Dec 8, 2025

A perfectly executed song that utterly defines a genre — for good or ill — and a cover that takes a simple start and uses a lot of musical smarts to recontextualize it. All The Small Things, originally by Blink-182, covered by City Mouth. 

We’ve used this outro music before, but it’s time to restore the ear...

Dec 1, 2025

A brilliant song that couldn’t have been anything else with the level of talent behind it, and a cover that probably took its job a little too seriously. Tell Me Something Good, originally by Rufus, covered by Pink. 

Outro music is Livin’ On A Prayer by Bon Jovi, and you can totally hear that thing we talk about in...

Nov 24, 2025

A huge hit at the start of a really complicated career, and a band who knows where to take their inspiration. Your Love Is My Drug, originally by Kesha, covered by Blusher. 

Outro music is Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2.

Nov 17, 2025

One of the great folk songs of the modern era captures the spirit — and the historical record — of maritime tragedy, and the cover that knows it stuff as well as the original. The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald, originally by Gordon Lightfoot, covered by Simon Barr Sinister. 

Outro music is the theme from Underdog,...

Nov 10, 2025

The knives come out over whether we’ve found the perfect love song as we look at another classic episode. The Book Of Love, originally by The Magnetic Fields, covered by Peter Gabriel, and by Gavin James.

Outro music is In Spite Of Ourselves, by John Prine with iris DeMent.