Coverville 1531: The Buzzcocks Cover Story

Coverville: The Cover Music Show (AAC Edition)

Brian Ibbott

Coverville, Music, Cover

4.9 • 798 Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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On what would have been his 70th birthday, let’s celebrate the music of Pete Shelley and his band The Buzzcocks, as we do, with covers! (60 minutes)

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0:00.0	This episode of CoverVille is brought to you by Rogue Amoeba to find out how you can save
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0:10.0	Coming up on episode number 1,531, oh my gosh, I can't believe it's already 1531.
0:18.9	At 1,500 episodes, 1,530 episodes, and I've never done a Buzzcox cover story, even though
0:24.3	a lot of bands not only cover their songs, but were totally inspired by the band.
0:30.3	Pete Shelley would have turned 70 today, so now feels like the perfect time to do a Buzzcox cover
0:37.2	story.
0:37.6	All of this and more coming up right now on Coverville. Greetings for tough now just getting tougher Whole in and cover me
0:57.0	Greetings from Carverville for a Thursday afternoon.
1:16.4	It is Thursday, April 17th, 2025.
1:19.1	My name is Brian Abbott.
1:20.0	Welcome to another cover story.
1:22.1	Today, the music of the Buzzcocks.
1:24.5	Pete Shelley, lead singer and voice of the Buzzcox, would have turned 70 today.
1:29.1	He passed away in 2018, but because I've never done a Buzzcox cover story, I think it's time to do
1:35.2	one. And you guys probably all are very familiar with the first song that we're going to start with.
1:40.3	And if you're not, you're going to have a really good chance to get familiar with it because it's such a popular song to cover.
1:47.8	I'm actually going to play two covers of it.
1:49.5	I'm going to begin the show with one and end the show with another, both very different from one another and both very different from the original.
1:58.0	Let's get started.
1:58.9	That song, of course, is Ever Fallen in Love with
2:01.5	someone you shouldn't have. Here it's covered by the band Anorak. From the album, Synthetic
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