Whitewash Wipeout

I have been a big fan of surf music for decades, especially surf instrumentals and love bands like Agent Orange and The Ventures. This pick does not have either band, but it does have that feel of both throughout. A couple are on the border of surf, but still make it for me. Let me know if you like any of them more than any others or what you would like to surf to? Did I miss any other good ones? There are so many.

Whitewash Wipeout

01 Amped Dynamite - Explosive Curls

02 Glenn Miller's Woody - In The Woody

03 OP Rollers - Fire

04 The Tarantulas - A Fistful Of Dollars (Overture)

05 Big Daddy - Star Wars Theme

06 The Alolan Rays - Gotta Catch 'em All

07 Little Buddy & The Three Hour Tour - Shipwrecked

08 Beverly Surfbillies - Texas Tea

09 Vandals - Hocus Pocus

10 Stoneage Surfers - Leilani

11 The Rubble Rousers - Meet The Flintstones (Yabba Dabba Do)

12 Supertones - Paranoid

13 3rd Board In The Surf - Fire

14 Sweet Shredders - Board Blitzing

15 Grommet Kahunas - Gnarly Froth

16 Hippy Ho-Dad - Hauling

17 JFA - Charlie Brown (Schroeder Version)

18 Frankenfurter - Warped Time

19 Cloudchord - Thunderstruck

20 The Stoked Shakas - Owner Of A Lonely Heart

21 Neoprene Dudes - Swiss Swells

22 Beachios - Shake Your Napkin

23 Pegleg - Yo Ho Ho (A Pirates Life)

24 Surfmotherfuckers - Killing An Arab

25 Lynn's Leash - Stone Surf

26 Elemental Swell - September

27 Svelte Sumo Surfers - Mele Kalikimaka

Fall Do Overs

The last couple of days I've had picks that were somewhat related to The Fall, so I figured I should get right to the heart of it. These are all by the band covering other people's songs. A "do over" for them. I've always liked the band and especially their covers, so here are as many as I could figure out. I go against my rule of only putting enough songs in these playlists that end up being CD length (up to 80 minutes in my world). This is almost half hour too much. Sorry, but I didn't have the heart to cut any and I know I should have. You are just going to have to suck it up and deal with my shortcomings. I wanted them all in one place.

Fall Do Overs

01 The Fall - Junk Man

02 The Fall - Loop 41-Houston

03 The Fall - Mr. Pharmacist

04 The Fall - Black Monk Theme Part I

05 The Fall - Gotta See Jane

06 The Fall - I'm Going To Spain

07 The Fall - This Perfect Day

08 The Fall - Higgle-dy Piggle-dy

09 The Fall - Lost in Music

10 The Fall - Funnel Of Love

11 The Fall - Bound

12 The Fall - F-'oldin' Money

13 The Fall - Last Chance To Turn Around

14 The Fall - Stout Man

15 The Fall - Jungle Rock

16 The Fall - War

17 The Fall - Kimble

18 The Fall - Just Waiting

19 The Fall - Stay Away (Old White Train)

20 The Fall - Why Are People Grudgeful

21 The Fall - A Day In The Life

22 The Fall - White Lightning

23 The Fall - Victoria

24 The Fall - I'm a Mummy

25 The Fall - I Can Hear the Grass Grow

26 The Fall - White Line Fever

27 The Fall - Strangetown

28 The Fall - Rollin' Dany

29 The Fall - The Legend Of Xanadu

30 The Fall - I'm Not Satisfied

31 The Fall - There's a Ghost in My House

32 The Fall - Shut Up!

Northern Soul Covers 1

I knew some of these songs in this pick were covers, but did not know much about a Northern Soul dance movement. Might have liked to go dancing at one of these clubs. Heck, I kinda feel like I want to see if there is a call for it in Texas. Would be kind of fun to set up dancing lessons and play these old songs. Well, these are not the originals, but rather the covers of some of these Northern Soul Hits. Although many of these songs were not originally hits and that was the point. Most everyone, by now has heard Soft Cell's version of the old Gloria Jones song, so I didn't include it. Instead you get the Scorpions. Tomorrow look out for the Northern Soul original versions of these songs. Most of these songs, I have multiple covers, but I am still working on other songs not here that I can use for a part two. So if you have suggestions, I'll take them.

Northern Soul Covers 1

01 The J. Geils Band - (Ain't Nothin' But A) Houseparty

02 The Fall - There's a Ghost in My House

03 Human Sexual Response - Cool Jerk

04 Christians - The Bottle

05 Cheap Trick - The In Crowd

06 Kid Rock - Sugar Pie Honey Bunch

07 The Dickies - Nobody But Me

08 Belinda Carlisle - Band Of Gold

09 Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - Rescue Me

10 Yazz and the Plastic Population - The Only Way Is Up (7 Edit)

11 Phil Collins - You've Been Cheatin'

12 Kylie Minogue - Give Me Just A Little More Time

13 Bonnie Pointer - Heaven Must Have Sent You

14 Busta Jones - Just A Little Misunderstanding

15 Ministry - Under My Thumb

16 The Knack - Nowhere To Run

17 The Flying Lizards - Move On Up (Single Edit)

18 Scorpions - Tainted Love

19 Lene Lovich - The Night

20 Manhattan Transfer - Helpless

21 Soft Cell - What

22 Dexys Midnight Runners - Seven Days Too Long

Todd Rundgren covers 1

Hard to pick covers from Todd Rundgren, because he's actually done a complete album of covers. But for this one, I included not just his solo work, but also a couple of his covers in Nazz, a brilliant one in Utopia, a couple from his solo work and then several that are not on any of his own albums, but on tribute albums. He's done tributes to the Doors to tributes to Yes. By far not all of his covers (I actually even put on one or two covers a few days ago that I didn't use today.)

Todd Rundgren covers 1

01 Todd Rundgren & Geoff Downes - Alabama Song

02 Nazz - Train Kept A-Rollin'

03 Todd Rundgren & Jeff Beck - Cissy Strut

04 Todd Rundgren & Carmine Appice - Anyway Anyhow Anywhere

05 Todd Rundgren & Robin Holcomb - The House Carpenter

06 Todd Rundgren - While My Guitar Gently Weeps

07 Todd Rundgren, Rick Wakeman, Tony Levin - Welcome To The Machine

08 Todd Rundgren - Dust My Broom

09 Todd Rundgren - 96 Tears

10 Todd Rundgren - Two Out of Three Ain't Bad

11 Utopia - Do Ya (Alternative Mix)

12 Todd Rundgren - Love Of The Common Man

13 Nazz - Kicks

14 Todd Rundgren - Planet Queen

15 Todd Rundgren - Bluebird Is Dead

16 Todd Rundgren - Without You

17 Todd Rundgren, John Wesley, Tony Kaye, Billy Sherwood, Jay Schellen - Roundabout

18 Todd Rundgren - 21st Century Schizoid Man

Erosion Control 1

You are probably wondering about the title of this pick. I was making a mixtape of all covers and I was just going to call it rock blanket or something like that. But then as I was looking around, I noticed these blankets made up of rocks that they used for erosion control and I just loved it. It led me to all sorts of pictures of erosion control and I ended up with the one on the cover. I am sure you know all the originals of these songs, although some of you may have thought that at least two of these are the originals, but I assure you they are all covers. They are all written and performed originally by other bands. I have another pick of mostly rock covers that doesn't have any doubles with this on that I called Facsimile. With either have a fun journey looking up the original versions!

Erosion Control 1

01 Honeydrippers - Sea Of Love

02 Lenny Kravitz - American Woman

03 Aerosmith - Come Together

04 Deep Purple - Kentucky Woman

05 Heart - Rock And Roll

06 Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock n Roll

07 Seal - Fly Like an Eagle

08 Urge Overkill - Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon

09 Yung Wu - Powderfinger

10 Motley Crue - Smokin in the Boys Room

11 Foo Fighters - Baker Street

12 Shnazz - I Think We're Alone Now

13 Blue Oyster Cult - Born To Be Wild

14 Stranglers - Walk On By

15 Santana - She's Not There

16 Van Halen - You Really Got Me

17 Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded By The Light

18 Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize

19 Body Count - Hey Joe

Tackhead Covers 2

Ok, this pick is part two of the Tackhead covers. Yesterday it was the originals of all today's picks. You will notice that most of these are from the band as Tackhead. But there is also a track by the members of the band when they were Fats Comet. One track with all of Tackhead except for Keith LeBlanc who was absent for Barmy Army. There is one cover from The Chess Project which was a Keith LeBlanc one off, but had help from Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald. And one track from Dub Syndicate, which was sort of a Style Scott project but also had members of Tackhead and usually Adrian Sherwood as well. So you already have heard the originals from yesterday, here are all the covers. Notice they are in the same order as part one.

Tackhead Covers 2

18 Tackhead - Loose Booty (Adrian Sherwood Mix)

19 Tackhead - I Am Afraid Of Americans

20 Tackhead - Walk On The Wildside (Klb Mix)

21 Tackhead - For The Love Of Money

22 Tackhead - Funky President

23 Tackhead - Super Stupid

24 Tackhead - Fire

25 Tackhead - King Bee

26 Fats Comet - Stormy Weather

27 Tackhead featuring Doug Wimbish - Crosstown Traffic

28 Tackhead - Higher Ground

29 Barmy Army - Que Sera Sera (Re-Mix)

30 The Chess Project - Boom Boom Out Go The Lights

31 Gary Clail - Sixteen Tons

32 Dub Syndicate - Police In Helicopter (Dub)

33 Tackhead - Exodus (Dubvisionist Mix)

34 Tackhead - War

Facsimile

This pick was fun to make and there are a hundred other songs I could have included (tell me your favorites that I missed).Tried to get a secondary theme, but I couldn't hold it. I added a country cover. Ooops. I added an INXS cover. Ooops. Nothing worked out the way I planned it. But either way it turned out well. I think if I had my albums laid out better, I might have found a bunch more. This is what I found/remembered. I didn't want to just call it a Rock covers compilation, although it kind of is. I called it a Facsimile, but I was thinking more of a copy of a copy, like the movie Multiplicity (which is why I used a still from that movie in the cover.) These covers are all good, but very different from the originals. And like the movie there is at least one that is kinda retarded (and by that I mean that I would listen to the original all day before putting this one on), but most are quite good.

Facsimile

01 The Neville Brothers - Fly Like An Eagle

02 Jr. Walker & The All Stars - These Eyes

03 Theodore - Rockin Me

04 Johnny Mathis - Evil Ways

05 Paris Hilton - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy

06 Wilson Pickett - Hey Joe

07 Señor Coconut - Smoke On The Water

08 Robots With Rayguns featuring Carl Gershon - Need U Tonight

09 Bananarama - Long Train Running

10 Figures On A Beach - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet

11 Isaac Hayes & Millie Jackson - Feels Like The First Time

12 Speaker Junk - Foxxy (Original Mix)

13 Dan Hartman - Free Ride

14 Heaven 17 - Don't Fear The Reaper

15 Soul Hooligan With Diana King - Evil Woman

16 Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Fire

17 Shiny Toy Guns - Burning For You

18 Kim Wilde - Born To Be Wild (Radio Mix)

19 Big & Rich - You Shook Me All Night Long

Jimi Hendrix Covers

I've seen lots of tribute albums to Jimi Hendrix. I don't think I have ever seen an album of songs that he covered. Here are the originals of the songs Jimi covered. This pick includes the first original version of the song, or the one that was most popular or well known. For instance The Troggs weren't the first to do Wild Thing, but the band (Wild Ones) that did do that song first is barely known and it's very difficult to get a copy of it. I don't have it. Notice a few Beatles tracks and a couple of Dylan tracks. Not unusual for that time. Enjoy this selection. I may do a compilation playlist of covers of Jimi Hendrix (other people who covered Jimi) some time. I have plenty, I'm just deciding which ones to include. And I probably could do a Hendrix Family pick, but I haven't gotten far with that one yet.

Jimi Hendrix Covers

01 Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes

02 Ray Charles - What'd I Say Parts I & II

03 B.B. King - Rock Me Baby

04 Albert King - Born Under a Bad Sign

05 Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

06 Bob Dylan - Like A Rolling Stone

07 The Troggs - Wild Thing

08 Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy

09 Cream - Sunshine of Your Love

10 Muddy Waters - I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man

11 Howlin' Wolf - Killing Floor

12 The Mar-Keys - Last Night

13 Beatles - Tomorrow Never Knows

14 Them - Gloria

15 Bob Dylan - All Along The Watchtower

16 Beatles - Day Tripper

17 The Isley Brothers - Ohio-Machine Gun

18 Big Mama Thornton - Hound Dog

19 The Leaves - Hey Joe

Kinks Kovers

This was fun to do. But also frustrating at the same time. I like the Kinks and originally was making a pick of my favorite Kinks songs. But I got to the frustrating part. The Kinks are great songwriters and sometimes great at recording. They are too British for me at times and my favorites are sometimes not anywhere near the top listened to songs by the Kinks. I compare them to the Who, but the Who were better in the studio. For instance, You Really Got Me. A great song. But Van Halen does it way better than the Kinks. In fact I like that song done better by 801 with Brian Eno. And Stop Your Sobbing. There is no doubt that the Pretenders do a much better version of the song. So that's not true for every song. But definitely a few. So I took some of my favorite covers of Kinks songs and put this together. Not an end all be all covers collection, just some of my favorites. Many versions of songs on this one. Some of my favorites: Shonen Knife, The Fall, Stranglers, The Jam, Nancy Sinatra, etc.

Kinks Kovers

01 Queens Of The Stone Age - Everybody's Gonna Be Happy

02 Def Leppard - Waterloo Sunset

03 Buster Poindexter - Alcohol

04 David Bowie - Waterloo Sunset

05 Sonny & Cher - Set Me Free

06 Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing

07 Green Day - Tired Of Waiting For You

08 Yo La Tengo - King Kong

09 Stranglers - All Day & All Of The Night

10 The Standells - Sunny Afternoon

11 801 - You Really Got Me

12 Monks Of Doom - King Kong

13 The Hammersmith Gorillas - You Really Got Me

14 Bob Geldof - Sunny Afternoon

15 Van Halen - You Really Got Me

16 Big Star - Till The End Of The Day

17 Silicon Teens - You Really Got Me

18 The Sun - (Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman

19 The Fall - Victoria

20 Robbie Williams - Lola

21 Lee Rocker - Come Dancing

22 The Jam - David Watts

23 Ace Frehley - Lola

24 Patti Lupone - Superman (Wish I Could Fly) (Live)

25 Shonen Knife - Till The End Of The Day

26 Gary Lewis & The Playboys - A Well Respected Man

Evil Step-Brothership 2

A continuation of the Led Zeppelin covers and covered pick, with a few mashups included. The Beat Farmers is interesting and fairly rare. I understand the story is that they went to a recording booth at a fair or something like that and just recorded it on the spot. At least that's what they said during the interview when they were in the radio studio I worked at. I also love the Beatnix. I wish I had more from this band, because that's a brilliant version. Probably my most favorite Led Zeppelin cover because it doesn't sound at all like the original, but it is exactly like the original at the same time. I've had non-music people say that they had no idea that Led Zeppelin covered the Beatles. LOL!

Evil Step-Brothership 2

20 Dread Zeppelin - Kashmir

21 George Clinton - Heartbreaker featuring Killah Priest

22 Sheryl Crow - D'yer Mak'er

23 Red Star Rebels - Rock And Roll

24 Josh White - Jesus Gonna Make Up My Dying Bed

25 Lez Zeppelin - On The Rocks

26 Doors vs Led Zeppelin - Break Through Love

27 Beat Farmers - Zeppelin Medley

28 Beatnix - Stairway to Heaven

29 Blind Willie Johnson - It's Nobodys Fault but Mine

30 Tool - No Quarter

31 Temple City Kazoo Orchestra - Whole Lotta Love

32 Stone Temple Pilots - Dancing Days

33 Hayseed Dixie - Black Dog

34 Martin Gore - In My Time of Dying (Dance remix)

35 Suzanne Vega vs Led Zeppelin vs Streetlab - Tom's Immigrant Diner

36 Orchestre National De Jazz - Dazed And Confused

Evil Step-Brothership 1

At one time I could tell you how I came up with the name, but for the life of me I can't think of it now. Had something to do with the mothership, step brothers and, I don't know. Maybe you can make sense of it. Had fun designing the cover, using that font. As you will see over these two picks (today and tomorrow) It's mostly people covering Led Zeppelin, but also the originals of a couple of songs that Zeppelin pilfered from. At least a couple of Zeppelin mashups and a couple of really stupid covers that are so stupid they are brilliant. This volume also has the Xmas Zeppelin, so save that for the season.

Evil Step-Brothership 1

01 Tori Amos - Thank You

02 Corinne Bailey Rae - Since I've Been Loving You

03 Dolly Parton - Stairway To Heaven

04 Dread Zeppelin - Heartbreaker (At The End Of Lonely Street)

05 The Dynamics - Whole Lotta Love

06 Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra - Black Dog

07 Muddy Waters - You Need Love

08 Little Roger & The Goosebumps - Stairway To Gilligans Island

09 Hayseed Dixie - Whole Lotta Love

10 Eek-A-Mouse - D'yer Maker

11 Bongwater - Dazed & Chinese

12 Pat Boone - Stairway To Heaven

13 The Dickies - Communication Breakdown (Live)

14 Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha - When the Levee Breaks

15 Dixie Dregs - Kashmir

16 Lez Zeppelin - The Ocean

17 Eight to the Bar - Rock and Roll

18 Fleming and John - Winter Wonderland-Misty Mountain Top

19 Bob Rivers - Sled Zeppelin

Prince Under The Covers

Prince was a very prolific artist. He had so many great songs that were released and many that were not under his own name. This is a sampling of some of my favorites in this pick of Prince songs covered by other artists. I did not include songs that he did, but wrote for other people. See the last couple of days for that. You could do quite a few of these compilations (and I'm sure you have a favorite that isn't represented here - put it in the comments), but these are just my pick of the many. I used to love it when a Prince album came out, so I could get the singles because there always was a cool B-Side. Now we just have to wait for the estate to release something, or another artist to cover one of his songs.

Prince Under The Covers

01 Laibach - The Cross

02 Arto Lindsay - Erotic City

03 Simple Minds - Sign O' The Times

04 Dead or Alive - Pop Life

05 The Jesus And Mary Chain - Alphabet Street

06 Heaven 17 - Sign O' the Times

06 Sigue Sigue Sputnik - I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man

07 Ice-T - Head

08 Art Of Noise Featuring Tom Jones - Kiss (AON Mix)

09 Information Society - Controversy

10 Gary Numan - 1999

11 Chaka Khan - I Feel For You

12 Gary Numan - U Got The Look

13 Hindu Love Gods - Raspberry Beret

14 Cyndi Lauper - When You Were Mine

15 Dale Bozzio - I Would Die 4 U (Keoki Remix)

Someday My Prince Will Come 2

The continuation of my pick of songs the artist formerly known as Prince wrote for others. Well he may have at least allowed these others to use the songs. It's amazing how many songs Prince wrote. His archives are still full of tapes he made. Eventually more artists will cover his songs and probably there is a chance that his estate may not release everything he recorded under his name himself. I'm sure after two volumes of this, you know of a few right now, so leave that in the comments below. 

Someday My Prince Will Come 2

01 Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

02 Celine Dion - With This Tear

03 Joe Cocker - Five Women

04 Kenny Rogers - You're My Love

05 Alicia Keys - How Come U Don't Call Me Anymore

06 Madhouse - Six

07 Graham Central Station - Utopia

08 Monie Love - Born To B.R.E.E.D.

09 Nona Hendryx - Baby Go-Go

10 Patti LaBelle - Yo Mister

11 Sheila E - A Love Bizarre (Parts I And II)

12 Earth Wind & Fire - Super Hero

13 Stevie Nicks - Stand Back

14 Paula Abdul - U

15 The Time - My Drawers

16 George Clinton - The Big Pump

17 No Doubt - Waiting Room

Someday My Prince Will Come 1

Enigmatic title? Nah. Just my pick of Prince songs done by other artists. Songs written by Prince whether it is under his own name or one of his pseudonyms. I'm not going to talk about all the different names he used to write or play music. There were a few. Look it up. I became interested around the time when Manic Monday came out and all around the same time I figured out Sugar Walls was his, and The Glamorous Life was his. A little more digging found several more (at least enough for two volumes) and eventually I put this together. I like the Disney "Prince will come" covers, because it would be so boring to just say Prince Penned. The juxtaposition of wholesome Disney with nasty androgynous Prince was too delicious not to take advantage of. Although who knows with Disney anymore?

Someday My Prince Will Come 1

01 The Time - Gigolos Get Lonely Too

02 The Family - The Screams Of Passion

03 Tevin Campbell - Round & Round

04 Carmen Electra - Fun

05 André Cymone - The Dance Electric

06 The Time - Get It Up

07 Mavis Staples - Melody Cool

08 Kid Creole & The Coconuts - The Sex Of It

09 Vanity 6 - Nasty Girl

10 Bangles - Manic Monday

11 The Family - Nothing Compares 2 U

12 Apollonia 6 - Sex Shooter

13 Dale Bozzio - Take Me To Your Leader (Prince Mix)

14 Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls

15 Sheila E - The Glamorous Life

16 Madonna - Love Song

17 Martika - Love Thy Will Be Done

Who Dunnit? 4

This is the last of this pick. Volume 4 of the series. Not because I don't have more, but because I haven't finished cleaning them up and assembling them. And by now, I'm sure you have a few suggestions. Do NOT include any that are on the Heart Full Of Soul compilation as that is a separate category for me. Although there are some great covers that sound totally different than the originals on that playlist. Obviously I know about the artists on these picks that have multiple albums of covers. This volume also has some interesting mashups, which technically are not covers, but they made some completely different songs out of them. I have all the Bossa Nova albums that cover different eras in a bossa nova style. They are great. And several of the country bands that do the same. If you haven't seen the artist on these lists and you really like them, let me know. I want my socks to blown off!

Who Dunnit? 4

01 Dan Finnerty - Candy Shop

02 The Brian J White Trio - Shout

03 Jamie Lancaster & Karen Souza - Billie Jean

04 Zacharias - Light My Fire

05 Paul Anka - True

06 The Coconutz - Everybody Hurts

07 The Dynamics - Miss You

08 Aloha Sex Juice - More Than Words

09 Evolution Control Committee - Stairway To Britney (Britney Spears vs Led Zeppelin)

10 John Lennon vs Van Halen - Imagine A Jump

11 INXS vs Smokey Robinson - Need To Be With You Tonight

12 Black Eyed Peas vs Frank Sinatra - I Got New York

13 Nouvelle Vague - Master & Servant

14 Oysterband - Love Vigilantes

15 Big Daddy - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

16 Better Beatles - Penny Lane

17 Richard Cheese - Brass Monkey

18 Jimmy Fallon - Reading Rainbow

19 Red Star Belgrade - Highway To Hell

20 Charo & The Salsoul Orchestra - Let's Spend The Night Together

21 Voice of the Beehive - I Think I Love You

22 Depeche Mode - Route 66

23 Devo - Don't Be Cruel

Who Dunnit? 3

More covers, from more bands. Yet another from the amazing Storm and the Balls. I discovered Storm Large as she opened for someone else. I arrived early to the show (which I rarely do) and found Storm. I must say it was a happy accident. This was before all her TV fame and all that. I was mesmerized. What an amazing performance. I could not take my attention off her. And then getting the album and discovering amazing covers in mashups like the ones on this series. Wow. A couple other picks to mention. Barenaked Lady Kevin Hearn's Thin Buckle doing War Pigs was a fun time . Saw him do that live on a Barenaked cruise. Beatnix doing Zeppelin songs as if they were the Beatles. I wish I had more of that. A couple of tracks from the amazing movie Welcome To Woop Woop. Go see it. And lastly, I need to mention the greatness of Senor Coconut. He's great. Never saw him live, but I wish I did.

Who Dunnit? 3

01 Eve St. Jones - Take On Me

02 Carmen McRae - The Sound Of Silence

03 Jazzystics - Walking On Sunshine

04 Axel Boys Quartet - Barbie Girl

05 Leika & the Waiters - In My Life

06 Danni Carlos - Don't Speak

07 Victor Malloy - Boys Don't Cry

08 Storm and The Balls - Van Ministry

09 The Dynamics - Seven Nation Army

10 Señor Coconut - Smoke On The Water

11 Soul II Soul - Kiss The Girl

12 Richard Cheese - Somebody Told Me

13 Nouvelle Vague - Ever Fallen In Love

14 Kevin Hearn and Thin Buckle - War Pigs

15 Beatnix - Stairway to Heaven

16 Big Daddy - Like A Virgin

17 Paul Anka - The Way You Make Me Feel

18 Pat Boone - Enter Sandman

19 Bryan Ferry - You Do Something To Me

20 Lisa Stansfield - Ain't What You Do

21 The Fixx - These Boots are Made for Walkin'

22 Cake - Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps

23 Poe - I Cain't Say No

Who Dunnit? 2

Volume 2 in the series of covers mostly done in different styles than the original. Pat Boone and Paul Anka both had albums out of rockin songs done in "swing" style (sorta). More Big Daddy with fifties rock and roll and several jazzy versions of new wave songs. Other bands that started to do this type of cover is Nouvelle Vague with some Bossa Nova versions of New Wave songs. And Richard Cheese doing comedy parody versions as a lounge singer. Add in the various others that I just have collected and you have my next pick.

Who Dunnit? 2

01 Brave Combo - No, No, No, Cha, Cha, Cha

02 Stella Starlight Trio - Tainted Love

03 Storm and The Balls - Can Your Pussy Do the Dog

04 Buckwheat Zydeco - On A Night Like This

05 Everything But The Girl - Night and Day

06 Willy Deville - Hey Joe

07 Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane

08 The Brian J White Trio - Shout

09 Big Daddy - Ice Ice Baby

10 Kate Bush - Sexual Healing

11 Japan - I Second That Emotion

12 Bryan Ferry - The Way You Look Tonight

13 Lydia Lunch - Spooky

14 Nouvelle Vague - Blue Monday

15 Jamie Lancaster & Karen Souza - Billie Jean

16 Tom Tom Club - Under the Boardwalk

17 Spanky Wilson - Sunshine Of Your Love

18 Cassandra Beck - Material Girl

19 Paul Anka - Smells Like Teen Spirit

20 Pat Boone - It's A Long Way To The Top (If You Want To Rock And Roll)

21 Richard Cheese - Fight For Your Right

22 New Morty Show - Enter Sandman

23 Will To Power - Baby, I Love Your Way-Freebird

Who Dunnit? 1

I like cover versions of songs. That's clear if you have been watching this space for any length of time. I especially like cover versions that do not sound at all like the original. Doesn't mean that I don't like original versions. I do. But there is something about an artist completely re-interpreting a song. This pick is that completely. Cover versions where you have to think, "Is this the original or was the original the original?". For me it really started with a band called Big Daddy. They were on Rhino records and they had a backstory that they were a 50's rock band that got lost somewhere for thirty years or so and came back to find all this new music, but they did the music in the style they were used to. Some great songs of the 80's done in "Sock Hop" style. Some really great covers (with just a few misses). Overall great. If you look for that kind of stuff, you find it everywhere. Here a few of my picks of those kind of songs where you wonder Who Dunnit.

Who Dunnit? 1

01 Barefoot - White Lines

02 Nouvelle Vague - I Melt with You

03 Pussycat Dolls - Sway

04 Stan Ridgway - Behind Closed Doors

05 Johnny Favourite Swing Orchestra - Black Dog

06 Paul Anka - Wonderwall

07 Hayseed Dixie - Walk This Way

08 Big Daddy - I Want Your Sex

09 Storm and The Balls - Anarchy En Espanol

10 New Morty Show - White Wedding-Rebel Yell Medley

11 Jamie Cullum - Frontin'

12 Chris Isaak - I Want You To Want Me

13 Booker T. & The MG's - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

14 Aztec Camera - Jump

15 Johnny Cash - Personal Jesus

16 David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo-I Ain't Got Nobody

17 Paul Anka - It's My Life

18 Richard Cheese - Add It Up

19 Lesley Gore - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap

20 Big Daddy - Super Freak

21 Richard Cheese - Let's Get It Started

22 Señor Coconut & His Orchestra - Beat It

Carole King

Carole King is known for her songwriting and her own albums, especially Tapestry. All sorts of her great songs have been done by a variety of artists. I put this together when Nina Hagen covered one of her songs. I'm sure there are other compilations of Carole King songs, but these are my favorite picks. I included her singing some of her own hits, plus amazing songs like Natural Woman done by Aretha Franklin and put them next to tracks by the Motels and Nina Hagen. I hope you enjoy this playlist.

Carole King

01 Carole King - It's Too Late

02 The Shirelles - Will You Love Me Tomorrow

03 Donny Osmond - Go Away Little Girl

05 Grand Funk - The Loco-Motion

05 James Taylor - You've Got A Friend

06 Bobby Vee - Take Good Care of My Baby

07 Carole King - Jazzman

08 The Drifters - Up On The Roof

09 The Everly Brothers - Crying In The Rain

10 Skeeter Davis - I Can't Stay Mad At You

11 Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good

12 The Monkees - Pleasant Valley Sunday

13 The Righteous Brothers - Just Once In My Life

14 Chiffons - One Fine Day

15 The Cookies - Don't Say Nothin' Bad (About My Baby)

16 Carole King - Sweet Seasons

17 Freddie Scott - Hey Girl

18 The Animals - Don't Bring Me Down

19 Aretha Franklin - (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

20 Blood, Sweat and Tears - Hi-De-Ho

21 The Cookies - Chains 

22 Carole King - It Might As Well Rain Until September

23 Martika - I Feel The Earth Move

24 Grand Funk - Some Kind Of Wonderful

25 The Motels - He Hit Me (And It Felt Like A Kiss)

26 Nina Hagen - Giant Step

Undercover (Noise) 2

A continuation of the Undercover series and the the noise/industrial series. As stated before in part one, this was a cassette originally before this pick was transformed into a CD and then this playlist. Covers here include a cover of Throbbing Gristle (already an industrial band) but pared with a Righteous Brothers hit to make this twofer medley. And then also TG doing their own cover of a song that Frank Sinatra made famous. I like that there is a cover of Sisters Of Mercy followed by Sisters Of Mercy doing a Hot Chocolate cover. Cracks me up every time. A couple more disco songs (Abba and Carl Douglas), Pink Floyd, Olivia Newton-John and more round off this side two. Make sure you get side one.

Undercover (Noise) 2

12 Cassandra Complex - Something Came Over Me-You've Lost That Loving Feeling

13 Big Black - The Model

14 Throbbing Gristle - Strangers In The Night

15 La Muerte - Kung Fu Fighting

16 The Leather Nun - Gimme Gimme Gimme (A Man After Midnight)

17 a;Grumh... - Another Brick in the Wall Part II

18 Coil - Tainted Love

19 Poesie Noire - Marian

20 Revolting Cocks - Let's Get Physical

21 Sisters Of Mercy - Emma

22 Cabaret Voltaire - No Escape