Questions Are a Burden to Others: Jeff’s 2018 Covers Songpile 1

My favorite cover songs that came my way during the first half of 2018, as usual segued blah-blah-blah.

Part 1:

1. Plasticsoul “Biff Bang Pow” (The Creation cover—Therapy 2017) (0:00)
2. Leopold and His Fiction “If You Gotta Go, Go Now” (Bob Dylan cover—Darling Destroyer 2017) (2:48)
3. Low Cut Connie “Controversy (Prince cover—Dirty Pictures (Part 1) 2017) (5:32)
4. Scrawl “Public Image” (Public Image Ltd. cover—Nature Film 2008) (8:25)
5. The Districts “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (Joy Division cover—single, 2018) (11:19)
6. Puddles Pity Party “I Want You to Want Me” (Cheap Trick cover—single, 2017) (14:42)
7. Spoon “I Can’t Give Everything Away” (David Bowie cover—House of Strombo session, 2018) (17:49)
8. Floating Opera “Debaser” (Pixies cover—Pop Song on the Elevator Down 2017) (21:28)
9. Field Music “River Man” (Nick Drake cover—Green Leaves: Nick Drake Covered (Mojo) 2018) (24:22)
10. The War on Drugs “Accidentally Like a Martyr” (Warren Zevon cover—Spotify single, 2017) (28:34)
11. The Moore Brothers “Inverness” (Scott Miller/The Loud Family cover—unreleased 2018) (32:44)
12. Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore “Get Together” (Jesse Colin Young/The Youngbloods cover—Downey to Lubbock 2018) (36:34)
13. Buffalo Tom “The Only Living Boy in New York” (Simon & Garfunkel cover—Quiet and Peace 2018) (40:26)

Part 2:

1. Wussy “Aliens in Our Midst” (Twinkeyz cover—“Damnably” single, 2018) (0:00)
2. Ty Segall “Every 1’s a Winner” (Hot Chocolate cover—Freedom’s Goblin 2017) (4:00)
3. The Wigs “Mony, Mony” (Tommy James & the Shondells cover—File Under: Pop Vocal 1981) (8:18)
4. The Everly Brothers “Mr. Soul” (Neil Young/Buffalo Springfield cover—Nice Guys 1969) (10:56)
5. Jack Ellister “Dear Prudence” (Beatles cover—The White EP compilation 2013) (13:52)
6. Adam Ostrar “Cindy Tells Me” (Brian Eno cover—Brawls in the Briar 2017) (16:57)
7. The Land Below “Song 2” (Blur cover—These Are Not Mine 2018) (19:28)
8. Laura Veirs “Mountains of the Moon” (Grateful Dead cover—The Lookout 2018) (22:16)
9. Henry Jamison “If You Could Read My Mind” (Gordon Lightfoot cover—If You Could Read My Mind 2017) (26:27)
10. Franz Ferdinand “Shut Up Kiss Me” (Angel Olsen cover—Sirius XM live, 2018) (29:42)
11. Angelique Kidjo “Born Under Punches” (Talking Heads cover—single, 2018) (32:58)
12. Lionel Wendling “It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal” (Frank Zappa cover—Steel World 2016) (36:47)
13. (41:10)

My Name Is Bill and I’m a Headcase (Jeff’s Summer 2018 Songpile)

Once again…a segued mix of my favorite tracks that have come my way during the last three months…  Curiously, a number of collaborations and one-offs…and yes, the most obvious candidate for this season’s mix concludes the playlist…because what could follow it, really?

Part 1:

1. Lump “Curse of the Contemporary” Lump 2018 (Laura Marling, Mike Lindsay of Tunng) (0:00)
2. Adrian Younge & Linear Labs “Silhouette Dreams” Adrian Younge Presents: Voices of Gemma 2018 (4:18)
3. Sailor “A Glass of Champagne” Trouble 1975 (7:03)
4. Pete & the Pirates “Jennifer” single 2009 (9:42)
5. Neutral Knievel “Living a Crooked Line” single 2018 (12:54)
6. Tokyo Police Club “New Blues” single 2018 (15:41)
7. Jessica Lea Mayfield “Sorry Is Gone” Sorry Is Gone 2017 (19:55)
8. Barbara Manning “Never Park” Lately I Keep Scissors 1989 (23:13)
9. The Fall “Noel’s Chemical Effluence” recorded 1992; later on The Twenty-Seven Points and 2018 reissue of Code: Selfish (27:41)
10. Family Curse “Julia Armant” single 2011 (34:01)
11. The Wrens “Life Stories from the Union” sorry, not new! single 1995 (37:33)
12. Underworld feat. Iggy Pop “Bells & Circles” single 2018 (41:55)

Part 2:

1. Strange Attractor feat. Graham Lewis “Iron Horse” Anatomy of a Tear 2011 (0:00)
2. Ozone Baby feat. Todd Fancey “Girl with Cassettes” single 2010 (5:46)
3. Flasher “Pressure” Constant Image 2018 (8:35)
4. TV Girl “7 Days ’til Sunday” Death of a Party Girl 2018 (11:48)
5. Mitski “Geyser” Be the Cowboy 2018 (15:18)
6. Active Bird Community “Spend the Night” single 2018 (17:39)
7. Japanese Breakfast “In Heaven” Psychopomp 2016 (21:13)
8. Trupa Trupa “To Me” Jolly New Songs 2017 (25:04)
9. The Black Watch “Oh You Little Witch!” The Paper Boats EP 2018 (28:43)
10. Jo Passed “Repair” Their Prime 2018 (32:36)
11. Boy Azooga “Jerry” 1,2 Kung Fu 2018 (37:14)
12. Gold Connections “Icarus” Icarus 2016 (40:47)
13. Childish Gambino “This Is America” single 2018 (48:12)