Cover Me

Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire" is a cover!? It is! We talk about the hit country love song originally performed by Anita Carter this week! Our bonus segment is full of country music recommendations! It's Lover Me all over again!

Covers by: Johnny Cash, Tom Jones, Bob Dylan, Blondie, Wall of Voodoo Social Distortion, Frank Zappa, DragonForce

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Lover Me returns! We discuss Wreckless Eric's hit song "Whole Wide World." Alex can't distinguish between human voices and guitars! We talk about love songs that we can think of in our bonus segment!

Covers by: Eppu Normaali, The Monkees, Die Toten Hosen, Mental as Anything, The Proclaimers, The Bad Shepherds, Cage The Elephant, Billie Joe Armstrong

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Cover Bowie concludes with the title track from David Bowie's third album, "The Man Who Sold The World." In our bonus segment, we discuss how we've been handling the death of David Bowie for these past five years. It's Cover Bowie!

Covers by: Lulu, John Cougar Mellencamp, Midge Ure, Nirvana, Eye 2 Eye, Thin White Ziggy, Unsound Americans

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Cover Bowie continues with a hit song from a long forgotten film. We're talking "Wild is the Wind" written by Dimitri Tiomkin and Ned Washington, and originally performed by Johnny Mathis. We talk about the hit musical "Lazarus" in our bonus segment. It's all sorts of Bowie!

Covers by: Nina Simone, David Bowie, Madeline Eastman and Tom Harrell, Esperanza Spalding, Xiu Xiu, Rosemary Standley and Sylvain Griotto

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Rest assured, this episode is no godawful small affair. Cover Bowie continues with one of David Bowie's all-time greatest songs, "Life on Mars?". We talk about some of Bowie's acting work in our bonus segment. 

Covers by: Flaming Lips, Caecille Norby, Seal, Vamps, AURORA, 8-Bit Arcade

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VAMPS cover here

Some people like to listen to podcasts and they get called assholes, that won't happen to you if you listen to this episode about "Pablo Picasso" by Modern Lovers. In our bonus segment, we discuss the visual arts and how we don't know a lot about them.

Covers by: John Cale, Burning Sensations, Phranc, David Bowie, FourYearBeard, The Tellers, Jack White

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Burning Sensations and Phranc versions here

We made it to the end of this awful year, and if you're reading this then so did you! Congratulations! This episode is all about the year 2020. We share our Spotify Wrapped statistics for the year, our top 5 albums of the year, and our personal ratings for best, worst, and weirdest episode of the year! Come celebrate the end of the year with us!

All I want for Christmas is for you to listen to this episode. We talk about Mariah Carey's inescapable Christmas single, "All I Want For Christmas is You." In our bonus segment we reveal our holiday food staples! It's the Cover Me Holiday Special!

Covers by: My Chemical Romance, The Cheetah Girls, Michale Bublé, CeeLo Green, Aloe Blacc, August Burns Red

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This podcast, children, it's just a click away. It's just a click away. We're talking Rolling Stone's "Gimme Shelter" this week and there's nothing you can do about it! We talk about world music in our bonus segment for reasons that will become clear as you listen to the episode!

Covers by: Merry Clayton, Cal Tjader, Sisters of Mercy, Patti Smith, U2 & Fergie & will.i.am & Mick Jagger, Playing for Change, Flora Martinez.

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It's another video game winter music episode! We talk about "Freezeezy Peak" in great detail despite the fact that Alex has barely played Banjo-Kazooie! We talk about Super Smash Bros in the bonus segment! It's a fun time!

Covers by: The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra, Video Game Piano Players, 20-Bit Dream, ToxicxEternity, CrazyGroupTrio, The Game Brass, Pixelated Quality, Qumu, NinDjent0.

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