Under the Covers (with Tom Hummer)

Less than 5 years after The Beatles released their final album, John Lennon collaborated with David Bowie on a truly bizarre cover of "Across the Universe". a spiritual and understated track from Let It Be. In this episode, we'll discuss how the two music legends took the track in a completely different direction, and attempt to answer an even more perplexing question: why?

Covers Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/18TcJlL58wS07JIhQ9GidS?si=43ce79bfc3184913

Tom is joined by his friend Quinn (as the show's first guest host) to talk about Devo's robotic deconstruction of The Rolling Stones' classic track, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction".

Covers Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/18TcJlL58wS07JIhQ9GidS?si=43ce79bfc3184913

When punk music was on the rise in the mid to late 1970s, its roots in 50s and 60s rock and pop were often masked by noisy production and rebellious energy. But when two iconic New York City punk bands (the Ramones and the Cramps) covered a novelty surf-rock hit from 1963, punk's lineage became much clearer, and showed that this new style of music may not be as different from the previous generation's as you might think.

Covers Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/18TcJlL58wS07JIhQ9GidS?si=43ce79bfc3184913

In this episode, Tom discusses Nine Inch Nails's "Hurt" from 1994, and Johnny Cash's 2002 cover.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/18TcJlL58wS07JIhQ9GidS?si=d5ba2913811e4292