For Frank Black/Black Francis’ 60th, here’s a great collection of covers of and by the Pixies! (58 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Where Is My Mind? renee & jeremy 2:36 Whole Lotta Love Pixies 8 Amazon Gigantic 惑星 (Planet) 4:07 Tribute To The Pixies Pixies 5 Amazon Motorway To Roswell Knife & Fork 4:55 Dig For Fire - A Tribute to Pixies Pixies 2 Bandcamp Breathless The Stax Pistols & Frank Black 2:48 Brace Yourself! - A Tribute To Otis Blackwell Jerry Lee Lewis Amazon Monkey Gone to Heaven Wotka Trawolta 2:51 VIVA! Songs of Freedom Pixies 4 Bandcamp Wave Of Mutilation Love X Stereo 4:20 SoundCloud Pixies 10 Soundcloud Velouria The Apollo Trio 3:31 Oh, Velveteen - EP Pixies 2 iTunes Hang On to Your Ego Frank Black 3:24 Frank Black Beach Boys iTunes Amazon Tame Local H 2:02 Where Is My Mind? (A Tribute To The Pixies) Pixies 2 Amazon Hey Eskimo Joe 3:21 Triple J: Like A Version 3 Pixies 2 Amazon Here Comes Your Man Meaghan Smith 3:14 [500] Days Of Summer - Music From The Motion Picture Pixies 9 Amazon Gouge Away Action Camp 2:39 Cover Like Tan Pixies 4 Bandcamp Levitate Me Matthew (Pottymouth.org) 3:03 Celebrities Pixies Tribute Pixies 3 Letter To Memphis Kenickie 1:51 The BBC Radio One Sessions Pixies Wild Honey Pie (John Peel Session (3rd May 1988)) Pixies 1:54 Pixies at the BBC, 1988-91 Beatles iTunes

For Angus Young’s 70th birthday this weekend, let’s go back to a whole lotta AC/DC tracks and find some covers! (74 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy You Shook Me All Night Long Bing Ji Ling 3:00 Rewind! 3 AC/DC 6 Amazon Back in Black Maya Beiser, Otto Briner & Hubert Zemler 4:39 Uncovered AC/DC 13 iTunes Amazon Whole Lotta Rosie 奥田民生 5:13 Thunder Tracks AC/DC 4 Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap The Lounge Kittens 2:45 Sequins & C-Bombs [Explicit] AC/DC 6 Amazon Touch Too Much Little Muddy 3:25 Mayan Mud AC/DC iTunes Amazon Hell’s Bells Driving Mrs. Satan 3:48 Popscotch AC/DC 2 iTunes Amazon Highway to Hell Texas Lightning 3:49 Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch... AC/DC 18 Amazon Let There Be Rock Foo Fighters 5:32 BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge 2017 AC/DC Amazon Thunderstruck Tommee Profitt & William Joseph 5:07 Covers (Vol. 2) AC/DC 7 iTunes T.N.T. The Skids 3:01 High Voltage Punk - A Tribute To AC/DC AC/DC 6 Amazon Baby, Please Don’t Go AC/DC 4:50 '74 Jailbreak - EP Big Joe Williams 2 iTunes Sin City Human Nature 4:09 Vegas: Songs from Sin City AC/DC 5 iTunes Amazon It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock’n’Roll) Steve 'n' Seagulls 3:57 Brothers in Farms AC/DC 2 Amazon For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) Jessica Will 4:08 Backed in Black: A Tribute to AC/DC AC/DC 2 iTunes Shoot to Thrill (feat. Lindsay McDougall, Kye Smith, Eamon Sandwith & Amy Gabba) [Cover Version] Mikey & His Uke 5:49 Shoot to Thrill (feat. Lindsay McDougall, Kye Smith, Eamon Sandwith & Amy Gabba) AC/DC 2 Amazon

For what would have been Solomon’s 85th birthday, a long-overdue episode showcasing his amazing music! (42 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Cry to Me Nikka Costa 2:40 Nikka & Strings: Underneath and in Between Solomon Burke 2 iTunes I Got the Blues Solomon Burke 4:11 Make Do With What You Got Rolling Stones iTunes Amazon Get Out Of My Life, Woman The Rosewood Thieves 3:28 Heartaches By The Pound: The Rosewood Thieves Sing Solomon Burke Solomon Burke 2 Amazon Got to Get You Off My Mind Huey Lewis & The News 2:50 Soulsville Solomon Burke 2 Amazon The Other Side Of The Coin Nick Lowe 2:47 At My Age Solomon Burke iTunes Amazon Everybody Needs Somebody To Love Jools Holland & Solomon Burke 3:19 Swinging the Blues Dancing the Ska Solomon Burke 2 Amazon Maggie’s Farm Solomon Burke 2:16 The King of Rock 'N' Soul: The Atlantic Recordings (1962-1968) Bob Dylan 11 iTunes Stupidity The Detroit Cobras 1:56 Life, Love and Leaving Van Dykes iTunes Amazon Home In Your Heart Paul Rodgers 2:52 Brace Yourself! - A Tribute To Otis Blackwell Solomon Burke Amazon Can’t Nobody Love You Denny Laine 3:52 Wings at the Sound of Denny Laine Solomon Burke Amazon

With two members of Black Eyed Peas (will.i.am and Fergie) celebrating birthdays this month, and Twisted Sister’s frontman Dee Snyder also celebrating a birthday, it’s time for a double cover story! (64 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy I Gotta Feeling Jay Sean 2:18 BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge Vol. 5 Black Eyed Peas 3 Amazon Let’s Get It Started Måneskin 2:26 Chosen Black Eyed Peas 3 Amazon Quando Quando Quando Fergie 3:15 Nine (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Tony Renis Orchestra Amazon My Humps (feat. Vanessa Dunleavy & Darcy Wright) Robyn Adele Anderson 2:58 Vol. 2 Black Eyed Peas iTunes Where is the Love? (feat. Anakelly) Golden Smirk 4:01 Where is the Love? (feat. Anakelly) - Single Black Eyed Peas iTunes True Will.I.Am Feat. Fergie 3:46 50 First Dates Spandau Ballet 7 Amazon Pump It Twisted Measure 3:37 Twisted Archives Black Eyed Peas iTunes Shut Up Natty Bong 3:36 Flower Tattoos Black Eyed Peas 2 iTunes Gimme Shelter (with Mick Jagger, Fergie & will.i.am) [Live] U2 5:00 The 25th Anniversary Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Concerts (Live) [Bonus Track Version] Rolling Stones Amazon We’re Not Gonna Take It Hellsongs 5:17 Hymns In The Key Of 666 Twisted Sister 11 iTunes Amazon It Was A Very Good Year (Featuring Dee Snider) Bob Kulick, Brett Chassen, Billy Sheehan, Doug Katsaros, & Guests 5:03 SIN-atra Kingston Trio/Frank Sinatra Amazon Head Like a Hole Dee Snider 4:57 We Are the Ones Nine Inch Nails 9 Amazon Goofy Goober Rock SpongeBob Squarepants 2:53 Spongebob's Greatest Hits (From the Nickelodeon Show "Spongebob") Twisted Sister iTunes The Ballad of Mack the Knife Dee Snider 3:26 Dee Does Broadway Kurt Weill/Threepenny Opera Amazon

For Dale Bozzio and Eli Brickell’s birthdays, cover stories for there amazing bands they fronted! (59 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Words The Echoing Green 3:52 Hope Springs Eternal Missing Persons iTunes I Would Die 4 U (Keoki Remix) Missing Persons 3:37 Party O' The Times A Tribute To Prince Prince Amazon Walking In LA Hagfish 3:54 Before You Were Punk Missing Persons 2 Amazon Love Will Tear Us Apart Missing Persons 4:04 Dreaming Joy Division 28 iTunes Amazon Hello, I Love You Missing Persons 2:19 The Best Of Missing Persons Doors 6 iTunes Amazon Destination Unknown Joan Jett & The Blackhearts 6:03 Endless Bummer (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Missing Persons 5 Amazon Ashes To Ashes Dax Featuring Dale Bozzio 3:36 Bangs! Songs From The 80's David Bowie 14 What I Am Emma Bunton 4:37 A Girl Like Me Edie Brickell 2 iTunes Amazon A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall Edie Brickell & New Bohemians 4:59 Ultimate Collection Bob Dylan 7 Amazon Circle Bowling for Soup 2:55 Lunch. Drunk. Love. Edie Brickell & New Bohemians iTunes Amazon Walk On The Wild Side Edie Brickell & New Bohemians 5:15 Flashback Lou Reed 18 Shadowboxing (Live) Sara Hickman 5:05 Texans Live from Mountain Stage Edie Brickell & New Bohemians Amazon

A tribute to the music of Roberta Flack, and a Cover Story for, now 80, Mitch Ryder! (53 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Killing Me Softly The Congress 5:25 The Loft Tapes Roberta Flack 3 iTunes Amazon Feel Like Makin’ Love the Indigo 3:34 My Fair Melodies Roberta Flack 3 Amazon Come Together Roberta Flack 4:39 Let It Be Roberta - Roberta Flack Sings The Beatles Beatles 44 iTunes Amazon Won’t You Be My Neighbor (ballad version) Roberta Flack 4:09 Songs from the Neighborhood: The Music of Mister Rogers Mister Rogers Amazon Where is the Love (feat. Alita Moses) Benny Benack III 3:58 A Lot of Livin' to Do Roberta Flack iTunes Devil With The Blue Dress Shorty Long 3:11 Hitsville U.S.A., The Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971 [Disc 1] Shorty Long Sock It to Me – Baby! James Carr 2:14 You Got My Mind Messed Up Mitch Ryder iTunes Amazon When You Were Mine Mitch Ryder 3:44 Never Kick a Sleeping Dog Prince 7 Amazon Gimme Shelter Mitch Ryder 6:54 Mitch Ryder Live Rolling Stones 19 iTunes Amazon Devil With The Blue Dress Medley Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 4:49 No Nukes - The Muse Concert For A Non Nuclear Future Mitch Ryder/Little Richard Amazon

Birthday cover stories on today’s show – for Howard Jones (70), Walter Becker of Steely Dan (would have been 75), and Smokey Robinson (85)! Enjoy! (63 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy No One Is to Blame Emile Millar 3:59 Stay Here Howard Jones 4 iTunes Things Can Only Get Better Paul Q-Pek 4:15 Touch The Ground Howard Jones iTunes Amazon What is Love? Flunk 3:28 History of Everything Ever Howard Jones 3 iTunes Like To Get To Know You Well Belcurve 3:18 The Stacks: Songs From The Oasis Howard Jones Bandcamp Everlasting Love Tara Leigh Cobble 3:11 Playing Favorites Howard Jones Dirty Work (Close Your Eyes) Jenna Mammina 4:34 Close Your Eyes (Audiophile Edition Sea) Steely Dan iTunes Peg (feat. Amber Martin) Steely Dance 4:30 Steely Dance Steely Dan Amazon Rikki Don’t Lose That Number Soultans 3:33 Greatest Hits Steely Dan 4 Kid Charlemagne Donovan Raitt 2:46 Kid Charlemagne - Single Steely Dan 5 iTunes Josie Sara Isaksson & Rebecka Törnqvist 2:53 Fire In The Hole Steely Dan 4 Amazon Tears of a Clown A Loss for Words 2:41 Motown Classics Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 7 iTunes Amazon You Really Got A Hold On Me Murder By Death 2:51 As You Wish: Kickstarter Covers Vol. 2 Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 3 Bandcamp I Second That Emotion Emilie Mover 3:10 I Second That Emotion Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 4 Amazon The Tracks Of My Tears Billy Bragg 2:58 Talking With the Taxman About Poetry Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 14 iTunes Amazon And I Love Her Smokey Robinson & the Miracles 2:41 What Love Has… Joined Together Beatles 17 Amazon

For his 75th birthday, which is today, some artists show how they see Peter Gabriel’s music, in their eyes. (82 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy In Your Eyes Flaw 5:00 Revival Peter Gabriel 67 iTunes Amazon Sledgehammer Gavin Castleton 5:49 Covers Peter Gabriel 12 iTunes Don’t Give Up Georg Wadenius 5:58 Reconnection Peter Gabriel 4 iTunes Amazon Digging In The Dirt (feat. Peter Gabriel) Sheryl Crow 5:24 Evolution (Deluxe) Peter Gabriel iTunes Mercy Street Christy Baron 5:39 Steppin' Peter Gabriel 4 iTunes Amazon Solsbury Hill Glass Moon 3:52 Glass Moon Peter Gabriel 9 iTunes Amazon Red Rain Lowland Hum 4:16 So Low Peter Gabriel 3 iTunes Bandcamp Come Talk To Me Bon Iver 6:20 And I'll Scratch Yours Peter Gabriel Amazon Flume Peter Gabriel 3:00 Scratch My Back Bon Iver 2 iTunes Amazon Here Comes the Flood SuRie 3:38 Something Beginning With ... Peter Gabriel iTunes Games Without Frontiers Bob Holroyd 5:51 Without Within Peter Gabriel 8 iTunes Amazon Shock the Monkey TURF 3:26 Volume I: Hits of the 1980s - EP Peter Gabriel 8 Amazon Washing of the Water Kurt Elling 4:10 The Questions Peter Gabriel iTunes Amazon Blood of Eden ONAIR 6:27 Identity Peter Gabriel 3 Amazon Big Time Ryeland Allison 4:01 A Tribute To The Music Of Peter Gabriel: Leaves From The Tree Peter Gabriel 4 Amazon

For what would have been Michael Hutchence’s 65th birthday, a set of INXS covers! (63 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Don’t Change The Polyphonic Spree 4:24 Afflatus INXS 9 iTunes Need You Tonight Gilli Moon 4:15 Woman INXS 8 iTunes Amazon Mediate IfIHalvedAHiFi 3:07 May 2019: INXS INXS 2 Bandcamp Under My Thumb The London Symphony Orchestra & Michael Hutchence 2:21 Mystify: A Musical Journey With Michael Hutchence Rolling Stones 9 Amazon Mystify Luca Giacco & Dualbox 4:31 Reminiscences INXS 3 iTunes Never Tear Us Apart The National 3:18 Songs for Australia INXS 9 Amazon Spill The Wine Michael Hutchence 3:37 Original Sin-The Seven Sins: Featuring The Songs And Music Of INXS Eric Burdon & War Amazon New Sensation George Lynch & Jeff Pilson 4:13 Heavy Hitters II INXS 3 iTunes Amazon What You Need Vitamin String Quartet 3:26 Strung Out On Inxs: The String Quartet Tribute INXS Beautiful Girl (feat. Pat Monahan) INXS 4:08 Original Sin INXS iTunes Amazon I Send A Message Freedom Bremner 2:58 Music For Picture Presents Revisionist History Vol I: 1984 INXS 2 Amazon Devil Inside Powerman 5000 4:10 Copies, Clones & Replicants INXS 3 iTunes Original Sin Femme Rocks 3:32 Femme Rocks INXS 3 iTunes Not Enough Time Cam Giles 4:04 A Jazz Tribute To INXS INXS 2 Bandcamp

This week, a salute to Billy Ocean, who turned 75 a couple days ago, and a Patron-submitted set from JD Friedland! (70 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Caribbean Queen a&r 3:13 SoundCloud Billy Ocean 3 Soundcloud Red Light Spells Danger Top Cats 3:37 Heartache Billy Ocean iTunes Get Outta My Dreams (feat. Cyndy Fike) J2 3:00 Get Outta My Dreams (feat. Cyndy Fike) - Single Billy Ocean iTunes Cry Me a River Billy Ocean 4:10 Here You Are: The Best of Billy Ocean Julie London 8 iTunes When The Going Gets Tough The Tough Get Going Jessica Biel 6:23 Easy Virtue - Music From The Film Billy Ocean Amazon Lovely Day (feat. YolanDa Brown & Ruti) Billy Ocean & The Young Voices Choir 3:43 Lovely Day (feat. YolanDa Brown & Ruti) - Single Bill Withers iTunes Love Really Hurts Without You Karizma Duo 2:38 Under the Covers Billy Ocean iTunes Suddenly Gloria Gaynor 3:40 The Power of Love Billy Ocean iTunes Amazon Space Oddity The Flaming Lips 5:12 Space Oddity - Single David Bowie 21 Amazon Ashes to Ashes Tears For Fears 4:31 Saturnine Martial & Lunatic David Bowie 14 iTunes Amazon Major Tom (Coming Home) Shiny Toy Guns 4:10 Season Of Poison Peter Schilling 7 Amazon Hallo Spaceboy Sven Ratzke 2:59 Where Are We Now David Bowie 2 iTunes Blackstar (Featuring Anna Calvi) Jherek Bischoff and Amanda Palmer 8:32 Strung Out In Heaven: A Bowie String Quartet Tribute David Bowie Amazon

Every once in a while, I have to do a cover story for the OTHER Elvis! (54 minutes)

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Title Artist Length Artwork Album Original Artist Versions Buy Don’t Be Cruel Holmes 2:26 Covers Elvis Presley 6 Amazon Can’t Help Falling in Love (feat. Brooke) [DARK] Tommee Profitt 2:49 Covers, Vol. 1 Elvis Presley iTunes (You’re the) Devil In Disguise Larkin Poe 3:07 Kindred Spirits Elvis Presley 2 iTunes In The Ghetto Beats International 3:45 Excursion On The Version Elvis Presley 8 Amazon Suspicious Minds Computer Magic 3:04 Covers, Vol. 1 - EP Elvis Presley/Mark James iTunes Love Me Tender Holly Johnson 3:01 The Last Temptation Of Elvis Elvis Presley 14 Little Sister Billy Bremner's Rockfiles 2:56 Waiting for a Following Wind Elvis Presley 6 Bandcamp It’s Now Or Never Cornell Campbell 2:41 All Shook Up - A Reggae Tribute To The King Elvis Presley 5 Amazon Baby, Let’s Play House Michael Hutchence & NRBQ 2:40 It's Now Or Never: The Tribute to Elvis Elvis Presley Amazon She’s Not You Chris Isaak 1:56 Beyond the Sun Elvis Presley iTunes Amazon (You’re So Square) Baby I Don’t Care Queen 1:36 Live at Wembley Stadium Elvis Presley 3 iTunes Amazon Heartbreak Hotel The Residents 1:55 The King And Eye Elvis Presley 6 iTunes Kotmorn Yoop Yap (All Shook Up) Sakarin Boonpit 2:03 Thai Beat A Go-Go 2 Elvis Presley 2 Love Me Nicolas Cage 2:56 Wild At Heart Elvis Presley 3 Amazon Jailhouse Rock Masaaki Hirao & His All Stars Wagon 2:32 Nippon Rock 'n' Roll Elvis Presley 8 Amazon A Little Less Conversation Kings Off Cash 1:54 La Musique de Paris Dernière: Vol. 7 Elvis Presley 4 Amazon