Disc 23 / 48

For the 2005 Timothology, I was lucky enough to be using a CD burner that didn't have to be manually started or stopped for each track. It did record in 1:1 time instead of 12:1 like the burner on my PC, so the discs still took a lot of time to record and they had to be done in a single session and then finalized (iTunes makes it orders of magnitude easier to make a mix disc). This meant it'd be at least 80 minutes to record an 80 minute CD and I couldn't shuffle the tracks around easily without lots of scratched-out entries in a spiral notebook.

The day that John Kerry conceded the Presidential election to George W. Bush I burned a disc full of depressing songs because I knew how much of a disaster his second term would be (by paying attention to journalism about Dubya's life and career before he became a politician and by paying attention during his first term). The idea was too good not to reuse, especially because there's some great miserable pop songs out there. And this at least quarantines them all on one disc so they can't get out into the general population and make people feel sad in the middle of a different disc.

Special thanks to my friend Sean, who said "Why don't you just end the disc with "Deteriorata" and then offer people a bottle of sleeping pills?" when we were talking about the 2005 'Thology. I got one of those things accomplished on this disc.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 23 / 48
Theme:  Musical melancholia
Label phrase:  "A BLOO BLA BLOO BLOO BLOOOO!"

01)  The World is a Monster / Rocky Porter
02)  Tulips on the Table / Dan Reeder
03)  Nobody Waved Goodbye / The Cryin' Shames
04)  Fallout Shelter / Billy Chambers
05)  Dirty Old Town / The Pogues
06)  Case 795 (The Family) / John Mellencamp
07)  The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore / The Walker Brothers
08)  I Was a Teenage Atomic Zombie / The Spider Bombs
09)  Cause / Rodriguez
10)  The Cave / Johnny Paycheck
11)  Harlem Nocturne / The Viscounts
12)  Tears on My Pillow / The Imperials
13)  Town Without Pity / Gene Pitney
14)  Pouring Water on a Drowning Man / James Carr
15)  Better Late Than Never / Tonio K.
16)  Telstar / Thurston Moore and Don Fleming
17)  Raining in My Heart / Buddy Holly
18)  I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Johnny Cash
19)  Center of Asia / Paul Pena
20)  Ghost Riders (In the Sky) / The Ramrods
21)  The First Cut is the Deepest / The Koobas
22)  I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive / Hank Williams
23)  You Can't Put Your Arms Around a Memory / Johnny Thunders
24)  Better Off Dead / Bill Withers
25)  Deteriorata / National Lampoon