Here’s what you’ll hear on this show:
Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
Famous Blue Raincoat | Jonathan Coulton | Thing A Week | Leonard Cohen |
August & September | Elbow | Q: Best of 86/06 | The The |
Forever Young | Youth Group | Music From The OC Mix 5 | Alphaville |
Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) | The Wedding Present | Alvin Lives in Leeds : Anti Poll Tax Trax | Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel |
Love Of The Common People | Elton John | 16 Legendary Covers 1969-70 | Waylon Jennings/Nicky Thomas |
All Things Reconsidered | Phish | Rift | NPR’s All Things Considered |
Coulton… not his best work, but it will have to do in the absence of covers. I love that guy.
OK, this is officially SPOOKY. I was thinking the other day about whether someone had covered “Come up and see me”, and then there it is in a show!
Maybe I have found a portal into Brian’s brain, like in “Being John Malcovich”. Now that would be uber cool!
Jonathan Coulton and Napoleon Dynamite mentioned in one show – doesn’t get much better than that
Great show!
Suzanne Vega also does an excellent version of “Famous Blue Raincoat” on the “Tower of Song” Leonard Cohen tribute album.
Thanks for including the Elbow cover of August and September… beautifully performed and IMHO better than the original. Already had it on the Q CD, but nice to hear it again.
Actually, that Phish version is a remake of the *original* “All Things Considered” theme that was used in the show’s early years before they went to the theme music that most people are familiar with. It was a synthesizer piece like the Walter/Wendy Carlos “Switched-On Bach” and all of the music buttons back then were synthesizer pieces, I believe mostly original. Fun little number, but I was expecting the *other* theme.
Enjoy your shows a lot.
Steve Harley, not Steve “Harvey”.
It’s not a cover, exactly, but that Phish piece made me think of “Mourning Edition” by Austin Lounge Lizards, a reworking of the NPR Morning Edition theme.