Monday, August 26, 2013

Disc 35 / 48

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 35 / 48
Theme:  Symmetrical pairs of thematically linked songs
Label phrase:  "TWO girls with green eyes!"

01) In the Flesh / Blondie
02) The Intro and the Outro / The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
03) I Touch Myself / The Divinyls
04) Mariner No. 4 / The Ventures
05) Icky Thump / The White Stripes
06) Not Fade Away / The Crickets
07) Dare to Be Stupid / "Weird Al" Yankovic
08) The Monkey Time / Major Lance
09) The Last Race / Jack Nitzsche
10) When Jesus Left Birmingham / John Mellencamp
11) Une Question qui se Pose / Evy
12) Pied Piper / Crispian St. Peters
13) Freddie's Dead (Theme from Superfly) / Curtis Mayfield
14) Hab' Ich Das Recht / The Honeycombs
15) All You Need is Love / The Beatles
16) Stick Shift / The Duals
17) What's Your Name / Don and Juan
18) Music Time / Styx
19) I Want Candy / The Strangeloves
20) Hats off to Larry / Del Shannon
21) Telstar / Martin Cilia
22) She Bop / Cyndi Lauper
23) The Bell / Mike Oldfield
24) See You 'Round Like a Record / Little Nell

This disc has thirteen themes. The big theme is "pairs of songs that have something in common, presented as mirror images of each other". The little themes are:

01 / 24:  Retro-50s song with a female vocalist
02 / 23:  Song in which many different instruments are announced, and used to contribute to the overall melodic theme
03 / 22:  Song in which a female vocalist sings about masturbation
04 / 21:  Instrumental named after space hardware
05 / 20:  Song featuring a clavioline
06 / 19:  The Bo Diddley beat, but not performed by Bo Diddley
07 / 18:  Devo sound-alikes
08 / 17:  The two R&B songs played over film clip montages in the 1982 film It Came From Hollywood
09 / 16:  Instrumentals featuring revving car engines
10 / 15:  Songs in which the singer repeats the chorus of an earlier hit from their catalog during the final fadeout (in the first track, "Let it rock / Let it roll / Let the Bible belt come and save my soul" and "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah" in the second one)
11 / 14:  Foreign-language version of a Joe Meek song
12 / 13:  A song in which the same part is played by a flute and a baritone sax at the same time

I love the idea of Curtis Mayfield being influenced by Crispian St. Peters (the only man in pop music with a more whitebread name than Englebert Humperdinck). And I legitimately like "Music Time", wherein Styx apparently thought that Devo was going to be the next big sound. That went on to not happen.

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