Side A
Artist	Song
Deep Purple	Hey Joe
from Shades Of Deep Purple (1968)
Billy Squier	Everybody Wants You
from Emotions In Motion (1982)
Steppenwolf	Faster Than The Speed Of Life
from The Second (1968)
Donovan	Season Of The Witch
from Sunshine Superman (1966)
Roxy Music	Beauty Queen
from For Your Pleasure (1973)
Mick Ronson	Only After Dark
from Slaughter On 10th Avenue (1974)
Iggy Pop	New Values
from New Values (1979)
Van Halen	Blood And Fire
from A Different Kind Of Truth (2012)
Kings Of Leon	Joe's Head
from Youth & Young Manhood (2003)
The Leaves	Hey Joe
from Hey Joe (1966)
Jefferson Airplane	Volunteers
from Volunteers (1969)
X	True Love
from More Fun In The New World (1983)
Ram Jam	Black Betty
from Ram Jam (1977)
Rick Derringer	Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo
from All American Boy (1973)
The Doobie Brothers	China Grove
from The Captain And Me (1973)
Head East	Never Been Any Reason
from Flat As A Pancake (1975)
Styx	Lorelei
from Equinox (1975)
Supertramp	Give A Little Bit
from Even In The Quietest Moments... (1977)
Duran Duran	Ordinary World
from Duran Duran ["The Wedding Album"] (1993)
Alice Cooper	Go To Hell
from Alice Cooper Goes To Hell (1976)
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Captain Beyond	Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air) }
Captain Beyond	Armworth }
Captain Beyond	Myopic Void
from Captain Beyond (1972)
Bachman-Turner Overdrive	Sledgehammer
from Not Fragile (1974)
Procol Harum	Broken Barricades
from Broken Barricades (1971)
The Who	Early Morning Cold Taxi
from The Who Sell Out [bonus track] (1967)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Love Beach
from Love Beach (1978)
The Smiths	London
from The World Won't Listen [compilation] (1987)
Robert Plant & The Strange Sensation	Hey Joe
from Dreamland (2002)
Blue Oyster Cult	White Flags
from Club Ninja (1985)
Slade	Okey Cokey
from The Slade Box: A 4 CD Anthology 1969-1991 [box set] [2006] (1979)
Primal Scream	Rocks
from Give Out But Don't Give Up (1994)
April Wine	Roller
from First Glance (1978)
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band	Hollywood Nights
from Stranger In Town (1978)
David Bowie	Absolute Beginners
from Absolute Beginners [O.S.T.: V/A] (1986)
Filter	Take A Picture
from Title Of Record (1999)
The Verve	Bitter Sweet Symphony
from Urban Hymns (1997)
X	True Love, Pt. #2
from More Fun In The New World (1983)

Comment:

This mix was originally submitted to Zen Running Order on May 14, 2012. The original notes and comments are as follows...

Darth Pazuzu [05-04-2012):
MAJOR LANDMARK TIME! WELCOME TO MY 300TH MIX, FELLOW MUSIC LOVERS!! :) :) :)

Well, God only knows this one has been, like, FOREVER in the making! Hey, sure, TECHNICALLY the actual execution took only a couple of hours the night before, but I have had the idea for a mix including most of these songs for almost two years now. The trouble is, for the longest time I did not actually HAVE a lot of these songs on CD. And once I get an idea for a mix disc with very specific sequences of songs, it gets stuck that way in my head and that absolutely HAS to be the mix! So then, it was just a matter of making the appropriate purchases and gathering up all the songs I didn't have. (For a complete listing of all my CD purchases made within the past year, see the Notes section of my previous mix, #299.)

This would have been a rather long and drawn-out process in and of itself. However, my masterplan was even FURTHER delayed by my going through a serious David Bowie fanboy phase (still ongoing, in fact). Since collecting practically everything in the Bowie catalogue become my #1 priority, the making of my usual mix discs took a back seat for about a year.

Yeah, sure, I probably could have cobbled something together out of the stuff I already had. But first of all, I wanted something special for the big #300. And secondly, I was "scraping" just a little bit at that point, and I felt like I needed to build things back up again and add a bit more to my CD collection. So anyway, I hope I've managed to produce something worthy of such a landmark occasion. Call me biased, but I personally think the wait's been more than worth it. I hope you agree... ;)

"Hey Joe" (X 3) - The first thing you'll probably notice is that we have not one, or two, but three different cover versions of this classic Billy Roberts-penned song. The most famous version is probably the one by Jimi Hendrix, and I had already used that one on a much earlier mix. Ditto the version recorded by Patti Smith for her first single. But I STILL had an earlier recording by the Leaves on my "Nuggets: Original Artyfacts From The First Psychedelic Era 1965-1968" box set, Robert Plant's chilling version with his early '00s outfit the Strange Sensation, and a rather epic version recorded by Deep Purple on their very first album back in '68. I particularly like the latter, especially with its Spanish-flavored instrumental sections, and I decided to have that kick off our show! (BTW, Kings Of Leon's "Joe's Head" also touches on the jealous, homicidal fugitive title character, so I also threw that into the mix.)

"Dancing Madly Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)" { "Armworth" { "Myopic Void" - Speaking of early Deep Purple, their original lead singer Rod Evans later became a member of the little-known Captain Beyond. The first track in the sequence was originally brought to my attention by a mixer on Art Of The Mix known as Captain Hi-Top, with whom I actually had a collaboration back in 2008! I know the Captain's still around these days, but he's working under a different name. For some reason, I'm spacing on it and I can't remember. But I would just like to give credit where it's due and give a warm shout-out to the former Captain... ;)

"Black Betty" / "True Love" (X 2) - I was always keen on including this hit cover of a Leadbelly song. And I also thought it would be cool to include Pts. 1 & 2 of X's "True Love," because the latter track also namechecks and quotes from a number of classic tunes - "Black Betty" being one of them!

To be continued in the Feedback section due to lack of space... :(

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