Coverville 280: The 2006 Coverville Countdown part 5

Here's what's on the show tonight:

No.	Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist	Last Yr.
8	Mad World	Michael Andrews and Gary Jules	Donnie Darko - Original Soundtrack & Score	Tears for Fears	New!
7	Wonderwall	Ryan Adams	Love Is Hell	Oasis	10
6	Milkshake	Chance	Website	Kelis	New!
5	Baby Got Back	Jonathan Coulton	JonathanCoulton.com	Sir Mix-A-Lot	2
4	Lithium	The Polyphonic Spree	Wait (EP)	Nirvana	New!
3	Hallelujah	Jeff Buckley	Grace	Leonard Cohen	4
2	Toxic	Nickel Creek	House of Blues-Cleveland	Britney Spears	New!
1	Hurt	Johnny Cash	Unearthed	Nine Inch Nails	1
	Bonus Track:
	Auld Lang Syne	Doze	Musiccanteen Christmas	Traditional

50 minutes |

In this episode we give away the 30GB iPod! Thanks go out to The Midi Podcast for providing the prizes for this year's festivities!

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Coverville 279: The 2006 Coverville Countdown part 4

(a couple NSFW songs included here, so don't listen to this episode all the way through with your kids!) Here's what's on the show tonight:

No.	Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist	Last Yr.
17	Straight Outa Compton	Nina Gordon	Website	NWA	13
16	Nothing Else Matters	Lucie Silvas	Breathe In	Metallica	New!
15	Istanbul (Not Constantinople)	They Might Be Giants	Flood	The Four Lads	New!
14	I Will Survive	Cake	Fashion Nugget	Gloria Gaynor	5
13	Hey Ya	Mat Weddle	Check out his band - Obadiah Parker	Outkast	New!
12	Bitches Ain't Sh*t	Ben Folds	Songs For Silverman (vinyl version not available on Amazon)	Dr. Dre w/Snoop Dogg	14
11	One	Johnny Cash	Unearthed	U2	12
10	Comfortably Numb	Scissor Sisters	Scissor Sisters	Pink Floyd	29
9	Common People	William Shatner (w/Joe Jackson & Ben Folds)	Has Been	Pulp	3

40 minutes |

Find out how you can win a 30GB iPod in the Countdown! Thanks go out to The Midi Podcast for providing the prizes for this year's festivities!

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Coverville 278: The 2006 Coverville Countdown part 3

Here's what's on the show tonight:

No.	Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist	Last Yr.
24	Don't Dream It's Over (live)	Howie Day	Live From...	Crowded House	31
23	Sympathy For The Devil/Livin' For The City	Opie Gone Bad	Opie Gone Bad	Rolling Stones/Stevie Wonder	New!
22	Bohemian Polka (cover of Bohemian Rhapsody)	"Weird Al" Yankovic	Alapalooza	Queen	New!
21	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	Devo	Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo	The Rolling Stones	22
20	Hotel California	Gipsy Kings	Elektra's 40th Anniversary - Rubaiyat (2 Cd Set) Various	Eagles	New!
19	Teenage Dirtbag	Scala Choir & Kolacny Brothers	On the Rocks	Wheatus	New!
18	...Baby One More Time	Fountains of Wayne	Out-of-State Plates	Britney Spears	19

40 minutes |

Find out how you can win a 30GB iPod in the Countdown! Thanks go out to The Midi Podcast for providing the prizes for this year's festivities!

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Feed me, Seymour.

The iTunes Feed appears to be slow or non-functional right now, so I'm suggesting that everyone switch to the direct feed to make sure they get all the episodes. I'm working on fixing the iTunes feed, but in the meantime, there's a quick and easy way to subscribe to the direct feed, and it will look the same in iTunes (and transfer the same way to your iPod, if you go that route).

Here's how to subscribe to the direct feed (which gets you Coverville episodes as soon as I record and upload them to the site):

Step one: Click this link.

That's it! In moments, iTunes will start retrieving the most recent episode from the feed, and give you the ability to download other episodes you may have missed (just click the Get button next to any episodes you want).

Coverville 277: The 2006 Coverville Countdown part 2

Here's what's on the show tonight:

No.	Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist	Last Yr.
32	Don't Worry Be Happy	Yum! Yum! Orange	Orangejuice	Bobby McFerrin	New!
31	Mahna Mahna	Cake	For The Kids	Piero Ulimiani	7
30	Redemption Song	Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer	Unearthed	Bob Marley	16
29	Crazy	Ray Lamontagne	Unreleased, but check out Ray's Website	Gnarls Barkley	New!
28	Oops...I Did It Again	Richard Thompson	1000 Years of Popular Music	Britney Spears	New!
27	What a Wonderful World	Joey Ramone	Don't Worry About Me	Louis Armstrong	27
26	Plastic Jesus	Billy Idol	Devil's Playground	Ernie Marrs	New!
25	Hallelujah	Allison Crowe	Tidings	Leonard Cohen	New!

36 minutes |

Find out how you can win a 30GB iPod in the Countdown! Thanks go out to The Midi Podcast for providing the prizes for this year's festivities!

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Coverville 276: The 2006 Coverville Countdown part 1

Digging out of the three feet of snow to bring you the first of a five-part Coverville Countdown!

Here's what's on the show tonight:

No.	Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist	Last Yr.
40	Ana Ng	Self	Hello Radio: The Songs of They Might Be Giants	They Might Be Giants	New!
39	Age Of Consent	Grant Lee Phillips	Nineteeneighties	New Order	New!
38	My Way	Sid Vicious	The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle	Claude Francois/Paul Anka/Frank Sinatra	26
37	I Don't Like Mondays	Tori Amos	Strange Little Girls	The Boomtown Rats	11
36	Heroes	Icehouse	The Berlin Tapes	David Bowie	New!
35	Comfortably Numb	Copper Box	Sunny Days	Pink Floyd	32
34	We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions	Jonathan Coulton	Thing A Week	Queen	New!
33	Highway To Hell	Hayseed Dixie	A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC	AC/DC	39

46 minutes |

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Be a part of the Coverville Countdown!

Alright, the votes are in, and I'm in the process of tabulating the results and compiling the shows. But what this countdown is missing is...

YOU!

So here's something I came up with - a fun little contest, with no specific prize except for hearing your voice in the podcast. The rules are very simple:

1. Pick a number between 1 and 40
2. Record an intro for that number in the Countdown.
3. Send it to me.

Steps 2 and 3 can be completed by calling the request line at 206-222-2683 and leaving a message.

Here's where the fun comes in: I won't tell you which numbers are still available, so the more unique number you pick, the better your chances are. And I will pick the intros for each number based on the following criteria:

1. Keep it short. No more than a 30 seconds, please.
2. Keep it clean.
3. The better the sound quality, the better your chances are. If I get two #27's, I'll pick the one with the better sound quality almost always. If you can record and email rather than use the dial-in number, all the better.
4. Feel free to plug whatever you want! Your podcast, your freelance graphic company, your hot dog stand, whatever.
5. I don't mind if you submit a couple of entries, but don't go nuts. Keep it three or fewer. I'll only use one of them. And remember, I've got your email address/phone number.

Stumped? Here's a sample to use if you're really stuck: "Hi. This is [your name here] from [your show here] at [yes, your URL here], and you're listening to Coverville. Here's number [rnd(40)]." (But of course, you can be more creative than that)

I'll need numbers 30 to 40 pretty quick, so if you've got your eye on #38, do it today!

Coverville 275: The Christmas Show 2006

Here's what's on the show tonight (besides my very special guest co-host!):

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
It's Christmas Day	Billy Coulter	Susans Songs	Will Connelly (sorry, not Tommy Keene, as I said in the show!)
Winter Wonderland	Steve Taylor	Now the Truth Can Be Told	Traditional
Jesus Christ (please buy from iTunes if you like the song!)	Mike Mills (R.E.M.) and Sally Ellyson (Hem)	Red Apple Christmas Benefit 2006	Big Star
2000 Miles	Coldplay	Kevin & Bean's: Christmas in the 909	Pretenders
Christmas Time Is Here	Shawn Colvin	Holiday Songs and Lullabies	A Charlie Brown Christmas
Holly Jolly Christmas	Old 97's	2003 KBCO Holiday CD	The Quinto Sisters/Burl Ives
Oh Come All Ye Faithful	Twisted Sister	Twisted Christmas	Traditional
The First Noel	The Butties	12 Greatest Carols	Beatles/Traditional
White Christmas	The Beatmas	Christmas! The Beatmas	Beatles/Bing Crosby (with a little solo Lennon)
Let It Snow	Dr. Renner and die A-Street Band	Submission	Beatles/Traditional

45 minutes |

If you wish to contribute to the Red Apple Foundation, you can do so at www.redapplefoundation.org, as well!

Coverville now 87% more Diggable

Digg.com has a new podcasting section, where you can "Digg" the podcasts and individual episodes that float your boat. I'm still trying to figure out how to integrate some of their tools into my site and posts, but for now, you can help push Coverville up the Digg ladder by going here.

Digg.com, is seen by more people each day than the usual podcasting directories, so a vote on Digg goes a long way to introduce the show to new listeners.

And if there are folks who know how to do the Digg Tools, please let me know. I'm having some display issues with the onsite voting buttons and tags...

Coverville 274: The last request show of 2006

Here's what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Sexual Healing	Neil Finn	Andrew Denton Breakfast Show Musical Challenge	Marvin Gaye
Lay Lady Lay	Magnet featuring Gemma Hayes	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Bob Dylan
Top Of The World	Shonen Knife	If I Were a Carpenter	The Carpenters
That's All	Jack Reynolds	The June Covers	Genesis
Pink Moon	Beck	Website	Nick Drake
Werewolves of London	David Lindley & El Rayo X	Very Greasy	Warren Zevon
A Shot In The Dark	John Zorn	Naked City	Henry Mancini

49 minutes |

Introducing AudioEngine 5! Finally, real speakers designed for portable audio players that deliver astonishing sound (and don't cost a fortune). You can't get better sound for your audio!

There's a "Music I-Quiz" Musically Challenged in this show! Make sure to check out Anna's podcast, Music I-Quiz!

Sounds like the mp3 player for cover lovers...

The new Vibez mp3 player from TrekStor has most of the same bells and whistles as every other mp3 player on the market these days...except one. According to the New York Times, the Vibez can generate "playlists based on variables like the number of times played, and has a 'cover version' feature that finds songs re-recorded by other artists".

The article didn't elaborate too much, but does that require you to have two songs with the same title in order for it to work? What about song titles like "Stay", that have been done in numerous original versions by multiple bands? And of course the big question: "Layla" by Derek and the Dominoes vs. "Layla" by Eric Clapton... cover or no?

Whoa - it does crossfades between tracks. Are you listening, Apple?

Coverville 273: Lyrics UnderCoverville

Tonight's show is a crossover event, as I take some of the tracks I've analyzed on Lyrics Undercover (subscribe: web/iTunes), and play the songs I couldn't play on that show. It's a little bit Originalville, a little bit Hodgepodge, and I hope you enjoy it. Here's what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Brandy	Scott English	Trojan Singles Collection, Vol. 2	covered by Barry Manilow (Mandy)
Brother Louie	Hot Chocolate	Every 1's a Winner: The Very Best of Hot Chocolate	covered by Stories
Superstition	Beck, Bogert & Appice	Beck Bogert & Appice	Stevie Wonder
A Horse With No Name	Larrikin Love	Take It Easy - 15 Soft Rock Anthems	America
Where The Wild Roses Grow	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (feat. Blixa Bargeld)	B-Sides & Rarities	Nick Cave & Kylie Minogue
Do They Know It's Christmas?	Band Aid II	Band Aid II	Band Aid

38 minutes |

Seriously?

Someone has been hammering the Countdown survey with numerous entries, all voting for the same five songs. The same five songs, over 50 times in the last couple hours.

I direct this to you and only you, dear submitter: What fun is this countdown if you've "fixed" the first five entries? There are no prizes involved for the songs played, and you run the risk of getting carpal tunnel. Please stop. (Note: I will be removing those 50-plus votes that all came from the same IP. Neener neener.)

Coverville 272: A show guaranteed to give you the creeps

Here's what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Creep	Edmund Welles' Bass Clarinet Quartet	Website	Radiohead
Creep	Darby O'Gill	Traditional Irish Dance Music	Radiohead
Creep	Frank Bennett	Five O'Clock Shadow	Radiohead
Creep	SKAndalous All-Stars	Hit Me	Radiohead
Creep	Gina Jeffreys	Andrew Denton Breakfast Show Musical Challenge	Radiohead
Creep (live)	Tears For Fears	Raoul and the King of Spain (single)	Radiohead

30 minutes |

The next-to-latest Music I-Quiz features all Cover Songs!

Anna, who contributes frequently to the Musically Challenged segments on the show (and who I'm a big fan of), has done her second all-cover trivia podcast.

If you're a frequent listener to Coverville, you'll really enjoy this show, which has already managed to stump me, and I'm only on the first five questions!

Check it out here.

Biloxi Sun-Herald reporter digs Coverville

Allan Hoffman of the Biloxi Sun-Herald included Coverville as one of his "Five Good Podcasts To Get You Started". I'm very flattered to be mentioned - thank you, Allan!

And it should also be said that I'm a big fan of two of the other shows on the list, "The Bitterest Pill", and "This American Life"!

Coverville 271: God only knows where I'd be without your requests

Here's what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
God Only Knows	Jonatha Brooke	Back in the Circus	The Beach Boys
Mercedes Benz	Katya	Home Page	Janis Joplin
Tell Me Does She Love The Bass	Lesbians On Ecstacy	Lesbians on Ecstasy	Melissa Etheridge (cover of Like The Way I Do)
Highway To Hell	Angry Anderson & Sarah McLeod	RocKwiz Duets	AC/DC
The Seeker	The Smithereens	Attack of the Smithereens	The Who
Walking On The Moon	Merrie Amsterburg	Season of Rain	The Police
Running Up That Hill	Placebo	Sleeping with Ghosts (check to make sure it's the one with the bonus disc!)	Kate Bush

54 minutes |

There's a bonus Musically Challenged in this show! Thanks go out to Toyotaboy of the Engineered World podcast for sending it in!

Coverville 270: The ABBA Cover Story II

Another show, another logo. Hey, why not? And if you're looking for the ABBA Cover Story I, here's a link (it was before I started using the term Cover Story, btw)

Here's what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Dancing Queen	Luka Bloom	Keeper of the Flame	ABBA
Waterloo	Texas Lightning	No No Never	ABBA
S.O.S.	Tonic	Andrew Denton Breakfast Show Musical Challenge	ABBA
Money, Money, Money	Richard Thompson	1000 Years of Popular Music	ABBA
Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!	Nils Landgren Funk Unit	Funky Unit: Funky Abba	ABBA
Fernando	Steven Durand	Coverfight	ABBA

30 minutes |

Coverville 269: SKAverville!

A show so long in the making, that I thought it even deserved a logo. Here's what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Cannonball	SKAndalous All-Stars	Hit Me	Breeders
The Harder They Come	Joe Jackson	Steppin' Out/Very Best of Joe Jackson	Jimmy Cliff
Don't Worry Be Happy	Yum! Yum! Orange	Orangejuice	Bobby McFerrin
Can Can (live version)	Bad Manners	Trojan Box Set: Ska Revival	Jacques Offenbach
Leaving On A Jet Plane	Slightly Stoopid	Everything You Need	John Denver
Taxman	Ruder Than You	Skandalous: I've Gotcha Covered, Vol. 2	Beatles
Venus	Son Of Blob	Venus	Shocking Blue
The Freshmen	Mustard Plug	The Freshmen/You single	Verve Pipe

42 minutes |

There's a bonus Musically Challenged in this show! Thanks go out to Eric for sending it in!

Rock and Roll Geek busts out some rockin' cover songs

Michael Butler, one of the coolest people you'll meet in the world of podcasting, and host of the Rock and Roll Geek Show, has rolled out an excellent episode featuring some great rock cover songs. He plays the cover versions, and tells you who did the original, and you have to guess who's doing the cover.

Check it out here!

Coverville 268: It was the 3rd of December...a day I'll always remember

Here's what's on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available)	Artist (with link to the artists' website, if available)	Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available)	Original Artist
Hungry Like The Wolf	The Perfects	Hungry Like The Wolf	Duran Duran
Love Will Tear Us Apart	Squarepusher	Do You Know Squarepusher	Joy Division
Ooh La La	Silkworm	Lifestyle	Faces
Papa Was A Rolling Stone	David Lindley & El Rayo X	Very Greasy	Temptations
Don't Know Why	Buena Vista Sound featuring Vanya Borges	Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba	Norah Jones
Baby Can I Hold You	Ale'a	Take Me Home	Tracy Chapman

42 minutes |

There's a bonus Musically Challenged in this show! Thanks go out to The Midi Podcast for sending it in!