3am Mixtapes: Episode Twenty Three: Covers (that are not Hurt)

Each week on the 3am Mixtapes podcast, I will share with you the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as general like best breakup songs. Or some might be a little more... specific. Top Six Songs With Opposite Titles.

This week is all about someone else's songs, it is the Top Six Cover Songs That Are Not Hurt By Johnny Cash! I always love me some cover songs, and here are just a few of the ones that have stuck with me over the years.

Hear these bands do versions of:

"Hoppipolla" by We Are Scientists, covering Sigur Rós
"Le Pyromane" by The Zolas, covering Karkwa
Take On Me" by A.C. Newman, covering A-Ha
"Ignition (Remix)" by Zeus, covering R. Kelly
"What You Waiting For" by Franz Ferdinand, covering Gwen Stefani
"Common People" by William Shatner, covering Pulp

Any questions or comments or waffles or criticisms or suggestions for future themes are welcome!



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3am Mixtapes: Episode One: First Tracks

These are the people who saw an overcrowded marketplace and said, "Me too!"

 That's right. 3am Revelations once again has its very own podcast!

Each week on 3am Mixtapes, I will present to you, in my dulcet tones, the Top Six Songs of a certain subject. The topics can be as broad and vague and Best Summer Songs or Best Songs Featuring a Banjo,
or they can be as obscure and specific as Best Songs To Drive To At Dusk or Best Songs Featuring a Theremin.

The first week, I thought what better place to start than with the beginning. Top Six Opening Tracks. The first songs on an album. The ones that catch your attention and make you want to keep listening.

Featured on this weeks podcast is:

"Giant" by Matthew Good Band
"Like Eating Glass" by Bloc Party
"Nobody Moves Nobody Gets Hurt" by We Are Scientists
"Your Ex-Lover is Dead" by Stars
"New Goodbye" by Hey Rosetta!
"Fight Test" by The Flaming Lips


Any questions or comments or criticisms or suggestions for future themes are welcome!



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random top six - hallowe'en edition

Time for another Random Top 6 list! Here's the deal: every week whenever I feel like it, I will choose a random category and select the top 6 songs fitting that criteria. In the spirit of today, here is are the top six hallowe'en-ish songs (or at the very least, hallowe'en sounding song titles). Some songs are actually about what they're about, others less so. But all good songs. So I give you

Top Six Hallowe'en Songs
in no particularorder


Download Ghost Story by Memphis

Download They Are Night Zombies!! They Are Neighbors!! They Have Come Back from the Dead!! Ahhhh! by Sufjan Stevens

Download Vampire by Pink Mountaintops

Download Wolf Like Me by TV On The Radio

Download Hunting for Witches by Bloc Party

Download Ghouls by We Are Scientists

And as a bonus song, I present to you the North American Hallowe'en Prevention Initiative.
Comprised of such awesomeness as: Win Butler & Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire, Buck 65, David Cross, Feist, Jenny Lewis & Blake Sennett of Rilo Kiley, Chris Murphy of Sloan, Dan Boeckner & Spencer Krug of Wolf Parade, Karen O of Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many, many more, they released Do They Know It's Hallowe'en? in '05 as a satire of Do They Know It's Christmas?, with all proceeds going to UNICEF