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

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

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

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

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

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

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.