A Veracode Hackathon has started and it’s pirates! Just as with our abortive pirate-themed Hackathon of the annus horribilis 2020, this one has occasioned a mix of cover songs! Cover songs consist of one artist performing the music of another, which sometimes feels like “love and theft,” as Bob Dylan once wrote, hence the name.
The prior mix was strictly themed, featuring reggae covers of pop songs—and reggae originals that later became pop songs in famous covers. This new one is a little more freewheeling, but that’s not to say it’s not equally fun. Just be prepared for that last cover at the end.
Listen here:
Do not adjust your set; there is nothing wrong.
- I Am I Said – Bunny Scott (To Love Somebody)
- Something – Booker T. and the M.G.s (McLemore Avenue)
- Do Right Woman, Do Right Man – The Flying Burrito Brothers (The Oxford American Southern Sampler 1999)
- Golden Lady – Lambchop (TRIP)
- Ziggy Stardust – Bauhaus (Swing the Heartache: The BBC Sessions)
- Love Will Tear Us Apart – Hot 8 Brass Band (Love Will Tear Us Apart)
- Ashes to Ashes – Tears for Fears (Saturnine Martial & Lunatic)
- Love and Anger (Kate Bush) – Nada Surf (if I had a hi-fi)
- I Wanna Be Adored – The Raveonettes (I Wanna Be Adored – Single)
- Where Is My Mind – Bobby Bare, Jr. (The Longest Meow)
- Five Years – Cowboy Junkies (Songs of the Recollection)
- Born Under Punches – Good in the Dark (If You Feel It – EP)
- There Is a Light That Never Goes Out – Dum Dum Girls (He Gets Me High – EP)
- I Can’t Give Everything Away – Spoon
- Fitter Happier – Samson Dalonoga (Feat. The Found Sound Orchestra) (Stereogum Presents… OKX: A Tribute To OK Computer)