Saturday, July 27, 2013

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

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