Side A
Artist	Song
Screaming Trees	Beyond This Horizon (1991)
The Beatles	Magical Mystery Tour (1967)
Queen	In The Lap Of The Gods (1974)
Pearl Jam	Garden (1991)
Led Zeppelin	Frien-ds (1970)
The Cult	Electric Ocean (1987)
Judas Priest	Starbreaker (1977)
KISS	I Love It Loud (1982)
Deep Purple	Smooth Dancer (1973)
Nick Gilder	Got To Get Out (1978)
The Rolling Stones	Brown Sugar (1971)
Janis Joplin (w / Big Brother & The Holding Company)	Farewell Song (1968)
The Byrds	Chestnut Mare (1970)
Renaissance	Mother Russia (1974)
The Ramones	Howling At The Moon (Sha-La-La) (1984)
The Monkees	St. Matthew (1968)
The Syndicats	Crawdaddy Simone (1965)
Metallica	The Struggle Within (1991)
Hanoi Rocks	Preten-der (1981)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Pantera	Suicide Note, Pt. I (1996)
Pantera	Suicide Note, Pt. II (1996)
Iron Maiden	Powerslave (1985)
Aerosmith	Round And Round (1975)
Manic Street Preachers	The Girl Who Wanted To Be God (1996)
Pink Floyd	Us And Them (1973)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Bo Diddley (instrumental) (1975)
Van Morrison	Madame George (1968)
The Velvet Underground	Sister Ray (1968)
Ten Years After	Boogie On (1968)

Comment:

We have yet another "elimination," folks!:
The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (1968)

Well, first of all...why are there almost half as many songs on Disc #2 as there are on Disc #1? Well, it's simple: The final three songs (Madame George < Sister Ray < Boogie On) ate up over half the running time of Disc #2! :-)

NOTES, THOUGHTS, COMMENTS, EXPLANATIONS, ETC.:
1) Beyond This Horizon < Magical Mystery Tour - I've often thought on more than one occasion that both of these songs individually would make a good o-pener for Disc #1, and I hit on the idea of putting them back to back. However, I was never quite sure which of them to put first...and I'm still not sure even after the fact! :-)
2) In The Lap Of The Gods < Garden - I had actually used the reprise of the Queen song (In The Lap Of The Gods...Revisited) on an earlier mix, but for some reason I had never thought to include the first part until now! And it's also really too bad that my CD-recorder machine breaks up each individual track by about one to two seconds, because otherwise the o-pening guitar motif of Pearl Jam's Garden would directly follow on the closing drum shuffle of the Queen song - a damn near perfect segue! Oh well...
3) Mother Russia - To honor the recent passing of the noted Russian writer, dissident and former political prisoner Alexander Solzhenitsyn, I included this tribute song from Annie Haslam and Renaissance. (Not that I've actually read anything by Solzhenitsyn, but I just thought it would be a nice gesture!)
4) Suicide Note, Pts. I & II - A sharp study in contrasts, this one! The first part is a downbeat acoustic stoner ballad, and the second part is a full-on, ultraviolent, warp-speed thrash-metal dervish, with Pherocious Phil Anselmo damn near tearing his vocal cords to shreds! (Note that this is no less than the third time in a row that I've used a Pantera song to kick off Disc #2 of a mix - and all three titles be-gin with the letter "S" no less! I usually try to avoid falling into habitual, repetitive patterns like that - and even when I use many of the same bands over and over from mix to mix, I usually avoid putting them in the same place as last time. It's not necessarily a hard-and-fast rule, you understand, but it's still something I usually try to avoid!)
5) Madame George < Sister Ray - I won't belabor the obvious connection here - even though it must be said that these two songs have an extremely different vibe to them. For me, it's hard not to think of some of the ch-aracters from Hubert Selby Jr.'s famous 1959 novel Last Exit To Brooklyn here. And while I don't know about Van, I'm pretty sure that Lou Reed has read that book! (By the way, in case you're interested, this book was made into a movie in 1990 starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jerry Orbach, Ricki Lake, Stephen Lang and Alexis Arquette.)

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