Coverville

Missed the first episode? It’s right here: Coverville 622: War of the Halloween and David Bowie Cover Stories This episode of Coverville Bonus Tracks features: 1 Moonage Daydream Wendy IP Spiders From Venus Orig. David Bowie 2 Space Oddity Jupiter Blue .2 Contamination: A Tribute To David Bowie Orig. David Bowie 3 Starman Nena Cover Me Orig. David Bowie 4 Liv Pa Mars Anni-Frid Lyngstad Frida (Box Set) Orig. David Bowie 5 Ashes To [...]

Oooh, a much closer competition last week, with “Stuck In The Middle With You”. Jeff Healey barely edged out Susanna Hoffs, with 47% of the vote, compared to the Bangles’ frontwoman with 41%. 8% did’t care for either, and a few of the other answers preferred Michael Madsen’s impromptu karaoke of the song in that [...]

Blogger Deanne Iovan is taking on the herculean task of covering The Beatles’ White Album, track by track, releasing a new song every nine days. http://everyninedays.wordpress.com/ Some great covers on here, with many taking a nice turn away from the original. Thanks to Marc for letting me know about this!

For the Cover Story tonight, we’ll take a look at a prolific songwriter that, with his partner Mort Shuman, wrote some of the most popular songs for groups like The Coasters and The Drifters, as well as Elvis Presley and Dion and the Belmonts. Coverville proudly presents the Doc Pomus Cover Story. (note: iTunes links forthcoming [...]

Tonight, in honor of the debut episode of the final season of the TV show LOST, I’ll feature some covers of songs that featured very prominently in the show’s first five seasons. If you’re a LOST fan, enjoy. If not, I present to you eight wonderful and completely unrelated covers. Thanks to Henry L. for [...]

Last time, Lily Allen’s “Mr. Blue Sky” rose above the P. Hux version 69% to 27%, but many people posted The Delgados’ version as the “other” category. Very good stuff! By request, this week we’re looking at another battle of the sexes, with two very distinct versions of Stealers Wheel’s “Stuck In The MIddle With You”. [...]

I know it’s been strangely quiet from me the last few days. Last week I got hit with a strain of bronchitis and a sinus infection that mirrored the symptoms of H1N1 (thanks to Steve on Facebook, who clarified that I got hit with a “Cover of H1N1″ – brilliant!). I’ll have the next show up [...]

Could this song become the next “Umbrella” or “Crazy” with regard to a flood of great cover versions? I hate to admit that thanks to these covers, it’s starting to grow on me just a little bit. Thanks to Steven from MajorSpoilers for this version: And thanks to John for this one:

Earlier last year, I presented Jacob Moon’s excellent cover of Rush’s “Subdivisions” (link). Here’s a brand new one from a completely different roof!

And with no ukulele! Thanks to Austin for letting me know about this.