February 17, 2008
Coverville 426: Don't give me those do-goody-good cover requests
Here's on 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 |
| I Bet You Look Good On The Dance Floor | Sugababes | Q: Best of 86/06 | Arctic Monkeys |
| Money | Velvet Revolver | Slither, Pt. 2 (UK single) | Pink Floyd |
| Take Me I'm Yours | Chris Difford | South East Side Story | Squeeze |
| Crazy | Nelly Furtado | Live Lounge | Gnarls Barkley |
| Everybody's Changing | Lily Allen | The Saturday Sessions: The Dermot O'Leary Show | Keane |
| The Weight | Michelle Shocked | To Heaven U Ride | The Band |
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Posted by bibbott at February 17, 2008 8:21 PM
Thanks for playing that Sugababes track. I don't think it's the same performance I've heard, though--maybe I heard a live version? There are a couple of those on YouTube.
The Q Magazine disc is intriguing--The Magic Numbers are my newest favorite band, so I'd be interested in any covers they've done.
"Sir" Tom Jones did a great live cover of that Arctic monkeys track at the Diana concert last year. With Joe Perry on guitar!
Posted by: Wayne from the UK at February 18, 2008 12:09 PMI would consider "The Weight" a 'rock standard' since I probably heard 6 or 7 versions of it before I ever heard the original. The Travis cover was what made me finally look up the original.
How about 'Surrender' or 'Wild Thing,' 'Pretty Woman,''Brown Eyed Girl,' 'My Generation' to name a few more.
I didn't enjoy the Sugababes cover probably because I'm such a hardcore Arctic Monkeys fan...but I also really enjoy Sugababes' singles as my guilty pleasure.
And in closing, Lily Allen is fabulous! So is Keane! :)
Posted by: tinshaker at February 18, 2008 4:19 PMOh, and by the way, for listener Jimmy, what do you mean you don't understand the title of "The Weight" the whole chorus repeats over and over 'take a load off...put the load right on me" and every verse is about everyone piling more 'weight' on the shoulders of the traveler. It's quite literal in meaning....
Posted by: tinshaker at February 18, 2008 4:24 PMThe first song that came to mind as a Rock Standard is "All Along the WatchTower". It may have started as a folk song, but i think clearly it is now a rock standard.
Posted by: Scott at February 19, 2008 5:14 PMYeah, the blues songs - Crossroads, e.g., rate. Seems as though there were zillions of versions of Hey Joe when I was growing up. Gloria (Them, Doors, Shadows of Knight). I Heard It Through the Grapevine (CCR, Gaye, Pips). Kansas City (Wilbert Harrison, James Brown, Beatles). And those oft-covered sonfgs like Shout, La Bamba, The Letter, Louie Louie...
Posted by: Roger Green at February 20, 2008 1:32 PMOMG, Brian!! I've been waiting for you to play Nelly Furtado's version of Crazy for so long!!
If there's a bad cover of that song, I have yet to hear it.
Posted by: Sam From San Jose at February 26, 2008 12:24 PM