Side A
Artist	Song
Velvet Revolver	Sucker Train Blues (2004)
Blue Oyster Cult	Hot Rails To Hell (1973)
The Byrds (w / Gram Parsons)	The Christian Life (1968)
Peter Hammill	People You Were Going To (II) (1975)
Def Leppard	Rocket (1987)
The Police	Walking In Your Footsteps (1983)
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Behind The Sun (1987)
The Rolling Stones	Mother's Little Helper (1966)
Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)	Nobody Loves You Like I Do (1977)
Manic Street Preachers (w / Traci Lords)	Little Baby Nothing (1992)
R.E.M.	The Wrong Child (1988)
Joy Division	Passover (1980)
Ennio Morricone	Little Afro-Flemish Mass (from Exorcist II: The Heretic) (1977)
Ten Years After	Here They Come (1971)
Mott The Hoople	Momma's Little Jewel (1972)
Thin Lizzy	Johnny (1976)
Mudhoney	Hate The Police (1988)
Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes	Hibernation (instrumental) (1974)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
W.A.S.P.	The Big Welcome (1986)
W.A.S.P.	Inside The Electric Circus (1986)
Smashing Pumpkins	The Everlasting Gaze (2000)
Judas Priest	Exciter (1977)
Patrick Moraz	Descent (instrumental) (1976)
Patrick Moraz	Incantation (Procession) (1976)
Patrick Moraz	Dancing Now (1976)
Extreme	Stop The World (1992)
Jethro Tull	Living In The Past (1971)
Led Zeppelin	Bron-Y-Aur Stomp (1970)
Living Colour	Talkin' Loud And Sayin' Nothing (1991)
David Bowie	Fame (1975)
AC/DC	Meanstreak (1988)
Janis Joplin (w / The Kozmic Blues Band)	As Good As You've Been To This World (1969)
Van Der Graaf Generator	People You Were Going To (I) (1969)
The Cult	The River (1989)
Van Morrison	Slim Slow Slider (1968)
Yes	It's Love (live version) (1971)

Comment:

NOTE OF APOLOGY: Maybe you've noticed, maybe you haven't, but I've kind of been acting like a bit of a prick lately. I don't know, maybe it's just my nerves getting frazzled by all of the problems on this site recently, and more recently the glitches related to the comment sections. I recently went verbally ballistic on some person who I thought had de-leted a comment I had made regarding a mix of theirs (albeit non-profanely going verbally ballistic, I hasten to add!). Whether or not anyone's actually able to de-lete another person's comments or not (Q: Is it even possible??), or whether this is just more technical trouble, there's no excuse for it. The mixer, Suburbangoth, has my heartfelt apologies, and I apologize to anybody else out there who I may have alienated in the process (if any). :-)

Anyway, moving on...Today's album "elimination" is Joy Division: Closer (1980)!

Sucker Train Blues < Hot Rails To Hell < The Christian Life - This o-pening sequence for Disc #1 is meant as a sort of peace offering to Rob Conroy (albeit an ever-so-slightly backhanded one). He once long ago said something less than flattering about my mixes that's been festering in my brain ever since, and I've given him crap in PM's about it from time to time (which for whatever reason he's chosen to simply ignore, and he's probably the better man for that). I know from one of his recent posts that he's a big fan of early BOC, as am I. So I've decided to do the good Jedi thing and let go of my anger and hate and let bygones be bygones. So if you're out there, Rob...Rock on!! :-)

Walking In Your Footsteps < Behind The Sun - Because, dammit, somebody had to bring these two together! :-)

Little Baby Nothing < The Wrong Child - No direct lyrical connection here so far as I can see, but I just thought putting these together had a certain, well...for lack of a better way of putting it, tearjerker potential!

Mother's Little Helper / Momma's Little Jewel - When I decided to put these two songs on the same mix, the similarity of the titles didn't even occur to me. (No, really, I swear!) Although it's true, one could very well make an argument for the girl in the second song being the daughter of the mother in the first...

Little Afro-Flemish Mass - This horror-movie soundtrack piece from Italian scoremeister Morricone is a cool, eerie hybrid of the tribal and liturgical, with lots of chanting and thumping percussion. Remember the African mountaintop church ceremony that Rich-ard Burton's priest atten-ds in Exorcist II: The Heretic? Well, this is the piece that's playing on the soundtrack! (Woefully underrated - if eccentric - film, by the way.)

Johnny < Hate The Police < Hibernation - At first, the concluding sequence for Disc #1 was going to be something rather different. The Mudhoney song (a cover) wasn't even part of the original plan. But it turned out I had no room for what I had in mind, so I compromised...and en-ded up with something which was quite possibly superior to what my original notion was!

People You Were Going To - This song was actually the first single release by Van Der Graaf Generator, way back in 1968. I have not included that single version here, because it's very rare and I haven't been able to get a hold of it, but I have included a BBC recording from '69 which is actually the very first track on the band's 2000 box set (titled, appropriately enough, The Box!). Van Der Graaf frontman Peter Hammill would later re-record the song for his 1975 solo release Nadir's Big Chance, and I have included that version here as well (although not in chronological order), putting both versions at roughly equidistant positi

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