This "Kat" Has Me Purrrrrin' ;)

Ok, so it was earlier this month that I received a mix of grand proportions... a mix from a girl I swear is my long lost sister (if I had one) so we must have been in a past life (as she would say)!!Now - if you know anything about me - you know I really have to stew with an album to really give it its proper listens - then I can make my final determination. Sure I can hear an album & think - yeah - this one probably won't grow on me, or this album rocks... but after 9 listens - those opinions can easily be swapped. So I had to give "KAT3260":http://mog.com/kat3260 mix the full 9 listens before posting. This one has it all kiddies... action/adventure, romance, thriller, drama & horror... & it is a pleasure to listen straight through - such a welcome attribute to any mix. A good friend of mine once said - "a mix made for you by someone you care about is always going to be one you like" - well, Kat, guess that means I care a lot - it's exceptional :) !!!She wastes no time getting started... throws me into the pit with one of my favorite geeks Trent Reznor (self-proclaimed - not trying to be mean). *Where is Everybody?* by NIN off _The Fragile album_, one I (horror of horrors) don't own (yet). So this makes it even more of a tasty intro...Then a classic from my days as a younger punk ;) - Veruca Salt. I am of the school that when I see the name *"Veruca Salt"* I automatically think of the beehatch from Charlie & the Choco Fact. - but the band kicked some serious butt - girlstyle. *Volcano Girls*, "we really can't be beat" neither can this song... just makes me smile, with a twinkle of mischief in the green eyes.Rage... *Know Your Enemy*. There are few songs by RATM that don't get me pumped - actually can't think of one that doesn't - but this one I hold so very close. It was one of the first intros I had to the band & a band making a political statement who rocks it a teensy bit harder than Bob Dylan, well that's totally fine by me (I dig the Dylan... no hating). I think Tom Morello is a guitar god. PERIOD.I have never really listened to The Allman Brothers Band - what crack was I smokin ??? The track *Rockin' Horse* rocks me hard & has me changing my tune. These are some brothers I will have to seriously check out, because the heat in the jam is from south of the border & it is scortching.*Mouthful of Cavities*. I posted about Layne Staley & the loss of a great front man to addiction - Kat countered with Shannon Hoon. Seems we could interchange the two between us as we both love the two bands who housed these men. Blind Melon are my college years - the best of them, the perfect days, the killer parties, the hot guys - all from one band - that's what I see everytime I listen to them. Then my girl slips in a Radiohead song from the one album of theirs that I never obtained, the album Pablo Honey, the song, *Blow Out*. Such a great song & when it's a band you love but a song you don't know it's a great secret to find. Now, blow out means something far better than what it did before I heard the song... ask a parent - they'll tell you ;)Another of the - wait, how did I not know about this band... Satellite Party with *Hard Life Easy*. This one I couldn't get outta my head for days... I am definitely adding them to the collection soon Trapper John, no need for morphine. Grateful Dead's *Shakedown Street*. Great call Kat. I do not consider myself a Dead head - I don't listen to enough of them to do so - but anything from the Arista years of their recordings - I always enjoy - this being one on the top of that list... always a head nodder & toe tapper for me.We go from the Dead to the Earth Mother - Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians, *What I Am*. I adore the album from which this song comes - think it's a solid album & it also trasports me back to a time - sitting in front of the MTV & thinking, "could she be any cooler?" Her labyrinth of lyrics always thrilled me in this song. Plus, who can argue with what I am is what I am ???Now she takes me from the late 80's back to the later 60's & a land that Alice don't live in anymore: *White Rabbit* from Jefferson Airplane. There are some real gems on Surrealistic Pillow, this is one of them. You can't think of the Summer of Love without thinking of this song. If you do, you're missing out (one greeneyed girl's opinion). I remember as a kid I thought it was so cool there was a song about a novel I loved... yeah, I had some serious learning to do ;)It took me a while to warm up to the next artist. Actually, it took a few of my favorite bands covering this genius before the light went on above my head andh1. I GOT IT !!!! Johnny Cash's *Sunday Morning Coming Down* is one I hadn't come to yet. No better memory to go along with this song than that of my girl Kat bringing it to me in this gift of a mix.It's time to bring on the Eugooogily ;) with a little TOOLtime... aw hellz yeah. I can say for certain there isn't a song I don't like from this band - most I downright ADORE - this is one I WORSHIP. *Eulogy*. (July 16th, anyone... Bueller... Jehovah's Witnesses ???) Think it may be on here so that we maybe get to hear it next month (HOPE) !!!Now Kat & I share quite a few girlcrushes - but the one who makes us go cookoo for coco-puffs is the redheaded chanteuse Tori Amos. My most favorite single from this lovely is the one for Winter. Two of my ALL TIME favorites are on there - Upside Down & *Take to the Sky*. Perfect, & I really mean, *PERFECT* call Kat !!!Tori is a huge fan of the next band on my mix, & the funk in the Zeppelin song *Hots On For Nowhere* has to be heard to truly experience. Plant & Page, PERFECT together ;)Another jam band I am not that familiar with, but everything I hear from them I dig, (especially Kat's choice), is *Bear Gone Fishin* by Widespread Panic. & when a band references MAD Magazine, then it just went from cool to KICK ASS !!!"Baby knows what she really wants,She get the most of make believe,Spy vs. Spy, baby's a freak show, Line forms just to the right of your keyhole" These lyrics are so open for interpretation a great quality to a song - in my book.TIme for the big finish... Kat, never dissapointing, quite the opposite in fact, well she dismounts with a *perfect 10* from this judge :) A little Who to close it out with *It's Not Enough*, & to be totally honest - I have to agree wholeheartedly... Sister - you got skills... can't wait for the next installment ;) h1. THANK YOU !!!