Not really a lot to say about this one other than that it's a theme disc that is almost exclusively pop and rock with almost no intrusions from other genres. It's almost certainly the whitest disc out of the whole 48 CD set. The instrumentals (other than the obligatory "Telstar" cover) are a song where a manual typewriter is used as a percussion instrument, one where someone chants the NASA acronym for a space walk and the Kinks leaving the vocals out of a song where they'd be spelling L-O-L-A Lola a bunch.
The Tonio K. track is supposedly the first song containing the word "motherfucker" to play uncensored on American radio; there's also an AK-47 firing live ammo as part of the percussion during the big finish of that song.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 26 / 48
Theme: Songs where they spell out words (or just yell letters)
Label phrase: "Boston cream pie is really more of a cake."
01) A / The Billy Nayer Show with Gregory Russell Cook
02) Vacation / Connie Francis
03) Something On Your Mind / Hilly Michaels
04) Saturday Night / The Bay City Rollers
05) Pinhead / The Ramones
06) I'm Henry VIII, I Am / Herman's Hermits
07) R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. / John Mellencamp
08) Washington, D. C. / The Magnetic Fields
09) T.C.B. or T.Y.A. / Bobby Patterson
10) The Typewriter / Leroy Anderson
11) Cadillac / Bo Diddley
12) Hell / The Squirrel Nut Zippers
13) Jocko Homo / Devo
14) Lola (Instrumental) / The Kinks
15) S-E-X-X-Y / They Might Be Giants
16) Girl Friend / Jonathan Richman
17) Maker of Smooth Music / Dick Kent
18) Rock, Calypso Joe! / The Treniers
19) Dig / Nervous Norvus
20) E.V.A. / Jean Jacques Perry
21) The Safety Dance (extended version) / Men Without Hats
22) Dammit Janet / Barry Bostwick and Susan Sarandon
23) Johnny Loves Me / Glenda Collins
24) Ugly / Fishbone
25) H-A-T-R-E-D / Tonio K.
26) Telstar / Evan Johns and His H-Bombs
27) Monkey Vs. Robot / James Kochalka Superstar
28) Ramones / Motorhead
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