Here’s what’s on the show tonight (links to come!):
Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
Milkshake | Richard Cheese | I’d Like a Virgin | Kelis |
Beth | Coffin Break | Hard To Believe | KISS |
Older | Spinn | Send Lawyers, Guns and Pickles | They Might Be Giants |
Lovely Rita | Roy Wood | All This and World War II | Beatles |
Find The Cost of Freedom | Styx | Big Bang Theory | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young |
Six More Miles | The The | Hanky Panky | Hank Williams |
Vera | Luther Wright and the Wrongs | Rebuild the Wall | Pink Floyd |
Great things come in small packages. Excellent show, Brian. I’m always happy to hear a Beatles cover I haven’t heard before. And Richard Cheese is in a class all by himself. I think it’s called detention…
Yes, great Beatles cover (Sgt Pepper cover story?)
Good old Roy Wood, Christmas soon, then the big royalty cheques come rolling in. Does “I wish it could be Christmas everyday” get played in EVERY retail outlet in the USA from November to Christmas every year since 1973?! In the UK this happens, which i’m sure keeps turkey on Roy’s table each year
Quite a show, in a small package!
If you’re a Hank Sr. fan, Camper Van Beethoven also did a very nice cover of “Six More Miles to the Graveyard.” It was originally available only on the cassette version of their “Vampire Can Mating Oven” EP, but was eventually released on their “Camper Vantiquities” compilation which, incidentally, is available on eMusic. CVB are/were a great cover band, and eMusic also has their covers of Black Flag’s “Wasted,” The Clash’s “White Riot,” Pink Floyd’s “Interstellar Overdrive,” Ringo Starr’s “Photograph,” Sonic Youth’s “I Love Her All The Time,” and, of course, Status Quo’s “Pictures of Matchstick Men.”
FYI, “Spinn” isn’t a band, it’s the alias of one Greg Galcik, a guy I knew from college and pre-web BBSes. I don’t think he brought out an actual “album”, that was just a goofy thing in the MP3 tags.
Check out his under-reconstruction web site, Spinnwebe. He’s done a lot of cool web projects over the years, too — anyone remember the Dysfunctional Family Circus?
Yay for Long Tall Weekend!