Sunday, August 25, 2013

Disc 29 / 48

Another themeless disc; at one point I tried to have a theme for every disc in the set. 22 was going to be a musical Tarot deck, with each song chosen to match the theme of each card in the Major Arcana; "Telstar", being named for a satellite, would have corresponded with the Moon. And so on. This turned out to be a colossal pain in the ass, partly because I wanted each disc to be around 77 minutes long and finding 22 tracks to be long enough to do that AND fit all the Tarot themes AND that I hadn't already used was completely unworkable. So instead, enjoy this disc and all the other themeless ones.

"Crossfader Dominator" was on the soundtrack to a Playstation 1 game called "Thrasher:  Skate and Destroy". I had to buy a different video game soundtrack in order to pick it up; iTunes and Amazon's digital downloads have a lot of things, but they don't have everything.

"I Lost My Girl to an Argentinian Cowboy" is one of the better-quality song poems out there. It's not much weirder than some genuine country music of the 60s and 70s (for example, Gil Trythall did an entire album of country songs on a Moog synthesizer). Nobody knows who the writer or performer are, as far as I know, and it's my hope that the Timothology gets that track a few more listeners than it normally would have had.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 29 / 48
Theme:  None
Label phrase:  "Bad falcon! Lazy!"

01) You Make it Way Too Hard / Tonio K.
02) Itty Bitty Pretty One / Screamin' Jay Hawkins
03) Be Your Bro / Those Darlins
04) Colour Slide / The Honeycombs
05) Be Good Johnny / Men at Work
06) Lovely Rita / Big Daddy
07) Without Expression / Terry Reid
08) Telstar / The Good Humor Band
09) (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman / The Kinks
10) Crossfader Dominator / Sniper
11) Suavecito / Malo
12) Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) / John Mellencamp
13) I Lost My Girl to an Argentinian Cowboy / Artist Unknown (Song Poem)
14) Pomps and Pride / Toots and the Maytals
15) Just Don't Want to Be Lonely / The Main Ingredient
16) The Spook Walks / The Parade
17) Long Tall Sally / Little Richard
18) G.T.O. / Ronny and the Daytonas
19) Clash City Rockers (original version) / The Clash
20) Rubber Biscuit / The Blues Brothers
21) Junko Pardner / Hindu Love Gods
22) Robot Parade (adult version) / They Might Be Giants
23) Shang-A-Lang / The Bay City Rollers
24) The Night Hank Williams Came to Town / Johnny Cash with Waylon Jennings

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