RERUN - Episode 26 - Cover Songs

This week, we talk all about covers - those great songs made better or worse by someone else performing them. From punker bands that speed them up, to choral groups that slow them way down, covers are music's way of paying tribute to its favorite past musicians - or riding their coat tails. Check out this YouTube playlist of all these awesome covers and more: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs…d58qv1-uXtiJJxB7R Who we're covering - oh! Puns! Woo hoo! Soft Cell - Tainted Love Gloria Jones - Tainted Love UB40 - Red Red Wine Neil Diamond - Red Red Wine Dionne Warwick - (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me Naked Eyes - (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me Bananarama - Venus Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool Katrina and the Waves - Going Down To Liverpool Devo - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction Phyllis Diller - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction William Shatner - Mr Tambourine Man William Shatner - Common People Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song Engelbert Humperdinck - Killing Me Softly Erasure - Lay All Your Love On Me ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me Information Society - Lay All Your Love On Me Erasure - S.O.S. Men Without Hats - S.O.S. Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep - Sos (Mamma Mia! Original Motion Picture Sountrack) Russell Crowe - Stars (Les Miserables) Red Kross - Dancing Queen Erasure - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind Gary Jules - Mad World Lorde - Everybody Wants To Rule The World Think Up Anger ft Malia J - Smells Like Teen Spirit Nouela - Black Hole Sun Scala & Kolacny Brothers - California Dreamin’ Scala Choir - Creep Postmodern Jukebox - Creep Postmodern Jukebox - Seven Nation Army Richard Cheese - Smack My Bitch Up Richard Cheese - Creep The BossHoss - Word Up Tom T-Bone Stankus - Purple Rain Hayseed Dixie - Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap) Powerman 5000 - Relax Blondie - Relax Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck Aerosmith - Come Together Steve Martin - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer Orgy - Blue Monday Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – Bad Reputation Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock & Roll Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – ACDC Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – MCA Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – Do You Wanna Touch Me Gary Glitter – Rock and Roll, Pt. 2 The Timelords - Doctorin’ The Tardis Age of Chance – Kiss Age of Chance – Disco Inferno Age of Chance – We Got Trouble Cake – War Pigs Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday Apocalyptica – One Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa Brown Derbies – In Your Eyes Brown Derbies – Karma Police Tom Waits – Brother Can You Spare A Dime The Con Men – Brother Can You Spare A Dime Ben Folds – Bitches Ain’t Shit Dynamite Hack – Boyz in the Hood The Gourds – Gin and Juice Weezer – Life’s What You Make It Hannah Montana – Life’s What You Make It Buddy Rich – Norwegian Wood Type O Negative - Summer Breeze Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning Dickies - Nights in White Satin Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas Flaming lips - Knives Out 0:00 Intros and Eric’s connection dropping 3:00 Eric loves driving an EV 6:10 Fresh Shit 8:35 Canada’s Worst Handyman 10:30 Free Fire 12:33 Spider-Man: Homecoming 17:35 Arrival 21:27 Covers intro 24:20 Covers where artists take ownership of a song 28:32 Covers that are very different from the original 33:50 ABBA 40:37 Slow, sad versions of older pop songs 43:10 Creep 46:15 Covers made funny by changing style 52:00 Covers that add nothing to the original 54:52 Marilyn Manson 55:50 Joan Jett 58:18 Pedophiles / Gary Glitter 1:00:54 Age of Chance 1:03:10 Cake 1:03:37 Eric cuts out again 1:05:30 Unusual Instruments 1:07:08 A Cappella covers 1:09:46 Brother Can You Spare A Dime 1:11:23 Even more about owning it and/or cultural appropriation 1:17:10 Eric’s top 5 covers