Side A
Artist	Song
PINK FLOYD	Interstellar Overdrive (instrumental) (The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - 1967)
DOKKEN	Tooth And Nail (Tooth And Nail - 1984)
FOREIGNER	Tooth And Nail (Agent Provocateur - 1985)
THE ROLLING STONES	Yesterday's Papers (Between The Buttons - 1967)
MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE	I Don't Love You (The Black Parade - 2006)
THE RAMONES	Don't Bust My Chops (Brain Drain - 1989)
THE BEATLES	Savoy Truffle (The Beatles ["The White Album"] - 1968)
PATTI SMITH	Persuasion (Gung Ho - 2000)
HANOI ROCKS	Power Of Persuasion (Street Poetry - 2007)
THE CULT	Peace Dog (Electric - 1987)
SPARTA	Erase It Again (Threes - 2007)
GORDON LIGHTFOOT	The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Summertime Dream - 1976)
ALICE IN CHAINS	God Am (Alice In Chains - 1995)
DOWN (w / Phil Anselmo)	Never Try (Down III: Over The Under - 2007)
HELMET	Unsung (Meantime - 1992)
FAITH NO MORE	A Small Victory (Angel Dust - 1992)
BLUE OYSTER CULT	Redeemed (Blue Oyster Cult - 1972)
MARILYN MANSON	Coma White (Mechanical Animals - 1998)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
JAPAN	Obscure Al-ternatives (Obscure Al-ternatives - 1978)
GRAND FUNK (Railroad)	The Railroad (We're An American Band - 1973)
MANIC STREET PREACHERS	We Are All Bourgeois Now (Lipstick Traces: A Secret History Of Manic Street Preachers [compilation] - 2003/'01)
THE ROLLINS BAND	What Have I Got (Hard Volume - 1989)
KINGS OF LEON	Crawl (Only By The Night - 2008)
SEVEN-DUST	Scapegoat (Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow - 2008)
THE STOOGES (w / Iggy Pop)	She Took My Money (The Weirdness - 2007)
MEGADETH	Tornado Of Souls (Rust In Peace - 1990)
W.A.S.P.	Thunderhead (The Headless Children - 1989)
RUSH	A Passage To Bangkok (2112 - 1976)
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL	Who'll Stop The Rain (Cosmo's Factory - 1970)
CINDERELLA	Coming Home (Long Cold Winter - 1988)
MONSTER MAGNET	Silver Future (God Says No [bonus track] - 2001)
CHAINSAW KITTENS	Angels Self Destruct (Flipped Out In Singapore - 1992)
PHIL LYNOTT'S GRAND SLAM	Sisters Of Mercy (Vagabonds, Kings, Warriors, Angels [Thin Lizzy box set] - 2002/'84)
RADIOHEAD	Videotape (In Rainbows - 2008)

Comment:

Well, I'm back again with another mix! Simply another example of my madcap 21st-century rock neo-classic eclecticism run amok again...nothing special, nothing too far out of the ordinary...well, for me, anyway! [*wink*]

Today's elimination is:
156. The Cult - Electric (1987) (#156 - 3/17/09)

Tooth And Nail (X 2) - Doubles, anyone??

Persuasion < Power Of Persuasion - A little brainstorm I concocted as bit of last-minute inspiration!

Redeemed - The closing number from BOC's self-titled debut, of course. Overall, it's not really one of their standout tracks, it's just kind of a vaguely Band/Dead-influenced country-rock song...but it's got this absolutely chilling coda which absolutely terrified me as a little kid! (I got my copy of the vinyl record from my grandparents' record collection, where I'm assuming my father left it.) You know how, after the repeated last line of the song ("It won't be long..."), we settle into this quietly spooky instrumental passage peppered with these little backward-sounding chirps and this sad and lonely descen-ding piano figure (from Allen Lanier), after which the band sneaks back in for the climactic final chord, which just gets louder and louder before being abruptly choked off like a final death rattle...the en-d!! (Representing the final death agonies of the song's ch-aracter Sir Rastus Bear, frozen to death in the cold of his cell - or perhaps his ex-ecution?? Your guess is as good as mine...) Always brings back memories...and always gives me the creeps, every damn time!

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