Theme Song Contest!

So it’s been over a year since the last contest ended, and since I’ve been teasing ‘contests’ in the theme song each week, I felt it was time to finally rectify this.

I’ve had a All Cover Song show in the works for a few months now.  I’ve approached a few friends to do a cover version of the show’s theme song, but so far nobody has had the time/inclination/inspiration to do so, which is fine. I was thinking that this is perfect fodder for a new contest!

So, submit YOUR cover version of the theme song before March 21st at 5pm EDT April 18th at 5pm to be entered into the contest for the chance to win a movie of my choosing DVD or Bluray.  The actual film selection will likely be a negotiation between the winner and I, and I promise to only pick a movie I actually think is good.  I will be the final judge of the winning entry, and there will be only one true winner, although I will likely play some of the runners up throughout the show (and possibly use them on future shows).

After I announced this on the show, a few people asked for some clarifications:

  • I tend to prefer cover songs that are unique from the original, and sometimes even almost unrecognizable, so feel free to interpret creatively.
  • You don’t need to stick with the original T-Pain background bed, in fact, unless your delivery was awesome, it could hurt you in the contest.
  • If nobody enters I’m just going to buy myself a massage.

Good luck!

January 17th, 2011


Song

Artist

Album
Musicology Prince Musicology
Prejudice Tim Minchin Ready for This? (Live)
Karma Police Radiohead OK Computer
Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap
Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy Queen A Day At The Races
The Ocean Led Zeppelin Box Set
One Angry Dwarf and 200 Solemn Faces Ben Folds Five Whatever and Ever Amen
Boneville Occident Squarepusher Alive in Japan
The End Times Secret Chiefs 3 Book Of Horizons
To Cure A Weakling Child Aphex Twin Richard D. James Album
The Air Confitioned Nightmare Mr. Bungle California
Green Hornet Al Hirt Kill Bill Vol.1 – Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Lucky Man Emerson, Lake & Palmer Emerson Lake & Palmer
Smell Memory Múm Yesterday Was Dramatic – Today Is Ok
Late Anthropocene 2 Brian Eno Small Craft On A Milk Sea
Connecticut’s For Fucking Jesus H Christ and The Four Hornsmen of the Apocalypse Jesus H Christ and The Four Hornsmen Of The Apocalypse
The Village Green Preservation Society The Kinks Hot Fuzz Soundtrack (Music From the Motion Picture)
See Emily Play David Bowie Pinups
Scarecrow Rx Bedside Toxicology
My Shadow Jay Reatard Blood Visions
Heart-Shaped Box Nirvana In Utero
No, You Don’t Nine Inch Nails The Fragile
More The Priests Tall Tales
(What’s So Funny ’bout) Peace, Love And Understanding Elvis Costello & The Attractions The Very Best of…
My My Metrocard Le Tigre Le Tigre
(Nothing But) Flowers Talking Heads Naked (Remastered)

January 10th, 2011


Song

Artist

Album
American Pie, Pt. 1 Don McLean Back to Back Hits
Red Barked Trees Wire Red Barked Tree
Jack Knyfe Mix Master Mike Anti-Theft Device
Baroque Sensation Volcano The Bear Classic Erasmus Fusion
After Hours The Velvet Underground The Velvet Underground
The Body of an American The Pogues Rum Sodomy & the Lash [Expanded]
Desert Search For Techno Allah Mr. Bungle Disco Volante
Sick to Death Atari Teenage Riot The Future of War
(Let’s Get) Physical Revolting Cocks Beers Steers & Queers
Friendly Fire The Tear Garden The Secret Experiment
Inspiracion Calexico Carried To Dust
Don’t Get Around Much Anymore Mose Allison Creek Bank
Tenderness General Public All The Rage
Louie Louie Motörhead Golden Years — The Alternate Versions [Disc 1]
The Grudge Tool Lateralus
Deep in the Heart of Jersey (performed by Cowboy Charley) Uncle Floyd The Uncle Floyd Show Album
[Untitled] AFX Analogue Bubblebath 2
Brothel Charge Add N To (X) Add Insult To Injury
Rat Is Dead (Rage) CSS Donkey
Bend Over Beethoven !!! Myth Takes
All That Them Want Clutch and Sense All Them Want
Supernaut (Trent Reznor Vocal Version) 1000 Homo DJs WaxTrax! Black Box: The First 13 Years
Just A Friend Biz Markie Just A Friend – EP
Cool Band Buzz Busdriver Fear of a Black Tangent
Arnold Layne (Featuring David Bowie) [Live from The Royal Albert Hall, May 2006] David Gilmour featuring David Bowie Arnold Layne – EP
Careless Whisper Ben Folds & Rufus Wainwright Live at the Central Park Summerstage (7-13-2004)
American Pie Don McLean American Pie
Lunchlady Land Adam Sandler They’re All Gonna Laugh At You

January 3rd, 2011


Song

Artist

Album
N.W.O. Ministry Psalm 69
Aladdin Sane (1913-1938-197?) David Bowie Aladdin Sane (30th Anniversary Edition)
Just Like You Imagined Nine Inch Nails The Fragile
Patience Guns N’ Roses G N’ R Lies
Ever Somber Dälek Absence
Silent Servant (Regis Edit) Sandwell District Bleep x Sonar 2010
Amber Ken Nordine Colors
The Weight The Band The Best Of The Band
Wild World Cat Stevens The Very Best of Cat Stevens
Time Went Slow Scorn Gyral
Good Times Roll The Cars The Cars Greatest Hits
Rob Lee Chris Clark Ceramics Is the Bomb – EP
Girl Anachronism (Paradise Live) The Dresden Dolls Live from the Paradise (Explicit Version) – EP
Let’s Make Out (Album Version) Does It Offend You Yeah? You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into
Wave of Mutilation Grant Lee Phillips Nineteeneighties
Bring Me The Disco King [Loner Mix] David Bowie feat. Maynard James Keenan and John Frusciante Underworld – Music From The Motion Picture
Pore ohGr Welt
California Über Alles Dead Kennedys Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death
Megaton B-Boy 2000 Handsome Boy Modeling School Feat. Alec Empire and El-P So How’s Your Girl…
The Roof Is On Fire Rock Master Scott & The Dynamic Three The Roof Is On Fire (Re-Recorded / Remastered)
Patterns Band of Skulls Baby Darling Doll Face Honey
Stop Eating Cex Maryland Mansions
Order 1081 (feat Natalie Merchant) David Byrne & Fatboy Slim Here Lies Love
(I Don’t Want To Go To) Chelsea Elvis Costello & The Attractions The Very Best of…
Fell in Love with a Girl The White Stripes White Blood Cells
This Town Ain’t Big Enough For Both Of Us (with Faith No More) Sparks Plagiarism
Dirty Water The Standells Fever Pitch (Music from the Motion Picture)

December 20th, 2010


Song

Artist

Album
Dominick The Donkey (The Italian Christmas Donkey) Lou Monte The Very Best Of Lou Monte
Rudolph the Rave Nosed Reindeer Parker vs. Bing
Last Christmas Wham! RTL Christmas Megastars
Merry Muthafuckin’ Xmas Eazy-E Eazy-Duz-It
Frosty the Snowman Jackson 5 Ultimate Christmas Collection
Mistress For Christmas AC/DC The Razors Edge
Brown Christmas El Vez Merry MeX-Mas
Christmas in Hawaii Jack Dangers ¡Hello Friends!
Everything Is One Big Christmas Tree The Magnetic Fields Realism
I Want Your Christmas (Live at Comedy Death-Ray) Thomas Lennon Comedy Death-Ray Xmas 2009
Fuckin Up My Christmas MC Chris Life’s A Bitch And I’m Her Pimp
Christmas on Earth Momus Timelord
Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight) The Ramones Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: The Anthology
Twelve Days Of Christmas Bob and Doug McKenzie Great White North
Christmas In Hollis Run-DMC Tougher Than Leather
Christmas with the Devil Spinal Tap This Is Spinal Tap
Christmas in Allston The Thermoses Merry Christmas From The Thermoses
Do They Know It’s Christmas? Band Aid The All Time Greatest Christmas Songs
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire) Mel Tormé The All Time Greatest Christmas Songs
Dubstep Santa David Bass Dubstep Santa
Dubstep Santa 2 – FILTHY David Bass Dubstep Santa
We Wish You a Merry Christmas Weezer iTunes Holiday Sampler
Another Christmas Song Stephen Colbert iTunes Holiday Sampler
Christmas at Ground Zero (Alternate Mix) “Weird Al” Yankovic Headline News
Here Comes Fatty Claus Rudolph & Gang A John Waters Christmas
Santa Claus Is A Black Man Akim And The Teddy Vann Production Company A John Waters Christmas
Happy Birthday Jesus (A Child’s Prayer) Little Cindy A John Waters Christmas
I Wish You A Merry Christmas Big Dee Irwin & Little Eva A John Waters Christmas
Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree Brenda Lee Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits (1955-Present)
Merry Xmas Everybody Slade Christmas Hits
Christmas The Who Tommy
Thank God It’s Christmas Queen Greatest Hits III
Here Comes Santa Claus Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector
Blue Christmas Elvis Presley Christmas Hits
The Little Drummer Boy Johnny Cash The All Time Greatest Christmas Songs
The Chipmunk Song The Chipmunks with Dave Seville Billboard Greatest Christmas Hits (1955-Present)

December 13th, 2010


Song

Artist

Album
I Want You Back Jackson 5 The Essential Michael Jackson
Alice And Bob MC Plus+ Algorhythms
Disc Wars Daft Punk Tron: Legacy
Bill O’Reilly Flips Out DANCE REMIX RevoLucian THE INTERNET
Standing In The Shower… Thinking Jane’s Addiction Nothing’s Shocking
Give Peace a Chance Plastic Ono Band Working Class Hero – The Definitive Lennon
Saints The Breeders Last Splash
Dance Hall Days Wang Chung Living In Oblivion: The 80’s Greatest Hits, Vol. 4
I Started A Joke Faith No More Who Cares a Lot? (The Greatest Hits)
Voices Carry ‘Til Tuesday Voices Carry
The Warrior’s Code Dropkick Murphys The Warrior’s Code
Radiation The JDs Education
Raving Cain kid606 Die Soundboy Die
Star Time 2 Squarepusher Just A Souvenir
Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid Squarepusher/AFX We Are Reasonable People
Dark Rain Current Value The Edge Of The Cliff
Teardrop Massive Attack Mezzanine
Captain Eo’s Voyage Buckethead Captain Eo’s Voyage
I Have Been In You Frank Zappa Sheik Yerbouti
The Power Of Lard Lard Power Of Lard [EP]
Gimme The Loot (Album Version) [Explicit] The Notorious B.I.G. Ready To Die The Remaster [Explicit]
Wild In The Streets Circle Jerks Wild In The Streets
Down in the Park Gary Numan The BBC Sessions
L.E.S. Artistes Santogold Santogold
My Michelle Guns N’ Roses Appetite For Destruction
Teenage Lobotomy The Ramones Hey! Ho! Let’s Go: The Anthology
Breakfast Club (Feat. Murs & Supernatural) DJ Z-Trip Shifting Gears
Bad Party Dead Milkmen Beelzebubba
Breathe Ministry The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste

December 6th, 2010


Song

Artist

Album
Amen, Brother The Winstons Metromedia (MM-117)
Heathen Child Grinderman Grinderman 2 (Deluxe Version)
Say Yes Elliott Smith Either/Or
Sin Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine (Remastered)
Shut Up and Let Me Go The Ting Tings We Started Nothing
Children of the Centipede Thread Children of the Centipede
Heartbeats The Knife Deep Cuts
Helpless Faith No More Album Of The Year
Katherine Kiss Me Franz Ferdinand Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
I Can Change LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening
A-Punk Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend
The Hardest Button To Button The White Stripes Elephant
Memories Weezer Hurley (Deluxe Version)
Basic Space The XX XX (Bonus Track Version)
Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here
False Light Isis Oceanic
Geburt Einer Nation Laibach WaxTrax! Black Box: The First 13 Years
Beehatch Download Furnace
MU-GETSU DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo KI-OKU
On (µ-Ziq Mix) µ-Ziq On Remixes
Cockamamie Business George Harrison Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989
The Reflex Duran Duran Seven And The Ragged Tiger
Misunderstanding Genesis Genesis: Platinum Collection
Optimistic Radiohead Kid A
Dirty Water (Unreleased) Standells The Live Ones 6 Tracks
21st Century Digital Boy Bad Religion Against The Grain (RE-MASTERED)

November 29th, 2010


Song

Artist

Album
Gave Up (remixed by coil with danny hyde) Nine Inch Nails Fixed
Teenage Lightning 2 Coil Love’s Secret Domain
Cannon Fodder Jon Hare and Richard Joseph Cannon Fodder
Love Will Tear Us Apart Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart 7″
Mt. Saint Michel Alarm Will Sound Acoustica: Alarm Will Sound Performs Aphex Twin
Institutionalized Suicidal Tendencies Repo Man – The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Hello Mary Lou Ricky Nelson Ricky Nelson
Jackpot (Bruno’s Bop) Bruce Willis The Return Of Bruno
Autechre Play Weissensee Against Im Glück. (Original Composition By Neu!) Autechre Splitrmx12
I’m Shipping Up To Boston Dropkick Murphys The Warrior’s Code
Be3d Baron Arnold Be, Inc.
Pictures Of Matchstick Men Camper Van Beethoven Key Lime Pie
Take The Skinheads Bowling Camper Van Beethoven Telephone Free Landslide Victory
Free Software Song Richard Stallman Free Software Song
Detachable Penis King Missile Happy Hour
Beat It (Single Version) Michael Jackson The Essential Michael Jackson
Vim Raymond Scott Manhattan Research, Inc.
Tiny Dancer Elton John Madman Across the Water
Woke Up This Morning A3 The Sopranos
Highway 90 Jane Jensen Comic Book Whore
Pocket Calculator Kraftwerk Computer World
Space Diva Luscious Jackson Electric Honey
Where Is My Mind? Pixies Surfer Rosa & Come On Pilgrim
A Knife, A Fork, A Bottle and a Cork Dillinger All Killer, No Filler
Glory Days Bruce Springsteen Greatest Hits
Whoever You Are Geggy Tah Sacred Cow
Octopus’s Garden The Beatles Abbey Road (2009 Stereo)
Deceptacon Le Tigre Le Tigre
I Got You Dancing Lady Sovereign Jigsaw
The First Five Minutes After Death Coil Horse Rotorvator
Exactly Like You Uncle Floyd The Uncle Floyd Show Album

November 22nd, 2010


Song

Artist

Album
Head Like A Hole Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate Machine (Remastered)
Vase dgoHn [xgn023] dgoHn
VD is for Everybody American Social Health Association VD is for Everybody
Technicolor Channel One Abstract Funk Theory
Boyz-N-The-Hood Dynamite Hack Superfast
Ars Moriendi Mr. Bungle California
Superstition Stevie Wonder Stevie Wonder: The Definitive Collection
Hot for Teacher Ween Live at Stubb’s – July 2000
Like a Boss The Lonely Island Incredibad
Piker Sam Calexico All Tomorrows Parties 1.0
bitch’s nickname on my cellphone Don Red Newman’s Own Suicide Mind Eraser
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy Bette Midler Divine Miss M
Panic Coil Scatology
Optimus Counter KJ Sawka Synchronized Decompression
Poker Face Lady Gaga The Fame
Run To The Hills Iron Maiden The Essential Iron Maiden
No One Lives Forever Oingo Boingo Best O’ Boingo
Had A Dad Jane’s Addiction Nothing’s Shocking
Man With The Bongos The Tango Saloon The Tango Saloon
New England Jonathan Richman The Best Of Jonathan Richman And The Modern Lovers
Dumb Nirvana Unplugged in New York
Gett Off Prince and The New Power Generation Diamonds And Pearls
Swamp So Percussion & Matmos Treasure State
When Good Dogs Do Bad Things The Dillinger Escape Plan with Mike Patton Irony Is A Dead Scene
Bring the Noise Public Enemy Power to the People and the Beats – Public Enemy’s Greatest Hits
Thank You For Sending Me an Angel Talking Heads Stop Making Sense
Friends of Mine Song Steven Wright I Still Have a Pony