VARIOUS ARTISTS
''ROCK: TRAIN KEPT A ROLLIN', DISC TWO'''
OCT 1999
157:49
SONY MUSIC DISTRIBUTION
DISC ONE
1/Subterranean Homesick Blues
Bob Dylan /Bob Dylan /2:20
2/Mr. Tambourine Man
Bob Dylan /The Byrds /2:22
3/Why Do I Cry
Barry Tashian /The Remains /2:50
4/Over, Under, Sideways, Down
Jeff Beck / Chris Dreja / Jim McCarty / Keith Relf / Paul Samwell-Smith /The Yardbirds /2:23
5/Omaha
Skip Spence /Moby Grape /2:24
6/Down on Me
Janis Joplin /Big Brother & the Holding Company /2:07
7/Time Has Come Today
Joseph Chambers / Willie Chambers /The Chambers Brothers /3:33
8/I Ain't Superstitious
Willie Dixon /Jeff Beck /4:55
9/Albatross
Peter Green /Fleetwood Mac /3:11
10/I Got a Line on You
Randy California /Spirit /2:40
11/I Want to Take You Higher
Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart /Sly & the Family Stone /3:04
12/Black Magic Woman
Peter Green /Santana /3:18
13/All the Young Dudes
David Bowie /Mott the Hoople /3:33
14/Raw Power
Iggy Pop / James Williamson /The Stooges /4:17
15/Frankenstein
Edgar Winter /Edgar Winter /3:27
16/Born to Run
Bruce Springsteen /Bruce Springsteen /4:31
17/Carry on Wayward Son
Kerry Livgren /Kansas /3:38
18/More Than a Feeling
Tom Scholz /Boston /3:29
19/(Don't Fear) The Reaper
Donald Roeser /Blue Öyster Cult /3:51
20/Walk This Way
Joe Perry / Steven Tyler /Aerosmith /3:31
21/Cat Scratch Fever
Ted Nugent /Ted Nugent /3:07
22/Barracuda
Michael DeRosier / Sue Ennis / Roger Fisher / Ann Wilson / Nancy Wilson /Heart /3:30
23/Surrender
Rick Nielsen /Cheap Trick /4:14
DISC TWO
1/Paradise by the Dashboard Light
Jim Steinman /Meat Loaf /5:57
2/Pump It Up
Elvis Costello /Elvis Costello /3:15
3/London Calling
Mick Jones / Joe Strummer /The Clash /3:20
4/Breaking the Law
K.K. Downing / Rob Halford / Glenn Tipton /Judas Priest /2:34
5/Pretty in Pink
The Psychedelic Furs /The Psychedelic Furs /3:59
6/Don't Stop Believin'
Jonathan Cain / Steve Perry / Neal Schon /Journey /4:10
7/Beds Are Burning
Midnight Oil /Midnight Oil /4:16
8/Learning to Fly
Jon Carin / Bob Ezrin / David Gilmour / Anthony Moore /Pink Floyd /4:53
9/Cult of Personality
Will Calhoun / Corey Glover / Vernon Reid / Muzz Skillings /Living Colour /4:55
10/No More Tears
Randy Castillo / Mike Inez / Ozzy Osbourne / John Purdell / Zakk Wylde /Ozzy Osbourne /5:56
11/Runaway Train
Dave Pirner /Soul Asylum /4:26
12/Black
Stone Gossard / Eddie Vedder /Pearl Jam /5:45
13/Would?
Jerry Cantrell /Alice in Chains /3:28
14/Killing in the Name
Rage Against the Machine /Rage Against the Machine /5:15
15/Wonderwall
Noel Gallagher /Oasis /4:20
16/Got the Life
Korn /Korn /3:47
17/Love Sick
Bob Dylan /Bob Dylan /5:21
CREDITS
REVIEW
by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
To commemorate the end of the century, Sony Music assembled the 26-disc box set Sony Music 100 Years: Soundtrack for a Century. The title was imposing, as was the idea behind it -- to chronicle the life of the oldest record label in the music industry. To be clear, Sony Music has not existed for 100 years, but the heart of its catalog, Columbia Records, was founded early in the 20th century. Sony realized that most consumers wouldn't invest in a 26-disc box, no matter how impressive it was, so they simultaneously released a series of 12 genre-specific double-disc sets that culled highlights from the box. As it turns out, the double-disc sets are every bit as impressive as the big box, perhaps more so, because they're easily digestible. Even so, the scope of the 40-track Rock: Train Kept a Rollin' is impressive. Columbia didn't really have a lot of rock & roll acts in the late '50s and early '60s -- the record industry was different then, and the label was a little too established to endorse something that was still seen as a fad (not to mention that most rock & rollers were on independent upstarts). Appropriately, Rock: Train Kept a Rollin' begins in 1964 with Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" -- not only the moment Dylan went rock on record, but one of the first true rock records on the label. From that point on, things were different for Columbia and its subsidiaries, and they eventually amassed a catalog filled with commercial and artistic heavy-hitters, such as the Byrds, the Yardbirds, Moby Grape, Jeff Beck, Sly & the Family Stone, Santana, Mott the Hoople, the Stooges, Bruce Springsteen, Boston, Aerosmith, Cheap Trick, Meat Loaf, Elvis Costello, the Clash, Journey, Midnight Oil, Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne, Soul Asylum, Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Rage Against the Machine and Oasis. Those bands, along with a handful of others, make Train Kept a Rollin' an eclectic listen, to say the least, but the remarkable thing is, not only is it really entertaining, but it winds up being pretty representative of nearly four decades of rock history. True, it's not definitive, but it does something better -- it captures the feel and the evolution of rock over the years, and it does so by drawing from a handful of related labels.
