Tim Heidecker knows what songs are supposed to be called. On January 3, he posted two screenshots to the popular Twitter-based breast-photo-sharing service TitPic, each depicting half of a folder marked “Heidecker and Wood Unfinished / Unreleased Songs”. The folder contained a whopping 81 songs, only one of which has appeared online (Cocaine) since the March 2011 release of Starting From Nowhere (TMT Review).
In an email, I asked Heidecker (TMT Interview) about his plans for releasing these songs, secretly hoping I might get to hear a song called ‘When I Move to Jamaica.’ “I’m trying to figure out a way of releasing these songs…” Heidecker replied, “the first record didn’t do well enough to warrant spending the money on another one (you know how people pretty just steal music now…), so I’m looking into other methods…” Though one might assume that Heidecker will employ a digital distribution model, we must bear in mind that “traveling bard” also fits the description of “other methods.”
Below is a list of the unreleased songs. I have added initial capitals, corrected for spelling, and removed folders that seemed to be redundant, or not songs at all. “Guitars” may just be a folder of guitar tracks, but I like to think that it is the name of a song about guitars. If you doubt my judgment, you can feel free to check out the original screenshots (1 2). But if you have that kind of time on your hands, you might want to use it to give back to the community.
•Apple Wine
•Back to Africa
•Barley Wine
•Baseball
•Billy Got Drunk Last Night
•Bird Song
•Both Sides Now
•Call My Shaman
•Can’t Blame It on Me
•Chico
•Cincinatti Kid
•Cocaine
•Deep Sea Fishing
•Don’t Be Afraid of the Moon
•Don’t Mess With Geno
•Dream Theory
•Fire in My Heart 2
•First Night Together
•Fooling You Around
•For the Evening
•Fort Lauderdale
•From Paris with Love
•Funeral for the General
•Geno - Weekend
•Gino-Chico
•Guitars
•Havin a Good Time
•I Can Be Your Baby
•I Can’t Let Go
•I Drink Your Wine
•I Like Jazz Music
•I’m A Cheater
•I’m Hurting Inside
•I’m Not Alive
•Interesting Wedding
•Keep Me Home at Night
•Lately
•Left Out of the News Again
•Let It Ripple
•Let Me Come Home
•Lethal Weapons
•Living in the Old West
•Look Out Your Winder
•Loose Slots
•Lucky Kid
•Mad
•Mama’s Gonna Leave on the Light
•Marilyn
•New York (Friend of Mine)
•Night Can Go Any Way From Here
•Normal
•Nothing
•Old Lady
•Old Oyster Road
•Only Dancing
•Panama Jack
•Paris in the Springtime
•Please Come Out
•Princes and Paupers
•Pull Me Away
•Rendezvous
•Romantic Weekend
•Sad Times Are Over
•Salvation St.
•Smooth Jazz
•So Early
•The Light Only Shines on the Kind
•The Man in the Mirror
•The Next Ten Years
•Thing That I Gotta Say
•This Is Life
•Unwritten Song
•What If We Could Fly
•What Kind of Cowboy
•When I Move to Jamaica
•When I See You Cry
•When It Rains in LA
•When You Love Like I Do
•Wild Child
•Working on Loving You
•You Don’t Deserve Her
• Tim Heidecker: http://www.timanderic.com