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#XPNCountdown FIRST LOW CUT CONNIE APPEARANCE!!!! WOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!

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#XPNCountdown Ooooooh, George Benson too damn sexy with this cover schvitzing over here

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#XPNCountdown These Trio albums are proof of the peaks we can rise to as a species if we're all just excellent together

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#XPNCountdown Nina is so absolutely perfect. I'm going to be so sad about every one of her covers that doesn't make the list. Also, a few days from now, when they play The Band's version, and I'm sobbing hysterically, someone please console me.

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#XPNCountdown King Harvest coming in lower than Toploader. Sigh. We used to be a society.

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#XPNCountdown Of course, James Taylor would come in at 666.

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#XPNCountdown BNL was so good at silliness and shenanigans that it's to forget how good they could also be at sweetness and beauty. What a lovely cover at 667

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#XPNCountdown Ah, the weekend, a time to sit back, relax, and scream expletives at how cool Day 3 of the Countdown is. Excited to hear what devil music comes in at 666

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#XPNCountdown Ok, back to dancing. Fuck my downstairs neighbors!! Iko Iko!!

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#XPNCountdown "Go Now" by the Moody Blues was a cover?!!

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#XPNCountdown Another Hair cover! And Nina!! This morning has been so good!

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#XPNCountdown If youve never heard Adam Weiner of Low Cut Connie's interview with Marilyn McCoo about how 5th Dimension ended up covering Age of Aquarius, youre missing out on an INCREDIBLE story

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#XPNCountdown Doesnt get much weirder than Donovan! Butthole Surfers: hold my beer

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#xpncountdown if they credit "California Dreamin" to Barry McGuire, it'll be a tipoff that at some point the Mamas and Papas version will make the list as a cover (despite John and Michelle writing it and all four of them singing on the original)

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Here on the west coast, not wanting to miss a second of the #XPNCountdown means waking up before 5am., but it's so worth it!! Most wonderful time of the year!

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#XPNCountdown How appropriate to have so many covers by The Dead and Jerry today since today is the 60th anniversary of their first gig using the name Grateful Dead at Ken Kesey's second Acid Test in San Jose (they'd been the Warlocks for seven months before that but had to change their name)

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#XPNCountdown I feel like at least once before this countdown is done, there's going to be a mistake where we incorrectly assign credit for the original. Hasn't happened yet, but my ears did perk up when Lead Belly didn't get credit for "Black Betty" this morning. This is too much fun!!

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#XPNCountdown Merry Clayton's cover of Gimme Shelter not in the top 100?!!! We used to be a real civilzation

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#XPNCountdown Day 1 really feels like "that was Frank Sinatra's cover of 'The 10 Crack Commandments' by the Notorious B.I.G. Up next is Lil Yachty and Joey Ramone's duet on 'Islands in the Stream.'"

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#XPNCountdown The unbelievable whiplash of Weird Al covering "Bohemian Rhapsody" to Sinead's sultry cover of "You Do Something to Me" I may never recover!

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#XPNCountdown I just realized I should share my XPN Covers bingo card in case anyone else wants to play along (I've already crossed a couple off!)

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