Here is it, the last episode of the year, and the biggest! Counting down the top 20 covers of the year, all the way down to number one! And as always, a special bonus. (84 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Dancing Queen (Cyberpunk) Melodicka Bros 3:18 Dancing Queen (Cyberpunk) - Single ABBA iTunes Changes Me First And The Gimme Gimmes 3:52 ¡Blow it…at Madison's Quinceañera! Black Sabbath 2 iTunes Amazon You Might Think The Goodies 2:09 The Goodies - EP Cars 9 iTunes Mr. Jones (feat. Ben Mazué) Waxx 4:24 Étincelle Counting Crows iTunes Waterloo Sunset Robyn Hitchcock 3:30 1967: Vacations in the Past Kinks 14 iTunes Amazon Human Touch Kathleen Edwards & Bahamas 3:30 Human Touch - Single Bruce Springsteen 2 iTunes If You Leave Paul and Storm, feat. John Scalzi 2:35 If You Leave - Single OMD 7 Bandcamp Enjoy the Silence (feat. Gwenno) Paraorchestra 4:07 Death Songbook (with Brett Anderson & Charles Hazlewood) Depeche Mode iTunes I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles) Hayes & The Heathens 3:47 Hayes & The Heathens Proclaimers 8 Amazon Flowers Megan Henwood 3:43 Kyoto - EP Miley Cyrus iTunes Spice Up Your Life The Surfrajettes 2:48 Easy as Pie Spice Girls 2 iTunes Amazon Surface Pressure Plain White T's & Disney 2:50 A Whole New Sound Disney/Encanto Amazon Girlfriend Is Better girl in red 3:05 Everyone's Getting Involved: A Tribute to Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense Talking Heads Amazon Love Hurts (feat. Keith Carradine) [From “Strange Darling”] Z Berg 3:44 Love Hurts (feat. Keith Carradine) [From “Strange Darling”] - Single Everly Brothers iTunes Free Fallin’ (feat. Kina Grannis) Imaginary Future 3:55 Bad Monkey (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack) Tom Petty iTunes Only You (feat. Mélanie Pain) Nouvelle Vague 2:13 Should I Stay or Should I Go Yaz/Yazoo 2 iTunes Amazon Head Like a Hole Allie Goertz 2:52 Peeled Back Nine Inch Nails 8 iTunes This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us The Last Dinner Party 3:11 Prelude to Ecstasy: Acoustics & Covers Sparks 3 iTunes Dancing with Myself Maren Morris 4:11 Dancing with Myself - Single Billy Idol 5 iTunes Save It For Later Eddie Vedder 4:21 Save It For Later - Single English Beat 7 Amazon This Will Be Our Year The Teskey Brothers 2:37 This Will Be Our Year - Single Zombies 12 iTunes

Time to start counting down the 40 best covers of 2024, and this is part one! (88 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Good Luck, Babe! senses 3:30 Good Luck, Babe! - Single Chappell Roan iTunes …Baby One More Time (from Kung Fu Panda 4) Tenacious D 3:12 Kung Fu Panda 4 (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Britney Spears Amazon While My Guitar Gently Weeps Lucinda Williams 4:51 Lucinda Williams Sings The Beatles From Abbey Road Beatles 8 iTunes Beautiful World JP Harris 3:08 JP Harris Is a Trash Fire Devo 8 iTunes Amazon This Is Me Trying Jana Pochop 3:26 This Is Me Trying - Single Taylor Swift iTunes Rockin’ the Suburbs Mister Blank 4:39 No Ages, All Covers Ben Folds iTunes Teenage Kicks Lone Justice 2:26 Viva Lone Justice Undertones 10 iTunes Amazon Digging In The Dirt (feat. Peter Gabriel) Sheryl Crow 5:24 Evolution (Deluxe) Peter Gabriel iTunes Separate Ways Exit Eden 4:36 Femmes Fatales Journey 4 iTunes Amazon Star Wars Main Theme The SKAMOTTS 3:35 FILMSKA John Williams Star Wars 2 iTunes Amazon That Don’t Impress Me Much Kaitlin Butts, Disko Cowboy & French Horn Rebellion 3:41 That Don't Impress Me Much - Single Shania Twain 2 Amazon EVIL WOMAN Duran Duran 3:50 EVIL WOMAN Electric Light Orchestra 4 Amazon Bad Idea Right? Shybaby 2:51 Bad Idea Right? - Single Olivia Rodrigo iTunes Murder On The Dancefloor (InVersions 2000s) Blu DeTiger 2:40 Murder On The Dancefloor (InVersions 2000s) - Single Sophie Ellis-Bextor iTunes Pink Pony Club Lauren Babic 4:12 Pink Pony Club - Single Chappell Roan Amazon Mad World Glyn Wilcox 4:05 Skank Up the 80's Tears For Fears 15 Bandcamp The Pretender First to Eleven 4:31 Covers Vol. 18 Foo Fighters 3 iTunes Girls Just Want To Have Fun Buzzy Lee 3:32 Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Single Robert Hazard/Cyndi Lauper 10 iTunes Kişisel İsa (Personal Jesus) [feat. Sibel] Al-Qasar 4:19 Uncovered Depeche Mode iTunes Amazon Going To California (feat. SistaStrings & Sierra Hull) Grace Bowers & The Hodge Podge, Lucie Silvas & Caroline Jones 4:10 Going to California (feat. SistaStrings & Sierra Hull) - Single Led Zeppelin 3 iTunes

As we do every year, it’s time for a collection of great Christmas songs, featuring requests from you and me! (69 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy The First Noel Annie Lennox 4:40 A Christmas Cornucopia Christmas 5 iTunes Amazon I Believe in You Sinéad O'Connor 5:38 A Very Special Christmas 2 Bob Dylan 3 Amazon What Christmas Means To Me Robyn Adele Anderson 2:43 A Very Vintage Christmas (Deluxe Edition) Stevie Wonder 3 iTunes God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Ronnie James Dio, Tony Iommi, Rudy Sarzo & Simon Wright 4:06 We Wish You a Metal Xmas and a Headbanging New Year Christmas 10 Amazon Frosty The Snowman Tarja 3:07 Dark Christmas Gene Autry iTunes Amazon Christmas in Hollis American Authors 2:59 This Christmas Eve - EP Run DMC 2 iTunes Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (feat. Von Smith) Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox 5:13 A Very Postmodern Christmas Judy Garland Amazon Jesus Christ Kristin Hersh 2:23 The Holy Single Big Star 2 Amazon Artist's Website It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Norah Jones 2:42 It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Edmund Sears All I Want For Christmas Is You Phantom Planet 3:55 Maybe You Still Call It Christmas - EP Mariah Carey 6 iTunes The Bell That Couldn’t Jingle Ben Folds 3:10 Sleigher Burt Bacharach iTunes Amazon A Long December Mary Bragg 4:20 A Long December - Single Counting Crows 5 iTunes In The Bleak Midwinter Erasure 4:28 Snow Globe Christina Rossetti iTunes Amazon Oi To the World No Doubt 2:41 A Very Special Christmas 3 Vandals Amazon Last Christmas Pistols at Dawn 4:30 Last Christmas - Single Wham! 18 iTunes

Since her birthday usually falls right in the middle of the big Coverville end-of-year shows, we don’t always get a cover story episode for her, but let’s fix that right now! Annie Lennox and Eurythmics covers today on the show! (73 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) Adetoun Ayoola, The Orchestra Of Opera North & 80s Classical 4:53 80s Classical, Vol. 1: With The Orchestra Of Opera North Eurythmics 24 Amazon Here Comes the Rain Again Hypnogaja & ShyBoy 4:41 Below Sunset Eurythmics 11 iTunes Amazon Georgia On My Mind [Recorded for BBC Radio 2] Annie Lennox 4:09 BBC Radio 2: The Piano Room Ray Charles Amazon Thorn In My Side Michael Carpenter & Suzy Connolly 4:19 S.O.O.P #5 - Songs Of Other People Eurythmics 4 Bandcamp No More I Love You’s Deise Mikhail 3:43 Songs I Love Lover Speaks/Annie Lennox iTunes Amazon Who’s That Girl Some Velvet Morning 3:42 Covert - EP Eurythmics 4 iTunes Into The West Glenn & Ronan 4:28 Horizon Annie Lennox Amazon When Tomorrow Comes Katie Noonan 5:24 The Sweetest Taboo Eurythmics iTunes Amazon Missionary Man American Sin 3:29 American Sin Eurythmics 5 iTunes Would I Lie To You? Frank Bennett 2:31 Cash Landing Eurythmics 2 Amazon Walking On Broken Glass Paul Loren 3:36 Walking On Broken Glass Annie Lennox Amazon Love is a Stranger Martha Wainwright 3:38 I Know You're Married, But I've Got Feelings Too Eurythmics 4 iTunes Amazon There Must Be an Angel Raquel Ralha & Pedro Renato 5:12 The Devil's Choice, Vol. II - Heavenly Tales Eurythmics 2 Amazon Mood Indigo Annie Lennox 5:34 Nostalgia Barney Bigard iTunes

It’s time once again for the annual Thanksgiving tradition of presenting an extra-long episode of Coverville, filled with Beatles covers! (79 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy No Reply The Gold Needles 2:15 Jem Records Celebrates John Lennon Beatles 6 I’m a Loser Vince Guaraldi 2:38 Vince Guaraldi: Greatest Hits Beatles 5 Amazon Baby’s in Black Trampled by Turtles 2:14 Minnesota Beatle Project, Vol. 4 Beatles 4 Amazon I’ll Follow The Sun [feat. Jennifer Hudson] The Beat Bugs 2:10 The Beat Bugs: Complete Season 2 (Music From The Netflix Original Series) Beatles iTunes Eight Days A Week Subwavers 2:48 The Lads From Liverpool Beatles 8 Every Little Thing Barbara Dickson 3:29 Nothing's Gonna Change My World: The Songs of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison Beatles 4 iTunes I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party Rosanne Cash 2:32 Hits 1979-1989 Beatles 4 iTunes Amazon What You’re Doing CuppaJoe 2:38 Cuppa Classics Beatles 2 iTunes Amazon I Feel Fine Ben From Corduroy 2:29 Fab Guiro! Beatles 9 iTunes Amazon She’s A Woman Omar & the Howlers 3:03 Monkey land Beatles 5 Amazon Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da The Juggernauts 2:58 As We Like It Beatles 7 iTunes Amazon While My Guitar Gently Weeps Lucinda Williams 4:51 While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Single Beatles 8 iTunes I Want To Hold Your Hand (feat. Ashley Hess) Stories 2:58 Vol. 11 Beatles Amazon Happiness Is a Warm Gun World Party 2:30 Arkeology Beatles 9 iTunes Amazon Something Charles Jones & Sonny Landreth 3:41 Abbey Road Reimagined - A Tribute To The Beatles Beatles 16 Amazon Cold Turkey Primal Scream 3:48 Dermot O'Leary Presents The Saturday Sessions 2016 John Lennon 5 Amazon All My Loving Marilyn Powell 2:24 We Can Work It Out: Covers Of The Beatles 1962-1966 Beatles 15 Amazon Strawberry Fields Forever ALA.NI 3:37 Rub-A-Dub Soul Beatles 22 iTunes Come Together Oz Noy & Ozone Squeeze 5:12 Ozone Squeeze Beatles 44 Amazon Hey Jude Jesse Palter 6:28 Nothing Standard Beatles 36 iTunes Amazon A Day In The Life Robyn Hitchcock 5:03 1967: Vacations in the Past Beatles 21 iTunes Amazon

When you turn 70, you get a Coverville episode. That’s just the way it is. (59 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy The Way It Is Love Canon 3:38 Greatest Hits Vol. 3 Bruce Hornsby 4 iTunes Bandcamp I’m Alive Bruce Hornsby 4:05 Looking into You: A Tribute to Jackson Browne Jackson Browne 2 Amazon Look Out Any Window Billy Davidson 3:42 Floating Home Bruce Hornsby iTunes Feel the Pain Bruce Hornsby 3:25 Join the Ritual Dinosaur Jr. Amazon The End of the Innocence Bruce Hornsby & The Range 7:18 Greatest Radio Hits (Remastered) Don Henley 3 iTunes Shadowlands Christine Sullivan 4:11 Away Bruce Hornsby iTunes Great Divide Tim Russ 4:07 Tim Russ Bruce Hornsby iTunes Amazon Mandolin Rain Quietdrive 3:57 Your Record / Our Spin Bruce Hornsby 2 iTunes Don’t Blame It On Me Bruce Hornsby 3:41 Goin' Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino Fats Domino 2 Amazon

For his 80th birthday, covers of things he wrote for Disney (Lion King and Aladdin), Broadway (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Chess), and Bond (James Bond). (58 minutes)

I call this episode 1510 at the beginning of the show – but it’s really 1511!

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Hakuna Matata (The Lion King) Rude Bones 3:51 Dive Into Disney Disney 2 Amazon I Just Can’t Wait To Be King Brian Wilson 3:37 In The Key Of Disney (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Version) Disney Amazon Be Prepared Annapantsu 2:35 Be Prepared - Single Disney/Lion King Amazon Can You Feel the Love Tonight D-METAL STARS 4:00 Metal Disney Disney/Elton John/Lion King 2 iTunes Amazon The Circle of Life The Swamp Coolers 3:42 Further Beyond the Sea Elton John/Lion King/Disney Amazon All Time High Zach Jones 3:10 Songs. Bond Songs: The Music Of 007 Rita Coolidge/James Bond 2 Amazon Don’t Cry For Me Argentina Me First And The Gimme Gimmes 2:29 Are A Drag Andrew Lloyd Webber/Evita iTunes Amazon I Know Him So Well (feat. Emma Bunton) Melanie C 4:24 Stages Tim Rice/Chess/Broadway iTunes Amazon A Whole New World First to Eleven 2:27 Covers, Vol. 8 Disney Aladdin 2 iTunes I Don’t Know How to Love Him Sinéad O'Connor 4:13 Theology: London Sessions Andrew Lloyd Webber/Jesus Christ Superstar Amazon One Night In Bangkok Robey 3:38 Joel Diamond presents Silver Blue Disco Music Volume 1 Murray Head 2 Amazon King Herod’s Song (From “Jesus Christ Superstar”) Andrew Lloyd Webber & Alice Cooper 3:00 Unmasked: The Platinum Collection (Deluxe) Andrew Lloyd Webber Amazon Jesus Christ Superstar (Album Edit) Laibach 5:34 Jesus Christ Superstar / God Is God Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice iTunes

Paying tribute to the incredible songwriter, composer, arranger and producer, who just passed away this last weekend at the age of 91. (49 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy P.Y.T. The Holophonics 2:51 Maskarades. Vol. 15 Michael Jackson iTunes I Got You (I Feel Good) Quincy Jones 3:49 Quincy's Got a Brand New Bag James Brown 4 iTunes Amazon The Street Beater Shane Theriot 4:13 Highway 90 Quincy Jones/TV theme Amazon Everything Must Change Katharine McPhee 3:28 I Fall in Love Too Easily Quincy Jones iTunes Amazon Soul Bossa Nova (Austin Powers Theme) Melbourne Ska Orchestra 2:25 TV & Movie Themes Quincy Jones iTunes Superstition Quincy Jones 4:32 20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection: Best of Quincy Jones Stevie Wonder 9 Amazon It’s My Party Bryan Ferry 1:58 Street Life - Greatest Hits Lesley Gore 3 Amazon Strawberry Letter 23 (Feat. Akon) Quincy Jones 3:53 Q: Soul Bossa Nostra Shuggie Otis iTunes Amazon The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (feat. Herbie Hancock & Patti Austin) Quincy Jones 6:44 We All Love Ennio Morricone Ennio Morricone Amazon In The Heat Of The Night Jools Holland 3:47 World Of His Own Ray Charles iTunes Amazon

For no reason. (63 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy I CAN’T GO FOR THAT (NO CAN DO) Hiroshi Takano 4:04 CLASS of the 80's ORANGE Hall & Oates 11 Amazon Maneater (feat. Jules Galli) Taran 3:30 Yacht Rock Hall & Oates Amazon Rich Girl (feat. London Thor) Stories 3:06 Vol. 14 Hall & Oates Amazon Kiss On My List The Bird & The Bee 4:18 Interpreting The Masters Volume 1: A Tribute To Daryl Hall And John Oates Hall & Oates 3 Amazon She’s Gone Emm Gryner 3:20 She's Gone Hall & Oates 5 Amazon Taking Down the Tree (feat. Green Gartside) Tracey Thorn 4:10 Tinsel and Lights Low iTunes Amazon Lazy Mark Kozelek 3:34 Rare Tracks Low 2 Words Mike Doughty 4:07 The Flip Is Another Honey Low iTunes Amazon Fearless Low 6:21 A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities Pink Floyd 7 Amazon Sunflower City and Colour 4:12 Low Songs - Single Low 2 iTunes Ocean Man CG5 2:18 Ocean Man - Single Unknown Artist Amazon What Deaner Was Talking About (Live at the Wireless) [Remastered 2008] Ash 2:17 1977 (Collectors Edition) Unknown Artist iTunes Baby Bitch Jon Auer 3:29 6½ Ween Amazon Tender Situation Eli Wing 3:19 Tender Situation Ween Bandcamp The Shot Heard ‘Round the World Ween 3:09 Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks TV Theme Amazon

For Jon Anderson’s 80th birthday – some Yes covers, and some surprises! (65 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Owner of a Lonely Heart Trevor Horn Feat. The Sarm Orchestra 5:48 Reimagines The Eighties Yes 11 Amazon Leave It Mosaic Whispers 2:50 Watercolors Yes 3 iTunes Amazon Roundabout Allegaeon 8:20 Roundabout - Single Yes 4 iTunes Long Distance Runaround Wendy Lewis 3:44 For All I Care Yes 3 I’ve Seen All Good People Paul Melancon and the New Insecurities 5:37 Apocryphal, vol. 2 Yes Siberian Khatru Kevin Gilbert 8:08 Covers Yes 2 Artist's Website Time and a Word The Samurai of Prog 7:08 Secrets of Disguise Yes iTunes Amazon The Friends of Mr. Cairo Star Inc. 1:47 Synthesizer Spectacular Jon & Vangelis 2 iTunes State of Independence Kate Ceberano 6:58 Live (with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra) Jon & Vangelis iTunes The Meeting The Vegetarians 2:45 Remustered & Remixed Salad [Explicit] Yes Amazon A Day in the Life (feat. Jon Anderson) Jake Shimabukuro 4:27 Jake & Friends Beatles iTunes

Born Kate Hudson almost 40 years ago, today we’ll celebrate the music of Katy Perry (whose birthday is coming up next week) as told with cover songs! (52 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy I Kissed a Girl Whiskey Shivers 3:54 Smothered & Covered Katy Perry 8 iTunes Hot N’ Cold First to Eleven 3:42 Covers Vol. 18 Katy Perry iTunes Teenage Dream Jenny Owen Youngs 4:12 Night Shift (Extended Edition) Katy Perry 5 iTunes California Gurls Gazzara 4:03 Lounge Cover Collection Seven (Chill Out Remakes of Evergreen Pop Songs) Katy Perry 5 Amazon Roar The Beef Seeds 3:18 Songs from the Campfire Katy Perry 5 Amazon Firework Jewel 3:37 Queen of Hearts Katy Perry 4 iTunes Chained to the Rhythm Nataly Dawn & Sarah Clanton 2:38 Chained to the Rhythm - Single Katy Perry Amazon Waking Up in Vegas Autumn Fires 3:08 Waking Up in Vegas - Single Katy Perry iTunes All You Need Is Love Katy Perry 3:26 All You Need Is Love - Single Beatles 18 Amazon Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.) Kira Puru 3:59 Triple J: Like A Version 15 Katy Perry 2 Amazon Dark Horse Sleeping At Last 3:41 Covers, Vol. 2 Katy Perry 2 iTunes E.T. (feat. Jake Coco) Caitlin Hart 4:10 Cover Stories Katy Perry iTunes