Side A
Artist	Song
The Beatles	Rain
The Byrds	Eight Miles High
Paul Revere & The Raiders	Kicks
Small Faces	Sha-La-La-La-Lee
13th Floor Elevators	You're Gonna Miss Me
The Mamas & The Papas	California Dreamin'
Count Five	Psychotic Reaction
Left Banke	Walk Away Renee
The Yardbirds	Shapes of Things
Sopwith Camel	Hello Hello
Les Fleur De Lys	Circles
Simon & Garfunkel	Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine
The Smoke	My Friend Jack
? and the Mysterians	96 Tears
The Temptations	Ain't Too Proud To Beg
Cream	I Feel Free
Grateful Dead	Don't Ease Me In
Donovan	Season Of The Witch
Beach Boys	Good Vibrations
The Easybeats	Friday On My Mind
Buffalo Springfield	Burned
The Action	I'll Keep On Holding On
The Cyrkle	Red Rubber Ball
Jimi Hendrix	Hey Joe
The Turtles	You Baby
David Bowie	Can't Help Thinking About Me
Lovin' Spoonful	Summer In The City
The Outsiders	Time Won't Let Me
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
The Creation	Try And Stop Me
The Kinks	Sunny Afternoon
Love	My Little Red Book
Nancy Sinatra	These Boots Were Made For Walkin'
Electric Prunes	I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night
The Zombies	She Does Everything For Me
Bob Dylan	Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Rolling Stones	Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows?
Stevie Wonder	Uptight
The Troggs	Wild Thing
Velvet Underground	All Tomorrow's Parties
The Who	Substitute
Four Seasons	Working My Way Back To You
Captain Beefheart	Diddy Wah Diddy
The Hollies	Bus Stop
Music Machine	Talk Talk
Jefferson Airplane	It's No Secret
Dave Dee, Doxy, Beaky, Mick & Tich	Hold Tight
The Monkees	Last Train To Clarksville
Young Rascals	Good Lovin'
The Seeds	Pushin' Too Hard
Dave Clark Five	Try Too Hard
Spencer Davis Group	Gimme Some Lovin'
Great Society	Somebody To Love
The Animals	Don't Bring Me Down
The Knickerbockers	One Track Mind
The Beatles	Tomorrow Never Knows

Comment:

Been about a year and a half since I've visited AOTM. Gave up on the site once the malware infiltration seemed insurmountable. But, hey, looks like it's been cleaned up and dramatically revamped, so I'm giving it another shot.

During that interim period, I cut way back on my mixes -- partly because, without AOTM, some of the fun was gone; and partly because, in the iPod age, I just don't make cd mixes that often anymore. But the one major project I undertook was going through my collection and creating 2-cd annual mixes for every year since 1966 (my birth year, and probably the first great year for rock & roll). I've been doing single-cd mixes at the end of each year for some time (and, before that, cassette mixes), but it seemed a worthy endeavor to go back and make it a more serious project.

While 1967 is when things really get going for me, '66 wasn't bad. Main challenge was including the obvious classics without it sounding too much like a predictable Time-Life collection that they'd market on late-night infomercials. Some of that was unavoidable, as some of these tracks simply needed to be here however much they've been seared into our collective consciousness by years of radio airplay. Rounded those out with plenty of Nuggets-styled garage/psyche tracks and loads of British Invasion tunes. Incidentally, this is the only time I used two songs from the same band, but Revolver had to be represented, and "Rain" is my favorite Beatles tune, so what can you do?

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