Note: Not sure why I sound so bassy in this show, but I’ll have it fixed by the next episode.
Here’s on 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 |
In Your Eyes | Lori McKenna | High School Reunion – A Tribute To All Those Great 80’s Films | Peter Gabriel |
Shock The Monkey | The Woolridge Brothers | Gag Me With A Spoon | Peter Gabriel |
I Have The Touch | Heather Nova | The Craft Soundtrack | Peter Gabriel |
Red Rain | Queensryche | Take Cover | Peter Gabriel |
Big Time | Berlin | 4Play | Peter Gabriel |
Solsbury Hill | Erasure | Other People’s Songs | Peter Gabriel |
Don’t Give Up | Show Of Hands | Covers | Peter Gabriel |
The Book Of Love | Peter Gabriel | Shall We Dance? Soundtrack | The Magnetic Fields |
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The bassiness sounds like the “proximity effect,” which is where you sound bassier the closer you are to the mic.
Were you closer to it than usual this time around? Try moving back a few inches and see if that helps.
Brian, thanks for playing Heather Nova! I was madly in love with her vocals and incredible songwriting in the mid to late 90s. If anyone out there wants to see what I mean, check out her first album, Oyster. She went a bit more mainstream on the second album and then vanished into obscurity. I had all her singles/EPs/etc, so hearing this track really took me back to my high school/college years.
The Craft soundtrack had some awful songs on it yet had two or three GREAT covers, most notably Love Spit Love’s version of How soon is now which I still believe trumps the original.
That was fantastic!
I know that 1986 is your favourite year, so playing almost all of “So” was great…though I wish that maybe you had gone the whole hog and done a “So” complete show.
That Erasure album has some absolute shockers on it too, Kevin Rowland bad!!
Brian,
Love the show! Thanks for sending this out into the world. Two things I can’t belive are that I never heard the show before episode 400 and that NPR didn’t think of this first.
You’re the reason iPods/podcasts were invited! Thanks!
Great show as always. I was a big PG fan back in the day, he was the first concert I ever went to back in the late 80’s. I especially liked the Show of Hands track; I hadn’t heard of them before, I’m going to check them out.
This show prooved that Peter can’t be properly covered (or remixed) !!! keep on the good work !
Man, that “The Book of Love” cover just rips through me and gives me goosebumps. Loved it. Thanks for introducing me to it.
The sad part of this story is that I went to buy the track on iTunes and it is unavailable on its own. I would have to buy the entire “Shall We Dance” soundtrack, which I am so very opposed to doing. I will have to do a whole lot of hunting to find I reckon.
I would rather not have to bite that bullet and get caught buying the soundtrack to “Shall We Dance”. It would be a great insult to my dude-nessism
First, “Book of Love” brings tears to my eyes. I love Peter’s version. And that dedication was just sweet – thanks for playing the actual audio instead of just reading it.
Loved Queensryche’s version of Red Rain! Faithful, yet still the Ryche. A fine choice. And that Show of Hands song was surprisingly moving. That song is just bulletproof – it’s hard to do a bad version of it. I believe you’ve played the Willie Nelson version before. Wait, have you? If not, you should. Willie and Sinead o’Connor.
An excellent show overall. Can’t say I loved the Berlin cover, but that’s just me.