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186 - Chandelier - The CoverUp Jul 19, 2021

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A brilliant song that plays with the balance of musical and story expectations, a version from the aether, and the first meeting of the CoverUp Book Club. Chandelier, originally by Sia, covered by Josh Pyke, and by Damien Rice.

Outro music is Beds are Burning by Midnight Oil.

185 - Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 - The CoverUp Jul 12, 2021

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Head trips, industrial mashups, and crypto-rhinestone cowboys? This week we look at Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2, originally by Pink Floyd, covered by Korn.

Outro music is Streets of Bakersfield, by Dwight Yoakam and Buck Owens, and I swear we had a reason to put it there.

184 - Have You Ever Seen The Rain - The CoverUp Jul 05, 2021

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The spirit of Kerri Strug, Welsh meat loaf, and the Reagan administration's deep-state. Clearly, we're talking about Have You Ever Seen The Rain, originally by Creedence Clearwater Revival, covered by Bonnie Tyler, and by The Spin Doctors.

Outro music is Hot Patootie/Bless My Soul by Meat Loaf from The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

183 - Turn The Page - The CoverUp Jun 28, 2021

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Life is tough for your friendly neighborhood rock star, and we hear all about it in the classic Turn The Page. Originally by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, covered by Waylon Jennings and by Metallica.

Outro music is Poor Poor Pitiful Me by Warren Zevon.

182 - Father's Day 2021 Special - The CoverUp Jun 21, 2021

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We do something different for Father's Day. This week, we look at 5 songs where the artist is covering a song originally recorded by their father. It's a lot of songs this week. Natalie Cole covers Unforgettable, Hank Williams Jr and III cover Move It On Over, Roseanne Cash covers I Still Miss Someone, Wilson Phillips cover God Only Knows, and Lily Winwood covers Higher Love.

Outro music is Papa Don't Preach, by Madonna.

181 - It's My Life - The CoverUp Jun 14, 2021

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Some of the best of 80s New Wave by a band that didn't want to embrace the implications of their sound, and a cover that teaches about focus and the wages of distraction. It's My Life, originally by Talk Talk, covered by No Doubt.

Outro music is Ascension Day, also by Talk Talk, from their couldn't-be-more-different album Laughing Stock.

180 - I Want You to Want Me - The CoverUp Jun 07, 2021

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Overly humble beginnings of a chaotically brilliant band, and an express flight from Rockford to Bakersfield. I Want You to Want Me, originally by Cheap Trick, covered by Dwight Yoakam.

Outro music is also I Want You to Want Me by Cheap Trick, but it's the version you expected to hear.

179 - We Belong - The CoverUp May 31, 2021

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A gorgeous song by one of the great women of 80s rock, and a singer-songwriter reinvention by the singer-songwriters who wrote it. We Belong, originally by Pat Benatar, covered by Lowen and Navarro.

Outro music is Cry by Lowen and Navarro.

178 - Rainbow Connection - The CoverUp May 24, 2021

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The sweetest song ever -- possibly too sweet -- sung by the worlds most beloved amphibian and covered by the ultimate family band. Rainbow Connection, originally by Kermit the Frog, covered by The Carpenters.

Outro music is It's Not Easy Being Green by Ray Charles.

177 - I Heard It Through The Grapevine - The CoverUp May 17, 2021

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The greatest song ever recorded, immediately overshadowed by the song that inspired it, kinda? And musical greats who are outclassed but still good enough that it doesn't matter. I Heard It Through The Grapevine, originally by Gladys Knight and the Pips, covered by Marvin Gaye, and by Amy Winehouse with Paul Weller.

Outro music is In the Modern World by The Jam.

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