LEGEND:
(*) - Have since (re)purchased CD
(**) - Exists on other collection (cdr/tape)
(!) - album/song is on wantlist (medium prority)
(!!) - album/song is on "Hot List"
(!!!) - album/song is on "Kill-For List"

"Mixed Puppy #1"

track listing:
    side one:
  1. Florence Foster Jenkins "The Magic Flute"
  2. Rod Stewart "Young Turks" (!)
  3. Altanta Rhythm Section "Alien"
  4. Diesel "Sausalito Summer Night" (**)
  5. Falco "Auf Der Flucht" (*)
  6. Was (Not Was) "Knocked Down, Laid Small (Treated Like a Rubber Ball)"
  7. Trans-X "Living on Video"
  8. The Nice "America"
  9. Vandenberg "Burning Heart" (**)
  10. Osibisa "Happiness"
    side two:
  1. Warrior "Fighting for the Earth" (**)
  2. Warrior "Defenders of Creation" (**)
  3. R.E.M. "Driver 8"
  4. LRB "Playin' to Win"
  5. Falco "Der Kommissar" (*)
  6. Renaissance "Scheherezade" (live)

"Mixed Puppy #2"

track listing:
    side one:
  1. Falco "Zuviel Hitze" (*)
  2. Was (Not Was) "Shake Your Head (Let's Go to Bed)" (**)
  3. Ace Frehley "Rock Soldiers" (!)
  4. Ace Frehley "Into the Night" (!)
  5. Asia "Go"
  6. Asia "Too Late"
  7. Blue Steel "Oh, Pretty Woman"
  8. Jethro Tull: Rock Stars Interview
    • "Too Many Too" (*)
    • "Aqualung" (*)
    • "Farm on the Freeway" (*)
    side two:
  1. Jethro Tull: Rock Stars Interview (cont.):
    • "Too Old to Rock'n'Roll, Too Young to Die" (*)
  2. Prism "Don't Let Him Know"
  3. Legs Diamond "Out on Bail" (**)
  4. Rick Springfield "Bruce"
  5. Christopher Cross "Ride Like the Wind" (!)
  6. Peter Wolf "Come as You Are"
  7. Honeymoon Suite "Lethal Weapon" (**)
  8. Rock & Hyde "Dirty Water"
  9. Tommy Shaw "Remo's Theme (What If)"
  10. King Crimson "Sleepless (Dance Mix)"
  11. King Crimson "Sleepless (Instrumental Mix)"

Notes: These 2 collections were made in 1987 on incredibly crappy BASF tapes, sourced from vinyl and/or radio. The "Magic Flute" song is fuckin' hilarious, it's something of a parody by "the worst opera singer in the world"...don't know where to get it now, I taped it from a family I stayed with in Germany '87.

"Mixed Puppy #3" (**)

track listing:
    side one:
  1. Tony Carey "I Won't Be Home Tonight"
  2. Blackfoot "Morning Dew"
  3. Blackfoot "Living in the Limelight"
  4. Red Rider "Human Race"
  5. Treat Her Right "I Think She Likes Me"
  6. Rossington-Collins Band "Don't Misunderstand Me"
  7. Taxxi "I'm Leaving"
  8. Juice Newton "Angel of the Morning"
  9. Jan Hammer "Miami Vice Theme" (*)
  10. Corey Hart "Never Surrender"
  11. Dolly Parton "9 to 5"
  12. Headpins "Just One More Time"
    side two:
  1. Kerry Livgren AD "To Live for the King" (!!)
  2. Kerry Livgren AD "Mask of the Great Deceiver" (!!)
  3. Andy Taylor "I Might Lie"
  4. Berlin "Take My Breath Away"
  5. Daryl Hall "Dreamtime"
  6. Journey "Only Solutions" (*)
  7. Planet P Project "What I See"
  8. Tony Carey "A Fine, Fine Day"
  9. Helix "Deep Cuts the Knife" (*)
  10. Tommy Shaw "Girls with Guns"

Notes: Now THIS tape was a stroke of genius. Recorded from a bunch of crappy vinyl I didn't want anymore, I didn't even bother timing the song lengths, yet it fit PERFECTLY on each side, with no more than 2 seconds to spare! Plus, the songs just FLOW together in an amazing way...even the ones I wouldn't dare to listen to individually, sound great in context with everything else (Juice Newton, Corey Hart.)
This entire tape (or rather, most of it) has been upgraded to CDR.

"Mixed Puppy #4A"

track listing:
    side one:
  1. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart "Piano Concerto in D Minor, K. 466; 2nd Movement"
  2. Resurrection Band "American Dream" (!)
  3. Resurrection Band "Autograph" (!)
  4. Vince Guaraldi: A Charlie Brown Christmas:
    1. "Skating"
    2. "Für Elise"
    3. "My Little Drum"
    4. "Linus & Lucy"
    5. "Christmas Time is Here" (vocal)
    side two:
  1. Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls" (!)
  2. Pet Shop Boys "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)" (!)
  3. Pet Shop Boys "Love Comes Quickly" (!)
  4. Pet Shop Boys "Suburbia" (!)
  5. Steve Perry "Oh Sherrie"
  6. Steve Perry "Foolish Heart"
  7. Steve Perry "Strung Out"

"Mixed Puppy #4B"

track listing:
    side one:
  1. David Essex "Rock On"
  2. Joe Cocker "You Are So Beautiful"
  3. Jim Croce "Time in a Bottle"
  4. Debbie Boone "You Light Up My Life"
  5. Melissa Manchester "Midnight Blue"
  6. Paul Davis "Cool Night"
  7. Stephen Bishop "It Might Be You (Tootsie's Theme)"
  8. Lionel Richie "Truly"
  9. Tierra "Together"
    side two:
  1. Dionne Warwick "Heartbreaker"
  2. Quincy Jones w/James Ingram "Just Once"
  3. Sergio Mendes "Never Gonna Let You Go"
  4. Patti Austin & James Ingram "Baby, Come to Me"
  5. Poco "Shoot for the Moon"
  6. Anne Murray "You Needed Me"
  7. Stephen Bishop "On and On"
  8. Barry DeVorson & Perry Bofkin, Jr: Themes from "The Young and the Restless":
    1. "Nadia's Theme"
    2. "Down the Line"

Notes: I guess this was split into 2 parts because I used two 60min tapes. Part A, side one has some neat classical/instrumental bits, plus a couple songs from the Christian hard rock group "Resurrection Band". Side 2 combines Pet Shop Boys (who are good) with sappy Steve Perry tunes. And God only knows where I got the songs on tape B. I must have been in a sappy-pop top-40 mood, or something. (Okay, the David Essex, Tierra & Dionne Warwick songs are pretty good...)

"Mixed Puppy #5"

track listing:
    side one:
  1. Yes "Lift Me Up" (*)
  2. Van Halen "Poundcake" (*)
  3. Van Halen "Runaround" (*)
  4. Scorpions "Tease Me, Please Me" (!)
  5. Aerosmith "Hangman Jury" (!)
  6. Aerosmith "Permanent Vacation" (!)
  7. The Alarm "The Stand" (!!)
  8. Triumph "Tears in the Rain" (*)
  9. Triumph "Somebody's Out There" (*)
  10. Uriah Heep "Stay on Top" (*)
    side two:
  1. Dio "Hide in the Rainbow" (*)
  2. Phil Collins "Against All Odds" (*)
  3. Peter Gabriel "Walk Through the Fire" (!!)
  4. Mike Rutherford "Making a Big Mistake" (!!)
  5. Alice Cooper w/Axl Rose, Slash & Izzy "Under My Wheels" (!)
  6. Phil Collins "Two Hearts" (*)
  7. Phil Collins "Big Noise" (!!)
  8. Phil Collins "A Groovy Kind of Love" (*)
  9. Van Halen "Poundcake" (*)
  10. Van Halen "Right Now" (*)
  11. Van Halen "316" (*)
  12. Van Halen "Top of the World" (*)

Notes: Made this one in a fit when I bought the Yes, Van Halen & Scorpions CDs in one day and they all SUCKED. For some reason I thought to throw in some old soundtracks & stuff (from vinyl), and as you can see this tape will one day become obsolete, because if flows way too badly for a road tape. Cool, free tape.

I have no idea why there is no Mixed Puppy #6

"Mixed Puppy #7"

track listing:
    side one:
  1. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band "Even Now" (*)
  2. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band "Roll Me Away" (*)
  3. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band "Shame on the Moon" (*)
  4. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band "American Storm" (*)
  5. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band "Like a Rock" (*)
  6. Paul Carrack "Don't Shed a Tear" (!)
  7. Lou Gramm "Midnight Blue" (**)
  8. Lou Gramm "Ready or Not" (**)
  9. Juluka "Scatterlings of Africa" (**)
  10. Dead Kennedys "Take This Job and Shove It"
    side two:
  1. George Harrison "Got My Mind Set On You"
  2. George Harrison "When We Was Fab"
  3. David & David "Welcome to the Boomtown" (!!)
  4. Gary Moore "Over the Hills and Far Away"
  5. Gary Moore "Friday on My Mind"
  6. Monty Python "Bookshop"
  7. Monty Python "Dead Parrot"
  8. Monty Python "The Lumberjack Song"

Notes: More of the same, except this was during a CD purge when I needed cash badly. The George Harrison songs are all fucked up, but who cares, God knows why I bought that disc in the first place.



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