Recorded 2012 Producer Tim Armstrong | Label Hellcat | |
Released October 29, 2012 – 2014 (on going) Genre Punk rock, ska, 2-tone, northern soul, country | ||
Tim Timebomb is a music project by Tim Armstrong, best known as a member of the punk rock band Rancid. Armstrong has recorded a large number of songs – a mixture of cover versions, including Rancid covers, and original songs, including some tracks from his musical film project RocknNRoll Theater – with a variety of supporting musicians.
Contents
A selection of the material was first released as a download only album Tim Timebomb Sings Songs from RocknNRoll Theater – this consisting of original songs featured in Armstrong's musical film series "RockNRoll Theatre". Starting on October 29, 2012, a series of digital singles have also been released, on a daily basis. These singles are initially being released via YouTube, with one song each day being released from October 29, 2012, onwards, and then being made available for download via iTunes. To date, all of the tracks from the RockNRollTheatre album have also been included in the series of singles, with the exception of the track "Let's Fuck".
Choice of music
According to Armstrong's website:
Tim Timebomb and Friends is a place for me to share with you some of my favorite songs that I've recorded with friends of mine. I've always enjoyed sharing music, whether I'm just sitting around playing acoustic guitar with my friends or breaking out old 45's. I guess you could call me a music nerd. I like everything from Bob Dylan to the Ramones, to Jimmy Cliff to Cock Sparrer. I plan to bring together a great group of players to record covers as well as some originals. I hope you dig it and encourage you to pass them on.
All of Armstrong's bandmates in Rancid appear along with Ryan Foltz, formerly of Dropkick Murphys, Travis Barker and members of The Interrupters and The Ohio Ramblers. Three of the album's songs, "That's Just The Way It Is Now", which was featured on Rancid's 2009 album, Let the Dominoes Fall, "I'm Real" and "No More Living" were written by Armstrong in 2007 while in Spain and are inspired by the classic 1964 Vincent Price movie, The Last Man on Earth which was based on the 1954 novel, I Am Legend.
Albums
Tim Timebomb Sings RocknRoll Theater
The album features versions of songs from the RockNRoll Theatre film series, which is produced by Armstrong. 13 of the 14 tracks have also been released as digital singles.
Armstrong sings the lead vocals on all songs, in contrast to the versions in the films, which are sung by the actors, including Lars Frederiksen and Davey Havok.
Track list: All songs written by Tim Armstrong.
- We Did Alright
- Guardian Angel
- No Reverence
- Honor Is All We Know
- Just For Tonight
- Change That Song Mr. DJ
- Running Out Of Time
- Skeleton Crew
- This Time We Got It Right
- Everything I Need
- Oh Hollywood
- No More Living
- Let's Fuck
- Misconceptions
2013–2014 Pirates Press Records Releases
7" singles
She's Drunk All The Time b/w Tulare
30 Pieces of Silver b/w Ooh La La
Change That Song Mr. DJ b/w Guardian Angel
Three 12 song collections from below singles released as a bundle packs on CD and vinyl
High Noon In A Dark Blue Sea
- Honor Is All We Know
- Change That Song Mr. DJ
- She Goes To Finos
- Do What You Want
- I Wanna Get Rid Of You
- Children's Bread
- In The City
- Television
- Oh No
- No Reverence
- Guardian Angel
- Cupid Aims
Winding Far Down
- 30 Pieces Of Silver
- Let's Do Rocksteady
- Too Much Pressure
- Summer of '69
- Concrete Jungle
- Lip Up Fatty
- Working
- Ohh La La
- This Time We Got It Right
- Just For Tonight
- Ruby Soho
- Saturday Night At The Movies
Special Lunacy
- She's Drunk All The Time
- Chill's And Fever
- Rock This Joint
- Till The Well Runs Dry
- Jim Dandy
- Yes Sir
- I'm Movin' On
- My Buckets Got A Hole In It
- Adalida
- Thanks A Lot
- I'm Going Down
- Blue Skies