Disc 19 / 48

This sure is an upbeat disc for all the negativity in it--pretty heavy on the doo wop and British Invasion, which are two genres that have lots of uptempo tracks to pick from. I like the paradox--bouncy upbeat songs with negative language. Sort of like how the lyrics to "Have I the Right" by the Honeycombs (possibly the single best pop song ever recorded) look like a suicide note if you read them without the music.

My friend Dennis Leise is one of the Possum Hollow Boys; I only get to see him once a year at B Fest, since he's smart enough to live in Chicago and I'm not. They're quite good, and they have an album on iTunes. I like being able to plug my friends' bands. Unfortunately the superlative pop-punk group Grover Kent doesn't have an iTunes presence, so I will just give you a couple album / EP titles for you to enjoy:  "Me, Myself and Your Mother" and "Selling Doors, Door to Door".

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 19 / 48
Theme:  Musical negativity
Label phrase:  "NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE"

01)  Rio Yeti / Cory McAbee and Gregory Russell Cook
02)  No Sleep Till Brooklyn / The Beastie Boys
03)  Questions I Can't Answer / Heinz
04)  I Can't Explain / The Who
05)  Don't Hang Up / The Orlons
06)  Nobody Knows What's Goin' On (In My Mind But Me) / The Chiffons
07)  Don't Let's Start / They Might Be Giants
08)  The Brain is Not the Mind / Dan Reeder
09)  Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying / Gerry and the Pacemakers
10)  Never Had Nuthin' / The Possum Hollow Boys
11)  Time Won't Let Me / The Outsiders
12)  You Can't Sit Down (Part 1) / The Philip Upchurch Combo
13)  Don't Come Around Here No More / Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
14)  Someday Never Comes / Creedence Clearwater Revival
15)  Stop / Howard Tate
16)  Don't You Just Know It / Chuck and the Hulas
17)  I Can't Get You Off My Mind / Hank Williams
18)  Don't Put Marbles In Your Nose / Brendan Small
19)  No Feelings / The Sex Pistols
20)  Can't Get Enough of You, Baby / ? and the Mysterians
21)  Ain't It / Booker T. and the MG's
22)  (We Ain't Got) Nothin' Yet / The Blues Magoos
23)  It Doesn't Matter to Me / Devo
24)  Nobody Told Me / John Lennon
25)  Telstar / Hot Butter
26)   Can't Seem to Make You Mine / The Seeds
27)  Nobody Loves the Hulk / The Traits
28)  Don't Get Me Wrong / The Pretenders
29)  No, No, No / The Chanters
30)  You Can't Stop the Music / The Kinks

Disc 18 / 48

I saw Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys open for Los Straitjackets at a Halloween concert a three years ago and they're pretty damn amazing. They did a song called "Here Comes the Bride" that I really wish was available on CD so I could put it in the Timothology and share it with you. But it isn't, as far as I can tell, and it's not on iTunes either.

Moral of the story:  We all know much more music than there is on the Timothology. This isn't necessarily all the best of my collection. It's just a great deal of pop and rock from 1955 to 1990, more or less, arranged in a way that I think people will enjoy. I hope you do.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 18 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "Demonstrating generosity and forging alliances"

01)  Lugosi's Mongoloid Loser / The Illuminoids
02)  Chicken Walk / Hasil Adkins
03)  When Will I Be Loved / The Fucking Eagles
04)  Crumblin' Down / John Mellencamp
05)  Suspect Device / Stiff Little Fingers
06)  AM180 / Grandaddy
07)  Telstar / The Challengers
08)  Goodbye Horses / Q Lazzarus
09)  I'm Doin' Fine Now / New York City
10)  El Watusi / Ray Barretto Y Su Charanga Moderna
11)  Girl Bride / Geoff Goddard
12)  The Loser's Blues / Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
13)  Interlude No. 1 / Play it All Night Long / Warren Zevon
14)  Sweet Jane / The Velvet Underground
15)  Blue's Theme / Davie Allan and the Arrows
16)  Heartbeat / The Detroit Cobras
17)  The D'ampton Worm / Emilio Perez Machado and Stephen Powys
18)  Sterno / Los Straitjackets
19)  That is Rock and Roll / The Coasters
20)  Calling All Girls / Hilly Michaels
21)  I Was High / Pat McCurdy
22)  Intergalactic (album version) / The Beastie Boys
23)  Doctor Who Theme / The Tornados
24)  Man in Black / Johnny Cash
25)  The Funky Western Civilization / Tonio K.
26)  End of the World / Great Big Sea
27)  We Will All Go Together When We Go / Tom Lehrer

Disc 17 / 48

Using iTunes for the Timothology almost makes me feel guilty, because it's so easy to set up a playlist and burn it to disc. I used to have spiral notebooks filled with Timothology track lists, shopping lists, pricing estimates, and the like. In a political science class at Oakland Community College, the student behind me in class asked why my notes were all numbers and lists instead of phrases and sentences like everyone else's. I replied that I was making a shopping list for a gigantic mix tape instead of paying attention in class. She sarcastically asked how that was working for my GPA. I told her (truthfully) I was set to graduate with honors. The talks broke down at that point.

I probably mentioned this before, but the Timothology is a hobby that went from being beyond the cutting edge in 2000 to something a whole lot of music fans were doing in the middle of the decade to retro and possibly never to be repeated in 2013--blank CD-Rs made for music instead of software are getting thin on the ground and I don't want to just hand someone a flash drive and say that's the Timothology.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 17 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "Are you loathsome tonight?"

01)  13 Questions / Seatrain
02)  I'll Buy It / Tonio K.
03)  I'm Not Like You (demo) / The Weirdos
04)  Ana Ng / They Might Be Giants
05)  Without Expression / John Mellencamp
06)  Telstar / The Telstars
07)  Doom-Lang / The Tokens
08)  Soul Deep / The Box Tops
09)  Convertibles and Headbands / The Music Magicians
10)  Bravado / The Aqua Velvets
11)  Kiss Me Deadly / Lita Ford
12)  The Matador / Johnny Cash
13)  The KKK Took My Baby Away / The Ramones
14)  Warm Summer Day / Riot Squad
15)  Party Doll / Buddy Knox
16)  Listen Like Thieves / INXS
17)  Surfin' Hootenanny / Al Casey and the K-C-Ettes
18)  It's Tricky / Run-DMC
19)  Running Out of Ramones / Grover Kent
20)  Is That a Ship I Hear? / The Tornados
21)  Teenage Kicks / The Undertones
22)  First I Was a Hippie, Then I Was a Stockbroker, Now I am a Hippie Again / The Bobs
23)  Be Stiff / Toni Basil
24)  Rama Lama Ding Dong / The Edsels
25)  Vampire Girl / Jonathan Richman
26)  Come Dancing / The Kinks

Disc 16 / 48

To the extent that the Timothology was talked about by people other than me, I think the theme discs dominated the conversations. But something like two-thirds of the discs are just long mixes of pop music that I thought sounded good in the order I set down. Sometimes it leads to some weird bedfellows; I know that it felt significant that Buddy Holly and Motorhead were on the same CD. Or, this time around, Hanson and Andrew W.K. (who wrote "The McLaughlin Groove" using only phrases he heard on an episode of The McLaughlin Group).

This disc marks the point where the project is one-third done. Twice as far to go before it is finished. Anyone that thinks listening to this much music is a chore ought to try burning that many discs without repeating a track by accident.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 16 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "I am not prepared for this sort of anarchy."

01)  It's a Wild Weekend / NRBQ
02)  Teen Beat / Sandy Nelson
03)  Ready Steady Go / Generation X
04)  Doublewide / Southern Culture on the Skids
05)  McLaughlin Groove / Andrew W. K.
06)  I Believe in a Thing Called Love / The Darkness
07)  MMMbop / Hanson
08)  My Indian Red / Dr. John
09)  Johnny B. Rotten / The Monks
10)  Telstar / Tornadoes '74
11)  Again Tonight / John Mellencamp
12)  (Take Me Home) Country Roads / Toots and the Maytals
13)  Slave Laura / Samantha 7
14)  First Time / The Boys
15)  Rock Island Line / The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group
16)  Baby Baby / The Vibrators
17)  There is a Mountain / Donovan
18)  Love is Strange / Bo Diddley
19)  Stir it Up / Bob Marley
20)  Red River Rock / Johnny and the Hurricanes
21)  Crying, Waiting, Hoping / Buddy Holly
22)  Mars / The Billy Nayer Show
23)  Sheena is a Punk Rocker / The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
24)  Women and Men / They Might Be Giants
25)  The Village Green Preservation Society / The Kinks
26)  Trickle, Trickle / The Videos
27)  This Too Shall Pass / OK Go

Disc 15 / 48

There really isn't a theme to this one, but I put in a lot of lighter novelty type songs on this mix (probably because I stuck the Benny Hill theme in early and tried to stick with that kind of lightheartedness). I can't really think of anything else to say about the project right now, so let's just leave it at that.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 15 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "My plan involves dressing up as a moose and yelling at people."

01)  Give It Up / K. C. and the Sunshine Band
02)  King Tut / Steve Martin
03)  Yakety Sax / Boots Randolph
04)  Little Willy / The Sweet
05)  Babalu's Wedding Day / The Eternals
06)  Telstar / The Johnny Douglas Orchestra
07)  Hitchin' a Ride / Vanity Faire
08)  Ling, Ting, Tong / The Five Keys
09)  Bluebirds Over the Mountain / Shade Joey and the Night Owls
10)  (We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock / Bill Haley and His Comets
11)  She's the One / The Ramones
12)  Gino is a Coward / Gino Washington
13)  Vacation / The Go-Go's
14)  Nightgown of the Sullen Moon / They Might Be Giants
15)  Out of Limits / Laika and the Cosmonauts
16)  Space Junk / Devo
17)  Wings of a Dove / Madness
18)  The Heart of Saturday Night / Jonathan Richman
19)  Burning Love / Elvis Presley
20)  Keep Yourself Alive / Queen
21)  I Knew the Bride (When She Used to Rock and Roll) / Nick Lowe
22)  Invisible Touch / Genesis
23)  Bumble Boogie / B. Bumble and the Stingers
24)  Up Around the Bend / Creedence Clearwater Revival
25)  I Thought it Over / Los Straitjackets
26)  Faster and Louder / The Dictators
27)  Hot Patootie, Bless My Soul (live) / Meat Loaf
28)  Destination Zululand (Humdiddlededumhoowahayha) / King Kurt
29)  Express Yourself / Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band

Disc 14 / 48

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 14 / 48
Theme:  Gimmick songs
Label phrase:  "Confuse the man who is mad at you!"

01)  You've Got to Have a Gimmick Today / The Checkmates
02)  Kargyraa Moan / Paul Pena
03)  Rockit / Herbie Hancock
04)  Stout Hearted Men / Shooby Taylor
05)  The Martian Hop / The Ran-Dells
06)  Wipeout / The Fat Boys with The Beach Boys
07)  Witch Doctor / David Seville
08)  Ready to Rock / Pianosaurus
09)  Rat a Tat Tat, America / Dick Kent
10)  Underwater / The Frogmen
11)  This Beat Goes On / The Kings
12)  Switchin' to Glide / The Kings
13)  99 Luftballoons / Nena
14)  Forward to Death / Nomeansno
15)  Chacarron... Macarron / La Yanta
16)  No Better Than This / John Mellencamp
17)  Little Red Monkey / Frank Chacksfield's Tunesmiths
18)  Hey Jude / The Templeton Twins
19)  Let's Twist Again / Chubby Checker
20)  Uncontrollable Urge / Devo 2.0
21)  Philosophy of the World / The Shaggs
22)  Lawnmower / Los Straitjackets
23)  A Glorious Dawn / Carl Sagan
24)  The Elements / Tom Lehrer
25)  Telstar / Joseph Welz
26)  Math Song / Darkest of the Hillside Thickets
27)  I Can Hear You / They Might Be Giants
28)  Free As a Bird / The Beatles

This disc was a lot of fun to compile--each track has a gimmick; some kind of novelty value to it that was meant to give it a leg up in the marketplace of ideas (or at least the top 40 charts, for the tracks that were meant to chart).

In order, they are:

01)  Joe Meek's follow up to "Telstar"; other record producers claimed he was just using a bunch of gimmicks to hit #1 with a record he cut in the kitchen of his flat. So he made this record, a three minute middle finger to other producers and artists that he felt weren't giving him enough credit. He mentions them by name and makes fun of their standard bags of production tricks to boot.

02)  Paul Pena was a blind blues guitarist who taught himself Tuvan throat singing after hearing it on the radio and becoming fascinated with the art form. He competed in the Tuvan national throat singing competition and was nicknamed "Earthquake" by a vastly appreciative audience.

03)  This is the song where ten million white kids first heard record scratching. Herbie Hancock was a jazz musician primarily, but with this track he brought hip-hop culture to millions of previously boring suburban homes.

04)  Shooby Taylor paid a fly-by-night recording studio in New York City to tape his self-taught scat singing over tapes. The engineers taped it for their own amusement and it crawled out to the tape-trading scene from there. He is having more fun than anyone ever has singing this.

05)  Beeping sound effects at the start and finish! Goofy voices! A dance craze song! The noises at the beginning are "pure hemi-sync tones" according to the liner notes of the Rhino Records science fiction box set. Whatever that means.

06)  Bubblegum rap with a guest appearance by the Beach Boys.

07)  Goofy sped-up voices thanks to playing around with the tape speed (later to be monetized by Ross Bagdasarian (a/k/a David Seville) with the Chipmunks.

08)  Pianosaurus was a band that used children's toy instruments.

09)  Song-Poems are a mutant art form in which people who don't know what they're doing send in poems to scammers who tell them that they're bound for Hollywood songwriting stardom if they cough up 200 bucks for one (1) copy of their song. Dick Kent is one of the people who makes a living recording song-poems for the naïve and desperate. Honestly I think he's got a nice voice.

10)  That croaking sound? It's a guiro, a percussion instrument that helped this song be the first surf track to chart in the hot 100 (at #93, in 1961).

11)  "This Beat Goes On" and "Switching to Glide" were released as a single where the A and B side were two halves

12)  of the same song, requiring radio stations to play both halves together. Which was a way to double royalties and halve chart performance.

13)  This track was released in English and German simultaneously. I used the foreign-language version because it's more exotic. Like "Sukiyaki" back in the sixties.

14)  A capella cover of the Dead Kennedys? Sure thing.

15)  If you believe what you read, this track happened because the rapper had a backing track and a chorus but hadn't thought of any lyrics. The engineers said his nonsense space-filler syllables sounded fine--probably while trying not to laugh--and it was released as a single. Which turned out to be a smash hit.

16)  This song was recorded in mono with a portable tape recorder in the same room in the Sheraton Gunter Hotel that Robert Johnson recorded "Sweet Home Chicago".

17)  This is the first pop song to use the clavioline, the battery-powered keyboard most notable for its use in "Telstar" by the Tornados.

18)  "This sounds like they recorded it in 1910 or so" is a gimmick.

19)  Going back to the well--Chubby Checker made a sequel song to his original smash hit, "The Twist".

20)  For some reason, a music manager at Disney thought that preadolescent children singing Devo's songs of lust, alienation, and frustrated hatred about American civilization would be a good idea.

21)  The Shaggs practiced for years with each other and not with anyone that could teach them to play their instruments. Or even tune them. They have a sound that is utterly unique, completely naïve and unlike anything else you're ever gonna hear.

22)  This song features a one-string guitar.

23)  Snippets of audio from the "Cosmos" series and AutoTune mean that Carl Sagan's singing a track about the vastness and wonder of the universe from beyond the grave.

24)  The lyrics to this song are the periodic table (out of order, so it will rhyme).

25)  Snippets of news reports and mentions of the Telstar satellite are sampled for this cover of "Telstar".

26)  The lyrics of this song were an equation (with "solve for degrees, not radiens" after it) in the liner notes to the album.

27)  They Might Be Giants recorded this song at the Edison laboratory on a wax cylinder, using no electricity (and without electric instruments).

28)  The surviving Beatles finished a John Lennon vocal track for this one. I figure it's as good a way to finish the disc as any, and honestly it's quite a decent tune. "New Beatles Song" is a hell of a gimmick.

Disc 13 / 48

The Dreaded Disc Thirteen.

I love terrible covers of pop classics. It's the same admiration of camp and sincerity that makes me watch a lot of B movies, I guess. When I first burned a CD Timothology in 2000, I decided to quarantine (almost) all of the terrible covers on the set on a single disc, and 13 seemed to be the right number for a project like that. It's become a tradition because I did it more than once, and I like to think people who have bought Timothologies in the past (and who have this set) were looking forward to whatever abominations I dug up for this round.

I'm breaking two of my rules on this disc--there are two Joe Meek tracks on it (the rough demo of "Telstar" and the going-back-to-the-well "Magic Star", which proves once and for all that "Telstar" is an instrumental and shouldn't have lyrics). Not that this stopped anyone--there are multiple versions of my favorite song on this disc. English, Spanish, German and French lyrics have been supplied for the song and honestly I don't think any of those versions are improved for having them. Plus the Portsmouth Sinfonia (an untrained orchestra based in the UK in the Seventies) did a cover, and there's just no way I wouldn't use them for Disc Thirteen somewhere. Getting a pretty disastrous hooked-on-classics take on the sound of hope seems about right for this disc.

Sean Frost called this disc "a Soviet military parade of hurt feelings", which is exactly what I was shooting for. Thanks, Sean.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 13 / 48
Theme:  Awful covers
Label phrase:  "This is a pain of unreasonable proportions"

01)  Telstar (rough demo) / Joe Meek
02)  Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band / Bill Cosby
03)  Sheena Is a Punk Rocker / Mambo Kurt
04)  We Built This City / The Dondero High School Swing Choir
05)  Oh L'Amour / The Ten Tenors
06)  Telstar / The Latin Quartet
07)  Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds / William Shatner
08)  A Lover's Concerto / Mrs. Elva Miller
09)  Ca Plane Pour Moi / Sai Sai
10)  Telstar / The Portsmouth Sinfonia
11)  I Walk the Line / Leonard Nimoy
12)  Got a Horse Right Here / Revis High School Thespians
13)  Fire / Those Darn Accordions!
14)  Telstar / Les Compagnons de la Chanson
15)  Walk Like an Egyptian / The Del Rubio Triplets
16)  I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That) / Dear Abbeys
17)  The Devil Came Up to Michigan / KMC KRU
18)  Magic Star / Kenny Hollywood
19)  Jailhouse Rock / Eilert Pilarm
20)  Bennie and the Jets / The Diabolical Biz Markie
21)  Have I the Right / Tav Falco's Panther Burns
22)  The Mighty Quinn / Gotthard
23)  Never Gonna Give You Up / Paul Brugel
24)  Got To Get You Into My Life / Joe Pesci
25)  Irgendwann, erwacht ein neuer Tag (Telstar) / Camillo Felgen
26)  Don't Stand So Close To Me / The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Disc 12 / 48

Another themeless disc; this one does have "London Calling" right after a cover of "Have I the Right" because they both have a similar stompy sound. There's another original that was eclipsed by a cover ("Piece of My Heart" this time), and "Loverboy" by Billy Ocean, which I unironically love.

The label phrases on the discs are a thing I started doing back when the Timothology was on cassettes; they're just weird little things I've heard from friends or references to stuff I like. The phrase from disc 11 was "They LIED to him!", taken from a YouTube meltdown clip from a guy who hated a character death in the Game of Thrones series. This disc has a quote from "Understanding Marx", a five-minute-long pop song that attempts to illustrate Marxist principles through song. It's by Red Shadow, which billed itself as "The Economics Rock & Roll Band" and their song is pretty terrible. It was available on WFMU's web site as part of their 365 Days Project, wherein a different outsider music MP3 was posted every day in 2003 and then in 2007. The song itself got cut from the Timothology for time but I kept the label phrase because I liked the sound of it.

Which is a somewhat long-winded way of saying this:  If you don't know what the label phrases are referring to, it's not your fault. It's mine.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 12 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "Fellow worker, you look mighty unhappy."

01)  Piece of My Heart / Erma Franklin
02)  Get Over You / The Undertones
03)  Cool Aid / Paul Humphrey and His Cool Chemists
04)  Tangled Up in Blue / Bob Dylan
05)  Tonight She Comes / The Cars
06)  Girl Crazy / Tonio K.
07)  Midnight Blue / Lou Gramm
08)  Telstar / Jackie Mittoo
09)  The Banana Boat Song / Hasil Adkins
10)  Shock Treatment (single version) / Richard O'Brien
11)  Loverboy / Billy Ocean
12)  Be Stiff (Stiff Records version) / Devo
13)  See The Constellation / They Might Be Giants
14)  Trash / The New York Dolls
15)  Song 2 / Blur
16)  Sing, Sing, Sing / Those Darn Accordions!
17)  The Little Black Egg / The Nightcrawlers
18)  2-4-6-8 Motorway / The Tom Robinson Band
19)  Have I the Right / Vampire Weekend
20)  London Calling / The Clash
21)  It's Your Thing / The Isley Brothers
22)  Get Back / The Beatles
23)  Cool Water / Chick, The Ted Cameron Group and the DJs
24)  Montego Bay / Freddie Notes and the Rudies
25)  I'm the Urban Spaceman / The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band

Disc 11 / 48

For seven years, I was lucky enough to play City of Villains--in fact, I played that game literally from the first day to the last. There was something amazingly compelling about being the bad guy, and the writing on that game was sick and amazing and funny all at the same time ("So, this clone of you...what did he look like?") and you could do anything from snatching purses and running errands for more impressive crime lords to stealing nuclear warheads to use in later fights.

I made this playlist as my "wrecking shit as Telstar Bronson" soundtrack; when soloing on City I was more likely than not listening to these songs and enjoying the hell out of my day.

The game is gone now; NCSoft cancelled it, shut it down and fired all the developers at Paragon Studios while the game was still profitable. Nothing against them, but I hope they go bankrupt, and soon, so that someone else can buy their intellectual property and start the game up again. I miss being Captain Telstar and I miss the regularly scheduled Tuesday Night Beatdown sessions with Meg, Phil, Sam and Sean. Even if Meg never remembered to turn her armor on and therefore got wiped out a lot.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 11 / 48
Theme:  Villains
Label phrase:  "They LIED to him!"

01)  Jailhouse Rock / Elvis Presley
02)  53rd & 3rd / The Ramones
03)  Rumble / Link Wray and His Ray Men
04)  Folsom Prison Blues (live) / Johnny Cash
05)  Police On My Back / The Clash
06)  Squad Car / Eddie and the Showmen
07)  Random Drug Testing / Cub Koda
08)  Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight / Earl Vince and the Valiants
09)  Ready to Die / Andrew W. K.
10)  Jack the Ripper / Screaming Lord Sutch
11)  Telstar / The Compulsive Gamblers
12)  Juvenile Delinquent / Ronnie Allen
13)  Borstal Breakout / Sham 69
14)  The Devil / Hoyt Axton
15)  Burke the Butcher / The Eyelids
16)  Murder / The Goblins
17)  Long Black Veil / Lefty Frizzell
18)  Police & Thieves / Junior Murvin
19)  Stagger Lee / Lloyd Price
20)  They're Hanging Me Tonight / Marty Robbins
21)  Where the Wild Roses Grow / Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
22)  Johnny Too Bad / The Slickers
23)  East Side Story / Bob Seger
24)  Earth Dies Screaming / The Staggers
25)  Dance with the Devil / Cozy Powell
26)  More Than Ever (Nixon Campaign Theme) / The Mike Curb Congregation
27)  Kill the Poor / The Dead Kennedys
28)  Mad Scientwist / Los Straitjackets
29)  Brand New Day / Neil Patrick Harris
30)  Bad Guys / Paul Williams
31)  I Fought the Law / The Bobby Fuller Four

Disc 10 / 48

Another disc without much of a theme to it.

"Romeo and Jane" is one of the songs I kind of tripped over while looking for stuff to put on the Timothology. Tonio K. was one of the Crickets post-Buddy-Holly and did his own thing later on with the spectacular album "Life in the Food Chain"; if The Cars and Tom Lehrer were the same person they'd be Tonio K. My favorite of his albums is "Romeo Unchained", which starts out with "True Confessions" (which I liked enough to put on disc 01) and also has this disc's cut. I don't think I've ever heard a better song about the tabloid mentality was going to destroy the 1980s and it's also metafictionally awesome.

Hey, look! "Keem-O-Sabe", "Apache" and "Comanche" are all instrumentals on this disc!

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 10 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "Bear is driving! How can that be?!"

01)  Tennessee Flat Top Box / Johnny Cash
02)  Just Another Day / John Mellencamp
03)  Telstar / Video Aventures
04)  Pure / The Lightning Seeds
05)  Romeo and Jane / Tonio K.
06)  Charlie Brown / The Coasters
07)  Keem-O-Sabe / Electric Indian
08)  The Oogum Boogum Song / Brenton Wood
09)  Keep On Dancing / The Gentrys
10)  Some of My Friends / Pat McCurdy
11)  Dance Hall Days / Wang Chung
12)  I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend / The Rubinoos
13)  Lookin' For a Love / Bobby Womack
14)  As Time Goes By / Alan Dean & His Problems
15)  When the Daylight Comes / Ian Hunter
16)  Keep the Customer Satisfied / Simon and Garfunkel
17)  Moment of Weakness / Bif Naked
18)  I Live For the Sun / The Sun-Rays
19)  Apache / Jorgen Ingmann
20)  Pretty Little Angel Eyes / Curtis Lee
21)  Be My Yoko Ono / The Barenaked Ladies
22)  Walk Like an Egyptian / The Bangles
23)  Boom Shakalak / Apache Indian
24)  Comanche / The Revels
25)  Day By Day / The Hooters
26)  Magnet and Steel / Walter Egan

Disc 09 / 48

I think this one started as a disc where all the songs would be sung in first person, but it mutated into another themeless mix as I decided to put other stuff in there. There's a few songs from movie soundtracks, and the first appearance of the Shaggs on this iteration of the project. They were three sisters who practiced a lot and wrote their own songs, but only practiced with each other so they were making pop music with almost no influences and absolutely no coaching. Their father believed they were destined to be rock stars. This went on to not happen.

The theme to The Wire is followed up by a song called "Chicken Shack" because there's a Baltimore restaurant mentioned on the show called the Chicken Shack. I put a lot of thought into these sorts of things.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 09 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "That's not a monster. That's just a crappy painting of a lady and a hand."

01)  54-46 Was My Number / Toots and the Maytals
02)  I Was Dancing at the Lesbian Bar / Jonathan Richman
03)  That Little Sports Car / The Shaggs
04)  Hypnotist of Ladies / They Might Be Giants
05)  My Heart Will Go On / Big Daddy
06)  Banana Splits / The Dickies
07)  Football Fight / Queen
08)  I've Only Got Myself to Blame / The Masonics
09)  A Million Ways / OK Go
10)  Telstar / Huevos Rancheros
11)  Please Don't Touch / Motorhead
12)  Over and Over / The Dave Clark Five
13)  A Little Bit of Soap / The Jarmels
14)  I Taught Her How / Benny Parker & The Dynamics
15)  Amen Brother / The Winstons
16)  English Civil War / The Clash
17)  Night of the Vampire / Hola Ghost
18)  Simply Irresistible / Robert Palmer
19)  One Bad Stud / The Blasters
20)  I Never Picked Cotton / Johnny Cash
21)  Red Red Wine / Tony Tribe
22)  Benson, Arizona / John Yager
23)  Way Down in the Hold / The Blind Boys of Alabama
24)  Chicken Shack / Amos Milburn
25)  Hawaiian War Chant / The 50 Guitars of Tommy Garrett
26)  Destroyer / The Kinks
27)  Johnny Was a Good Boy / The Mystery Trend
28)  Zydeco From 1988 / Zydeco Force
29)  Forty Days / Ronnie Hawkins

Disc 08 / 48

I like that there's lots of different genres represented on the Timothology. And this disc, surprisingly enough, has a really wide variety of styles represented:  hip-hop, surf, punk, pop, folk, country, novelty covers, and outsider art. That's pretty decent, considering I could have probably filled the disk up with just punk, metal and rap. I've never been that big into metal, so it would have been just punk and rap with a couple metal tracks. And where's the fun in that?

The instrumentals are "Big Feet", "Penetration" and "The Happy Organ" because I am totally a grownup and because I tend to put a few instros on each Timothology disc.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 08 / 48
Theme:  The word "fuck" is in the lyrics of every song
Label phrase:  "Proudly unsuitable for younger or more sensitive listeners."

01)  Jay's Rap / Jason Mewes
02)  Fuck You / Cee Lo Green
03)  The Rodeo Song / Gary Lee & Showdown
04)  Sabotage / The Beastie Boys
05)  All For One and Fuck 'Em All / The Midnight Creeps
06)  Too Drunk to Fuck / The Dead Kennedys
07)  Big Feet / The Stonehenge Men
08)  It Takes a Worried Man / Devo
09)  My Shit's Fucked Up / Warren Zevon
10)  I Was a Teenage Fuck Up / Really Red
11)  America, Fuck Yeah! / Team America
12)  Man From F.U.C.K.Y.O.U. / Man or Astro-Man?
13)  99 Luft Problems / Jay-Zena
14)  Fuck Around / The Dwarves
15)  Girlfriend / Avril Lavigne
16)  Penetration / The Pyramids
17)  Work Song / Dan Reeder
18)  Don't Ask Me / OK Go
19)  Too Repressed / Sometymes Why
20)  Telstar / ? and the Mysterians
21)  Love's Gonna Get'cha / KRS-One and Boogie Down Productions
22)  How Fucking Romantic / The Magnetic Fields
23)  The Sick Bed of Cuchulainn / The Pogues
24)  Theme from "Cops" / H20
25)  The Happy Organ / Dave "Baby" Cortez
26)  Fuck Off / Wayne County and the Electric Chairs
27)  Let's Talk Dirty to the Animals / Gilda Radner
28)  They Threw Me Out of Church / Wesley Willis

Disc 07 / 48

I broke one of my own rules on this disc--Mike Berry is on two tracks, recorded fifty years apart, and called "Don't You Think It's Time" and "It's Just a Matter of Time". I couldn't help myself. The idea of two songs about time that were laid down half a century apart by the same dude? Had to be done.

Another thing that had to be done was setting up something of a delayed joke in the disc--the Jonathan Richman song at the end mentions "Louie Louie", "Little Latin Lupe Lu" and "Hang On Sloopy", all of which are on this disc. That's a shout-out to Tom Schoenberg, who introduced me to the music of Jonathan Richman in the first place. My pop culture knowledge is broader because I have him as a friend.

"Hang Fire" is the Rolling Stones trying to do some kind of disco doo-wop Ramones thing, and I have no idea how Stones fans feel about the track. I really like it, myself.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 07 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "Because of reasons."

01)  Ebony Eyes / Bob Welch
02)  Sleepwalker / The Kinks
03)  Take the Skinheads Bowling / Camper Van Beethoven
04)  Strawberry Letter 23 / The Brothers Johnson
05)  Hang Fire / The Rolling Stones
06)  Night of the Living Wedge / The Wedge
07)  Ain't Got No Home / Clarence "Frogman" Henry
08)  Don't You Think It's Time / Mike Berry & the Outlaws
09)  The Bird's The Word / The Rivingtons
10)  Roll Muddy River / The Pioneers
11)  Louie Louie / The Kingsmen
12)  Blast Off / Jimmie Haskell and His Orchestra
13)  The Mighty Quinn / Manfred Mann
14)  Rockaway Beach / The Ramones
15)  King of the Surf / Los Straitjackets
16)  Little Latin Lupe Lu / The Righteous Brothers
17)  Telstar / Brujos
18)  Teenage Rampage / The Sweet
19)  Strychnine / The Sonics
20)  March of the Spacemen / The Thunderbolts
21)  Hang On Sloopy / The McCoys
22)  Chick Habit / April March
23)  Back From the Moon / Symarip
24)  Buzz-Buzz-Buzz / The Hollywood Flames
25)  Parties in the U.S.A. / Johnathan Richman
26)  It's Just a Matter of Time / Mike Berry & the Western All-Stars
27)  Magic / The Cars
28)  Dream Away / George Harrison

Disc 06 / 48

My driving disc.

I go to Vandergrift, Pennsylvania twice a year to see eight vintage horror movies at a drive-in. I go to Chicago once a year for B Fest, a 24-hour-long bad movie marathon held the last weekend of January. It's about a five and a half hour drive to get to either destination (barring shitty weather, horrible traffic or MapQuest directions that add an hour to your trip--all of which I have encountered at one point or another). Sean Frost, my friend and constant co-attendee for these things, would burn a couple of CDs worth of music for each trip; I'd burn a couple of CDs as well. It was a way to fill up time on the road, share music with a friend, and kill time. Three 77-minute discs more or less took one leg of the trip to get through after I picked up Sean partway to Illinois.

So this disc is the distillation of what I like to listen to when I'm driving--"My Guru", for example, is a track I could drive forever to if it was on loop. Same with "South Side", or "Phantom Bride" or "Government Center" or anything else on the disc. Driving takes time, so there aren't that many superfast tracks on this one. It's more about getting into that Zen driving trance and moving along than zipping down the highway at 90 miles an hour.

"Glad All Over" is on this disc because I used to thumb-bonk the steering wheel with my hands in the properly mandated ten-and-two position for the two drum hits before the band sings "glad all over", and this drove my younger brother out of his fucking mind for some reason. Maybe he just hated the song. But I have memories of when I had a drivers' license and he didn't, this song coming up on the radio or in the tape deck, and the thumb hits on the steering wheel irritating him as much as anything possibly could. Since I'm not ferrying him around any more, the song's on the disc and he never has to hear it again because he's never wanted a Timothology.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 06 / 48
Theme:  Tim's personal road trip / driving disc
Label phrase:  "I once saw a forklift get picked up by another forklift."

01)  Piltdown Rides Again / The Piltdown Men
02)  Glad All Over / The Dave Clark Five
03)  Working on the Highway / Bruce Springsteen
04)  South Side / Moby featuring Gwen Stefani
05)  Macho Man (12" version) / The Village People
06)  Ring of Fire / Johnny Cash
07)  You Sexy Thing / Hot Chocolate
08)  Phantom Bride / Erasure
09)  One Dumb Thing / Devo
10)  Nervous Breakdown / Eddie Cochran
11)  Shoehorn with Teeth / They Might Be Giants
12)  My Guru / Anandji V. Shah, Kalyanji V. Shah & Dan the Automator
13)  Hurdy Gurdy Man / Donovan
14)  Hold On! I'm A Comin' / Sam and Dave
15)  Authority Song / John Mellencamp
16)  Telstar / Alien Cowboys
17)  Punk Rock Girl / The Dead Milkmen
18)  (I'm Stuck in a Pagoda With) Tritia Toyota / The Dickies
19)  Okey Dokey / The Incredible Bongo Band
20)  Temptation Baby / Gene Vincent
21)  X Offender / Blondie
22)  Run Runaway / Slade
23)  Do You Wanna Dance? / The Ramones
24)  Mr. Moto / The Challengers
25)  Government Center / The Modern Lovers
26)  Wild, Wild West / The Escape Club

Disc 05 / 48

Another theme disc this time; it's about radio, television, satellites, smoke signals, the telegraph and all the other ways people can talk to each other quickly. There's a lot of nostalgia in these tracks, with the Ramones and the studio group Reunion looking back at 50s and 60s rock fondly, the Blasters singing about lost love and people missing each other, and the Buggles looking at a world where new technologies displace the old.

And then you have the relentless optimism, with the Ska-Dows badmouthing the Soviet achievments in satellite production during their take on "Telstar" and Rose DuBats hoping the President will get her a boyfriend from Saturn; at the same time, the lead singe of the Bangles and Billy Bragg both look to the heavens and wish on a satellite.

Nothing really to add to that, just that it's a disc full of music that happily anticipates the future while celebrating the past and that I will never, ever be tired of hearing the lead singing of the Ska-Dows take a cheap shot at Sputnik.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 05 / 48
Theme:  Satellites, Radios and Comunications
Label phrase:  "We will be forced to use the technology of yelling."

01)  Satellite Radio / Steve Earle
02)  This is Radio Clash / The Clash
03)  Smoke Signals / The Outlaws
04)  Don't Telephone, Don't Telegraph, Tell a Woman / Tex Williams
05)  Mexican Radio / Wall of Voodoo
06)  Donna Summer on the Radio / Steve Fisk
07)  Television Generation / Kursaal Flyers
08)  Hot Line (album version) / The Bomboras
09)  Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me) / Reunion
10)  Sputnik (Satellite Girl) / Jerry Engler and the Four Ekkos
11)  Satellite Rock / The Rebelaires
12)  Border Radio / The Blasters
13)  Satellite / The Hooters
14)  A New England / Billy Bragg
15)  Signals From Saturn / Rose DuBats
16)  Wishing on Telstar / Susanna Hoffs
17)  Satellite Baby / Skip Stanley
18)  Radio Ga Ga / Queen
19)  Satellite (Spinning Around) / Teresa Brewer
20)  Do You Remember Rock and Roll Radio? / The Ramones
21)  Satellite No. 2 / Carl Mann
22)  Telstar / The Ska-Dows
23)  Big Mess / Devo
24)  Rockin' Satellite / Ray Sawyer
25)  Radio Head (True Stories version) / Tito Larriva
26)  Video Killed the Radio Star / The Buggles

Disc 04 / 48

Another themeless disc; looking over the track list I can see a few mini themes showing up (it gets kinda crazy over the last few songs, and I put a song about an Indian's faithful dog getting killed by a soldier right before a song about a Texas Ranger shooting a bad guy). Not a lot to say about this one, really, other than that it's got some doo-wop, country and reggae to go with the usual punk, pop, rock and surf. And that Gloria Jones cut the first version of "Tainted Love", not Soft Cell.

The label phrase refers to a prank I played on my friend Bryan at B Fest two years ago--I bought every copy of the Gus Weill horror paperback Flesh that I could find and kept sneaking copies into his pockets, his dinner menu, his hotel room, etc. over the course of the weekend. Because the year before I said he might like it and he said it didn't look stupid enough to be enjoyable.

Occasionally the Timothology is like that too. I like to get people to listen to songs they've never known about, and I'm willing to bet that one or two songs on this playlist are probably on the "I've never heard that before" list for everyone that's going to wind up with a Timothology. They probably will not be the same two songs for everybody, though. And I like that.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 04 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "A Fate Worse than Flesh."

01)  Always On My Mind / The Pet Shop Boys
02)  Tainted Love / Gloria Jones
03)  The American Astronaut / The Billy Nayer Show
04)  Black Sheep Boy / Tim Hardin
05)  Trogdor / Homestar Runner
06)  What Do I Get? / The Buzzcocks
07)  Guilty / Classix Nouveaux
08)  Mr. Rebel / Eddie and the Showmen
09)  Mope-itty Mope / The Bosstones
10)  Magnetic / Earth, Wind & Fire
11)  The Uninvited / The Ghoultones
12)  Living After Midnight / Judas Priest
13)  Apricot Brandy / Rhinoceros
14)  Chahawki / Burr Bailey
15)  Big Iron / Marty Robbins
16)  The Bristol Stomp / The Dovells
17)  Runaway / Del Shannon
18)  Sha-La-La-La-Lee / The Small Faces
19)  Hey Good Lookin' / Billy Abbot and the Jewels
20)  Telstar / The Models
21)  Number Three / They Might Be Giants
22)  Israelites (1980s version) / Desmond Dekker
23)  Battleship Chains / The Hindu Love Gods
24)  We Made It Through That Water / The Free Agents Brass Band
25)  You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) / Dead or Alive
26)  Magoomba / The Dickies
27)  Out of the Bushes / The Treniers
28)  Unchained Melody / Vito and the Salutations
29)  Mystery Dance / Elvis Costello
30)  Ca Plane Pour Moi / Plastic Bertrand

Disc 03 / 48

There are rules that I set down for myself when I'm making a Timothology disc. Without at least a little structure, the project is too overwhelming and formless to make a really good showing. Here's the general rules list:

-Each song on the Timothology only shows up once.
-Each artist only shows up on a given disc once.
-There is a version of the instrumental "Telstar" on each disc.
-There is a Joe Meek-produced song on each disc.

Past that, there's a lot of leeway when putting a track list together (iTunes has made Timothology creation orders of magnitude easier than it used to be). I try to put songs in order that make some sense and that lead into each other pretty well ("I Wanna Be Sedated" is just as great a rock song as "My Sharona", so I grouped them together on this one). I also try to mix genres up at least a little bit, but this particular disc is pretty vanilla. There's no reggae, funk or R&B on it, just a bunch of straightforward pop and rock with a handful of covers and the original of "I Fought the Law", which is kind of the opposite of a cover track. It's an original that got eclipsed by a more famous cover version.

And, of course, it's a mix I came up with so there's something completely outside mainstream sensibilities on it. This time, it's a song from the point of view of the guy who confessed on his deathbed that he'd faked the famous Loch Ness Monster photo decades ago, played by an all-accordion band. One of the reasons I made the Timothology was so I could share some of the odder contents of my CD collection. I hope when people give the discs a spin they don't skip over the more obscure and unconventional tracks.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 03/ 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "Shark alarm. Raise the black flag. Shark alarm."

01)  Stack-a-Records / Tom Tall
02)  Post Post-Modern Man / Devo
03)  Crawdaddy Simone / The Syndicats
04)  Fender Stratocaster / Jonathan Richman
05)  I Wanna Be Sedated / The Ramones
06)  My Sharona / The Knack
07)  Telstar / The Spitballs
08)  California Sun / The Rivieras
09)  Safety Dance / Big Daddy
10)  I Fought the Law / The Crickets
11)  You Might Think / The Cars
12)  One Toke Over the Line / Brewer & Shipley
13)  Run Runaway / Great Big Sea
14)  Yakety Yak / The Coasters
15)  Brickfield Nights / A-BOYS
16)  Dancing With Myself / Billy Idol
17)  Walk, Don't Run '64 / The Ventures
18)  Big Bad John / Jimmy Dean
19)  My Boyfriend's Back / The Raveonettes
20)  Deathbed Confession / Those Darn Accordions!
21)  This Thing / Sgt. Bilk's Krazy Combo
22)  Blockbuster / The Sweet
23)  Six Days on the Road / Taj Mahal
24)  Hall of the Mountain King / Sounds Incorporated
25)  Maybe Tomorrow / The Chords
26)  Gary Gilmore's Eyes / The Adverts
27)  The Fang / Nervous Norvus
28)  Scary Picture Show / Riot Squad (Texas)
29)  Social End Product / The Bluestars

Disc 02 / 48

Sometimes I do a theme for a disc; most of the time I don't. This time, since it wound up being eight years since my last mix, I decided that the second disc should be full of music that had never been used on any iteration of the Timothology before. I have no idea if I'm completely 100% right on this one since I no longer have the tapes for 1996 or 1998 but I am quite certain that nobody other than me would ever be able to figure that out one way or the other. I could have cheated and just used music that was released after the last set, but where would the fun or challenge be in doing it that way?

Incidentally, the theme discs are never the only example of that theme to be found on the entire Timothology--there are songs on disc 01 that had never been used on any previous mix and there will be songs throughout the entire collection that fit all of the various themes at one spot or another.

There's also an inside joke in here--the track "1993" pinched its melody from a song that, if you know me in 1993, you heard a lot. A LOT. So the people who clocked more than two decades knowing me and also have a Timothology get a reference that the other seven billion people in the world won't.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 02/ 48
Theme:  None of these songs have ever been used in any Timothology
Label phrase:  "Dial T for Fiasco!"

01)  Trains / The Nashville Ramblers
02)  Play Those Oldies, Mr. Dee Jay / Anthony and the Sophomores
03)  Rockin' and Rollin' / W. L. Horning
04)  New York Groove / Hello
05)  Pico and Sepulveda / Felix Figueroa and His Orchestra
06)  1993 / Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers
07)  Zambesi / Lou Busch
08)  Feel Like Suicide / D Generation
09)  Polka Dot Undies / Bowser and Blue
10)  B-I-Bickey-Bi, Bo-Bo-Go / Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps
11)  Seven Day Weekend / Gary U. S. Bonds
12)  Telstar / Andre Brasseur
13)  Ace of Spades / Motorhead
14)  Here it Goes Again / OK Go
15)  Live It Up! / Heinz
16)  How Can I Sing Like a Girl? / They Might Be Giants
17)  I Wonder / Rodriguez
18)  Double Dutch / Malcolm McLaren
19)  Twitchy / Rene Hall
20)  Kitty / Racey
21)  Dance the Night Away / The Forces of Evil
22)  Rock Me My Baby / Buddy Holly
23)  Gamma Ray / Beck
24)  When My Boy Walks Down the Street / The Magnetic Fields
25)  God's Gonna Cut You Down / Johnny Cash
26)  My Home is In Chicago (But My Heart's In Tennessee) / The Possum Hollow Boys
27)  Without Love / Tonio K.

Disc 01 / 48

There has been a Timothology of one kind or another since 1996. I used to make literal mixtapes as a hobby and eventually decided to do the complete history of pop and rock music in America, but out of order because I didn't want to get stuck with strict chronology. The 1996 and 1998 Timothologies were both on tape, but I no longer have the masters or copies; they're gone to the ages. I bought my first CD burner in 2000 and had to manually set the levels for each song as well as manually start and stop the recordings for each track. It took about two and a half hours to burn a 74 minute disc with the equipment I had, and copying the discs took place in real time (an hour and change for a 70 minute disc).  Since then I've bought different CD burners and duplicators and now just use the burner in my desktop PC to copy a 77- minute disc in under five minutes or so.

As the technology made it easier to copy discs, the Timothology grew from an 18-disc set in 2000 to a 24-disc set in 2002 to a 32-disc set in 2005 and a 48-disc set in 2013 (which I started making master playlists for in 2010). The 2002, 2005 and 2013 set sizes were chosen because there were CD wallets that would hold that many discs. The next size up is 64. If there are still music CD-Rs in 2022 that's apparently what I'll be doing for the next iteration of the Timothology. My hobby has gone from being beyond the cutting edge to just a thing lots of people did to retro while my methods remained largely unchanged. This amuses me.

The current set is called Timothology:  Strange Aeons, a nod to Lovecraft as well as the realization that I've been making mixtapes for more than twenty years (and people who have the older versions can chart my changing musical tastes from set to set). Some of the discs have themes; some are just a lot of songs stuck together because I liked the order they were in.

The first disc is my overture; like every version of the Timothology going back to 1996 it starts with the Joe Meek composition "Telstar", a song I will never actually shut up about. The rest of the playlist is a selection of songs I place in the top 1% of pop and rock--there are a lot of songs as good as this stuff, but nothing better. And as a second theme, these are all songs that I tend to sing along with in the car. My apologies to all travel companions who tried to have an actual conversation with me when I started singing along with Bo Diddley out of nowhere.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 01 / 48
Theme:  Return to the Project and Overture
Label phrase:  "Here is another bunch of music."

01)  Telstar / The Tornados
02)  Johnny On Top / The New Math (Jet Black Berries)
03)  Shombalor / Sheriff and the Revels
04)  Sheena is a Punk Rocker (ABC single version) / The Ramones
05)  I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead / "Weird Al" Yankovic
06)  Wait a Minute / Tim Tam and the Turnons
07)  True Confessions / Tonio K.
08)  Make a Circuit With Me / The Polecats
09)  Career Opportunities / The Clash
10)  Brontosaurus Stomp / The Piltdown Men
11)  Wig-Wam Bam / The Sweet
12)  My Sweet Love / John Mellencamp
13)  Total Eclipse of the Heart / Hurra Torpedo
14)  Oh L'Amour / Erasure
15)  Vultan's Theme (Attack of the Hawkmen) / Queen
16)  Love Missile F1-11 / Sigue Sigue Sputnik
17)  Song Away / Hockey
18)  She Drives Me Crazy / Fine Young Cannibals
19)  Pills / Bo Diddley
20)  Riot Squad / Cock Sparrer
21)  AKA Driver / They Might Be Giants
22)  Radio Nowhere (album version) / Bruce Springsteen
23)  Devil's Right Hand / Johnny Cash
24)  Pizza Pie / Norman Fox and the Rob Roys with Sid Bass and His Orchestra
25)  Jilted John / Jilted John
26)  Story of My Life / Social Distortion