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 |
Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa | Hot Chip & Peter Gabriel | Unreleased | Vampire Weekend |
Feeling Good | Muse | Origin Of Symmetry | Nina Simone |
Boys Don’t Cry | Seven Nations/Kirk McLeod | So Piano | The Cure |
Billie Jean | Ian Brown | Golden Greats | Michael Jackson |
Where The Streets Have No Name | Dust Rhinos | Sociable: Live | U2 |
I Will | Tim Curry | The Best Of Tim Curry | The Beatles |
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There is a Musically Challenged segment in this show! Thanks to Jeffery for sending it in!
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Since there are no comments posted yet, I shall be the first one. This was another great show. It could get a little tedious, but the variety of styles and the placement of the totally different They Might Be Giants cover kept it from being so. Of course, any time Yma Sumac can be worked into a show guarantees a high interest level.
The very, very popular (in the UK) cheesy cover by Tight Fit from 1982 would have rounded this off perfectly! 🙂
Great show
Since the Cville Idol results weren't posted, here they are:
1. Tempted – The Priestess and The Fool
2. Take Me (I'm Yours) – etgilles
3. This Summer – Kim Novak
I voted for all 3 songs (though not etgilles version of TMIY). I'm not surprised by Tempted's win because it seems like Squeeze's most familiar song.
I really worried about this one, mostly based on the possible boredom factor. Nope!
I must say I prefer the Pete Seeger 1963 version to the Weavers'. There's also a nice version on a 1990 album Spike & Co: Do It A Cappella; you might find that album interesting for other covers.
The history of this song is really fascinating and somewhat tragic. The best coverage I've been of it is here:
http://www.3rdearmusic.com/forum/mbube2.html
it was a 3-part story in Rolling Stone magazine.
I was really hoping you'd use the "Nylons" version of the song. Back in the 80's I discovered that version of the song and used it to appear on that cheezy 80's lip sync gameshow "Puttin' on the Hits." We won some money in the first round and got to move on to the semi-finals where we were beat by a 300lb guy in a diaper with hearts glued on his nipples lip syncing to "Cupid."
But we still had an all expenses paid trip to Hollywood which for a bunch of high schoolers from Oklahoma was pretty cool.
That's why that version always has a special place in my heart.