There’s just no getting around it. The bands being covered or featured tonight don’t really exist. Oh sure, they’re made up of musicians and actors who can sing, but they’ve got their roots in movies, and their histories are fabricated.
Tracklist:
| 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 |
| (Listen to the) Flower People | NSS | Beat-up Old Ugly Cynical & Live | Spinal Tap |
| Big Bottom | Hayseed Dixie | A Hillbilly Tribute to Mountain Love | Spinal Tap |
| I Must Be In Love | Senseless Things | Revolution No. 9: A Tribute To The Beatles | The Rutles |
| Hold My Hand | The Pussywillows | Rutles Highway Revisited | The Rutles |
| That Thing You Do! | A New Found Glory | From the Screen to Your Stereo | The Oneders |
| Try A Little Tenderness | The Commitments | The Commitments: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | Otis Redding |
| Under The Boardwalk | Bruce Willis (as Bruno) | The Return of Bruno | The Drifters |
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Darn…now I have to go digging and see if I can find any covers of songs originally recorded by my favorite fake band, Strange Fruit.
Great idea Brian.
But surely SOMEONE has covered “Sugar Sugar” by The Archies?
And where were The Bar-Keys (from the Simpsons) and Alvin and the Chipmunks? 🙂
I hate to be a nit picker brian, but do you realize there was 3 minutes of dead air at the end of this podcast?
I love the bruce willis, I had no idea such a character existed. He actually does have a pretty dam good singing voice!
Ugh. No diea why there’s dead air. I now move the show into Garageband to do the AAC version and any edits. I think I might have taken out a long gap where I looked up some info, and didn’t trim the end. Sorry!
“Ugh. No diea why there’s dead air. I now move the show into Garageband to do the AAC version and any edits. I think I might have taken out a long gap where I looked up some info, and didn’t trim the end. Sorry!”
Oh, I assumed it was part of the Spinal Tap comment at the end – about turning it up to 11, you know, a little extra.
Actually, something we have not heard for a some time is the hidden track at the end, that is what I thought would be at the end of this silence, but alas it was not to be!
Brian, You’re making me crazy. . .first the April Fool Coverville (I’d like to peed myself when I first heard the Micheal Jackson version of “Rawhide”) and then the Alanis cover of “HUMPS” and now that Hayseed Dixie cover of “Fat Bottom” . . .I’m speechless, so it’s a good think that I’m writing this! See you in Rock and Roll Heaven my friend!
Brian, every time you play something from NFG’s From The Screen To Your Stereo, it makes me happy. To my recollection that’s the first cover album I ever bought, and I still love it! Great theme, and great show!
Great concept, great execution! If you ever do it again, may I suggest “God Give Me Strength” by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. (Though it’s a good question which is the cover version, that one, that appears on the soundtrack, or the version that appears in the movie, which didn’t appear on CD until later.)
And any other covers of songs from “Grace of My Heart” would be quite welcome as well.
Great to hear Pussywillows on the show. Thanks!