This week, we talk all about covers - those great songs made better or worse by someone else performing them. From punker bands that speed them up, to choral groups that slow them way down, covers are music's way of paying tribute to its favorite past musicians - or riding their coat tails.

Check out this YouTube playlist of all these awesome covers and more: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLs…d58qv1-uXtiJJxB7R

Who we're covering - oh! Puns! Woo hoo!

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Gloria Jones - Tainted Love
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Neil Diamond - Red Red Wine
Dionne Warwick - (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me
Naked Eyes - (There’s) Always Something There To Remind Me
Bananarama - Venus
Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool
Katrina and the Waves - Going Down To Liverpool
Devo - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Phyllis Diller - (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
William Shatner - Mr Tambourine Man
William Shatner - Common People
Fugees - Killing Me Softly With His Song
Engelbert Humperdinck - Killing Me Softly
Erasure - Lay All Your Love On Me
ABBA - Lay All Your Love On Me
Information Society - Lay All Your Love On Me
Erasure - S.O.S.
Men Without Hats - S.O.S.
Pierce Brosnan & Meryl Streep - Sos (Mamma Mia! Original Motion Picture Sountrack)
Russell Crowe - Stars (Les Miserables)
Red Kross - Dancing Queen
Erasure - The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind
Gary Jules - Mad World
Lorde - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Think Up Anger ft Malia J - Smells Like Teen Spirit
Nouela - Black Hole Sun
Scala & Kolacny Brothers - California Dreamin’
Scala Choir - Creep
Postmodern Jukebox - Creep
Postmodern Jukebox - Seven Nation Army
Richard Cheese - Smack My Bitch Up
Richard Cheese - Creep
The BossHoss - Word Up
Tom T-Bone Stankus - Purple Rain
Hayseed Dixie - Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)
Powerman 5000 - Relax
Blondie - Relax
Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck
Aerosmith - Come Together
Steve Martin - Maxwell’s Silver Hammer
Orgy - Blue Monday
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – Bad Reputation
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – I Love Rock & Roll
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – ACDC
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – MCA
Joan Jett & the Blackhearts – Do You Wanna Touch Me
Gary Glitter – Rock and Roll, Pt. 2
The Timelords - Doctorin’ The Tardis
Age of Chance – Kiss
Age of Chance – Disco Inferno
Age of Chance – We Got Trouble
Cake – War Pigs
Orkestra Obsolete – Blue Monday
Apocalyptica – One
Perpetuum Jazzile – Africa
Brown Derbies – In Your Eyes
Brown Derbies – Karma Police
Tom Waits – Brother Can You Spare A Dime
The Con Men – Brother Can You Spare A Dime
Ben Folds – Bitches Ain’t Shit
Dynamite Hack – Boyz in the Hood
The Gourds – Gin and Juice
Weezer – Life’s What You Make It
Hannah Montana – Life’s What You Make It
Buddy Rich – Norwegian Wood
Type O Negative - Summer Breeze
Primal Scream - Some Velvet Morning
Dickies - Nights in White Satin
Dead Kennedys - Viva Las Vegas
Flaming lips - Knives Out

0:00 Intros and Eric’s connection dropping
3:00 Eric loves driving an EV
6:10 Fresh Shit
8:35 Canada’s Worst Handyman
10:30 Free Fire
12:33 Spider-Man: Homecoming
17:35 Arrival
21:27 Covers intro
24:20 Covers where artists take ownership of a song
28:32 Covers that are very different from the original
33:50 ABBA
40:37 Slow, sad versions of older pop songs
43:10 Creep
46:15 Covers made funny by changing style
52:00 Covers that add nothing to the original
54:52 Marilyn Manson
55:50 Joan Jett
58:18 Pedophiles / Gary Glitter
1:00:54 Age of Chance
1:03:10 Cake
1:03:37 Eric cuts out again
1:05:30 Unusual Instruments
1:07:08 A Cappella covers
1:09:46 Brother Can You Spare A Dime
1:11:23 Even more about owning it and/or cultural appropriation
1:17:10 Eric’s top 5 covers

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