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Comic Book Yeti 🎃 @comicbookyeti.com · 27/05/2026

Sometimes I forget just how amazing this album is and when I hear it again I’m blown away.

Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

What a fun mixtape morning. Was holding out hope that this brilliant rendition, or really ANY cover by St. Vincent, would make #OneVoteWonder playlist. #XPNCountdown. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pv3...

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St. Vincent, Thomas Bartlett - All Tomorrow's Parties (Audio)

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Lip Pike @lip-pike.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The WXPN 885 cover countdown broadcast is the closest our nation has come to huddling around a radio since “The War of the Worlds” broadcast. #XPNCountdown

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Shana @shanamd.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

I cannot. This is the craziest thing I have ever experienced. to go from Tom Jones doing Kiss to Sid Vicious doing My Way? I knew it would be fun. 🥹 #xpncountdown

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Bruce Warren @somevelvetblog.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

hey bluesky people of earth. if you dig cover songs, then @wxpnfm.bsky.social is the place to be. #XPNcountdown. this is a not so shameless promotional plug.

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Kicking myself for not knowing her utterly brilliant rendition came out second #XPNCountdown www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L1U...

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Judy Collins - Both Sides Now (Official Audio)

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This might be my favorite cover of theirs, though I wonder if it fits the #XPNCountdown criteria since it includes a prerecorded "duet." www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLIv...

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12 U2 Satellite of Love (ZOO TV Sydney1993)

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Buckley's sublime and ghostly take on "Lilac Wine" is yet another example of how he could seemingly live inside someone else's song like few others. #XPNCountdown

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Thus far, none of my Next 15 top cover songs have made the #XPNCountdown. Curious to know if others had these on their ballots or top lists: - EMEL - "The Man Who Sold the World" (David Bowie) - Sinead O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U (Prince) - The Stone Poneys - "Different Drum" (Michael Nesbith)

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Research for my #XPNCountdown ballot led me to this collab I didn't know had happened for a cover I didn't know existed. It is so, so good.

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Motherless Child by Tom Jones

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

#XPNCountdown got me constantly thinking - and playing - my Next 15: the covers I love that just didn't quite make my grand Top 10 ballot. This is a pleasant problem to stew in.

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Happy #XPNcountdown week: a salute to the greatest cover songs that has generated lots of happy arguments in my circles. This has become one of my favorite times of year, @wxpnfm.bsky.social . Here's my top 10 submitted in October. Discuss!

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WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Sad news to hear about the passing of Brian Wilson. Mike V is playing all Beach Boys and Brian solo music until 2pm; Dan Reed will be playing 2 hours of them from 4p-6p today. What's a favorite Beach Boys song you'd like us to play?

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

We lost a deep artist, with a beautifully vulnerable voice for the ages. Travel well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SB8...

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Marianne Faithfull - Live at L’Olympia, 1966 (Come & Stay With Me, Plaisir D'Amour, As Tears Go By)

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WXPN @wxpnfm.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

We're saddened to hear the passing of iconic rock vocalist Marianne Faithfull. Listen to her 2009 appearance on @worldcafe.bsky.social where she covered music by some of her musical inspirations including Dolly Parton, Bessie Smith and others. www.npr.org/2009/09/01/1...

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Marianne Faithfull: Kaleidoscopic Covers

The English singer's turbulent career spans four decades and encompasses just about every musical genre and then some. Her latest album, Easy Come, Easy Go, is a covers collection that infuses a wide ...

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Three albums that were surprisingly unrepresented on #XPNCountdown that I am evangelical about: Bowie's The Next Day: one of the greatest albums by an artist more than 40 years into his illustrious career.

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Karin Bond @kbok003.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Public Radio helps promote music you won't hear on commercial stations.

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

"Hurt" is not just a great late-career confession made universal; it is not just a great cover. It may also be the greatest music video I've ever seen. #XPNCountdown

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

First heard "Beautiful Day" in 2002 with my dad. Saw it live several times with my mom. It feels deeply connected to sacred times with others. Made music feel like looking through a telescope. #XPNCountdown

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Really hoping for more Philly love for @stvincent.music-social.com.ap.brid.gy in the #XPNCountdown, an artist who, IMHO, is one of the most inventive + awe-inspiring songwriters / guitarists / producers of the past 20 years. Half of Strange Mercy or All Born Screaming could justifiably make the 885.

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Big respect to all who got Leonard’s and Bowie’s parting gifts in the #XPNCountdown top 100. An important job well done. A public service.

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Dan @dtsphilly.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

What a joy to communally share the #XPNCountdown with fellow listeners of @wxpnfm.bsky.social. A welcome feeling in an age of social disconnection.

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