Several iconic acts, plus some great covers.
1. I Can’t Stand The Rain – The Commitments (Angeline Ball, Maria Doyle, Bronagh Gallagher)
2. Everybody Knows – Concrete Blonde (Johnette Napolitano)
3. Like A Star – Corinne Bailey Rae
4. Too Late To Turn Back Now – Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose (Rose Cornelius)
5. Pedestrian At Best – Courtney Barnett
6. To Lay Me Down – Cowboy Junkies (Margo Timmins)
7. Analyse – Cranberries (Dolores O’Riordan)
8. Push Down & Twist – Crushed Out (Moselle Spiller)
9. She Bop – Cyndi Lauper
10. When I Was A Boy – Dar Williams
The ladies in The Commitments functioned mostly as backup singers, but they got their chance to shine as well. Concrete Blonde is covering Leonard Cohen, while the Cowboy Junkies are doing the Grateful Dead. Did you figure out for yourself that “She Bop” was about masturbation, or did you (like me) only learn it while reading a story about how smutty modern (i.e., circa 1985) songs were? Thank you, Parents Music Resource Council!