Bands Under The Radar (BUTR)

This is the fifth “Covers” podcast. Send me your favorite covers to be considered for future podcasts.  Email your song suggestions to:  butrmgmt@gmail.com.

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BUTR – Covers 5 (Podcast #48)
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1. Nada Surf – Enjoy The Silience (Depeche Mode)
2. Shiny Toy Guns – Major Tom (Coming Home) (Peter Schilling)
3. Will Ferrell – Afternoon Delight (Starland Vocal Band)
4. Grace Potter and The Nocturnals – White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)
5. Seven Mary Three – That’s How Strong My Love Is (Otis Redding)
6. Cat Power – I’ve Been Loving You Too Long (Otis Redding)
7. Audra Mae – Little Sparrow (Dolly Parton)
8. Metric – Don’t Think Twice It’s All Right (Bob Dylan)
9. The White Stripes – Black Jack Davey (Bob Dylan)
10. Adele – Many Shades Of Black (The Raconteurs)
11. Jeff Beck – I Put A Spell On You (feat. Joss Stone) (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins)
12. Seal – It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World (James Brown)
13. Blue Man Group – I Feel Love (feat. Venus Hum) (Donna Summer)
14. Five Finger Death Punch – Bad Company (Bad Company
15. Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs – You’re So Vain (Carly Simon)
16. Nicole Atkins – The Crystal Ship (The Doors)
17. Prince – One Of Us (Joan Osborne)
18. Lissie – Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
19. Lissie – Bad Romance (Lady Gaga)
20. Lissie – Wedding Bells (Hank Williams Jr.)
21. t.A.T.u. – How Soon Is Now (The Smiths)
22. Flaming Lips – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (Kylie Minogue)
23. The Kooks – Kids (MGMT)
24. Travis – Hit Me Baby One More Time (Britney Spears)
25. Flunk – Blue Monday (New Order)
26. Starsailor – The Way Young Lovers Do (Van Morrison)
27. Bat For Lashes – Use Somebody (Kings of Leon)
28. Florence and the Machine – You’ve Got The Love (The Source ft. Candi Staton)
29. Never Say Never – It Ain’t Me Babe (Bob Dylan)
30. Brian Wiltsey – Head Over Heels (Tears For Fears)
31. Sarah Darling – With Or Without You (U2)
32. Tori Amos – Enjoy The Silence (Depeche Mode)

1. The Avett Brothers – I And Love And You
2. Needtobreathe – The Outsiders
3. Florence + the Machine – Lungs
4. La Roux – La Roux
5. Muse – The Resistance
6. White Lies – To Lose My Life
7. Them Crooked Vultures – Them Crooked Vultures
8. Dave Matthews Band – Big Whiskey & The GrooGrux King
9. Charlie Mars – Like A Bird, Like A Plane
10. Norah Jones – The Fall
11. The xx – XX
12. Dawes – North Hills
13. David Gray – Draw The Line
14. Gossip – Music For Men
15. Manchester Orchestra – Mean Everything To Nothing
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
17. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
18. Peter Bjorn and John – Living Thing
19. MuteMath – Armistice
20. Laura Marling – Alas I Cannot Swim
21. Vijay Kishore – 13 Rounds
22. Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson – Breakup
23. Monsters Of Folk – Monsters Of Folk
24. Deer Tick – Born On Flag Day
25. Band of Skulls – Baby Doll Face Darling Honey
26. Metric – Fantasies
27. Foreign Born – Person to Person
28. Starsailor – All The Plans
29. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros – Up From Below
30. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone

More Albums I like (list will continue to grow):
31. Leopold and His Fiction – Ain’t No Surprise
32. Speck Mountain – Some Sweet Relief
33. J. Tillman – Vacilando Territory Blues
34. Alice In Chains – Black Gives Way To Blue
35. White Rabbits – It’s Frightening
36. Hockey – Mind Chaos
37. Chris Isaak – Mr. Lucky
38. Robert Francis – Before Nightfall
39. The Swell Season – Strict Joy

Honorable Mention (albums not available in U.S. yet)
*Mumford & Sons – Sigh No More
*Powderfinger – Golden Rule

Guilty Pleasures
*Adam Lambert – For Your Entertainment
*Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster

Disclaimer: Obviously some of these bands are not “under the radar”.  BUTR’s year end lists are picks of the best albums and best songs of 2009 regardless of how well-known the artist is.

Kami

P.S. Send me your suggestions for albums I missed.

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BUTR – Covers 4
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Go Home Productions – Passenger Fever (Peggy Lee vs. Iggy Pop)
Cowboy Junkies – Sweet Jane (Velvet Underground)
Andrew Paul Woodworth – Fight For Your Right To Party (Beastie Boys)
Maureen Murphy – Black Sheep (Martin Sexton)
Matchbox Twenty – Never Going Back Again (Fleetwood Mac)
Sonic Youth – Superstar (The Carpenters)
The Veils – Drive (R.E.M.)
Smashing Pumpkins – Dancing in the Moonlight (Thin Lizzy)
Rob Dickinson Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
Eddie Vedder & The Million Dollar Bashers – All Along the Watchtower (Bob Dylan)
James Otto – Into the Mystic (Van Morrison)
The Lucky Bucks – Wicked Game (Chris Isaak)
Cookies ‘n’ Beans – Jolene (Dolly Parton)
Emmylou Harris – All My Tears (Julie Miller)
Florence and the Machine – Hospital Beds (Cold War Kids)
Florence and the Machine – Flakes (The Mystery Jets)
The Bloodsugars – Self Control (Laura Branigan)
Bat for Lashes – I’m On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)
Ane Brun – True Colors (Cyndi Lauper)
Nada Surf – If You Leave (OMD)
Nada Surf – All You Need Is Love (The Beatles)
The Kooks – Violet Hill (Coldplay)
Zoe Sky Jordan – Don’t Panic (Coldplay)
Benton Paul -Yellow (Coldplay)
My Brightest Diamond – Lucky (Radiohead)
My Brightest Diamond – Feeling Good (Nina Simone)
Dave Matthews Band – Waste (Phish)
Ty Stone – Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
Nelly Furtado – Maneater (Hall & Oates inspired)
Duffy – Ready for the Floor (Hot Chip)
Cat Power – Fortunate Son (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Cat Power – Don’t Explain (Billie Holiday)