Side A
Artist	Song
Deep Purple	Burn (1974)
New Order	Dreams Never En-d (1981)
R.E.M.	Be-gin The Be-gin (1986)
The Ramones	Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio? (1980)
Yes	Something's Coming (1969)
The Cult	The Witch (1992)
Led Zeppelin	Black Country Woman (1975)
The Deftones (w / Maynard James Keenan)	Passenger (2000)
Manic Street Preachers	Nostalgic Pushead (1993)
Nirvana	Lounge Act (1991)
Lynyrd Skynyrd	That Smell (1977)
The Byrds	Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man (1969)
Audioslave	Wide Awake (2006)
Motley Crue	Too Fast For Love (1981)
(Rob) Halford (w / Bruce Dickinson)	The One You Love To Hate (2000)
Guns N' Roses	Get In The Ring (1991)
Keith Emerson	Cigarettes, Ices, Etc. (instrumental) (from Inferno) (1980)
Metallica	Don't Tread On Me (1991)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Nice (w / Keith Emerson)	America / 2nd Amen-dment (instrumental) (1967)
Motorhead	Like A Nightmare (1979)
Van Halen	Somebody Get Me A Doctor (1979)
The Jimi Hen-drix Experience	House Burning Down (1968)
The Rolling Stones	Sway (1971)
Black Sabbath	Laguna Sunrise (instrumental) (1972)
The Stooges (w / Iggy Pop)	ATM (2007)
Joy Division	Autosuggestion (1979)
Pantera	By Demons Be Driven (1992)
Dream Theater	The Test That Stumped Them All (2002)
Coverdale/Page	Absolution Blues (1993)
Bob Dylan	Make You Feel My Love (1997)
Iron Maiden	Purgatory (1981)
Asia	Rock And Roll Dream (1985)
Rollins Band	Saying Goodbye Again (1997)
Soundgarden	New Damage (1991)
The Who	Who Are You (1978)

Comment:

Well, here's another one for all you guys out there on Art Of The Mix! And not to sound boastful or anything, but I'm extremely happy with how this particular mix came together. I personally think it's got the best flow of any mix I've done in a long while, and it gels together really well!

There's just one problem: I think a lot of the current...difficulties...with the site are scaring a lot of people away! Myself, I'm coping with these little setbacks the best I can and trying not to get discouraged. Whenever my mix submissions get spat back out at me for the unacceptability for one word or another, I just go back and "spell out" the word, putting dashes between the letters, putting brackets around the word and putting it in italics and boldface so as to identify it better when things get back to normal and it's time for me to restore the proper spelling! True, it often takes a herculean amount of patience and dedication, but trust me, folks: It's worth it. Don't let these little glitches scare you away! :-)

Anyway, here are my NOTES, THOUGHTS, COMMENTS, EXPLANTIONS, ETC. for this mix!:
1) Burn < Dreams Never En-d: Just got two box sets with money from my last paycheck, Deep Purple's Shades 1968-1998 and New Order's Retro. (This mix was originally supposed to mark the debut of both bands, but I was able to find room for New Order's In A Lonely Place on Disc #2 of my last - as yet unfinished - mix!)
2) Black Country Woman / Nostalgic Pushead < Lounge Act / New Damage: And my most recent "eliminations" are Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti (1993), Manic Street Preachers' Gold Against The Soul (1993), Nirvana's Nevermind (1991) and Soundgarden's Badmotorfinger (1991). So those discs have now been all used up!
3) Something's Coming / Cigarettes, Ices, Etc. < Don't Tread On Me < America / 2nd Amen-dment: A bit of a recurring Stephen Sondheim/Leonard Bernstein motif going on here! In addition to there being two covers of West Side Story numbers here (one with vocals, one instrumental), the main melody from the cover of America (by Keith Emerson with The Nice) is foreshadowed with little quotes in Yes' cover of Something's Coming and at the be-ginning of the Metallica track! (And also, prefacing Don't Tread On Me with an Emerson movie score instrumental gives a foreshadowing of the Nice version of America - or a subliminal hint at what's to come on Disc #2)
4) Lounge Act < That Smell: When Kurt Cobain sings "Smell her on you" I used to think he was actually singing "Smell around you!" a la Skynyrd. So it just popped into my head to put the two songs back to back (ha, ha)! (And trust me, there's absolutely no ill intent whatsoever behind the placing of Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man after the Skynyrd number. Things just happened to work out that way!)
5) Wide Awake / New Damage: Two of the more angrier, politically-themed tunes to come from the pen of Chris Cornell.
6) By Demons Be Driven < The Test That Stumped Them All: The Dream Theater song quotes the riff from the Pantera song! (Whether intentionally or accidentally, I really couldn't say...)
7) Make You Feel My Love: After over 35 years in the music biz, just when you thought Dylan had done it all, in '97 he pulled off another classic with his gorgeous ballad from the Grammy-winning Time Out Of Mind! However...I'm kind of wondering if it doesn't stick out like a sore thumb among the heavy hitters surrounding it in this mix! Or...maybe it's nice to have an oasis of calm right in the middle of the heavier stuff. You be the judge!

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