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Version Control

KAFM Grand Junction, 9pm - 12am

It’s time for the return of Version Control, the occasional gathering of music as interpreted by someone other than the artists that wrote the song or made it famous. You know, covers. After the notorious Cover Drought of 2023, we have a full episode of covers ranging from the obscure to the revolutionary.

It’s time for the return of <strong>Version Control</strong>, the occasional gathering of music as interpreted by someone other than the artists that wrote the song or made it famous. You know, covers. After the notorious Cover Drought of 2023, we have a full episode of covers ranging from the obscure to the revolutionary.
SongArtistNotes
Waiting Room
Failure
Take a number
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Loser
Tom Maroon
It’s about time
Bike
Peter & The Test Tube Babies
A very fast bike
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Euro Trash Girl
Chicks on Speed
Search the world over
Gouge Away
The Promise Ring
Sharp edges and all
— • BREAK • —
You Really Got Me / Song 2
Artichoke
Woo hoo
Rock & Roll Pest Control
The Presidents of The United States of America
Nobody beats harder than Tad
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Muswell Hillbilly
Southern Culture On The Skids
Their West Virginia hearts
Itchycoo Park
Robyn Hitchcock
Blow your mind
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Soul Finger
Pufftube
Out of control
The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)
Beatsteaks
Very ominous
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Take Five
Rice & Freetown
In four!
The Harder They Come
Joe Jackson
Joe’s got soul
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Eye Of Fatima Pt 1
Eyelids
Sliding up to the heavens
Photograph
Camper Van Beethoven
So many possibilities
That Ain't Bad
Ben Lee
Aussie candy pop
Jeepster
Sex Clark Five
Crashing right into things
Here Comes My Baby
Tremelos
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Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Cat Power
The only word is snazzy
Mahna, Mahna
Cake
Bring the snowths
Mango Cool
Cheo
What if it’s your own song?
DEVO Corporate Anthem
The Coctails
Straight from the employee handbook
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Rhinestone Cowboy
Orville Peck
A load of compromisin’
People Are Strange
Brave Combo
Downright weird sometimes
Shame & Scandal
Madness
Un tuis!
Strawberry Fields Forever
ALA.NI
Naturally reggae
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Why Worry
Isobel Campbell
Reduce your stress level
Emily
Jonathan Rado
Managing expectations
Moon River (Bonus track)
Sondre Lerche
Sparsely lit
The Wind Cries Mary
The Bobs
Bubbles and pops
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Alakazam
Boom Pam
Incognito
Be Mine
Cagney & Lacee
The sweetest and most obscure
Heroes
Jeff Tweedy
Soaring and majestic
Lithium (Club des Belugas Extended Mix)
Maya Fadeeva
Making it swing
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Caravan
Andrew Bird, Alan Hampton & Ted Poor
Through the shifting sands
Sleepwalk
Los Straitjackets
A golden haze
A Day in the Life
Milton Nascimento
The birth of prog
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Only Shallow
Japancakes
Get the swoops
Set The Control To Mother Earth
Deadpeach
Relentless
Interstellar Overdrive
Chrome
Space travel is complicated
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Whole Lotta Love
The Moog Cookbook
Requiring immediate refrigeration
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