Coverville 80: The Burt Bacharach Cover Story

Tonight, I'm featuring the music of Burt Bacharach. There's a wealth of material out there, and this show will just scratch the surface. If you only know Burt by his Dionne Warwick songs, this show will introduce you to new versions, as well as new songs and new artists covering them. Here's what's on the show tonight:

Close To You - Paul Weller (made popular by the Carpenters)
"Always Something There To Remind Me" - (most popularly by Naked Eyes)
"My LIttle Red Book" - Love (also made popular by Manfred Mann)
"Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" - Manic Street Preachers (made popular by B. J. Thomas)
"Any Day Now" - Paul Carrack (most popularly by Ronnie Milsap)
"I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself (most popularly by Dusty Springfield)
"This Guy's In Love With You" - Fastball (most popularly by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass)
"What The World Needs Now" - Aimee Mann (made popular by Jackie Deshannon)
"I'll Never Fall In Love Again" - Splitsville (made popular by Dionne Warwick)
"Walk On By" - The Stranglers (made popular by Dionne Warwick)

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Coverville 79: Hodgepodge w/The Asphalt, EDENautomatic, Fiona Lehn and more

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Here's what's on the show tonight:

"On Your Radio" - Fiona Lehn (originally Joe Jackson)
"Devil's Radio" - Masters of Reality (originally George Harrison)
"Ruby Tuesday" - John Batdorf and James Lee Stanley (originally the Rolling Stones)
"Daniel" - The Asphalt (originally Elton John)
"Mamma Mia" - High Class Family Butchers (originally ABBA)
"She Bop" - EDENautomatic (originally Cyndi Lauper)

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Coverville 78: All Request Sunday with Orgy, Travis and Midge Ure

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Here's what's on the show tonight:

"Daisy Simone" - Sean Altman (The Uncovered Gem of the Week)
"Living In The Past" - Midge Ure (originally Jethro Tull)
"I Don't Like Mondays" - Tori Amos (originally The Boomtown Rats)
"...Baby One More Time" - Travis (originally Britney Spears)
"Blue Monday" - Flunk (originally New Order)
"Blue Monday" - Orgy (originally New Order)

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Coverville 77: The Double Double Cover Cover Show

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Sometimes artists decide that one cover just isn't enough, and they wedge a whole extra song into their cover version. Here's some fine examples of this alarming occurrence:

"My Best Friends Magic Girlfriend" - Butch Walker (originally the Cars)
"Since U Been Gone/Maps"- Ted Leo (originally Kelly Clarkson and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
"Where The Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off You" - The Pet Shop Boys (originally U2 and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons)
"Be My Number Two/Shanghai Sky" - Amy Fox (originally Joe Jackson)
"Broken Bicycles/Junk" - Anne Sofie Von Otter and Elvis Costello (originally Tom Waits and Paul McCartney)
"The Way/Besame Mucho" - The Lounge-a-Leers (originally Fastball and a Latin Standard)
"Seasons In The Sun/The Hustle" - The Squirrels ("Seasons..." most popularly by Terry Jacks, "The Hustle" originally by Van McCoy)

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Coverville 76: All Request Wednesday with The Ataris, Cake and the Dance Hall Crashers

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Catching up with al my requests, so I thought I'd add another All-Request show for the week:

"Laid" - Matt Nathanson (originally James)
"Atomic" - Sleeper (originally Blondie)
"The BOys of Summer"- The Ataris (originally Don Henley)
"Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps" - Cake (originally Doris Day, Desi Arnaz, and others)
"Wichita Lineman" - Travis with Jason Falkner (originally Glen Campbell)
"American Girl" - Dance Hall Crashers (originally Tom Petty)

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Coverville 75: All Request Sunday with Ryan Adams, Johnny Cash, and Crowded House

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All Request time again! Here's what you wanted to hear:

"If I Ever Feel Better" - Phoenix (Uncovered Gem of the Week)
"I Get Wet" - Jon Sebastian (Andrew WK cover)
"She's Not There" - Crowded House (originally The Zombies)
"One" - Johnny Cash (originally U2)
"Wonderwall" - Mike Flowers Pops (originally Oasis)
"Wonderwall" - Ryan Adams (originally Oasis)

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Coverville 74: The Bob Dylan Cover Story

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Yes, it's about time I did a Bob Dylan cover show. And I've packed it full of excellent songs! Here's what you'll hear:

(All songs were written and originally performed by Bob Dylan)
"Gotta Serve Someone" - Mavis Staples
"A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" - Bryan Ferry
"You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go" - Madeleine Peyroux
"Buckets of Rain" - Neko Case
"Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?" - Transvision Vamp
"Like A Rolling Stone" - Sebastian Cabot
"Tangled Up In Blue (live)" - The Indigo Girls

Don't worry - if I didn't pick your favorite Dylan cover for this show, you can always submit it as a request for the next Bob Dylan Cover Story.

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Coverville 73: Covers of The Beatles, Joe Jackson, The Doors and more!

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Tonight I'm featuring music from my sponsor, Skipping Discs: A covers-only record label! How perfect! Here's what's on tap for tonight:

"Lucy in the Sky" - Allen Wentz (originally The Beatles)
"Tear Off Your Own Head (It's a Doll Revolution)" - The Bangles (originally Elvis Costello)
"Breaking Us In Two" - Whitney McCray (originally Joe Jackson)
"Modern Love" - Astrid Young (originally David Bowie)
"People Are Strange" - Wendy Ip (originally The Doors)
"Night Fever" - The Blackfoot Brothers (originally The Bee Gees)

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Tag...I'm it!

OK, quick survey, everybody. What would you rather see in the ID3 Album Tag in my mp3 file?
a) What I currently do; put the artists or a subject of the show in the Album.
b) "Coverville" (so that all tracks in your mp3 player stay together)

And if you chose b, does it matter to you if I include some of the artist names or a subject in the ID3 tags anywhere? Would you rather see that in the comments field?

Thanks - just post a comment to this entry and I'll tally up the votes...

Postscript: People voted more for choice B than A, so I changed it for tonight's and future shows. But for those who prefer A (and are on a Mac), I've developed an AppleScript that will quickly set the ID3 properties of the Coverville mp3 file to the former format. Download it here. Once you've downloaded it, copy it to your ~\Library\iTunes\Scripts folder, and it will be available in iTunes.

Coverville 72: All Request Sunday with Automatic Baby, Johnny Cash and Yes

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You requested it - I'm playing it:

"Maidstone" - Squeeze (Uncovered Gem of the Week)
"One (live)" - Automatic Baby, featuring members of REM and U2 (originally U2)
"Personal Jesus" - Johnny Cash (originally Depeche Mode)
"Feeling Good" - Eels (originally Nina Simone)
"America" - Yes (originally Simon and Garfunkel)
"Heart of Glass" - Skye Sweetnam (originally Blondie)

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Coverville 71: The Madonna Cover Story

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The music of the Material Girl tonight - Madonna covered and covers:

"Crazy For You" - Miho Hatori of Cibo Matto (originally Madonna)
"Open Your Heart (Die Krupps remix)" - Ofra Haza (originally Madonna)
"Like A Virgin" - Lords of the New Church (originally Madonna)
"Like A Prayer" Marc Almond (originally Madonna)
"Get Into The Groove (Meeks remix)" - Dale Bozzio of Missing Persons (originally Madonna)
"I Want You" - Madonna with Massive Attack (originally Marvin Gaye)

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39 minutes |

TiVo: The Podcasting of Television

Yeah, I know, it's usually the other way around. But if 6 million people have downloaded a podcast, that dwarfs TiVo's 2.3 million...

If you're thinking about getting TiVo (let me give you a testimonial that we couldn't live without ours), and you're not already being referred by someone, please let me know. I'm working towards a Creative Zen...

Coverville 70: Live from Lexington, KY! It's (almost) all Indie!

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Tonight's show is all independent music, with the exception of the exceptional Elvis Costello - whose music is featured for reference... But why take my word for it, click the little button and hear what comes up:

"Possession" - Elvis Costello
"Possession" - Jamie Leonhart (originally Elvis Costello)
"Lust For Life" - Twitch (originally Iggy Pop)
"She's An Angel" - 50 Cent Haircut (originally They Might Be Giants)
"Going To California" - Matt Turk (originally Led Zeppelin)
"Alone Again (Naturally)" - Ian Shaw (originally Gilbert O'Sullivan)

If I seem a little tired, I am. But I really wanted to do a show tonight - and it's all about the music, right? Enjoy!

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33 minutes |

Coverville 69: A Super-Sized Coverville!

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A special "Super-Sized" edition of Coverville with 66% more covers than normal. Here's what I've stocked the show with tonight:

"Shelley (acoustic)" - The Dance Hall Crashers (Uncovered Gem of the Week)
"Iron Man" - The Cardigans (originally Black Sabbath)
"Will It Go Round In Circles - Paul Weller with Jools Holland (originally Billy Preston)
"I Want A New Drug" - Asleep at the Wheel (originally Huey Lewis and the News)
"Say Hello, Wave Goodbye" - David Gray (originally Soft Cell)
"Fade Into You" - Flickerstick (originally Mazzy Star)
"She Don't Use Jelly" - Ben Folds Five (originally The Flaming Lips)
"Take Me To The River"- The Talking Heads (originally Rev. Al Green)
"Sacrifice - Sinead O'Connor (originally Elton John)
"Somewhere Over The Rainbow" - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole (originally Judy Garland)

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