Side A
Artist	Song
Fight (w / Rob Halford)	I Am Alive
from A Small Deadly Space (1995)
Tool	H.
from Aenima (1996)
Alice In Chains	Fear The Voices
from Music Bank [1999 box set] (1992)
AC/DC	Shoot To Thrill
from Back In Black (1980)
Creedence Clearwater Revival	Pagan Baby
from Pendulum (1970)
Suede	Everything Will Flow
from Head Music (1999)
Guns N' Roses	Sorry
from Chinese Democracy (2008)
Peter Hammill	Solitude
from Fool's Mate (1971)
King Crimson	The Sheltering Sky (instrumental)
from Discipline (1981)
Pink Floyd	San Tropez
from Meddle (1971)
R.E.M.	Bad Day
from In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003 [2003 compilation] (2003)
The Dictators	(I Live For) Cars And Girls
from Go Girl Crazy! (1975)
Danzig	Am I Demon
from Danzig (1988)
Hanoi Rocks	Dead By Xmas
from Self Destruction Blues (1982)
Corrosion Of Conformity	The Snake Has No Head
from Wiseblood (1996)
Jethro Tull	A Christmas Song
from Living In The Past [1972 compilation] (1969)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Yes	Be The One: The One / Humankind / Skates
from Keys To Ascension (1996)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	The Three Fates: Clotho / Lachesis / Atropos
from Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970)
Sevendust	Xmas Day
from Animosity (2001)
Live	Graze
from Secret Samadhi (1997)
Queensryche	Chasing Blue Sky
from Hear In The Now Frontier [bonus track] (1997)
Manic Street Preachers	Be Natural
from This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours (1998)
Bob Dylan	You Angel You
from Planet Waves (1974)
Aerosmith	Critical Mass
from Draw The Line (1977)
The Offspring	Gone Away
from Ixnay On The Hombre (1997)
Rush	Finding My Way
from Rush (1974)
Black Sabbath	Evil Woman (Don't You Play Your Games With Me)
from Black Sabbath [U.K.] (1970)
Cream	Spoonful
from Fresh Cream (1966)
George Harrison	Wonderwall To Be Here (instrumental)
from Wonderwall Music [O.S.T.] (1968)
Oasis	Wonderwall
from (What's The Story) Morning Glory? (1995)
Pearl Jam	Let Me Sleep
from Lost Dogs [2003 compilation] (1991)
Cheap Trick	Come On Christmas
from Sex, America, Cheap Trick [1996 box set] (1995)
The Ramones	Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)
from Brain Drain (1989)

Comment:

Well, I just thought I'd get my Christmas mix out of the way 15 days early!

You may have also noticed that I've ever-so-slightly modified my format: I decided from now on to give the source albums of each song. (DISCLAIMER: Just because I list the source record for each individual song, that doesn't mean it's the source I used. For example, "Pagan Baby" may come from the "Pendulum" album, but in reality the only CCR I've got in my collection is a 2-CD import compilation called "Platinum"! But that doesn't always mean that I won't expand beyond the parameters of any band's best-of/greatest-hits collections in the future, so I say it doesn't qualify as a "cheat"!)

I added the album releases to my listings for the sake of greater clarity, so as to perhaps better pin down the song for other people viewing the list, for whom the song title alone might not ring a bell. Although...who knows? It might just clutter things up even more, simply giving people more things to read and making them even more disinclined to do so (ha, ha, ha)! Let me know what you think... :-)

"Dead By Xmas" / "A Christmas Song" / "Xmas Day" - Of the holiday-themed tracks I've put on this collection, these three are probably a bit more on the grim, downbeat side! (Frankly, I'm not even really all that sure how Christmas factors into the Sevendust track beyond the title!)

"Come On Christmas" < "Merry Christmas (I Don't Want To Fight Tonight)" - A little more upbeat, these two! And appropriately enough, they bring our show to a fitting conclusion! The Cheap Trick number, by the way, is a seasonally-themed rewrite of "Come On, Come On" (from their 1977 "In Color" album).

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my fellow AOTM'ers!!

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