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 |
| Could I Have This Dance | Kevin Cahoon and Ghetto Cowboy | Doll | Anne Murray |
| Come Together | Elmer Ferrer Band | Fango Dance | The Beatles |
| Alone Again Or | Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs | Under the Covers, Vol. 1 | Love |
| Hold On, I’m Coming | Bird York | Wicked Little High | Popularized by Sam and Dave |
| Sweet Surrender | Adrienne Fawkes | Wake Up | Sarah McLachlan |
| Can’t Get You Out Of My Head | Catman Cohen | How I Want to Die — the Catman Chronicles 1 | Kylie Minogue cover |
44 minutes | 
There’s a “Mostly Trivial” Musically Challenged in this show! Make sure to check out Johnee Bee’s podcast! 
Brian: Nice mention in Rolling Stone this week. You and “Morning Become Eclectic” (one of my other favorite podcasts) — fabulous. Click here!
Very cool about the Rolling Stone mention. Sounds even better than my National Geographic Traveller mention. 🙂
Who is the woman reading the lyrics on Jonny Bee’s trivia segment? Nice voice.
I sound like a mental patient recounting my dream. What the hell is wrong with me?
Hey, did you really win an Elvis contest in Vegas?
I sound like a mental patient recounting my dream. What the hell is wrong with me?
Hey, did you really win an Elvis contest in Vegas?
I did many things in Vegas (many of which will stay in Vegas…because I can’t remember them), but the Elvis Presley contest was here in Colorado at an anniversary party thrown by the town’s best barbecue restaurant. I won a rhinestoned cape, and a years supply of food from the place.
If I can dig up the photos from the contest, I’ll post them on the blog.
Incidentally, I think I won because I was the only one to eat a spare-rib while competing in the karaoke portion of the contest…
Re Brian: Do explain! 😉
And congrads on the RS citation
Congrats on the RS mention. Now that you’ve hit th big time, you won’t be forgetting us ‘little people’, will you? 🙂
I really liked the cover of ‘Can’t get you out of my head’. It’s amazing how well that song stands up to covers. It seems so poppish in Kylies original version. Given your cover-song demigod status, you probably already know, but the Flaming Lips do an amazing cover of it also.
Thanks also for the Sarah cover. I’m a huge fan of hers, and don’t hear to many covers.
Nice RS mention. My only problem with it is, it says you have shows three times a week, and it’s been a while since you’ve been able to manage that on a regular basis. :^(
The first half of March had you going pretty well, but we’ve had to restrict our fix to every five or six days lately.
You need to get your priorities straight, Brian! Quit the day job. Quit the other podcast. Rededicate yourself to the thing that got you into this insane realm of podcasting in the first place! We beg you! 🙂
Hi, Brian,
Congrats on the Rolling Stone mention. I am a new listener who discovered your podcast on iTunes not long ago. I wanted to say “Hi” and let you know how much I enjoy your show and appreciate what your work bringing these covers to us.
“Alone Again Or” by Love is on my list of my personal “discoveries” I found digging through iTunes I guess I have probably heard it before, but it is one of those songs I can’t believe hasn’t gotten more attention.
I will have to look up the version by the other artists mentioned in the podcast, because I put this song in the category of “perfect” songs where the song has the potential for greatness, but the arrangement is weird, or the background singers sound dated — something relatively minor keeps the recording from being sublime. In the Hoffs/Sweet version, they each seem to be singing different words in one part of the chorus, and it may have been an intentional effect, but it is distracting to me, and keeps it from being a great recording of an excellent song.
Does anyone out there know what I am talking about? Other songs in this category that I can think of off the top of my head are “When You Were Mine” and “The Book of Love”. Both of these songs are amazing, lyrically and melodically. But the recordings of these songs that I am familiar with seem to be missing some little something that keeps me wanting to hear other, different interpretations of the song.
“When You Were Mine” is a great song. Prince is an amazing guitarist, the melody is beautiful, the situation in the song is poignant/funny/disgusting/sad, (depending on your interpretation of the relationship described) but something in Prince’s recording isn’t right. I am not sure what. Cyndi Lauper covered the song, did a fine job, but she was a girl singing a “guy” song, and her version sounds so syntho-’80s.
“The Book of Love” is another amazing song. Lyrically, it is a throwback to the goofy 1950s extended metaphor love songs, but it has humor and depth that the Doo-wop songs lacked. Still, I know of three recordings of this song and I don’t think any of them does it justice. The Magnetic Fields version is by the guy who wrote the song, but it is too spare. I know — like with the Prince song, it is his own song, he can record it how he wants to, and who am I to judge, but I think the song has potential to be a classic and The Magnetic Fields’ version is too pared-down to be satisfying. The American remake of the movie “Shall We Dance” has a Peter Gabriel cover of the song on the soundtrack. That was the first version I heard — and it made me love the song (though I still don’t think I’ll ever watch the whole U.S. version of the movie), but I think his version is too slow and way, way too violin-enhanced. I want to hear this song the way it deserves to be performed. Online I found a husband-and-wife team that recorded it, they did a good job, but it was kind of synthy as well.
I plan on going through your “back issues”, but I have been wondering if you or your listeners ever think about what I have been rambling on about in this post.
I want to thank you forever and profusely for playing the Ghetto Cowboy song. I heard this years ago and adored it, and have been looking for it ever since. It’s been four years since I heard it, and I’m now listening to it over and over again. All thanks to you. *happyhappy*
For Michael – I believe that is Johnee Bee’s wife. I had the pleasure of meeting them at the podcast expo last November, and they mentioned that she does the “I didn’t know that” phrase in the show