Here’s what’s on the show tonight:
Title (with link to iTunes, if available) | Artist (with link to the artists’ website, if available) | Album (with link to Amazon.com, if available) | Original Artist |
Superman | The Blanks | Riding the Wave | Lazlo Bane |
Superman’s Song | Jaymz Bee’s Royal Jelly Orchestra | Cocktail: Shakin’ & Stirred | Crash Test Dummies |
Sunshine Superman (Stereo Phase Update) | LB | Pop Artificielle | Donovan |
Black Superman (Muhammad Ali) | Gear Daddies | Can’t Have Nothin’ Nice | Johnny Wakelin & the Kinshasa Band |
Superman | The Beatifics | Right to Chews: Bubblegum Classics Revisited | The Clique |
Superman (It’s Not Easy) | Catman Cohen | How I Want to Live — the Catman Chronicles 2 | Five For Fighting |
What? No cover of Laurie Anderson’s “O Superman”? (which, according to Wikipedia, is itself a cover of the aria “O Souverain” from Jules Massenet’s 1885 opera “Le Cid”.) FYI.
Excellent inclusion of that dreadful FFF song (well, it’s not really that dreadful, but it got terribly overplayed after 9/11!)
Happy Birthday Tristan.
You must be someone really special to have a show themed especially for you.
Interesting mention of the Laurie Anderson. I was listening to it on my iPod walking home a few days ago, thinking it’s ripe for a modern-rock cover. But the problem is, people would assume it’s a creepy 9/11 reference (“look – up in the sky – the planes are coming”). I think the reference to Massenet is an homage rather than a straight cover. The full title is “O Superman (for Massenet).”
Singular: The Clique
Belated Happy!! Happy!!! T-man.
What? No REM ‘Superman’?
Re: R.E.M.’s “Superman”:
I figured it would be too mainstream for the show. It was a big hit for them, so instead I played a different cover of the Clique’s song that wasn’t the R.E.M. version. Hope you liked it!
Brian
Surprised to see no cover of “Waiting (for a Superman)” by… Flaming Lips? I’m not sure. Great show, though! Love listening!
Sorry, but that cover of Crash Test Dummies’ Superman ‘s Song was just bad. In fact, this whole show was not up to usual standards.
But, I guess one out of 290 ain’t too bad….