Thanks for your votes and wonderful comments on Podcast Alley. Coverville listeners are the best listeners of any cover-music-based podcast anywhere!
Now, as promised, here are the nominees for the “My Favorite Cover Countdown 2004”. Cast your vote for one of the following and hear it in the countdown shows starting Christmas Week!
Wonderwall – Ryan Adams (originally Oasis)
Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters – Indigo Girls (originally Elton John)
Suzanne – Neil Diamond (originally Leonard Cohen)
Mad World – Gary Jules (originally Tears For Fears)
Running Up That Hill – Placebo (originally Kate Bush)
Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley (originally Leonard Cohen)
Mrs. Robinson – Lemonheads (originally Simon & Garfunkel)
I Will Survive – Cake (originally Gloria Gaynor)
Blackbird – Sarah McLachlan (originally Beatles)
Gin N Juice – Sissy Bar (originally Snoop Dogg)
Gin N Juice – Gourds (originally Snoop Dogg)
The Light 3000 (There is a Light…) – Schneider TM (originally The Smiths)
All Mixed Up – Red House Painters (originally The Cars)
Comfortably Numb – Scissor Sisters (originally Pink Floyd)
Bitch – Goo Goo Dolls (originally The Rolling Stones)
Dreams – Corrs (originally Fleetwood mac)
Walk Away Renee – Billy Bragg (popularized by The Four Tops and Left Banke)
Only Love Can Break Your Heart – Juliana Hatfield (originally Neil Young) [Need help tracking this down]
Tiny Dancer – Ben Folds (originally Elton John)
I’m Not In Love- Ritchie Havens (originally 10cc) [Need help tracking this down]
Brilliant Disguise – Elvis Costello (originally Bruce Springsteen)
Suspicious Minds – Fine Young Cannibals (originally Elvis Presley)
Wild Horses – Sundays (originally The Rolling Stones)
Take Me Out – Scissor Sisters (originally Franz Ferdinand)
Imagine – Blues Traveler (originally John Lennon)
Cold Cold Heart – Norah Jones (originally Hank Williams Sr.)
Blue Moon Revisited (A Song For Elvis) – Cowboy Junkies (originally Elvis Presley)
Baltimore – Nina Simone (originally Randy Newman)
I Can’t Forget – The Pixies (originally Leonard Cohen)
September Girls – The Bangles (originally Big Star)
Battle of Evermore – The Lovemongers (originally Led Zepplin)
My Back Pages – The Ramones (originally Bob Dylan)
Whew! Of course you can still “write-in” votes, but try to cast a vote for one of the above along with your additioanl submission. You can vote by commenting to this (or any other) entry, calling my voice mail (love those audio comments! keep them coming) at 314-248-9957, or emailing me at brian at coverville dot com.
I’m going for “Blue Moon Revisited” – Cowboy Junkies. It actually has a sub-title, which is “A Song for Elvis”.
Hi Brian,
Thanks for playing the Junkies the other day. Thanks for butchering my name on the Internet, much appreciated! 😉 BTW, its pronounced yo-nis, trust the Dutch to come up with akward spellings of Jona.
Anyways, my vote of course: The Cowboy Junkies – Blue Moon Revisited (A Song for Elvis)
Thanks,
Ijonas.
My vote is for Sarah McLachlan’s Blackbird.
(If possible, I’d have a tie between Sarah and the Cowboy Junkies.)
Put me down for Buckley’s “Hallelujah.” If I get a second place vote, “Mrs. Robinson.”
Hmmm, seems there is a lack of country artist on the list. Probably the best I’ve ever heard was Johnny Cash’s version of “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails. Truly a powerful song when he sings it.
Oh, and I doubt it’s on a CD but a few years ago Johnny Cash did a commercial for Saturn cars where he sang the theme to Laverne and Shirley. Kinda funny 🙂 .
Put me down for “The Light 3000” by Schneider TM. If second votes are allowable, I’ll vote for Ryan Adam’s “Wonderwall.”
This is a very tough choice, but how about The Light 3000?
If i were going to do a write in it would be Johnny Cash’s rendition of Hurt by NIN but i am going to have to give my all important vote to Ryan Adams version of Wonderwall one of my favorite songs of all time.
There’s some great songs on here, but I’ve never heard ‘Walk Away Renee.
Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley (originally Leonard Cohen)
If only for the quality of the mix, which is unparalleled to this day by any recording engineer.
I vote for Buckley’s Hallelujah.
I prefer the Cale/Wainwright arrangement, but I don’t want to split the Hallelujah vote 🙂
i also vote for buckley and hallelujah. just like the way he performs this song.
Wow! What a great list! I’ll have to listen to a few I’ve never heard before I can vote. However, one is missing that I know I love: Against All Odds by the Postal Service, 80’s cheese at it’s best.
I’m voting for three. I’m not going to ask for permission becuase that’s the kind of guy I am.
Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley (originally Leonard Cohen)
Mrs. Robinson – Lemonheads (originally Simon & Garfunkel)
I Will Survive – Cake (originally Gloria Gaynor)
I hadn’t heard Buckley’s version of the Cohen classic before your show – and I have to admit – it was very well done.
I’ve always been a fan of the Lemonheads take on Mrs. Robinson.
And I can’t not vote for Cake. I just can’t.
Thanks for putting all my votes next to each other on the list. It makes it very convenient.
-adam
I’m voting for three and I’m not asking for permission. I’m just doing it. That’s the kind of guy I am.
Suspicious Minds – Fine Young Cannibals
Write in: Surfin’ Bird by The Ramones
I will have to vote for The Gourds – Gin and Juice. This is by far one of the best covers I have ever heard. I like any cover that takes a great song to begin with and completely takes it out of its element. I’m a huge fan of the show, keep up the good work.
I too will have to vote for Hallelujah – Jeff Buckley. Great song! And my write-in vote is for “The Weakness in Me” by Melissa Etheridge (original by Joan Armatrading).
– John
p.s. I would also second the idea of having your listeners call in to your comment line and record the “Number Twenty-Nine!” bits. Reply with my number and I can call it in (can I be number 17?!)