Me, Feel Me / Listening To You (1969)
Tool	The Gaping Lotus Experience (1992)

Comment:

Slayer < Hedwig...Whaaaaaaaaaat?!?
"Extra! Extra! Read all about it!! 'NOTORIOUS NAZI DOC BOTCHES TRANNY ROCKER'S SEX-CHANGE OP!!' Extra! Extra! Read all about it in this week's issue of the Daily Demon! Get it all right here, folks!!"

Okay, okay, in all seriousness, folks...[*snicker*]...Excuse me, sorry about that! Now, then...[*guffaw*]...Okay. I'm good. Alrighty then...I know what you've thinking. "He's finally flipped," right? Well, I just figured that after being in a rather serious conceptual mindset for the last several mixes, and taking on the task of assembling a "rock opera," I figured I'd let loose with an atomic concussion bomb's worth of trashy irreverence right off the bat! Sure, I'll be the first to admit that Angel Of Death / Angry Inch is probably my sickest pairing of tracks I've chosen to kickstart one of my mixes yet. (Whether that's "sick" in a positive or negative sense, I'll just leave it to others to decide.) But to be perfectly honest, this is probably the only situation in which I'd use either of those songs, because in their own different ways they're such outrageous songs, frankly I think they rather need each other's company in order to absorb each other's excesses, otherwise they'd stick out like sore thumbs in the midst of everything else around them!

Also, the following four tracks (In 'N' Out Of Grace / We Are The Pigs / Bad Company / The Rats Of Illusion) actually kind of help the Slayer and Hedwig numbers segue more comfortably into the relatively more tame and conventional numbers within the rest of the mix. As a matter of fact, Tracks #1-6 could almost be the be-ginnings of another Narrative mix, a kind of futuristic Western epic set in an Orwellian, fascist media-controlled future, where the outlaws, rebels, freaks, "the stars on the firing line," all unite to fight against the establishment and liberate the death camps! But I'm kind of worn out after my last big epic undertaking, so if anyone else wants to take up the slack there, well...be my guest! :-)

Disc #2 is admittedly a bit patchy. Although I pretty much had Disc #1 mostly plotted out, I kind of made up the second half as I went along, throwing a lot of songs together which I didn't have room for on earlier mixes. I guess it kind of holds together okay...

NOTES, THOUGHTS, COMMENTS, EXPLANATIONS, ETC., ETC...:
1) Discotheque: Not the original mix which o-pened the '96 Pop album, but the remix from Best Of 1990-2000.
2) Baby Talk / I Ain't Done Wrong: I think Johnny Thunders nicked that riff from Jeff Beck! :-)
3) Abaddon's Bolero: ELP instrumental - in actuality more of a march than a bolero (not unlike Beck's Bolero), with a main theme that brings to mind the theme from Dragnet more than anything by Maurice Ravel!
4) Clean Up Before She Comes: Very early Nirvana demo (from the box set With The Lights Out), with just a quietly chugging electric guitar and eerie overdubbed vocal counterpoint from Kurt Cobain!
5) Capricorn Sister: This one goes out to the one and only Captain Hi-Top! :-)
6) The Gaping Lotus Experience: Very funny unlisted bonus track from Tool's debut EP from '92, Opiate.

Feedback: