A five-Thursday month of January meant five full hours of cover tunes on WNXP to kick off 2025, our annual “Under The Covers” Thematic Static shows featuring dozens of your requests!
Remember we gather your input primarily on social media @WNXPNashville (we’re on Instagram, X, Facebook and also now Bluesky!), plus via voicemails you leave when you call 615-320-9100. Thank you for co-creating five awesome playlists. Even more covers can be found in the giant Spotify playlist embedded below.
#ThematicStatic Playlist: 1/2/2025
The Last Dinner Party – “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak)
Graham Coxon – “That’s When I Reach For My Revolver” (Mission of Burma)
Lemonheads – “Live Forever” (Oasis)
Nirvana – “Molly’s Lips” (Nirvana)
Isaac Hayes – “Walk on By” (Dionne Warwick)
The Fugees – “Killing Me Softly With His Song” (Roberta Flack)
Cat Power – “Sea of Love” (Phil Phillips)
Dinosaur Jr. – “Just Like Heaven” (The Cure)
R.E.M. – “Superman” (The Clique)
Lianne La Havas – “Weird Fishes” (Radiohead)
Ben Folds – “Golden Slumbers” (The Beatles)
Stephen Malkmus – “Ballad of a Thin Man” (Bob Dylan )
Chromatics – “Into The Black” (Neil Young)
#ThematicStatic Playlist: 1/9/2025
Royel Otis – “Linger” (The Cranberries)
Soft Cell – “Tainted Love” (Gloria Jones)
Pixies – “Head On” (The Jesus and Mary Chain)
The Raveonettes – “I Wanna Be Adored” (The Stone Roses)
The Cardigans – “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath” (Black Sabbath)
White Denim – “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” (Kenny Rogers and the First Edition)
Lucius – “Take a Picture” (Filter)
Yola – “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” (Elton Jones)
Joshua Idehen – “Once in a Lifetime” (Talking Heads)
Sara Syms – “Crossroads” (Robert Johnson)
Slow Pulp – “Hanging By A Moment” (Lifehouse)
Tool – “No Quarter” (Led Zeppelin)
#ThematicStatic Playlist: 1/16/2024
Rosie Thomas – “Always Be My Baby” (Mariah Carey)
Superchunk ft. William Tyler – “When I Laugh” (The Glands)
The Wood Brothers – “Ophelia” (The Band)
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists – “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” (Tears for Fears)
Anderson .Paak – “Seven Nation Army” (White Stripes)
Samia – “Maps” (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
Valerie June – “Pink Moon” (Nick Drake)
Middle Kids – “Champagne Supernova” (Oasis)
Beyoncé – “Jolene” (Dolly Parton)
Car Seat Headrest – “We Looked Like Giants” (Death Cab for Cutie)
Phoebe Bridgers – “Nothing Else Matters” (Metallica)
Phish – “Roses Are Free” (Ween)
Breeders – “Happiness is a Warm Gun” (The Beatles)
Jason Eskridge – “1999” (Prince)
#ThematicStatic Playlist: 1/23/2025
Eddie Vedder – “All Along the Watchtower” (Bob Dylan)
Aldous Harding – “Revival” (Deerhunter)
Nas ft. Lauryn Hill – “If I Ruled the World (Imagine That)” (Kurtis Blow)
Alanna Royale – “Child of God” (Millie Jackson)
Yo La Tengo – “Little Honda” (Beach Boys)
Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit – “Driver 8” (R.E.M.)
She & Him – “Wouldn’t It be Nice” (Beach Boys)
Brandi Carlile – “Heaven” (Bryan Adams)
Hugh Masekela – “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” (Marvin Gaye & Tami Terrell)
Sharon Van Etten – “I Won’t Back Down” (Tom Petty)
Tiffany – “I Think We’re Alone Now” (Tommy James & The Shondells)
Punch Brothers – “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” (Gordon Lightfoot)
Bobby McFerrin – “I Shall Be Released” (Bob Dylan)
The (English) Beat – “Tears of a Clown” (Smokey Robinson and the Miracles)
#ThematicStatic Playlist: 1/30/2025
Paramore – “Burning Down the House” (Talking Heads)
Moog Cookbook – “The One I Love” (R.E.M.)
Kevin Max – “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” (Bauhaus)
Aretha Franklin – “The Weight” (The Band)
Angel Olsen – “Gloria” (Laura Branigan)
Caroline Spence – “The Middle” (Jimmy Eat World)
The Postal Service – “Against All Odds” (Phil Collins)
Trampled By Turtles – “Where Is My Mind” (Pixies)
Brigitte Calls Me Baby – “Careless Whisper” (George Michael)
Postmodern Jukebox ft. Morgan James – “Maps” (Maroon 5)
Tinashe & TOKiMONSTA – “I’m Every Woman” (Chaka Khan)
Charlotte Dada – “Don’t Let Me Down” (The Beatles)
Jerry Garcia Band – “Dear Prudence” (The Beatles)