May 11, 2021
On this episode, we begin our four part special on the (highly subjective) Top 200 Cover Songs of All Time. We have free jazz covers of noise rock, noise covers of krautrock, a bunch of people covering the Beatles, and Edith Massey just to name a few.
Songs Discussed:
Asobi Seksu – “Then He Kissed Me”
Black Tambourine – “Dream Baby Dream”
Botch – “Rock Lobster”
Breeders – “Happiness is a Warm Gun”
Cake – “I Will Survive”
Chaka Khan – “I Feel for You”
Chapterhouse – “Lady Godiva’s Operation”
Codeine – “Atmosphere
Crucial Taunt – “Ballroom Blitz”
Deodato – “Do it Again”
Edith Massey – “Big Girls Don’t Cry”
Exodus – “Lowrider”
George Harrison – “If Not for You”
GG Allin – “Sluts in the City”
Ghost – “Caledonia”
Gipsy Kings – “Hotel California”
Goldfinger – “99 Red Balloons”
Guitar Wolf – “Summertime Blues”
Harry Pussy – “Showroom Dummies”
Joe Cocker – “With a Little Help from My Friends”
John Zorn – “The Sicilian Clan”
Ken Mode – “Turned Out”
Lizzy Mercier Descloux – “Fire”
Los Punk Rockers – “Bodies”
Lush – “Hey Hey Helen”
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – “Blinded by the Light”
Nomeansno – “Forward to Death”
Oneohtrix Point Never – “Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Creeping”
Orgy – “Blue Monday”
Patra – “Pull Up to My Bumper”
Psycho – “Psycho Killer”
Rosalia – “I See a Darkness”
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet – “Run Chicken Run”
Siouxie and the Banshees – “Dear Prudence”
Skee-Lo – “The Tale of Mr. Morton”
Teengenerate – “Kicked Out of the Webelos”
The Chameleons – “Tomorrow Never Knows”
The Flying Lizards – “Money (That’s What I Want)”
The Free Design – “Where Do I Go?”
The Goodees – “Double Shot (Of My Baby’s Love)”
The Jesus Lizard – “Wheelchair Epidemic”
The Sweet – “Paperback Writer”
The Thing – “Ride the Skies”
The Trashwomen – “Justine”
U.S. Christmas – “Master of the Universe”
Wendy Carlos – “Sonata in D Major K.491”
Wesley Willis Fiasco – “Girls on Film”
Xiu Xiu – “Fast Car”
Zapp – “Fire”
Zola Jesus – “Changes”
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