This week I did a show of covers as well as two songs that the covers are the best known versions, so I played the originals.
As a clarification songs will be listed as follows
Title – Original Artist/Origin – Artist Who’s Version I Played
Summertime – Porgy and Bess, Musical – Billy Stewert
Brown-Eyed Handsome Man – Chuck Berry – Buddy Holly & the Crickets
Too Much Monkey Business – Chuck Berry – The Kinks
Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy – The Kinks – Queens of the Stone Age
Lola – The Kinks – The Raincoats
David Watts – The Kinks – The Jam
Surfin’ USA – The Beach Boys – The Jesus and Mary Chain
Hang On To Your Ego (Variation of “I Know There’s An Answer) – The Beach Boys – Frank Black
Mr. Grieves – Pixies – TV On The Radio
Where Is My Mind? – Pixies – The Blue Ribbon Glee Club
Havalina – Pixies – They Might Be Giants
Istanbul (Not Constantinople) – The Four Lads
the best known version is a cover by They Might Be Giants
Tainted Love – Gloria Jones
best known version is a cover by Soft Cell
Hey Jude – The Beatles – Wilson Pickett
With A Little Help From My Friends – The Beatles – Joe Cocker
Eleanor Rigby – The Beatles – The Four Tops
Across the Universe – The Beatles – David Bowie
House of the Rising Sun – American Folk song, best known for The Animals Version – Gregory Isaacs
My Girl – Temptations – Otis Redding
I Heard It Through The Grape Vine – Marvin Gaye – The Slits
Light My Fire – The Doors – Al Green
Take Me To The River – Al Green – Talking Heads
Naive Melody – Talking Heads – Arcade Fire
Money(That’s What I Want) – Barrett Strong – The Flying Lizards
Say You Will – Kanye West – Mobius Band
Billie Jean – Michael Jackson – The Lost Fingers
Making Plans for Nigel – XTC – Nouvelle Vague
Changes – David Bowie – Los Chicros
Blowin’ In The Wind – Bob Dylan – Marie Laforet
Ruby Tuesday – The Rolling Stones – Franco Battiato
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones – Devo
Lithium – Nirvana – The Polyphonic Spree
Next week I am continuing with a similar theme by playing songs that have been sampled. I won’t be playing the songs that sample them in full, but will have short clips from the songs to show where the sample is.
DJ Matthias