Happy Birthday next week (March 1st, to be exact) to Roger Daltrey of The Who. Let’s celebrate with a show full of covers of Who songs, as well as a cover by The Kids (who Are of course, Alright) themselves. Here’s what you’ll hear:
| Title | Artist | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
| The Seeker | Rush | Feedback | The Who |
| The Kids Are Alright | Recliner | Make A Friend | The Who |
| Is It In My Head? | The Shambles | 22 Explosive Hits | The Who |
| I Can’t Explain | Yvonne Elliman and Pete Townshend | The Best of Yvonne Elliman | The Who |
| Behind Blue Eyes | Pat Dinizio (of the Smithereens) | Who’s Not Forgotten, FDR’s Tribute to the Who | The Who |
| Under My Thumb | The Who | Odds & Sods | The Rolling Stones |
| Miles and Miles and Miles (I Can See For Miles) | Nutty | Nutty | The Who |
| Armenia City In The Sky | Petra Haden | Petra Haden Sings: The Who Sell Out | The Who |
40 minutes | 
Thanks for not playing Limp Bizkit’s cover of Behind Blue Eyes. I much prefer Dinizio’s version.
For The Who Cover Story II, I’d like to request Boris the Spider by The Blue Up?, a Minneapolis band fron the early 1990s. The band was led by Rachael Olson, who has since changed her name to Ana Voog, known as one of the origiinal Internet cam girls (she also released a solo CD as Ana Voog). I can hook you up with a copy of the song if needed.
Are you sure Neil Diamond wrote “Is It In My Head”, or is that the copy-and-paste talking? 🙂
The Who have always been one of my favorite bands, and this show was apt because I was listening to Richard Thompson’s cover of Substitute earlier today. Not only do I concur with Five Hundy’s opinion of Durst (not only did he butcher the song, but he got to make out with Halle Berry in the video, which means that he must be killed), but some other horrible Who covers are WASP’s The Real Me, Gorky Park’s My Generation, and The Scorpion’s I Can’t Explain.
DiNizio also covered The Seeker on a Smithereens live EP from 1984. I was hoping you’d play that because I lost my copy many years ago.
Under My Thumb was originally released on either Who’s Missing or Two’s Missing (I forget which. They split the Stones covers between the two albums), but wound up on the CD reissue of Odds & Sods.
LOUNGE VERSION??????????!!!!!!!!!!!!
The version of “I Can See for Miles and Miles” was a tribute to jazz trumpteter and composer Miles Davis.
It began with a recreation of the intro to “So What” by Bill Evans and bassist Paul Chambers. The “So What” riff appears later in the arrangement. It was followed by the riff from “Black Betty” from his European tour album. The last theme was “Milestones”, from the album of the same name. The whole thing was done in the style of Davis’ later electric period.
Lounge is novelty music from the early sixties. I can’t see how it can get confused with Miles Davis.
Speaking of ‘The Who’, there is also this cover from the fourth Dr. Who…
http://www.joebullock.com/~tombake/karaoke.html
http://www.joebullock.com/~tombake/sounds/tom%20buggles.mp3
I think this was made using a new sms to voice thing in the UK, British Telecom used Tom Baker’s voice…..
Rohan, I apologize. I’m sadly not as familiar with Miles Davis’ work I should be. It certainly was not intended as disrespect. Consider this an official correction.
Sorry, I didn’t mean to over-react (I was actually intending to be a bit comical). I’m a huge fan of the show, and appreciate that people can’t be knowledgeable about everything. I’m certainly not.
Nice job, Rohan. I had picked up on the Milestones reference at the end (and didn’t even think “Oh, I get it. I Can See For Miles – Miles Davis”) , but didn’t hear So What. I’m not familiar with Black Betty, though.
I know you can’t have everything, but I was really hoping you’d have The Jam doing “So Sad About Us”.
Much as I dig the Petra Haden version, you must hear Sugar (ex-Hüsker Düde Bob Mould’s 1990s band) in their version of “Armenia City in the Sky.” I could never figure out why the accent is on the third syllable, though.