Under Cover Again

 

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We go back under cover this week and listen to another 55 minutes of popular tunes performed by not so popular bands. We start of with two blistering mod covers of soul numbers: Heat Wave by The Who and I'll Keep Holding On by their less-successful but equally sharp contemporaries The Action. Then we're right into one of the oddest covers in the play list – the Residents' version of James Brown's This is a Man's, Man's World. My highlight this week is Caetano Veloso's touching re-imagining of Help.

1. Heat Wave    The Who    A Quick One    1966    Reaction
2. I'll Keep Holding On    The Action    7"    1966    Parlophone
3. This Is a Man's World    The Residents    7"    1984    Ralph
4. Kentucky Woman    Deep Purple    The Book Of Taliesyn    1968    Harvest
5. With A Girl Like You    Alex Chilton    19 Years: A Collection Of Alex Chilton    1986    Rhino
6. Help    Caetano Veloso    Jóia    1975    Philips
7. Goodbye Pork Pie Hat    Bert Jansch & John Renbourn    Bert And John    1966    Transatlantic
8. Thicker Than A Smokey    Six Organs of Admittance    School Of The Flower    2005    Drag City
9. Goldfinger    Magazine    Touch and Go 7"    1978    Virgin
10. Third Uncle    Bauhaus    1979-1983    1985    Beggars Banquet
11. Mary Anne    Spacemen 3    Sound Of Confusion    1986    Fire
12. Show Me the Way    Dinosaur Jr    You're Living All Over Me    1987    SST
13. Superstar    Sonic Youth    If I were a Carpenter    1994    A&M
14. The Model    Big Black    Songs About Fucking    1987    Blast First
15. Leave Them All Behind    Whitey    The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train    2004    1234