Side A
Artist	Song
Seven-dust	Inside (2008)
Deep Purple	Stormbringer (1974)
Stone Temple Pilots	Dead And Bloated (1992)
David Bowie	Sound And Vision (1977)
The Beatles	She's A Woman (1964)
Asia	Only Time Will Tell (1982)
The Byrds	Goin' Back (1968)
The Rolling Stones	Tumbling Dice (1972)
R.E.M.	Accelerate (2008)
Johnny Thunders	So Alone (1978)
Metallica	The Day That Never Comes (2008)
Pearl Jam	Deep (1991)
Rage Against The Machine	Bullet In The Head (1992)
At The Drive-In	Doorman's Placebo (1998)
Patti Smith	Birdland (1975)
The Doors	Yes, The River Knows (1968)
The Who	We Close Tonight (1973)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Rollins Band	Illumination (2000)
Anthrax	Safe Home (2003)
Smashing Pumpkins	Here Is No Why (1995)
Mott The Hoople	Whizz Kid (1973)
The New York Dolls	(Give Her A) Great Big Kiss (1973)
Hanoi Rocks	Kil-l City Kil-ls (1980)
Megadeth	Play For Blood (2007)
Devo	Satisfaction (I Can't Get Me No) (1978)
A Perfect Circle	Freedom Of Choice (2004)
Jethro Tull	A Passion Play (Extract) (1973)
Bob Dylan	If You See Her, Say Hello (1975)
Screaming Trees	Sworn And Broken (1996)
ABBA	Take A Chance On Me (1977)
Yes	Don't Kil-l The Whale (1978)
The Cult	Down So Long (1987)
Manic Street Preachers	Dead Martyrs (2001)
W.A.S.P.	One Tribe (1995)
Hole	Rock Star (1994)
Syd Barrett	Late Night (1970)
Wayne Kramer	A Farewell To Whiskey (instrumental) (1997)

Comment:

Another day, another mix...! :-)

And today's "elimination" is...The Doors' Waiting For The Sun (1987)!

Accelerate / The Day That Never Comes - I just bought two new CD's over the weeken-d: R.E.M.'s Accelerate and Metallica's brand-spanking new Death Magnetic! In my humble opinion, I believe they're both probably the best albums that either band has put out since the early '90s. Don't get me wrong, now: I've used quite a few songs from the two Loads as well as the somewhat underrated St. Anger, and I've used quite a few R.E.M. tracks from the past decade-and-a-half or so, such as E-Bow The Letter, Animal, Imitation Of Life and All The Way To Reno. But Accelerate and Death Magnetic both represent just an overall return to form for both bands, both discs being remarkably consistent and rock-solid. And as you can perfectly well see, I just had to include a track from each on this particular mix!

We Close Tonight - A rather cool outtake from The Who's Quadro-phenia (available on the 1998 remastered and expanded edition of Odds And Sods). The late John Entwistle and Keith Moon share lead vocal duties here, of course personifying two different facets of main ch-aracter Jimmy! John gives voice to Jimmy's fear and insecurity, his desperate desire to impress the girl of his dreams, as well as lamenting his seeming inability to be himself. And Keith gives voice to Jimmy's put-on act to the girl, preten-ding to be a hip and sophisticated musician and jazz freak and claiming to have gotten Ch-arlie Parker's autograph! Rest in peace, gentlemen...

(Give Her A) Great Big Kiss - Has anyone noticed a slight mini-tren-d in terms of hard-rock acts covering Shangri-La's numbers (at least during the '70s and '80s)? There's this Dolls cover, Aerosmith's version of Remember (Walking In The Sand), and of course Twisted Sister's take on Leader Of The Pack!

Tumbling Dice / Satisfaction (I Can't Get Me No) < Freedom Of Choice - Under normal circumstances, I never use two songs by the some artist on the same disc. However...I'm certainly not averse to including one band doing a cover of a song by another band on the same disc, as long as the band being covered are covering a song by another band, as long as that band's song is on the other disc and not the one with the two cover tunes. (And if you're just plain confused at this point, imagine how hard it was for me to string all of that together into a coherent sentence! - ha, ha, ha!)

Down So Long - A Cult outtake from 1987's Electric (from the Rare Cult box set). A bit of an improvised, bluesy mid-tempo AC/DC-style number with Ian apparently ad-libbing the somewhat tossed-off lyrics ("Long live the king / The king is here")...and summarily dismissed by the dissatisfied Mr. Astbury as "Bullshit!" as the band slams into the final note (ha, ha)!

Dead Martyrs < One Tribe < Rock Star < Late Night < A Farewell To Whiskey - Yup, I guess this gives a pretty good idea as to how my brain is wired, that I could actually think this was a pretty damn good en-ding sequence! It's rather beyond my ability to explain or articulate, but...it just, y'know, felt right! :-)

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