Side A
Artist	Song
QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE (+ Mark Lanegan)	This Lullaby (Lullabies To Paralyze - 2005)
THE SCORPIONS	I'm Going Mad (Lonesome Crow - 1972)
FAITH NO MORE	The Real Thing (The Real Thing - 1989)
VAN MORRISON	Jackie Wilson Said (I'm In Heaven When You Smile) (Saint Dominic's Preview - 1972)
CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL	Down On The Corner (Willy And The Poor Boys - 1969)
RADIOHEAD	Optimistic (Kid A - 2000)
HANOI ROCKS	Eternal Optimist (Another Hostile Takeover - 2005)
THE YARDBIRDS	I'm A Man (Having A Rave Up [U.S.] - 1965)
THE WHO	Tattoo (The Who Sell Out - 1967)
THE POLICE	Canary In A Coalmine (Zenyatta Mondatta - 1980)
ALICE IN CHAINS	Sunshine (Facelift - 1990)
METALLICA	Die, Die My Darling (Garage, Inc. - 1998)
BLUE OYSTER CULT	Mommy (Secret Treaties [bonus track] - 1974)
THE RAMONES	Wart Hog (Too Tough To Die - 1984)
THE BEATLES	Piggies (The Beatles ["The White Album"] - 1968)
WEN-DY CARLOS	Theme From A Clockwork Orange (Beethovenia) (instrumental) (A Clockwork Orange [O.S.T.] - 1972)
DREAM THEATER	As I Am (Train Of Thought - 2003)
W.A.S.P.	My Tortured Eyes (K.F.D. - 1997)
THIN LIZZY	Don't Play Around (Vagabonds Kings Warriors Angels [box set] - 2002/1980)
MEGADETH	Rattlehead (Kil-ling Is My Busines...And Business Is Good! - 1985)
AEROSMITH	Cheese Cake (Night In The Ruts - 1979)
SOUL ASYLUM	Get On Out (Grave Dancers Union - 1992)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
DOWN (w / Phil Anselmo)	Temptation's Wings (NOLA - 1995)
QUEENSRYCHE	Sign Of The Times (Hear In The Now Frontier - 1997)
PEARL JAM	Breath (Singles [O.S.T. - V/A] - 1992)
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART & HIS MAGIC BAND	Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do (Safe As Milk - 1967)
L7	Little One (Slap-Happy - 1999)
SAIGON KICK	On And On (Water - 1993)
KINGS OF LEON	Day Old Blues (Aha Shake Heartbreak - 2004)
GUNS N' ROSES	Attitude (The Spaghetti Incident? - 1993)
JETHRO TULL	Broadsword (The Broadsword And The Beast - 1982)
SPINAL TAP	Stonehenge (This Is Spinal Tap [O.S.T.] - 1984)
THE VENUS IN FURS (w / Thom Yorke)	Ladytron (Velvet Goldmine [O.S.T. - V/A] - 1998)
IGGY POP (+ Medeski, Martin & Wood)	I Felt The Luxury (Avenue B - 1999)
BJORK	107 Steps (Selmasongs [Dancer In The Dark O.S.T.] - 2000)
LOU REED	Magic And Loss - The Summation (Magic And Loss - 1992)
JERRY CANTRELL	Cold Piece (Boggy Depot - 1998)
THE ROLLING STONES	Soul Survivor (Exile On Main Street - 1972)
BOB DYLAN	Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands (Blonde On Blonde - 1966)

Comment:

Hmmmmm...let's see now: Faith No More...Bjork...Spinal Tap...Van Morrison...Wen-dy Carlos...W.A.S.P....Captain Beefheart...Megadeth...Yup! We're deep in the heart of Pazuzu country, alright!! :)

Well, as far as this particular mix is concerned, I honestly had no real masterplan or agen-da. I just had a whole bunch of separate sequences of songs which for one reason or another I thought would be amusing, clever, and/or (in some cases) mildly sick! Listening to the whole thing played back on my CD Walkman after the fact, I'm actually rather surprised that it holds together as well as it does!

This Lullaby / Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands - Take the o-pening and closing numbers, for example. When putting this together in my head, it never occurred to me that both tracks were in a lilting 3/4 waltz time - which sort of makes them perfect booken-ds! :) And I had actually used this Dylan song before, or rather the cover version by Steve Howe and Jon Anderson from Yes, but just not Dylan's original until now!

Optimistic < Eternal Optimist - No real connection here, actually. In fact, the title of the Radiohead song seems meant to be ironic, and the Hanoi song's sentiments are more literally optimistic!

Sunshine / Cold Piece - It just so happens that I decided to use this particular Alice In Chains song and this particular solo Jerry Cantrell song, but then I heard the refrain from the Cantrell song, "In your sunshine / Where's your sunshine now?" Ha, ha! So it's perfect, it fits, and I'm happy! :)

Die, Die My Darling / Attitude - A pair of Misfits covers. (Sadly, I actually don't have anything from Glenn Danzig pre-'88...)

Mommy - An outtake from BOC's Secret Treaties from '74, and it's an absolute gutbuster! From the pen of Rich-ard Meltzer, this would seem to be about some sadsack misogynist who idly fantasizes about kil-ling his mother, wife and daughter! "My wife is a hippo / She's as big as a house / I'd like to feed her / a poisonous mouse!" Kind of a punky Doors-meets-Dictators number, it was left on the cutting room floor because apparently it went a little too far for the band members!

Wart Hog < Piggies - No explanation required here, I think! [*wink*]

Broadsword < Stonehenge - This is me being a smartass, basically. (Or as the English would say, taking the piss!) But in a very respectful way, I hasten to add...!

Ladytron - It may border on heresy to say so, but I actually like the sound of Thom Yorke imitating Bryan Ferry better than I like the real Bryan Ferry! ("Guards! Seize him!" [*turns and runs away*])

107 Steps < Magic And Loss - The Summation - I personally don't know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall, but now I'm pretty sure how many steps it takes to "pass through the fire to the light"! :)

Oh, by the way...yet another elimination:
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta (1980) (#161 - 4/16/09)

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