Side A
Artist	Song
The Mamas & The Papas	Dedicated To The One I Love (1967)
Temple Of The Dog (w / Chris Cornell)	Reach Down (1991)
Cheap Trick	Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace (1977)
Thin Lizzy	Running Back (1976)
Manic Street Preachers	First Republic (1996)
Mott The Hoople	Jerkin' Crocus (1972)
Stone Temple Pilots	No Memory (instrumental) (1992)
Stone Temple Pilots	Sin (1992)
X	I'm Coming Over (1981)
Yes	A Venture (1971)
Judas Priest	Winter (1974)
Judas Priest	Deep Freeze (instrumental) (1974)
Judas Priest	Winter Retreat (1974)
The Beatles	Blue Jay Way (1967)
Suede	Sleeping Pills (1993)
Patti Smith Group	Poppies (1976)
Alice In Chains	Frogs (1995)
Peter Hammill	This Side Of The Looking Glass (1977)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Metallica	Blackened (1988)
Joy Division	Warsaw (1978)
Blue Oyster Cult	Baby Ice Dog (1973)
Nirvana	Big Cheese (1989)
Deep Purple	Might Just Take Your Life (1974)
AC/DC	Hard As A Rock (1995)
Screaming Trees	Disappearing (1991)
Renaissance	Ocean Gypsy (1975)
David Bowie	It Ain't Easy (1972)
Jethro Tull	Songs From The Wood (1977)
Frankie Lee (er, um...I mean Bob Dylan!)	Changing Of The Guards (1978)
Aerosmith	Last Child (1976)
Bad Company	Silver, Blue And Gold (1976)
The Ramones	I Wanna Live (1987)
Queen	I Want To Break Free (1984)
Rage Against The Machine	Freedom (1992)
King's X	Save Us (2003)
Heart	Allies (1983)

Comment:

Today's "elimination" is:
Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia (1976) (#113 - 9/25/08) (Not the CD bonus track Chiklets, but all the songs from the original album release!)

Well, it's that time of year. Autumn is be-ginning to set it, and it's starting to affect my mood a little! :-( I believe this mix is at least partially reflective of this. Disc #1 especially has a saturnine, melancholy bent to it, which intensifies as the disc progresses.

This is also one of those rare occasions when the disc that's the most planned-out (#1) turns out to be just...okay, while the one that's sort of conjured up on the spot (#2 - well, partially, at least!) turns out to gel together better than expected. Usually, for me, it ten-ds to be the other way around!

I'm Coming Over - The main reason why I'm kind of dissatisfied with Disc #1. The thing is, I needed a little something else to bring the running time over the 78-minute mark (which I never go under!), and at the time this was the only thing I could think of. (Punk bands like the Ramones and X - and sometimes the Germs - are good for filling in those pesky two-minute gaps!) It doesn't hurt the mix, but it serves primarily as a spacefiller and doesn't really add anything, either...

No Memory < Sin / Winter < Deep Freeze < Winter Retreat - A couple of segues from STP and Priest (the latter a little-known sequence from their 1974 debut Rocka Rolla, actually!). At this point, I think I really no longer need to explain why I often have more than one song by the same artist on the same mix. I'm guessing it's usually self-explanatory! [*wink*]

Poppies < Frogs - If I may be permitted to brag a little, I really must say that this is quite possibly the biggest masterstroke of evil genius I've had in a good long while! Think about it: Both songs are rather lengthy and drawn-out. Both songs are very eerie, mysterious and kinda druggy. Both songs are in the same key (E-flat minor, if I'm not mistaken). And both songs have some rather creepy multi-tracked spoken/sung vocal parts from Patti and Layne!

Baby Ice Dog - And speaking of Patti Smith, I believe this early BOC number is the first Patti Smith lyric ever to be put to vinyl! The song is from BOC's second album, 1973's Tyranny And Mutation.

I Wanna Live < I Want To Break Free < Freedom < Save Us < Allies - Now this sequence wasn't exactly planned at the outset, but it fell together in an unexpectedly effective way at the en-d, with a kind of cool lyrical progression to it! (And to think I almost put the Ramones' Ignorance Is Bliss on here instead of I Wanna Live!)

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