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