February 27, 2007
Coverville 298: See them on the beach, or in New York City
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 |
| Just Like Heaven | Laura Cortese (MySpace) | Even The Lost Creek | The Cure |
| Living For The City | Jan James | Drive Me Home | Stevie Wonder |
| Take On Me | The New Relics (MySpace) | Chasing Venus | a-ha |
| Cruel Summer | Clyde (MySpace) | Blank Stares and Dialogue Reruns | Bananarama |
| 52 Girls | The Problem | The Problem | The B-52's |
| You Got Another Thing Coming | Ken Tamplin | Unreleased | Judas Priest |
| Head First | Recliner (MySpace) | The Charm | The Babys |
| Coming Into Los Angeles | Shocking Edison | Scientific Curiosity | Arlo Guthrie |
| I Ran (So Far Away) | The Grey Between | Unreleased | A Flock Of Seagulls |
Digg me (please?)
Man, what a great show! I loved all the 80's covers, especially Laura Cortese. Gotta see if I can play her on my show. Also, thanks for adding the AAC version. Very handy being able to jump to the chapters to go back and listen to songs again. And having the links in iTunes is handy. The only problem I see is the apostrophe is messed up in the description (as in here's what's). Everything else looks good.
Posted by: shelby at February 28, 2007 12:23 PMI've been a listener for a while now and honestly, your last couple shows just haven't been my favorites. This one though completely redeemed you. Not that you needed redeeming. Love the Acappella shows and thanks for turning me on to AcappellaU. The apostrophes are correct in the show description by the way, not to worry. (Here's What's on the show tonight = Here is What is on the show tonight)
Posted by: Bill at March 1, 2007 8:27 AMSorry, I might not have been clear. I wasn't getting on to Brian for his punctuation. In my iTunes, the apostrophes are showing up as " ’ " instead of " ' ". It seems to be a formatting issue. I wasn't saying they were used incorrectly.
Posted by: Shelby at March 2, 2007 6:12 AMHow funny - I understand exactly what you mean, although the comments isn't displaying it correctly. Instead of the apostrophe, it's using the hex code for them, right?
Posted by: Brian Ibbott at March 2, 2007 8:23 AMHi, Brian, The New Relics version of Take on Me was actually a request from me by way of the band. The lead singer for the Relics is one of my graduate students. They've long done Take on Me in their live shows, and I told Michael they had to record it for you. Thanks for playing it! It's a great take on a definitive early MTV song. Ralph
Brian- Yeah, that's exactly what I mean. Funny, I just realized that by typing in the hexadecimal representation in these comments, everything is displaying correctly in my browser, so it looks like I'm correcting something that isn't wrong. They are showing up like this, but without the dashes:
&-#-8-2-1-7.