The Great Cover-Up is our all-covers show featuring songs recorded between 1976–1995. This hour-long episode features covers by Barbara Manning (pictured), Redd Kross, The Lemonheads, The Cramps, Husker Du, Bangles, Black Tambourine, Primal Scream, The Gun Club, and Yo La Tengo; and covers of The Crystals, Wire, The Sonics, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Verlaines, Love, and Young Marble Giants. Plus three Leonard Cohen covers you’ve possibly never heard and a really strange cover of The Seeds.

Playlist

1. The Cramps — Fever (Little Willie John)
2. The Chesterfield Kings — Fight Fire (The Golliwogs)
3. Radio Alarm Clocks — Psycho (The Sonics)
4. The Embarrassment — Burning Love (Elvis Presley)
5. The Gun Club — Run Through The Jungle (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
6. Redd Kross — It’s The Little Things (Sonny & Cher)
7. Lemonheads — Mrs. Robinson (Simon & Garfunkel)
8. Black Tambourine — Can’t Explain (Love)
9. Straitjacket Fits — So Long Marianne (Leonard Cohen)
10. Palace Songs — Winter Lady (Leonard Cohen)
11. Alisa — Suzanne (Leonard Cohen)
12. Barbara Manning & The San Francisco Seals — Joed Out (The Verlaines)
13. The Space Negros — Can’t Seem To Make You Mine (The Seeds)
14. Primal Scream — Carry Me Home (Dennis Wilson)
15. Husker Du — Sunshine Superman (Donovan)
16. The Hard-Ons — Then I Kissed Her (The Crystals)
17. The New Bomb Turks — Mr. Suit (Wire)
18. Toys Went Berserk — Brand New Life (Young Marble Giants)
19. Bangles — Going Down To Liverpool (The Waves)
20. Yo La Tengo — Big Sky (The Kinks)