Side A
Artist	Song
Gustav Mahler [Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic]	Symphony No. 6 In A Minor ("Tragic") [1906] (1. Allegro energico, ma non troppo. Heftig, aber markig) (instrumental)
from Bernstein / Mahler: The Complete Symphonies & Orchestral Songs [1998 box set] (1988)
Mark Lanegan	Eyes Of A Child
from The Winding Sheet (1990)
James Dean Bradfield	On Saturday Morning We Will Rule The World
from The Great Western (2006)
Pearl Jam	Gods' Dice
from Binaural (2000)
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss	Polly Come Home
from Raising Sand (2007)
Gustav Mahler [Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic]	Symphony No. 6 In A Minor ("Tragic") [1906] (2. Scherzo. Wuchtig) (instrumental)
from Bernstein / Mahler: The Complete Symphonies & Orchestral Songs [1998 box set] (1988)
Deconstruction (w / Dave Navarro & Eric Avery)	Hope
from Deconstruction (1994)
The Doors	Rock Me (live)
from The Doors Box Set [1997] (1970)
U2	White As Snow
from No Line On The Horizon (2009)
Saigon Kick	Miss Jones
from The Lizard (1992)
Soul Asylum	String Of Pearls
from Let Your Dim Light Shine (1995)
Jocelyn Pook & The Jocelyn Pook Ensemble (+ Manikam Yogeswaran)	Migrations (instrumental)
from Eyes Wide Shut [1999 O.S.T. - V/A] (1999)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Heaven & Hell (Black Sabbath)	Neverwhere
from The Devil You Know (2009)
Danzig	Bound By Blood
from The Lost Tracks Of Danzig [2007 compilation] (2002)
Gustav Mahler [Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic]	Symphony No. 6 In A Minor ("Tragic") [1906] (3. Andante moderato) (instrumental)
from Bernstein / Mahler: The Complete Symphonies & Orchestral Songs [1998 box set] (1988)
Motley Crue	Nona
from Girls, Girls, Girls (1987)
Robin Trower	Rock Me Baby Right
from Twice Removed From Yesterday (1973)
Manic Street Preachers	Virginia State Epileptic Colony
from Journal For Plague Lovers (2009)
Clint Mansell (+ Kronos Quartet)	Meltdown (instrumental)
from Requiem For A Dream [2000 O.S.T.] (2000)
The Mars Volta	Conjugal Burns
from The Bedlam In Goliath (2008)
Gustav Mahler [Leonard Bernstein / Vienna Philharmonic]	Symphony No. 6 In A Minor ("Tragic") [1906] (4. Finale. Sostenuto - Allegro moderato - Allegro energico) (instrumental)
from Bernstein / Mahler: The Complete Symphonies & Orchestral Songs [1998 box set] (1988)

Comment:

This mix represents a big first for me: It's the first full-scale classical composition I'm including in its entirety within one of my mixes! (As opposed to, y'know, just fragments or excerpts from film soundtracks.) In this case, the composition is Gustav Mahler's Sixth Symphony, first performed in 1906 - and let me tell you, I find this piece of work to be one of the most agonizing, emotionally intense, harrowing and wrenchingly bipolar pieces of music I have ever heard in my life - especially the big Finale, whose very final smashing chord I always dread and always scares me shitless every single time. No lie!

I took the liberty of breaking up the four separate sections (or movements) of Mahler's Sixth and interspersed them with some other rock songs that I haven't used before, and which I thought would fit reasonably well within the program and wouldn't clash - or not too badly anyway! I personally find this to make for a more fulfilling listening experience, because while I enjoy listening to classical music once in a while, I don't necessarily have the attention span to invest in it for extended periods of time! Breaking the symphony up with other songs just works better for me.

"Rock Me" / "Rock Me Baby Right" - Well, these are basically two different versions of a reliable old blues chestnut - one from Jim Morrison and the Doors, the other from Robin Trower. (BTW, former Trower singer/bassist James Dewar - R.I.P.!)

"Migrations" / "Meltdown" - Two soundtrack instrumentals. The first one is from Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), and can be heard during that film's infamous orgy scene as Tom Cruise wanders masked through the house. The second one plays during the climax of Darren Aronofsky's "Requiem For A Dream" (2000) and can be heard as the action cuts back and forth between the horrific fates of the main characters (played by Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly and Marlon Wayans).

"Nona" - This delicate little number from Motley Crue was originally meant as bassist/songwriter Nikki Sixx's elegy for his dead grandmother Nona - and the lyrics, in their entirety, consist of "Nona / I'm outta my head without you" - repeated over and over again. I actually meant for it to serve as filler to bring up the running time of DISC #2, and at only one-and-a-half minutes it fit the bill nicely. However, it ended up providing the overall blanket title of this entire mix! Go figure...

Only one elimination today (#218 - 10/6/09):
Robin Trower - "Twice Removed From Yesterday" (1973)

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