One of the reasons I first made the Timothology back in 1996 was to share the highlights of my CD collection with friends. If I remember right, another reason was to make the complete history of rock and pop in America; I kind of did that, but out of order and with a bunch of mutant songs mixed in as well. That reason is still there for Strange Aeons, but my musical tastes have become broader and deeper (and thank goodness for that development). I'm still trying to give people stacks of tracks they'd never encountered before and I would guess that this set is going to be a success in that regard.
This disc is meant to thank everyone who clued me in to a track I'd never heard before and that I enjoyed. It's also a fitting way to wrap up the mix. It's also also meant to be linked with discs 46 and 47--songs from people who are no longer with us, a celebration of a producer that killed himself 45 years ago, and then all the new things I had no idea about; thankfully, my friends are looking out for me and they've sent me YouTube links or burned their own CDs to let me know about some cool stuff that I needed in my life.
These aren't the only songs on the set that someone else told me about, of course; every single disc has something on it that I wouldn't have known about unless I got super lucky and heard it on Pandora or something. The radio in the Detroit area is virtually useless for uncovering new stuff, but the internet and my friends are great sources for music I hadn't heard.
So. Until next time--if there is a next time--this is the final playlist for any Timothology. I hope you like it.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 48 / 48
Theme: Songs my friends hipped me to
Label phrase: "With a little help from my friends"
01) Beepin Squeal / Bob Kelly
02) Roadrunner / The Modern Lovers
03) Bad Girls Go to Hell / The Forbidden Dimension
04) Rochambeau (explicit version) / The Spider Bombs
05) Telstar (live) / The Tornados
06) Waterloo / ABBA
07) Waterloo / Stonewall Jackson
08) El Paso / Marty Robbins
09) Crucify Your Mind / Rodriguez
10) A Little Respect / Erasure
11) We Take Care of Our Own / Bruce Springsteen
12) Rudi (A Message To You) / Jump Around / Woman If You Love Me (medley) / The Lidds
13) Soy Bomb / Honest Bob and the Factory-to-Dealer Incentives
14) Turkish Song of the Damned / The Pogues
15) Superbeast / Rob Zombie
16) Skylab (Theme from the Monks) / The Monks
17) Monk Chant (live) / The Monks
18) Missile Silo / Crunchy
19) La Bomba / Tonio K.
20) (It'll Be) Just Like Tron / The Cooper Vane
21) This Time Next Year / Pat McCurdy
22) Handlebars / Flobots
23) Clean Elvis / Dan Reeder
Monday, September 2, 2013
Sunday, September 1, 2013
Disc 47 / 48
Hey, I did this twice so it's a tradition. "Joe Meek Fights Back From the Grave!" is my personal testimonial that the RGM Sound is not dead. If you know me well enough to have a Timothology you already know about Meek and I don't need to restate the depth of his influence and genius here. I also don't need to remind you just how much I needed a bunch of bouncy upbeat pop songs that resonate so well with someone who has never been comfortable in his own skin. And I probably don't need to mention: drums miked so close they sound like thunder or rifle shots, angelic women's voices in the chorus, early synthesizers, death ditties, stomping feet used in lieu of percussion instruments, a key change for the last verse, and bleepy electroskronk sound effects at the beginning and/or end of a song.
So. Here it is, in final release form after over a hundred attempts to codify what Joe Meek means to me in one disc (and occasionally two: "He Heard a New World" and "Meeksville Sound is Dead"; as it turns out, I didn't want to drop any of the other 47 discs from the set to make room for two RGM tributes). 79 minutes of music from people who were influenced by Joe Meek enough to want to create art in his memory (or just rip off his percussion sound, as the Dave Clark Five did).
The final track on this disc is perhaps the best Meek tribute ever made, and I don't know that the artists were trying to do that when they recorded it. Listen to it again and then meet me at the bottom of the post.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 47 / 48
Theme: Joe Meek tributes and soundalikes
Label phrase: "Joe Meek Fights Back From the Grave!"
01) No. 1 With a Bullet / Alan Moore and Tim Perkins
02) Red Rocket / The Tornados
03) Joe Meek / Wreckless Eric
04) Bits and Pieces / The Dave Clark Five
05) The Orbitus / The Ron Drand Orchestra
06) Joe Meek's Dream (single version) / Narrow Sparrow
07) Johnny, Are You Queer? / Josie Cotton
08) Telstar / Les Fradkin
09) Baby, I Love You / Andy Kim
10) Navy Blue / Diane Renay
11) Ghost Power / The Chords
12) I'm Gonna Love You Too / Terry Jacks
13) Meek My Joe / Die Zorros
14) Lonely Joe / Robb Shenton
15) Popcorn / Hot Butter
16) Fox on the Run / The Sweet
17) My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From Titanic) / Los Straitjackets
18) Unforgettable Love / Russ Sainty
19) Joe Meek / The Pocket Gods
20) Insufficient Data / The Masonics
21) Strange New World / Jacqueline Hyde and the Moonfolk
22) White Noise Maker / Frank Black
23) The Mighty Atom / The Kaisers
24) Joe Meek / Pluto Monkey
25) He Stood in the Bath and He Stamped on the Floor / Jonathan King
26) Passport to the Future / Jean-Jacques Perry
27) The Staircase Stomp / The Deadbeat Poets
28) Maybe / Jill Read
"Jill Read" does not exist and never did. The vocals on that track were provided by Dave Edmunds, who figured out how to pitch-shift his voice (by recording at a slower speed and then playing the tape back normally, I believe) and make himself sound like a woman. In order to fit seamlessly with the backing musicians, he would have had to record his track in a different key and at a precisely calibrated speed for every single note, word and phrase so that it would mesh with the rest of the band. I don't know if he recorded his part first and then arranged all the backing instruments or got the band to lay down the backing tracks first and then calculated everything he'd have to do to synch up with them, but either way it's an inconceivable amount of effort for a song that he wasn't even releasing under his own name.
A production gimmick from start to finish that gives you a technique that nobody ever did before, and a song that wouldn't have been possible without pushing the envelope of what was considered possible. Just like Joe Meek did in his kitchen in 1962.
So. Here it is, in final release form after over a hundred attempts to codify what Joe Meek means to me in one disc (and occasionally two: "He Heard a New World" and "Meeksville Sound is Dead"; as it turns out, I didn't want to drop any of the other 47 discs from the set to make room for two RGM tributes). 79 minutes of music from people who were influenced by Joe Meek enough to want to create art in his memory (or just rip off his percussion sound, as the Dave Clark Five did).
The final track on this disc is perhaps the best Meek tribute ever made, and I don't know that the artists were trying to do that when they recorded it. Listen to it again and then meet me at the bottom of the post.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 47 / 48
Theme: Joe Meek tributes and soundalikes
Label phrase: "Joe Meek Fights Back From the Grave!"
01) No. 1 With a Bullet / Alan Moore and Tim Perkins
02) Red Rocket / The Tornados
03) Joe Meek / Wreckless Eric
04) Bits and Pieces / The Dave Clark Five
05) The Orbitus / The Ron Drand Orchestra
06) Joe Meek's Dream (single version) / Narrow Sparrow
07) Johnny, Are You Queer? / Josie Cotton
08) Telstar / Les Fradkin
09) Baby, I Love You / Andy Kim
10) Navy Blue / Diane Renay
11) Ghost Power / The Chords
12) I'm Gonna Love You Too / Terry Jacks
13) Meek My Joe / Die Zorros
14) Lonely Joe / Robb Shenton
15) Popcorn / Hot Butter
16) Fox on the Run / The Sweet
17) My Heart Will Go On (Love Theme From Titanic) / Los Straitjackets
18) Unforgettable Love / Russ Sainty
19) Joe Meek / The Pocket Gods
20) Insufficient Data / The Masonics
21) Strange New World / Jacqueline Hyde and the Moonfolk
22) White Noise Maker / Frank Black
23) The Mighty Atom / The Kaisers
24) Joe Meek / Pluto Monkey
25) He Stood in the Bath and He Stamped on the Floor / Jonathan King
26) Passport to the Future / Jean-Jacques Perry
27) The Staircase Stomp / The Deadbeat Poets
28) Maybe / Jill Read
"Jill Read" does not exist and never did. The vocals on that track were provided by Dave Edmunds, who figured out how to pitch-shift his voice (by recording at a slower speed and then playing the tape back normally, I believe) and make himself sound like a woman. In order to fit seamlessly with the backing musicians, he would have had to record his track in a different key and at a precisely calibrated speed for every single note, word and phrase so that it would mesh with the rest of the band. I don't know if he recorded his part first and then arranged all the backing instruments or got the band to lay down the backing tracks first and then calculated everything he'd have to do to synch up with them, but either way it's an inconceivable amount of effort for a song that he wasn't even releasing under his own name.
A production gimmick from start to finish that gives you a technique that nobody ever did before, and a song that wouldn't have been possible without pushing the envelope of what was considered possible. Just like Joe Meek did in his kitchen in 1962.
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
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
Friday, August 30, 2013
Disc 45 / 48
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 45 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "So if you leave any facts lying around, and he finds them, that shit's on you."
01) Puttin' on the Style / Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group
02) Suzy is a Headbanger / The Ramones
03) Crime Scene / Los Straitjackets
04) Mr. Bad Example / Warren Zevon
05) To Washington / John Mellencamp
06) The Maypole Song / Magnet
07) Telstar (The Bright Side of the Planet) / Technostar
08) Meeksville Sound is Dead / Pluto Monkey
09) Night Train to Mundo Fine / David Carradine with Ray Gregory and the Melmen
10) EMI / The Sex Pistols
11) Shape of Things to Come / Max Frost and the Troopers
12) Pills / The New York Dolls
13) Hope That I Get Old Before I Die / They Might Be Giants
14) Peanut Duck / Marsha Gee
15) Ha Ha Cat Walk Baby / Hasil Adkins
16) Voyage Around the Moon / The Saturn 5
17) (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance / Gene Pitney
18) Shambala / Three Dog Night
19) Denise / Randy and the Rainbows
20) Hand Clappin' / Red Prysock
21) I Can Dream About You / Dan Hartman
22) Sea of Heartbreak / Johnny Cash
23) Street Boy / Rodriguez
24) Time After Time / Cyndi Lauper
25) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / Graham Parker
26) Wild Wild Life (extended mix) / Talking Heads
Theme: None
Label phrase: "So if you leave any facts lying around, and he finds them, that shit's on you."
01) Puttin' on the Style / Lonnie Donegan and His Skiffle Group
02) Suzy is a Headbanger / The Ramones
03) Crime Scene / Los Straitjackets
04) Mr. Bad Example / Warren Zevon
05) To Washington / John Mellencamp
06) The Maypole Song / Magnet
07) Telstar (The Bright Side of the Planet) / Technostar
08) Meeksville Sound is Dead / Pluto Monkey
09) Night Train to Mundo Fine / David Carradine with Ray Gregory and the Melmen
10) EMI / The Sex Pistols
11) Shape of Things to Come / Max Frost and the Troopers
12) Pills / The New York Dolls
13) Hope That I Get Old Before I Die / They Might Be Giants
14) Peanut Duck / Marsha Gee
15) Ha Ha Cat Walk Baby / Hasil Adkins
16) Voyage Around the Moon / The Saturn 5
17) (The Man Who Shot) Liberty Valance / Gene Pitney
18) Shambala / Three Dog Night
19) Denise / Randy and the Rainbows
20) Hand Clappin' / Red Prysock
21) I Can Dream About You / Dan Hartman
22) Sea of Heartbreak / Johnny Cash
23) Street Boy / Rodriguez
24) Time After Time / Cyndi Lauper
25) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / Graham Parker
26) Wild Wild Life (extended mix) / Talking Heads
Disc 44 / 48
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 44 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Future reward: Steeper hill, sharper boulder."
01) The Israelites / Apache Indian
02) Mule Train Stomp / Roy Buchanan
03) Search and Destroy / Iggy and the Stooges
04) Cat People (Putting Out the Fire) / David Bowie
05) Invincible / OK Go
06) John the Revelator / John Mellencamp
07) Telstar / The Peter Hamilton Orchestra
08) Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron / The Staggers
09) The Battle of New Orleans / Johnny Horton
10) The Treme Song (Main Title version) / John Boutte
11) Do the Robot / Bo Diddley
12) Hideous / The Dickies
13) I Wanna Destroy You / The Soft Boys
14) Wipe Out / Herbie Hancock and Dweezil Zappa
15) Good Old Rock 'n Roll / Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys
16) (She Can't Do) The Wiki Waki Wu / The Kaisers
17) Thunder and Rain / Alan Dean and His Problems
18) Rock You Like a Hurricane / The Scorpions
19) Buckaroo / Buck Owens
20) Take On Me / a-Ha
21) Gary Gilmore's Eyes / The Pine Valley Cosmonauts and Dean Schlabowske
22) Babysitter / The Ramones
23) Whole Wide World / Wreckless Eric
24) You Can Get It If You Really Want / Desmond Dekker and the Aces
25) Moon Probe / The Vulcanes
26) Highwayman / Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Future reward: Steeper hill, sharper boulder."
01) The Israelites / Apache Indian
02) Mule Train Stomp / Roy Buchanan
03) Search and Destroy / Iggy and the Stooges
04) Cat People (Putting Out the Fire) / David Bowie
05) Invincible / OK Go
06) John the Revelator / John Mellencamp
07) Telstar / The Peter Hamilton Orchestra
08) Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron / The Staggers
09) The Battle of New Orleans / Johnny Horton
10) The Treme Song (Main Title version) / John Boutte
11) Do the Robot / Bo Diddley
12) Hideous / The Dickies
13) I Wanna Destroy You / The Soft Boys
14) Wipe Out / Herbie Hancock and Dweezil Zappa
15) Good Old Rock 'n Roll / Cat Mother and the All Night Newsboys
16) (She Can't Do) The Wiki Waki Wu / The Kaisers
17) Thunder and Rain / Alan Dean and His Problems
18) Rock You Like a Hurricane / The Scorpions
19) Buckaroo / Buck Owens
20) Take On Me / a-Ha
21) Gary Gilmore's Eyes / The Pine Valley Cosmonauts and Dean Schlabowske
22) Babysitter / The Ramones
23) Whole Wide World / Wreckless Eric
24) You Can Get It If You Really Want / Desmond Dekker and the Aces
25) Moon Probe / The Vulcanes
26) Highwayman / Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash
Disc 43 / 48
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 43 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Spiders...women...spider women..."
01) I'm Not Like Everybody Else / The Television Personalities
02) It's a Hard Business / Wild Man Fischer and Rosemary Clooney
03) Games People Play / Joe South
04) The First Cut is the Deepest / P. P. Arnold
05) Lonely City / John Leyton
06) I'm Still Standing / Elton John
07) Don't You Knock on My Door / Sue Moreno and the Western All-Stars
08) Praying to a New God / Wang Chung
09) Hallelujah / Leonard Cohen
10) Telstar / Howlin' Wilson
11) Bottle of Wine / The Fireballs
12) Dancing in the Street / Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
13) Pressure Drop / The Clash
14) Mongoloid / Devo
15) Rodeo Clown / John Mellencamp
16) Lawyers, Guns and Money / Warren Zevon
17) I Hung My Head / Johnny Cash
18) The Killing Moon / Echo and the Bunnymen
19) Machine Gun / The Commodores
20) Hey Little Cobra / The Rip Chords
21) Shombalor / Cub Koda
22) The Martian Hop / The Newcomers
23) I Couldn't Spell "Pffft" / Homer and Jethro
24) Rockin' Robin / Bobby Day
25) My Best Friend's Girl / The Cars
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Spiders...women...spider women..."
01) I'm Not Like Everybody Else / The Television Personalities
02) It's a Hard Business / Wild Man Fischer and Rosemary Clooney
03) Games People Play / Joe South
04) The First Cut is the Deepest / P. P. Arnold
05) Lonely City / John Leyton
06) I'm Still Standing / Elton John
07) Don't You Knock on My Door / Sue Moreno and the Western All-Stars
08) Praying to a New God / Wang Chung
09) Hallelujah / Leonard Cohen
10) Telstar / Howlin' Wilson
11) Bottle of Wine / The Fireballs
12) Dancing in the Street / Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
13) Pressure Drop / The Clash
14) Mongoloid / Devo
15) Rodeo Clown / John Mellencamp
16) Lawyers, Guns and Money / Warren Zevon
17) I Hung My Head / Johnny Cash
18) The Killing Moon / Echo and the Bunnymen
19) Machine Gun / The Commodores
20) Hey Little Cobra / The Rip Chords
21) Shombalor / Cub Koda
22) The Martian Hop / The Newcomers
23) I Couldn't Spell "Pffft" / Homer and Jethro
24) Rockin' Robin / Bobby Day
25) My Best Friend's Girl / The Cars
Disc 42 / 48
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 42 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Also, his coffin had to be returned at great inconvenience and expense."
01) La Bamba/ The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
02) Baba O'Riley / The Who
03) Battle Without Honor or Humanity / Tomoyasu Hotei
04) Baby, I Love You / The Ronettes
05) Holiday in Waikiki / The Kinks
06) My Baby's Coming Home / The Cameos
07) Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) / Kim Weston
08) I'm Walkin' / Fats Domino
09) Woo-Hoo / The Rock-A-Teens
10) Mother and Child / Desmond Dekker
11) Get On Up / The Esquires
12) At Night / Jonathan Richman
13) The Shade Rest / Brian Tyler
14) Only You / Yaz
15) Surfin' Dead / The Cramps
16) The Freshman / Mustard Plug
17) With a Girl Like You / The Troggs
18) Sunset Strip / The Riptides
19) Telstar / The Skeletons
20) The Rubberband Man / The Spinners
21) Personality Crisis / The New York Dolls
22) Behind the Wall of Sleep / The Smithereens
23) The Man Comes Around / Johnny Cash
24) Doctorin' the TARDIS / The Timelords
25) Oh L'Amour (live at the Grand Ole Opry version) / Erasure
26) Guitar Rock & Roll / Joe Maphis
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Also, his coffin had to be returned at great inconvenience and expense."
01) La Bamba/ The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
02) Baba O'Riley / The Who
03) Battle Without Honor or Humanity / Tomoyasu Hotei
04) Baby, I Love You / The Ronettes
05) Holiday in Waikiki / The Kinks
06) My Baby's Coming Home / The Cameos
07) Take Me In Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While) / Kim Weston
08) I'm Walkin' / Fats Domino
09) Woo-Hoo / The Rock-A-Teens
10) Mother and Child / Desmond Dekker
11) Get On Up / The Esquires
12) At Night / Jonathan Richman
13) The Shade Rest / Brian Tyler
14) Only You / Yaz
15) Surfin' Dead / The Cramps
16) The Freshman / Mustard Plug
17) With a Girl Like You / The Troggs
18) Sunset Strip / The Riptides
19) Telstar / The Skeletons
20) The Rubberband Man / The Spinners
21) Personality Crisis / The New York Dolls
22) Behind the Wall of Sleep / The Smithereens
23) The Man Comes Around / Johnny Cash
24) Doctorin' the TARDIS / The Timelords
25) Oh L'Amour (live at the Grand Ole Opry version) / Erasure
26) Guitar Rock & Roll / Joe Maphis
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Disc 41 / 48
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 41 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Sooner or later we'll have to stop calling them "novels"."
01) Ring of Fire / Social Distortion
02) Train Kept A-Rollin' / The Johnny Burnette Rock 'n' Roll Trio
03) In the Midnight Hour / Wilson Pickett
04) Beg, Borrow and Steal / Ohio Express
05) Fool, Fool, Fool / Joey and the Flips
06) Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) / The Flirts
07) Going Underground / The Jam
08) 16 Tons of Monkeys / Tonio K.
09) The Rebel / Cruncher
10) Catch Us If You Can / The Dave Clark Five
11) Permanent Hurt / John Hiatt
12) Save Tonight / Eagle Eye Cherry
13) The Bear and the Maiden Fair / The Hold Steady
14) Sizzling Hot / Jimmy Miller and the Barbecues
15) My Boy Lollipop / Millie Small
16) Kings of the Wild Frontier / Adam and the Ants
17) I Wanna Be Well / The Ramones
18) Rockin' in the Jungle / The Eternals
19) Prisencolinsinainciusol / Adriano Celentano
20) Der Fuehrer's Face / Spike Jones
21) The Baby in the Jar / The Billy Nayer Show
22) Mickey / Toni Basil
23) Gettin' My Cusack On / The Cooper Vane
24) Telstar 2002 / Jet 7
25) 21st Century (Digital Boy) / Bad Religion
26) Time Has Come Today / The Chambers Brothers
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Sooner or later we'll have to stop calling them "novels"."
01) Ring of Fire / Social Distortion
02) Train Kept A-Rollin' / The Johnny Burnette Rock 'n' Roll Trio
03) In the Midnight Hour / Wilson Pickett
04) Beg, Borrow and Steal / Ohio Express
05) Fool, Fool, Fool / Joey and the Flips
06) Jukebox (Don't Put Another Dime) / The Flirts
07) Going Underground / The Jam
08) 16 Tons of Monkeys / Tonio K.
09) The Rebel / Cruncher
10) Catch Us If You Can / The Dave Clark Five
11) Permanent Hurt / John Hiatt
12) Save Tonight / Eagle Eye Cherry
13) The Bear and the Maiden Fair / The Hold Steady
14) Sizzling Hot / Jimmy Miller and the Barbecues
15) My Boy Lollipop / Millie Small
16) Kings of the Wild Frontier / Adam and the Ants
17) I Wanna Be Well / The Ramones
18) Rockin' in the Jungle / The Eternals
19) Prisencolinsinainciusol / Adriano Celentano
20) Der Fuehrer's Face / Spike Jones
21) The Baby in the Jar / The Billy Nayer Show
22) Mickey / Toni Basil
23) Gettin' My Cusack On / The Cooper Vane
24) Telstar 2002 / Jet 7
25) 21st Century (Digital Boy) / Bad Religion
26) Time Has Come Today / The Chambers Brothers
Disc 40 / 48
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 40 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "I'd be pleased to!"
01) It Miek (hit version) / Desmond Dekker
02) Spaceman / Harry Nilsson
03) Rave On / Buddy Holly
04) Whole Lotta Loving / Fats Domino
05) Needing / Getting / OK Go
06) How Did You Love Someone Like Me? / Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
07) Sail Away Lady / Peggy Seeger (with Isla Cameron and Guy Carawan)
08) Rocka-Conga / The Applejacks
09) Rock and Roll Music / Chuck Berry
10) Space Flight / I Roy
11) Easy Money / Bruce Springsteen
12) I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend / Lush
13) Chain Gang / Sam Cooke
14) I Don't Like Mondays / The Boomtown Rats
15) A Well Respected Man / The Kinks
16) Maybe / The Chantels
17) Colored Lights / The Blasters
18) Telstar / Los Mustang
19) Louie Louie / Ike and Tina Turner
20) Lake Shore Drive / Aliotta Haynes and Jeremiah
21) Transmetropolitan / The Pogues
22) Drivin' Nails in My Coffin / Those Darlins
23) Self Control / Laura Branigan
24) Peekaboo! / Devo
25) (In the) Pouring Rain / The Clash
Theme: None
Label phrase: "I'd be pleased to!"
01) It Miek (hit version) / Desmond Dekker
02) Spaceman / Harry Nilsson
03) Rave On / Buddy Holly
04) Whole Lotta Loving / Fats Domino
05) Needing / Getting / OK Go
06) How Did You Love Someone Like Me? / Big Sandy and His Fly-Rite Boys
07) Sail Away Lady / Peggy Seeger (with Isla Cameron and Guy Carawan)
08) Rocka-Conga / The Applejacks
09) Rock and Roll Music / Chuck Berry
10) Space Flight / I Roy
11) Easy Money / Bruce Springsteen
12) I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend / Lush
13) Chain Gang / Sam Cooke
14) I Don't Like Mondays / The Boomtown Rats
15) A Well Respected Man / The Kinks
16) Maybe / The Chantels
17) Colored Lights / The Blasters
18) Telstar / Los Mustang
19) Louie Louie / Ike and Tina Turner
20) Lake Shore Drive / Aliotta Haynes and Jeremiah
21) Transmetropolitan / The Pogues
22) Drivin' Nails in My Coffin / Those Darlins
23) Self Control / Laura Branigan
24) Peekaboo! / Devo
25) (In the) Pouring Rain / The Clash
Disc 39 / 48
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 39 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "(This phrase intentionally left blank)"
01) Particle Man / They Might Be Giants featuring The Other Thing Brass Band
02) Remember Then / The Earls
03) Born to Run / Bruce Springsteen
04) I'm Just a Mops / The Mops
05) Rudie Can't Fail / The Clash
06) Peggy Sue Got Married / Buddy Holly
07) Telstar / The Mermen
08) The Thing / Phil Harris
09) Over & Over / The Spitballs
10) Waterslide / The Dickies
11) You Dropped a Bomb on Me / The Gap Band
12) I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You / The Ramones
13) Summer Without Sun / The Charles Kingsley Creation
14) American Love Affair / Tonio K.
15) Ring of Fire / Wall of Voodoo
16) Blank Generation / Richard Hell and the Voidoids
17) I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night / The Electric Prunes
18) Pick Up the Pieces / The Average White Band
19) The Tiki Bar is Open / John Hiatt
20) Pay to the Piper / The Chairmen of the Board
21) Freedom of Choice / Devo
22) England Belongs to Me / Cock Sparrer
23) Outa-Space / Billy Preston
24) Funky Kingston / Toots and the Maytals
25) End of the Line / The Traveling Wilburys
Theme: None
Label phrase: "(This phrase intentionally left blank)"
01) Particle Man / They Might Be Giants featuring The Other Thing Brass Band
02) Remember Then / The Earls
03) Born to Run / Bruce Springsteen
04) I'm Just a Mops / The Mops
05) Rudie Can't Fail / The Clash
06) Peggy Sue Got Married / Buddy Holly
07) Telstar / The Mermen
08) The Thing / Phil Harris
09) Over & Over / The Spitballs
10) Waterslide / The Dickies
11) You Dropped a Bomb on Me / The Gap Band
12) I Don't Wanna Walk Around With You / The Ramones
13) Summer Without Sun / The Charles Kingsley Creation
14) American Love Affair / Tonio K.
15) Ring of Fire / Wall of Voodoo
16) Blank Generation / Richard Hell and the Voidoids
17) I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night / The Electric Prunes
18) Pick Up the Pieces / The Average White Band
19) The Tiki Bar is Open / John Hiatt
20) Pay to the Piper / The Chairmen of the Board
21) Freedom of Choice / Devo
22) England Belongs to Me / Cock Sparrer
23) Outa-Space / Billy Preston
24) Funky Kingston / Toots and the Maytals
25) End of the Line / The Traveling Wilburys
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Disc 38 / 48
Another disc unburdened by a theme.
I've dug the hell out of Devo for as long as I can remember--I think the third or fourth CD I ever bought was their "Greatest Misses" compilation, which I picked up because I heard "Mongoloid" on Doctor Demento and thought it was amazing. If you're a person who just remembers them as the "Whip It" guys, the Timothology was made in part to change your mind.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 38 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "I WRITES FOR DA HAWWWG"
01) Run Through the Jungle / Creedence Clearwater Revival
02) Cherry Bomb / The Runaways
03) Have I the Right? / Rotten
04) Johnny B. Goode / Chuck Berry
05) I've Done Everything For You / Rick Springfield
06) Little Bitty Pretty One / The Dave Clark Five
07) African Beat / The Famous Seven Orchestra
08) Blockhead / Devo
09) The Kids Are Alright / The Who
10) Dig My Grave / They Might Be Giants
11) She Cracked / The Modern Lovers
12) I'll Go Down Swinging / Los Straitjackets with Exene Cervenka
13) Imposters of Life's Magazine / The Idle Race
14) Son of a Preacher Man / Dusty Springfield
15) Lola / The Kinks
16) Bad Penny Blues / Humphrey Lyttleton
17) Our House / Madness
18) Break My Stride / Matthew Wilder
19) Marie Marie / The Blasters
20) Bang Bang / Janis and Her Boyfriends
21) Little Honda / The Hondells
22) 007 (Shanty Town) / Desmond Dekker
23) Telstar / The BBC Concert Orchestra
24) Atlantic City / Bruce Springsteen
25) Voodoo Mama / Wade Curtiss and the Rhythm Rockers
26) Destination Venus / The Rezillos
27) Ghost Town / The Kings of Outer Space
28) Human Wheels / John Mellencamp
I've dug the hell out of Devo for as long as I can remember--I think the third or fourth CD I ever bought was their "Greatest Misses" compilation, which I picked up because I heard "Mongoloid" on Doctor Demento and thought it was amazing. If you're a person who just remembers them as the "Whip It" guys, the Timothology was made in part to change your mind.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 38 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "I WRITES FOR DA HAWWWG"
01) Run Through the Jungle / Creedence Clearwater Revival
02) Cherry Bomb / The Runaways
03) Have I the Right? / Rotten
04) Johnny B. Goode / Chuck Berry
05) I've Done Everything For You / Rick Springfield
06) Little Bitty Pretty One / The Dave Clark Five
07) African Beat / The Famous Seven Orchestra
08) Blockhead / Devo
09) The Kids Are Alright / The Who
10) Dig My Grave / They Might Be Giants
11) She Cracked / The Modern Lovers
12) I'll Go Down Swinging / Los Straitjackets with Exene Cervenka
13) Imposters of Life's Magazine / The Idle Race
14) Son of a Preacher Man / Dusty Springfield
15) Lola / The Kinks
16) Bad Penny Blues / Humphrey Lyttleton
17) Our House / Madness
18) Break My Stride / Matthew Wilder
19) Marie Marie / The Blasters
20) Bang Bang / Janis and Her Boyfriends
21) Little Honda / The Hondells
22) 007 (Shanty Town) / Desmond Dekker
23) Telstar / The BBC Concert Orchestra
24) Atlantic City / Bruce Springsteen
25) Voodoo Mama / Wade Curtiss and the Rhythm Rockers
26) Destination Venus / The Rezillos
27) Ghost Town / The Kings of Outer Space
28) Human Wheels / John Mellencamp
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Disc 37 / 48
One more themeless disc, to go with the others.
Bob Vido called himself a one-man band, but someone online referred to him as "the one-man Shaggs", and I think that fits much better. He sounds like he's having a lot of fun, though, and one thing the Timothology songs all have in common is that people sounded like they were having fun recording them.
Psyche Rock is the song that Pierre Henry didn't allow the makers of "Futurama" to use for the theme, so they wrote one that sounded as close as they could get without being legally actionable.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 37 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Shut up you dammit liar!"
01) Psyche Rock / Pierre Henry
02) I'm Going Down / Vampire Weekend
03) Boo-Bah-Bah / Bob Vido
04) Six Days on the Road / Dave Dudley
05) Beer Beer Bottla Beer / A. C. Dusey
06) Land of 1000 Dances / Wilson Pickett
07) Train in Vain / The Clash
08) Love in Tokyo / The Honeycombs
09) The Doing of Our Thing (song poem) / Jim Lea
10) Bongo Rock / Preston Epps
11) Fredward / The Billy Nayer Show
12) Girl U Want / Devo
13) Louie Louie / The Angels
14) First Kiss / They Might Be Giants
15) Having an Average Weekend / Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
16) Tougher Than Tough / Derrick Morgan
17) (Get a) Grip (On Yourself) / The Stranglers
18) Complication / The Monks
19) Bust Out / The Busters
20) Funky Kingston / Toots and the Maytals featuring Bootsy Collins and the Roots
21) Rockin' Robin / The Jackson 5
22) I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend / The Ramones
23) Superman (single version) / The Clique
24) Telstar '76 / Septimus
25) Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) / Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers
26) Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight / The Rezillos
27) Feel Like Funkin' It Up / The Rebirth Brass Band
28) The Harder They Come / Jimmy Cliff
Bob Vido called himself a one-man band, but someone online referred to him as "the one-man Shaggs", and I think that fits much better. He sounds like he's having a lot of fun, though, and one thing the Timothology songs all have in common is that people sounded like they were having fun recording them.
Psyche Rock is the song that Pierre Henry didn't allow the makers of "Futurama" to use for the theme, so they wrote one that sounded as close as they could get without being legally actionable.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 37 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Shut up you dammit liar!"
01) Psyche Rock / Pierre Henry
02) I'm Going Down / Vampire Weekend
03) Boo-Bah-Bah / Bob Vido
04) Six Days on the Road / Dave Dudley
05) Beer Beer Bottla Beer / A. C. Dusey
06) Land of 1000 Dances / Wilson Pickett
07) Train in Vain / The Clash
08) Love in Tokyo / The Honeycombs
09) The Doing of Our Thing (song poem) / Jim Lea
10) Bongo Rock / Preston Epps
11) Fredward / The Billy Nayer Show
12) Girl U Want / Devo
13) Louie Louie / The Angels
14) First Kiss / They Might Be Giants
15) Having an Average Weekend / Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
16) Tougher Than Tough / Derrick Morgan
17) (Get a) Grip (On Yourself) / The Stranglers
18) Complication / The Monks
19) Bust Out / The Busters
20) Funky Kingston / Toots and the Maytals featuring Bootsy Collins and the Roots
21) Rockin' Robin / The Jackson 5
22) I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend / The Ramones
23) Superman (single version) / The Clique
24) Telstar '76 / Septimus
25) Lay Down (Candles in the Rain) / Melanie with the Edwin Hawkins Singers
26) Somebody's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked In Tonight / The Rezillos
27) Feel Like Funkin' It Up / The Rebirth Brass Band
28) The Harder They Come / Jimmy Cliff
Disc 36 / 48
This disc started out as one where all the songs were going to sound like "Telstar" at the beginning, but that really didn't work out. Several drafts later, it's much better. And tracks 2-5 still sound like they might be turning into "Telstar" at any moment.
I also abandoned the idea of doing a song with all first-person titles but kept three of 'em in reserve to stick together at the end of this disc. So perhaps the theme was trying to put together a workable disc out of the offcuts from several other themes...
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 36 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "A year is not so long a time."
01) Swords of a Thousand Men / Tenpole Tudor
02) Tarzan Boy / Baltimora
03) My Love For You / Little Isidore and the Inquisitors
04) Bad Reputation / Joan Jett
05) Sputnik Kiss / The Revillos
06) Telstar / Nigel Ogden
07) It Came Out of the Sky / Creedence Clearwater Revival
08) Gary Gilmore's Eyes / The Valkyrians
09) Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) / Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
10) Goofy Town / Pat McCurdy
11) Bongolia / The Incredible Bongo Band
12) Chop Chop Boom / Jack McVea with Al Smith and the Savoys
13) Hold Tight! / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
14) Badlands / Bruce Springsteen
15) Judy Is Your Viet Nam / They Might Be Giants
16) Planet of the Apehangers / The Bomboras
17) Up Against the Wall / Tom Robinson
18) Dancing With Myself / The Donnas
19) In Your Room / The Bangles
20) Moons of Jupiter / Scruffy the Cat
21) Yeh Yeh / Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
22) Twilight City / The Vulcanes
23) Here Comes My Baby / The Tremeloes
24) I'll Wait Here / Tonio K.
25) You Got What I Like / Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
26) I Only Want to Be With You / Dusty Springfield
27) I Can Only Give You Everything / Them
I also abandoned the idea of doing a song with all first-person titles but kept three of 'em in reserve to stick together at the end of this disc. So perhaps the theme was trying to put together a workable disc out of the offcuts from several other themes...
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 36 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "A year is not so long a time."
01) Swords of a Thousand Men / Tenpole Tudor
02) Tarzan Boy / Baltimora
03) My Love For You / Little Isidore and the Inquisitors
04) Bad Reputation / Joan Jett
05) Sputnik Kiss / The Revillos
06) Telstar / Nigel Ogden
07) It Came Out of the Sky / Creedence Clearwater Revival
08) Gary Gilmore's Eyes / The Valkyrians
09) Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In) / Kenny Rogers and the First Edition
10) Goofy Town / Pat McCurdy
11) Bongolia / The Incredible Bongo Band
12) Chop Chop Boom / Jack McVea with Al Smith and the Savoys
13) Hold Tight! / Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
14) Badlands / Bruce Springsteen
15) Judy Is Your Viet Nam / They Might Be Giants
16) Planet of the Apehangers / The Bomboras
17) Up Against the Wall / Tom Robinson
18) Dancing With Myself / The Donnas
19) In Your Room / The Bangles
20) Moons of Jupiter / Scruffy the Cat
21) Yeh Yeh / Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames
22) Twilight City / The Vulcanes
23) Here Comes My Baby / The Tremeloes
24) I'll Wait Here / Tonio K.
25) You Got What I Like / Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers
26) I Only Want to Be With You / Dusty Springfield
27) I Can Only Give You Everything / Them
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.
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.
Disc 34 / 48
As a palate cleanser after three discs with the same theme, this one has no theme at all. It's got a few near-outsider tracks; the Legendary Stardust Cowboy is discmates with a country and western song about reincarnation (which is not the least commercial thing you can do in Nashville; Peter Grudzien wrote country songs about being gay in the Sixties--commercial suicide now, but insanely brave then).
One time, driving to B Fest, Sean Frost popped in an album for our mutual listening enjoyment called "I Hate CDs", which was a digital compilation of Norton Records singles that had never been released on compact disc. During the opening track I said "Hey, this sounds like the Legendary Stardust Cowboy!" and irritated the hell out of my friend because 1) it was the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and 2) I apparently came off like a snotty record store clerk when I said it. I maintain that I was driving through Chicago on I-94 and wasn't trying to sound like a jerk intentionally.
I followed up the reincarnation song with a Tonio K. song about the Book of Revelation; it's a Hal Lindsay prophecy pamphlet you can slow-dance to if you feel like it.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 34 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "I live in a giant bucket."
01) Daydream Believer / The Monkees
02) Bip Bop Boom / Moon Mullins and the Night Raiders
03) Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix) / Cornershop
04) You Can Call Me Al / Paul Simon
05) Birdhouse In Your Soul / They Might Be Giants
06) Quarter to Three / Gary U. S. Bonds
07) Walk Don't Run / Those Darn Accordions
08) Whispering Bells / The Del-Vikings
09) Good Lovin' / The Bobs
10) Long Temps Passe / Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots
11) Gun Slinger / Bo Diddley
12) Bring it to Jerome / David John and the Mood
13) Telstar / Los Straitjackets
14) Midnight to Six Man / The Pretty Things
15) Stand By Me / John Lennon
16) Paralyzed / The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
17) Yuh Dead Now / Tiger
18) We Walked This Road Before / Brad Wolfe
19) Hey John / Tonio K.
20) Bette Davis Eyes / Big Daddy
21) Cotton Eye Joe / Rednex
22) Poor Rock and Roll / Nicky and the Nobles
23) Paper in Fire / John Mellencamp
24) I'm a One Woman Man / Hindu Love Gods
25) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / Tracy Thornton
26) The Hippy Hippy Shake / Chan Romero
27) Sally MacLennane / The Pogues
28) The Hero / Queen
One time, driving to B Fest, Sean Frost popped in an album for our mutual listening enjoyment called "I Hate CDs", which was a digital compilation of Norton Records singles that had never been released on compact disc. During the opening track I said "Hey, this sounds like the Legendary Stardust Cowboy!" and irritated the hell out of my friend because 1) it was the Legendary Stardust Cowboy, and 2) I apparently came off like a snotty record store clerk when I said it. I maintain that I was driving through Chicago on I-94 and wasn't trying to sound like a jerk intentionally.
I followed up the reincarnation song with a Tonio K. song about the Book of Revelation; it's a Hal Lindsay prophecy pamphlet you can slow-dance to if you feel like it.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 34 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "I live in a giant bucket."
01) Daydream Believer / The Monkees
02) Bip Bop Boom / Moon Mullins and the Night Raiders
03) Brimful of Asha (Norman Cook remix) / Cornershop
04) You Can Call Me Al / Paul Simon
05) Birdhouse In Your Soul / They Might Be Giants
06) Quarter to Three / Gary U. S. Bonds
07) Walk Don't Run / Those Darn Accordions
08) Whispering Bells / The Del-Vikings
09) Good Lovin' / The Bobs
10) Long Temps Passe / Sunpie and the Louisiana Sunspots
11) Gun Slinger / Bo Diddley
12) Bring it to Jerome / David John and the Mood
13) Telstar / Los Straitjackets
14) Midnight to Six Man / The Pretty Things
15) Stand By Me / John Lennon
16) Paralyzed / The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
17) Yuh Dead Now / Tiger
18) We Walked This Road Before / Brad Wolfe
19) Hey John / Tonio K.
20) Bette Davis Eyes / Big Daddy
21) Cotton Eye Joe / Rednex
22) Poor Rock and Roll / Nicky and the Nobles
23) Paper in Fire / John Mellencamp
24) I'm a One Woman Man / Hindu Love Gods
25) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / Tracy Thornton
26) The Hippy Hippy Shake / Chan Romero
27) Sally MacLennane / The Pogues
28) The Hero / Queen
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Disc 33 / 48
I like the way the three awesome-covers discs are kind of alternate reality duplicates of each other--there's a cover of "Have I the Right?" and "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" on each one, and Los Straitjackets show up each time as well. Big Daddy is one each disc as well; "genius" is an overused and under-true term in pop music criticism but I see no other word that applies to their mastery of old rock styles fused to (then-) contemporary hits. They have a new album coming out this year, and you should pick it up.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 33 / 48
Theme: Fantastic covers
Label phrase: "BONK BONK BONK"
01) I've Been Everywhere / Johnny Cash
02) We're Not Gonna Take It / Bif Naked
03) Chain Gang / The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra
04) New York Groove / Sweet
05) Roadrunner / Joan Jett
06) Tubthumping / They Might Be Giants with The Onion A/V Club
07) Have I the Right? / Torben Lendager and the Silverrockets
08) Dream Lover / The Packabeats
09) Hit Me With Your Best Shot / Big Daddy
10) Gino is a Coward / The Spitballs
11) Doctor Who Theme / Artist Unknown
12) Goodbye Earl / Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
13) Johnny Remember Me / The Low-Fi Drifters
14) The Green Door / The Cramps
15) Sing, Sing, Sing / Los Straitjackets
16) Louie Louie / The Fat Boys
17) Brown Eyed Handsome Man / Buddy Holly
18) Viva Las Vegas / The Dead Kennedys
19) Disco Inferno / The Bobs
20) Baba O'Riley / The Waco Brothers
21) Wild Thing Waltz / The CMH Bluegrass Tribute Band
22) Blitzkrieg Bop / Rob Zombie
23) Surfin' Bird / Pee-Wee Herman
24) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / Shebang
25) Telstar Stomp / Joe Goldmark
26) People Like Us / John Goodman and Talking Heads
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 33 / 48
Theme: Fantastic covers
Label phrase: "BONK BONK BONK"
01) I've Been Everywhere / Johnny Cash
02) We're Not Gonna Take It / Bif Naked
03) Chain Gang / The Texas Chainsaw Orchestra
04) New York Groove / Sweet
05) Roadrunner / Joan Jett
06) Tubthumping / They Might Be Giants with The Onion A/V Club
07) Have I the Right? / Torben Lendager and the Silverrockets
08) Dream Lover / The Packabeats
09) Hit Me With Your Best Shot / Big Daddy
10) Gino is a Coward / The Spitballs
11) Doctor Who Theme / Artist Unknown
12) Goodbye Earl / Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
13) Johnny Remember Me / The Low-Fi Drifters
14) The Green Door / The Cramps
15) Sing, Sing, Sing / Los Straitjackets
16) Louie Louie / The Fat Boys
17) Brown Eyed Handsome Man / Buddy Holly
18) Viva Las Vegas / The Dead Kennedys
19) Disco Inferno / The Bobs
20) Baba O'Riley / The Waco Brothers
21) Wild Thing Waltz / The CMH Bluegrass Tribute Band
22) Blitzkrieg Bop / Rob Zombie
23) Surfin' Bird / Pee-Wee Herman
24) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / Shebang
25) Telstar Stomp / Joe Goldmark
26) People Like Us / John Goodman and Talking Heads
Disc 32 / 48
There's a mini-theme of science songs on this one.
For five years, the "Johnny in the Morning" radio show on Planet 96.3 in Detroit held an annual Gong Show wherein people with strange talents would show up and risk getting their feelings hurt by three local celebrity judges, who had the power to hit a gong and cut their act short. I can't remember if I was the only person to perform at all five years of this show any more, but there can't be more than three people who could make that claim (including me). Over the years I shared the stage with impressionists, an escape artist, an a capella group, a guy who played a banjo made of an empty tin can, a standup comic who was also an outlaw biker, and--once--a guy who belly-flopped onto a tarp full of vanilla pudding wearing only a diaper (Johnny in the Morning's verdict on his act: "Even countries without entertainment wouldn't watch that!").
The fifth year of the contest I won it with a perfect score and less than a month later the DJ team was fired and the station's format changed to play more songs and have less disk jockey stuff in the morning. I choose to believe that they knew the fix was in and told the judges that I should win (I went last that year, and the scores tended to inflate as the show went on every year as the judges were more generous, or possibly more inebriated). And honestly it's a pretty damn good periodic table song so I figure it belongs here more than on disc 13. I followed it up with "Telstar (Surf)" because that's my absolute favorite cover of the song. I own about 170 different versions so I make this statement with some authority. And since I normally end the Timothology with that song, I broke another rule when making this disc. The first time I played it back, hearing the Lively Ones crank into "Telstar" after my "Thank you, Detroit!" thrilled me to the core.
Special thanks to my older brother Patrick for serving as my accompanist live the first year and taping the piano part so I was able to use it every subsequent year, my mother for taping the broadcast and Eric and Stefan Peterson for transferring the tape to CD so that I could put it on the Timothology in 2004.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 32 / 48
Theme: Fantastic covers
Label phrase: "Thunderball fists? I can have such a thing?"
01) 2001 Sprach Kazoostra / The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra
02) Shombalor / The Cramps
03) Eve of Destruction / The Dickies
04) Living After Midnight / The Donnas
05) Authority Song / Reel Big Fish
06) What Do I Get? / The Polecats
07) The Martian Hop / The Routers
08) Benson, Arizona / gribben
09) Make a Circuit With Me / The Phenomenauts
10) Why Does the Sun Shine? (live version) / They Might Be Giants
11) The Elements (live version) / Tim Lehnerer
12) Telstar (Surf) / The Lively Ones
13) Major Tom (Coming Home) / Shiny Toy Guns
14) Do You Love Me / The Sonics
15) I Fought the Law / The Clash
16) Bad Moon Rising / The Spitballs
17) Raspberry Beret / Hindu Love Gods
18) The Tide is High / Petty Booka
19) California Sun / Los Straitjackets
20) William Tell 1967 / Davie Allan and the Arrows
21) Diana / The Misfits
22) 96 Tears / Jimmy Ruffin
23) Sussudio / Big Daddy
24) Please Don't Touch / Ian Gomm, Clem Cattini and Ray Fenwick
25) Have I the Right? / The Dead Kennedys
26) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / Los Plantronics
27) Zip a Dee Doo Dah / The Rationals
28) Popeye Twist / The Tornados
29) Victoria / Cracker
For five years, the "Johnny in the Morning" radio show on Planet 96.3 in Detroit held an annual Gong Show wherein people with strange talents would show up and risk getting their feelings hurt by three local celebrity judges, who had the power to hit a gong and cut their act short. I can't remember if I was the only person to perform at all five years of this show any more, but there can't be more than three people who could make that claim (including me). Over the years I shared the stage with impressionists, an escape artist, an a capella group, a guy who played a banjo made of an empty tin can, a standup comic who was also an outlaw biker, and--once--a guy who belly-flopped onto a tarp full of vanilla pudding wearing only a diaper (Johnny in the Morning's verdict on his act: "Even countries without entertainment wouldn't watch that!").
The fifth year of the contest I won it with a perfect score and less than a month later the DJ team was fired and the station's format changed to play more songs and have less disk jockey stuff in the morning. I choose to believe that they knew the fix was in and told the judges that I should win (I went last that year, and the scores tended to inflate as the show went on every year as the judges were more generous, or possibly more inebriated). And honestly it's a pretty damn good periodic table song so I figure it belongs here more than on disc 13. I followed it up with "Telstar (Surf)" because that's my absolute favorite cover of the song. I own about 170 different versions so I make this statement with some authority. And since I normally end the Timothology with that song, I broke another rule when making this disc. The first time I played it back, hearing the Lively Ones crank into "Telstar" after my "Thank you, Detroit!" thrilled me to the core.
Special thanks to my older brother Patrick for serving as my accompanist live the first year and taping the piano part so I was able to use it every subsequent year, my mother for taping the broadcast and Eric and Stefan Peterson for transferring the tape to CD so that I could put it on the Timothology in 2004.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 32 / 48
Theme: Fantastic covers
Label phrase: "Thunderball fists? I can have such a thing?"
01) 2001 Sprach Kazoostra / The Temple City Kazoo Orchestra
02) Shombalor / The Cramps
03) Eve of Destruction / The Dickies
04) Living After Midnight / The Donnas
05) Authority Song / Reel Big Fish
06) What Do I Get? / The Polecats
07) The Martian Hop / The Routers
08) Benson, Arizona / gribben
09) Make a Circuit With Me / The Phenomenauts
10) Why Does the Sun Shine? (live version) / They Might Be Giants
11) The Elements (live version) / Tim Lehnerer
12) Telstar (Surf) / The Lively Ones
13) Major Tom (Coming Home) / Shiny Toy Guns
14) Do You Love Me / The Sonics
15) I Fought the Law / The Clash
16) Bad Moon Rising / The Spitballs
17) Raspberry Beret / Hindu Love Gods
18) The Tide is High / Petty Booka
19) California Sun / Los Straitjackets
20) William Tell 1967 / Davie Allan and the Arrows
21) Diana / The Misfits
22) 96 Tears / Jimmy Ruffin
23) Sussudio / Big Daddy
24) Please Don't Touch / Ian Gomm, Clem Cattini and Ray Fenwick
25) Have I the Right? / The Dead Kennedys
26) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / Los Plantronics
27) Zip a Dee Doo Dah / The Rationals
28) Popeye Twist / The Tornados
29) Victoria / Cracker
Disc 31 / 48
Disc 13 was my all-terrible-covers-themed disc, and when I got to 31 I realized I could do a mirror image disc full of incredibly awesome covers that either make you appreciate the original songs more or make you like something in a genre you didn't know you would enjoy (the doo-wop "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" fits into both categories, as it turns out). I had to cut so many songs for time and to keep from doing two covers of the same track on a given album that I decided to make disc 32 another awesome-covers disc, and had so much left over from that one as well that disc 33 has the same theme.
There's a mini theme of accordion music in this disc as well, since I had a few goofy accordion-saturated takes on existing material.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 31 / 48
Theme: Fantastic covers
Label phrase: "This movie has taken all of the drugs!!!"
01) My Indian Red / Clarke Peters and Treme cast members
02) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / The 1234
03) Smells Like Teen Spirit / Los Straitjackets
04) Vivelo! / Timidos
05) Can Can '62 / Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
06) When Will I Be Loved? / The Half and Half Bluegrass Band
07) Nobody But Me / The Dickies
08) Pico and Sepulvedo Lee Press-On and the Nails
09) I'm Going Down / Dawn Chorus and the Blue Tits
10) Have I the Right? / The New Orleans Syncopators
11) Sixteen Tons / Bo Diddley
12) Telstar / The Hawaiians
13) Jump / Big Daddy
14) Crimson and Clover / The Uniques
15) Green Door / Eskew Reeder
16) California Sun / The Ramones
17) Questions I Can't Answer / Fabienne Delsol and the Bristols
18) New York City / They Might Be Giants
19) Pills / The Lurkers
20) Talk Dirty To Me / Zydecosis
21) The Devil Went Down to Georgia / Those Darn Accordions!
22) Down Under / The Red Army Men's Choir
23) Anarkhiya / The Ukrainians
24) Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger (live version) / Warren Zevon
25) Seven Nation Army / The Oak Ridge Boys
26) Just Like Eddie / Silicon Teens
27) The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize / The Vandals
28) Do You Want to Dance? / Del Shannon
29) Summertime Blues / Guitar Wolf
There's a mini theme of accordion music in this disc as well, since I had a few goofy accordion-saturated takes on existing material.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 31 / 48
Theme: Fantastic covers
Label phrase: "This movie has taken all of the drugs!!!"
01) My Indian Red / Clarke Peters and Treme cast members
02) Sheena is a Punk Rocker / The 1234
03) Smells Like Teen Spirit / Los Straitjackets
04) Vivelo! / Timidos
05) Can Can '62 / Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers
06) When Will I Be Loved? / The Half and Half Bluegrass Band
07) Nobody But Me / The Dickies
08) Pico and Sepulvedo Lee Press-On and the Nails
09) I'm Going Down / Dawn Chorus and the Blue Tits
10) Have I the Right? / The New Orleans Syncopators
11) Sixteen Tons / Bo Diddley
12) Telstar / The Hawaiians
13) Jump / Big Daddy
14) Crimson and Clover / The Uniques
15) Green Door / Eskew Reeder
16) California Sun / The Ramones
17) Questions I Can't Answer / Fabienne Delsol and the Bristols
18) New York City / They Might Be Giants
19) Pills / The Lurkers
20) Talk Dirty To Me / Zydecosis
21) The Devil Went Down to Georgia / Those Darn Accordions!
22) Down Under / The Red Army Men's Choir
23) Anarkhiya / The Ukrainians
24) Bo Diddley's a Gunslinger (live version) / Warren Zevon
25) Seven Nation Army / The Oak Ridge Boys
26) Just Like Eddie / Silicon Teens
27) The Day My Baby Gave Me a Surprize / The Vandals
28) Do You Want to Dance? / Del Shannon
29) Summertime Blues / Guitar Wolf
Disc 30 / 48
This disc looks like I was listening a lot to the "Nuggets" compilations from Rhino when I burned it, with another rap track that was on the soundtrack to "Skate and Destroy" and a country track to keep things from being too vanilla. Also, a bluegrass cover of the Pixies (thanks to Josh Shepherd for clueing me in to Trampled by Turtles and Those Darlins, who have appeared on the set at various other points).
Another disc-that-didn't-happen theme was songs with spoken word breaks in them; I wound up only finding a few of those, and refused to put "We Built This City" on the Timothology unironically.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 30 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Getting environmental problems in my territory"
01) Cigareetes, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women / Red Ingle
02) Sugar Baby Love / The Rubettes
03) Season of the Witch / Donovan
04) The Slop Beat / The Teenbeats
05) Run, Run, Run / The Third Rail
06) Sugar and Spice / The Cryan Shames
07) Rock el Casbah / Rachid Taha
08) The Warrior / Scandal featuring Patty Smythe
09) Just to Get a Rep / Gang Starr
10) Baja / The Astronauts
11) A Public Execution / Mouse and the Trapps
12) Can't Make Up My Mind / Deke Arlon and the Offbeats
13) Monsterman / Devo
14) Act Naturally / Buck Owens
15) Love Under Will / The New Math
16) Telstar '69 / Velvet Fogg
17) The Might Quinn (live version) / Manfred Mann's Earth Band
18) Please Don't Touch / Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
19) I'm Not Running Anymore / John Mellencamp
20) Psycho / The Sonics
21) When the Night Falls / The Eyes
22) Where is My Mind / Trampled by Turtles
23) Panic / The Smiths
24) American Nightmare / The Misfits
25) New Dark Ages / Tonio K.
26) Machines / Lothar and the Hand People
27) Forward to Death / The Dead Kennedys
Another disc-that-didn't-happen theme was songs with spoken word breaks in them; I wound up only finding a few of those, and refused to put "We Built This City" on the Timothology unironically.
Timothology: Strange Aeons Disc 30 / 48
Theme: None
Label phrase: "Getting environmental problems in my territory"
01) Cigareetes, Whuskey and Wild, Wild Women / Red Ingle
02) Sugar Baby Love / The Rubettes
03) Season of the Witch / Donovan
04) The Slop Beat / The Teenbeats
05) Run, Run, Run / The Third Rail
06) Sugar and Spice / The Cryan Shames
07) Rock el Casbah / Rachid Taha
08) The Warrior / Scandal featuring Patty Smythe
09) Just to Get a Rep / Gang Starr
10) Baja / The Astronauts
11) A Public Execution / Mouse and the Trapps
12) Can't Make Up My Mind / Deke Arlon and the Offbeats
13) Monsterman / Devo
14) Act Naturally / Buck Owens
15) Love Under Will / The New Math
16) Telstar '69 / Velvet Fogg
17) The Might Quinn (live version) / Manfred Mann's Earth Band
18) Please Don't Touch / Johnny Kidd and the Pirates
19) I'm Not Running Anymore / John Mellencamp
20) Psycho / The Sonics
21) When the Night Falls / The Eyes
22) Where is My Mind / Trampled by Turtles
23) Panic / The Smiths
24) American Nightmare / The Misfits
25) New Dark Ages / Tonio K.
26) Machines / Lothar and the Hand People
27) Forward to Death / The Dead Kennedys
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
"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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