Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project

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Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project
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Compilation album by
Various artists
ReleasedMarch 13, 2007
RecordedJune 2001–April 2006
Label Hear Music
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Sounds Eclectic: The Covers Project is a compilation album consisting of cover songs performed by a variety of artists on KCRW. [2] The recordings come from "Sounds Eclectic", a weekly syndicated public radio program hosted by Nic Harcourt that plays a variety of music, taken from the archives of the daily KCRW program Morning Becomes Eclectic . One exception is The Flaming Lips' performance of Radiohead's "Knives Out", which was recorded in their tour bus on the way to the studio. [3] The album was sold exclusively at select Starbucks locations (Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Boston, and Washington, D.C.) starting March 13, 2007. [4] [5] A portion of sales helped the station's effort to digitize its music library. [4]

Contents

Track listing

#SongPerformerOriginal artistLengthRecorded
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1."Out on the Weekend" Girls in Hawaii Neil Young 3:304/19/06
2."I Go to Sleep" Sia The Pretenders 2:581/10/06
3."Crazy in Love" The Magic Numbers Beyoncé 4:0811/01/05
4."Creep" Damien Rice Radiohead 4:041/24/03
5."I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" Nikka Costa Nina Simone 2:115/23/05
6."Fire and Rain" Dido James Taylor 3:188/14/03
7."Wishing on a Star" Paul Weller Rose Royce 3:349/12/05
8."Harvest" Rufus Wainwright with Chris Stills Neil Young 3:189/29/03
9."Gentle on My Mind" R.E.M. John Hartford 2:196/12/01
10."Mad World" Gary Jules and Mike Andrews Tears for Fears 3:064/26/04
11."Knives Out" The Flaming Lips Radiohead 4:208/08/02
12."Black Dog" Robert Plant Led Zeppelin 4:483/16/05
13."Moses" Missy Higgins Patty Griffin 3:006/16/05
14."Let's Dance" M. Ward David Bowie 4:525/06/04
15."Hallelujah" k.d. lang Leonard Cohen 5:047/27/04

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