Uncovered on Saturday

Uncovered on Saturday is like the less attractive sibling of Covers on Sunday. It gets less visitors, less comments and e-mails and is generally less popular. One of the best things about Uncovered is that it can throw up some really random combinations of artists and songs. Because an artist can only ever be featured once on Uncovered it's not uncommon that the artists of two or even three Covers for Sunday posts are brought together. And of course you have bands I'd never ever normally feature, like last week's Judas Priest and Placebo, and that makes things more interesting. For me anyway, and I guess for the people that read this. Judas Priest were the second most popular of last weeks tracks so it seems plenty of you liked the song. Placebo's song was the least popular track I've ever posted here. Works all ways I guess. Anyway, the point of this intro is that I feel this week there's an exceptionally eclectic mix of music, it's the sort of week that really shows the worth of Uncovered on Saturday.

A Little Less Conversation - Elvis Presley. It's hard to choose an Elvis song just because there are so many of them. But I went for this because the JXL remix of this got to Number One of the back of a Nike advertising campaign for the 2002 World Cup. This is the original Elvis version and very good it is too.

Sliver - Nirvana. Originally released without being part of an album it was later included on the compilation Insecticide. Yet it's still one of the most well known Nirvana tracks, very easily recognisable.

Getting Better - The Beatles. The same problem with The Beatles as with Elvis, there are just so many songs to choose from. In the end I chose this because it's not massively well known, although it's certainly not ultra-obscure, and I wanted something that not everyone had already heard over and over again.

Kinky Afro - Happy Mondays. Just the best Happy Mondays song ever.

Hateful - The Clash. London's Calling is a great album and this is my favourite song from it, it almost makes me smile.

Past Mistake (live session version) - Tricky. I think because Maxinquaye is so good and it set expectations for subsequent albums it's far too easy to consider Tricky's non-Maxinquaye output as disappointing and that's just absurd. He may not have done anything like Maxinquaye since but he's still produced plenty of great music.