Disc 46 / 48

I spent a lot of time crossing off songs from this list, putting them back on, rearranging things, and basically going through dozens of drafts of this disc while I was assembling it. I wanted to make a disc showing what world culture has lost with the deaths of these singers, and to remind people that the art outlives the artist. It is my hope that the Timothology will be remembered longer than I am; people's kids might even take the discs off the shelf and listen to them (or download them to a data wafer the size of a fingernail clipping and have all the music forever). In this way they will at least know there was a guy named Tim who put together a whole bunch of music for his own amusement and that of his friends.

In order to be included in this playlist, one of three conditions had to be met:  1) A solo artist had to be dead (Ronnie Montrose, Ritchie Valens, Hank Williams and Desmond Dekker were all billed under their names, instead of being part of a band). 2) If a musician died and the band they were in broke up or retired (Morphine disbanded after Mark Sandman's death, for example). 3) Fifty percent of the original members of the band had died (which the Ventures and the Ramones have in common; AFAIK the Ventures are still touring but the Ramones are not).

Broke a couple rules on this one as well, or at least bent them. But I wanted to have Joey Ramone's cover of "What a Wonderful World" on it, because it's so wonderfully optimistic and positive. And then "Carbona Not Glue" because the Ramones got sued by the makers of Carbona, who were less than thrilled that their industrial solvent was being sung about as a better high than sniffing glue.

Shooby Taylor had more fun siging than perhaps anyone else ever did, or ever will. And so I had to double-dip with Johnny Cash on this one; it wouldn't be a Timothology disc without some outsider music on it. For that matter, the Joe Meek track on this disc is a tribute to Eddie Cochran, who is also represented on the track list. References to other references. Wheels within wheels.

For a good long while, "Last Dance" was the last track on the disc. Then I got Vincent Price singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", and that's just not a song you can follow.

Timothology:  Strange Aeons Disc 46 / 48
Theme:  Voices (and instruments) of the dead
Label phrase:  "...To the LAST stop..."

01) People Who Died / The Jim Carroll Band
02) La Bamba / Ritchie Valens
03) Chantilly Lace / The Big Bopper
04) Not Fade Away / Buddy Holly
05) I Want to Dance With Somebody / Whitney Houston
06) C'mon Everybody / Eddie Cochran
07) Telstar / Ronnie Montrose
08) Buena / Morphine
09) Lost Highway / Hank Williams
10) Israelites / Desmond Dekker
11) Crazy Country Hop / Johnny Otis
12) Billie Jean / Michael Jackson
13) In My Life / Johnny Cash
14) Walk Don't Run / The Ventures
15) Ooby Dooby / Roy Orbison
16) Carbona Not Glue / The Ramones
17) Just Like Eddie / Heinz
18) Since You're Gone / Bo Diddley
19) Kentucky Rain / Elvis Presley
20) Folsom Prison Blues / Shooby Taylor and Johnny Cash
21) Cut the Mullet / Wesley Willis
22) Greece (instrumental) / George Harrison
23) Last Dance / Donna Summer
24) What a Wonderful World / Joey Ramone
25) Bring On the Lucie (Freeda Peeple) / John Lennon
26) Somewhere Over the Rainbow / Vincent Price