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Buffet presents “Cover Versions – sometimes they’re not shit”

Now then! If you tuned in to Buffet – we thank you. Or if you want to listen, the link is here.

We dedicated a whole show to cover versions – often they are crap, but ours range from the bonkers to the sublime. This is what we played:

1. MINOR THREAT – Steppin’ Stone (best known by The Monkees)
2. JOHNNY CASH – The Mercy Seat (originally by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)
3. TRICKY – Black Steel (originally by Public Enemy)
4. COME – I Got The Blues (originally by The Rolling Stones)
5. CHUCK D & HENRY ROLLINS – Rise Above (originally by Black Flag)
6. DISPOSABLE HEROES OF HIPHOPRISY – California Uber Alles
7. CICCONE YOUTH – Addicted to Love (originally by Robert Palmer)
8. TONY OSBORNE ORCHESTRA – Hard Days Night (originally by The Beatles)
9. NEKO CASE – Alone and Forsaken (originally by Hank Williams)
10. SNUFF – I Think We’re Alone Now (a take on the Tiffany version)
11. PAUL ANKA – Smells Like Teen Spirit (originally by Nirvana)
12. AFGHAN WHIGS – My World Is Empty Without You (originally by The Supremes)
13. THE SHOP ASSISTANTS – Train From Kansas City (originally by The Shangri Las)
14. LEATHERFACE – Talkin’ Bout a Revolution (originally by Tracy Chapman)
15. FATIMA MANSIONS – Long About Now (originally by Scott Walker)
16. FRANK SIDEBOTTOM – Indie Medley: Love Will tear Us Apart/How I Wrote Elastic Man/Take The Skinheads Bowling/Big Mouth Strikes Again (originally by: Joy Division/The Fall/Camper Van Beethoven/The Smiths)

We’re back on Sunday 13th July 7-8pm. Thanks!!!


An Emergency Broadcast from Buffet (#61)

This show was recorded in February 2013 to be broadcast in the event of a Buffet emergency (ie, we couldn’t make it). And yet we were so on-point, playing Kate Bush and tapping into the mania surrounding her tour. Clever us! Want to hear the show? Click the link!

Want to know what we played? This is it!

1. JEFF WAYNE – War of the Worlds
2. FATIMA MANSIONS – Blues for Ceausescu
3. SUPER FURRY ANIMALS – It’s Not the End of the World
4. CURTIS MAYFIELD – No Thing On Me
5. AC/DC – Highway to Hell
6. ELECTRIC SIX – Gay Bar
7. XTC – This World Over
8. BEASTIE BOYS – Pow
9. DISCHARGE – Protest and Survive
10. BLOOD RED SHOES – It’s getting Boring By The Sea
11. STEREOLAB – Emergency Kisses
12. PRINCE – Pop Life
13. BJORK – Declare Independence
14. KATE BUSH – Hello World
We’re back at some point in April…