Episodes

Coverville 174: Requests for Izzy Stradlin, Peter Noone, Norah Jones and Chris Isaak…honored!

January 30, 2006

Here’s what’s on the show tonight:

Title (with link to iTunes, if available) Artist Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) Original Artist
Solitary Man Chris Isaak San Francisco Days Neil Diamond
Pressure Drop Izzy Stradlin and the Ju Ju Hounds Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds Toots and the Maytals
Green Shirt The Tremblers (feat. Peter Noone) Twice Nightly Elvis Costello
L.T.W.T.M.S. The Trouble with Sweeney Fishtown Briefcase Paul McCartney
Naive Melody Steve Ball Naive Melodies Talking Heads
More Than This Charlie Hunter Quartet feat. Norah Jones Songs from the Analog Playground Roxy Music

47 minutes |

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9 Comments

  1. Dave
    Dave on January 31, 2006 at 9:24 am

    Thanks for playing the Chris Isaak song. In the trivia segment, it was Julian Cope that was in the Teardrop Explodes.

  2. Chris from the Amateur Travaler podcast
    Chris from the Amateur Travaler podcast on January 31, 2006 at 6:28 pm

    I love the idea of a misheard lyrics coverville. I remember a female comedian talking about guys singing lyrics in her ear wrong while they danced,

    “free beans, nothing more than free beans”

  3. Will J ... from My Trivia Podcast
    Will J ... from My Trivia Podcast on February 1, 2006 at 4:30 am

    I believe, one time in my travels, I heard someone refer to the misheard lyrics phenom as “chronic lyricosis”.

  4. Aaron
    Aaron on February 1, 2006 at 7:37 am

    The ‘proper’ name for a misheard lyric is a mondegreen.

    I learnt this from a music/comedy quiz show in Australia called ‘Spicks and Specks’ which has a segment called ‘Mondegreens’, where a misheard lyric is read out, and the contestants have to answer with the correct lyric and song.

    Wikipedia also has an article on mondegreens, and has links to sites containing many mondegreens.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondegreen

    Thanks Aaron

    P.S. Also on the Spicks and Specks theme do you have any covers of the Bee Gees song ‘Spicks and Specks’.

  5. imelda
    imelda on February 1, 2006 at 8:00 am

    Steve Ball’s Naive Melody is AMAZING. I have listening to it 4 times in a row already. Thanks for the great tune Brian.

  6. brian
    brian on February 1, 2006 at 8:29 am

    My favorite Mondegreen is “chug-a-lug, strawberry man, it’s making me crazy.”

    Anyone wanna guess this one before I give you the real lyric?

  8. 3-Pin
    3-Pin on February 2, 2006 at 5:11 am

    Or the song my wife thought that the lyrics were, “There’s a bathroom on the right”

  9. HellZiggy
    HellZiggy on February 3, 2006 at 6:33 pm

    In high school a song came on the radio that my husband liked and his friend commented on what a dumb song it was. He said “To Heck With Ed and His Dog Harold” was just a stupid name for a song. After he stopped laughing my husband filled him in on what the title really was: “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.”

    ~Sharon