Coverville 317: All the covers of Gloria sing sweetly out of key

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
Accidentally 4th Street (Gloria)	The Echoing Green	Echoing Green	Figures on a Beach
Comfortably Numb	Van Morrison with Roger Waters	Van Morrison At The Movies: Soundtrack Hits	Pink Floyd
Am I Wrong	Brand New	Brand New Tracks	Love Spit Love
Faith	Boy Least Likely To	Q Covered: The Eighties	George Michael
Crazy In Love	Novi Split	Pink in the Sink	Beyonce
When Doves Cry	Barenaked Ladies	Andrew Denton's Musical Challenge 2	Prince

37 minutes |

There's a "Guess The Connection" Musically Challenged in this show! Thanks to Jason from The Mental Nomad Podcast for sending it in!

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Coverville 316: Bride of the Son of Lost In Translation

My third outing with the Lost In Translation theme. 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
Dreams	Faye Wong	Dreams: Greatest Hits	Cranberries
Schn In Rosa Und Rot (Pretty in Pink)	Le Kanin	Quotenrocker	Psychedelic Furs
There Is A Light That Never Goes Out	Sweet & Tender Hooligans	A Tribute to the Smiths: Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before	Smiths
High & Dry	Buena Vista Sound feat. Lele De Los Van Van & Radiohead	Rhythms del Mundo: Cuba	Radiohead
Marie Douceur, Marie Colère (Paint It Black) [lyrics translated here]	Marie Laforet	Femmes de Paris, Vol. 1	Rolling Stones
Alfur Ut Ur Hol (Fool on the Hill)	Bjork Gudmundsdottir	Bjork (Falkinn)	The Beatles
Tiden Blir Skrudd (Time Warp)	Original Norwegian Cast	The Rocky Horror Show - Norwegian	The Rocky Horror Show
Space Oddity	Hermanos Calatrava	Spanish Bizarro Vol. 1	David Bowie

43 minutes |

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Hey, wow!

I've been nominated for a Blogger's Choice Award! (A big thank you to Sandra72 for nominating me) The category? Best podcast.

With such a general category, the competition will be fierce, but if you have a moment, please click the image below to go to the voting site. And if you're compelled to, please vote for my show.

I guess if I've had ANY show that featured a few adult-type words, I get the "Adult Content" badge. (thanks for that, everyone-who-covers-Radiohead's-Creep)

Incredibly touching

Thanks to Adam for sending this one in. Kind of along the same vein as the Who cover I posted yesterday.

I can't imagine that there'd be anyone who wouldn't be touched by this rendition of Coldplay's "Fix You" by Young @ Heart.

Jellyfish tribute album now on sale

The 5-song "preview" EP of the upcoming Jellyfish Tribute Album is now on sale, for $7. I've heard the preview tracks, as well as some of the tracks from the upcoming full release and this is a must buy if you're a fan of Jellyfish, or any of the splinter bands and artists that thrive in its wake.

As I understand it, the 5-song EP will have bonus versions of tracks that won't be on the final release, so it's not just a preview, it's additional material!

And I'd be promoting this even if it wasn't being sold by my buddies at Not Lame. But since it is, make sure to tell them Coverville sent you!

Click here to see more info, and listen to samples!

Just because we get around

Thanks to all the Covervillians who sent this one in:

A fun cover of the Who's "My Generation" by a band that's only slightly older than the Rolling Stones.

Coverville 315: The Radiohead Cover Story

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
Fake Plastic Trees	Show of Hands	Covers (eMusic)	Radiohead
Black Star	Gillian Welch	Black Star (eMusic)	Radiohead
High & Dry	Pete Kuzma feat. Bilal	Exit Music: Songs With Radio Heads	Radiohead
Paranoid Android	Easy Star All-Stars	Radiodread	Radiohead
Karma Police	The Brown Derbies	Jericho	Radiohead
No Surprises	Luka Bloom	Keeper of the Flame	Radiohead
Rodeohead	Hard 'n Phirm	Horses & Grasses	Radiohead

46 minutes |

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Coverville 314: The Pi Show

A show that Archimides would love. A tribute to the mathematical constant, Pi. Well, Pie, anyway. 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
Custard Pie	Helmet with David Yow	Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin
The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead	Crash Test Dummies	Dumb And Dumber: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	XTC
Peach, Plum, Pear	Final Fantasy	Young Canadian Mothers	Joanna Newsom
Apple, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie	Brave Combo	Polkasonic	Jay & The Techniques
Whipped Cream	Herb Alpert, remixed by Anthony Marinelli with Ozomatli	Whipped Cream & Other Delights Rewhipped	Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
Cherry Pie	Jani Lane	VH1 Classic Presents: Metal Mania - Stripped, Vol. 2: The Anthems	Warrant
Dancing In The Moonlight	Jack Wagner	Dancing In The Moonlight	King Harvest

40 minutes |

There's a “Music I-Quiz” Musically Challenged in this show! Thanks to Greg for sending it in!

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Coverville 313: The Pixies Cover Story

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
Here Comes Your Man	Kate Rogers	Seconds	Pixies
Wave of Mutilation	Kristin Hersh	High School Reunion - a tribute to those great 80's films!	Pixies
Where Is My Mind	Placebo	Sleeping With Ghosts	Pixies
Manta Ray	Teen Heroes	Where Is My Mind: A Tribute to the Pixies	Pixies
Evil Hearted You	Pixies	Complete B-Sides	The Yardbirds
Cactus	David Bowie	Heathen	Pixies
Velouria	Weezer	Where Is My Mind: A Tribute to the Pixies	Pixies

31 minutes |

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Experienced Wikipedia Writer Needed

The Coverville page on Wikipedia is under the notability microscope, and since I'm not experienced in writing/editing articles for Wikipedia, I'm hoping that there's a listener who can help. Specifically, the introductory paragraph needs to be rewritten in a way that makes the subject matter notable.

Please note: Coverville's notability is not in question, just the article. I've seen other articles for shows I love which resulted in a heated discussion about notability (of which I was a contributor), and I don't want to see this come to that.

New shirt design!

Shelby, host of the excellent Shifted Sound, and official T-Shirt Designer for Coverville, has posted two new designs, one of which will delight UK listeners and potentially confuse tube passengers not in the know, the other perfect for all those Manga fans out there!

Here's a preview of the "Tube"-inspired logo:

Get it now, at the Cafe Press Coverville shop!

Coverville 312: Indie Deluxe

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
The Boxer	Nekked	A Barrier of Skin	Simon & Garfunkel
Tootin' Carmen	Deviations Project	Deviations Project	Bizet
Ignorance Is Bliss	Loveshine	Sensory Lullabies	Jellyfish
Ring of Fire	Billy Coulter	Dose	Anita Carter/Johnny Cash
Kiss	Tony DeSare	Last First Kiss	Prince
Blackbird	Shea Breaux Wells	Piece of the Light	Beatles
I Need You	etgilles	iCompositions	Eurythmics
The Flat Horizon	Analog In	Measurable Days	Wang Chung
Alone Again	Steven Sproat	Forthcoming release	Gilbert O'Sullivan
It's All Over Now, Baby Blue	Alice Stuart	Forthcoming Byrds Tribute	Bob Dylan

53 minutes |

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Sidenote: Video Games

Judging by the number of folks who've responded to my Wii Code posting a while ago, I've noticed that there are a lot of video game fans who listen to the show. (For those of you who are old school video game fans, I just picked up a Tempest arcade machine for my basement a while ago for what I'd consider a steal).

Anyway, as a NetFlix fan, I was interested in checking out GameFly, which is basically the video game equivalent. You put a few games into your queue, and they send you the first one or two. As you finish playing a game, you send it back, and they send you the next one in your queue. It's perfect for me, since I don't get a lot of replay value out of old games, so it's cheaper in the long run.

I've set myself up as an affiliate, so if it's something you've been thinking of checking out, you can help me out by using my "friend" link, and signing up, even if you only try it out for a month. If I get a few people to try it out and stay with it for a month, I get a free Wii. (Since I've already got a Wii, I'll pass this on to my parents, who really enjoyed playing it with us a few weeks ago when they came to visit.)

No pressure - this is only something I'm asking you to do if you were planning on doing it anyway. Here's the link:

http://friends.GameFly.com/r/ae69528437fa102a919d

Thanks! (And if you haven't sent me your Wii code yet, mine is still 0902 2288 9532 6147)

Coverville 311: Nothing to do with Easter

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
Cry, Cry, Cry	Third Eye Blind & Merle Haggard	Cry, Cry, Cry (single)	Johnny Cash
Mr. Lee	The 5, 6, 7, 8's	Bomb the Rocks: Early Days Singles 1989	The Bobbettes
My Sweet Lord	The Chiffons	Sweet Talkin' Girls: The Best of the Chiffons	George Harrison
Ship of Fools	Elvis Costello	Kojak Variety	The Grateful Dead
Ruby Tuesday	Franco Battiato	Children of Men	The Rolling Stones
The Ballad of Mack The Knife	Sting	Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill	Kurt Weill/Bobby Darin

43 minutes |

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Coming up on the next Boned...

The ZedCast's Bruce Murray and I were recently invited to appear as contestants on PodShow's newest game podcast, Boned!

The first episode, featuring (the cool) C.C. Chapman, and the (multi-voiced) P.W. Fenton, and starring the snarky Johnny Todd and the delightful Tanya Trivia, is available now. And the episode with Bruce and me should be coming up soon.

Be warned. With a name like Boned!, you'd expect it to be unsafe for little ears or the office. And you'd be right.

Guess the Connection III Answers & Winners

Thanks to everyone who submitted answers to the Guess The Connection III round last week. What did all those tracks have in common? They were all #1 US Billboard hits for more than one performer. And according to my sources, they are the only 6 songs that can claim that feat. (I'm not counting medleys like Stars on 45, though).

The Loco-Motion was a #1 hit for Little Eva and Grand Funk Railroad
Venus: The Shocking Blue and Bananarama
Please Mr. Postman: The Marvelettes and The Carpenters
Lady Marmalade: LaBelle and Christina Aguilera, Pink, Mya and Li'l Kim
Go Away Little Girl: Steve Lawrence and Donny Osmond
Lean on Me: Bill Withers and Club Nouveau

Congratulations to our Vakaadoo iPod Case Winners:
Sean D. from San Francisco, CA
Ryan B. from Flagstaff, AZ
Stephen K. from Cambridge, UK (make sure to check out the Ibbott Sundial if you're in the Cambridge area)
Camille I. from Dorval, Quebec
Jen Y. from Philadelphia, PA
and David L. from Washington D.C.

More trivia coming, so keep listening!

Coverville 310: The Fake Band Cover Story

There's just no getting around it. The bands being covered or featured tonight don't really exist. Oh sure, they're made up of musicians and actors who can sing, but they've got their roots in movies, and their histories are fabricated.

Tracklist:

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
(Listen to the) Flower People	NSS	Beat-up Old Ugly Cynical & Live	Spinal Tap
Big Bottom	Hayseed Dixie	A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love	Spinal Tap
I Must Be In Love	Senseless Things	Revolution No. 9: A Tribute To The Beatles	The Rutles
Hold My Hand	The Pussywillows	Rutles Highway Revisited	The Rutles
That Thing You Do!	A New Found Glory	From the Screen to Your Stereo	The Oneders
Try A Little Tenderness	The Commitments	The Commitments: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	Otis Redding
Under The Boardwalk	Bruce Willis (as Bruno)	The Return of Bruno	The Drifters

33 minutes |

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Alanis' "Humps"

Wow. In the history of Coverville, no cover had netted more emails than one that hit the "tubes" just a little while ago, and I have to admit, it's a doozy: Alanis Morissette covering the Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps", complete with a video.

Alanis, I am duly impressed. After this, any time you want to come on Coverville, you've got my complete admiration:

Thanks to: T/Lloyd, Dale, Ian, Aurakill, Allison, Klaus, and both Ian R.'s (yes, two "Ian R."s pointed this out to me) for the link!

Coverville 309: Pills of AOR

(04-03-07: I've updated the information on the playlist for this show, now that April Fools has come and gone. You'll find the real artists and albums listed below.)

Tracklist:

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
I Love Trash (from Sesame Street)	Steven Tyler and Oscar the Grouch	Elmopalooza	Sesame Street
The Yogi Bear Song	In the style of The Cars	Rerun Rock: Superstars Sing Television Themes	Yogi Bear
Rawhide	In the style of Michael Jackson	Rerun Rock: Superstars Sing Television Themes	Rawhide
Bedrock Rap	Bruce Springstone	Tales From The Rhino	The Flintstones
Stairway to Gilligan's Island	Little Roger and the Goosebumps	Laguna Tunes	Gilligan's Island/The Wellingtons

20 minutes |

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