WXPN's 885 Greatest Cover Songs (First Half) - NextFavBand / 25 O'Clock / Yo! That's My Jawn

Every year WXPN puts out a "Greatest" prompt for the listernship community to chew on and submit their Top 10 list.  The station then compiles, calculates and computes the highest ranking 885 from those submissions.  This year, we are determining the Greatest Cover Songs of all-time.

Here's how WXPN is defining a cover: A cover is when an artist performs or records a song created and released by someone else. Full stop. 

I'll once again be joined by my fav Pod Pals Dan Drago from 25 O'Clock Pod and Nate Runkel from Yo! That's My Jawn to analyze and provide our commentary on the list as it's being released, share our predictions for the ultimate Top 10, and provide the painstaking detail that went in to our own Top 10 lists.

In this first half of the livestream, we spend time running through the list thus far (with only 1 day to go!) and we are also joined by special guests, WXPN on-air talen Wendy Rollins and Raina Douris, who both share what this list means to them and the station each year, and what was on their Top 10.

Wendy's List

1. "Hazy Shade of Winter" covered by The Bangles
2. "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding" covered by Elvis Costello
3. "Love Is Blindness" covered by Jack White
4. "With A Little Help From My Friends" by Joe Cocker
5. "Thank You" covered by Tori Amos
6. "Feeling Good" covered by Muse
7. "All Along The Watchtower" covered by Jimi Hendrix
8. "Hallelujah" covered by Jeff Buckley
9. "Success Has Made A Failure of Our Home" covered by Sinead O'Connor
10. "Alone Again Or" covered by The Damned

Raina's List

1. "The Chauffer" covered by Deftones
2. "Common People" covered by William Shatner
3. "Lake of Fire" covered by Nirvana
4. "Tainted Love" covered by Soft Cell
5. "Mad World" covered by Gary Jules
6. "The Hurdy Gurdy Man" covered by Butthole Surfers
7. "Faith" covered by Limp Bizkit
8. "Pursuit of Happiness" covered by Lissie
9. "Log Driver's Waltz" covered by The Hidden Cameras, Feist, Rufus Wainwright, and Mary Margaret O'Hara
10. "Changes" covered by Charles Bradley

Please share your picks for Greatest Cover Songs of All-Time!

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