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Track Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
Easy Lover	Firedrill!		Phil Collins
Slice of Heaven	Suade		Dave Dobbyn
Over The Rainbow	Canvas		Judy Garland
Ain't No Sunshine	Jabberwocks		Bill Withers / D'Angelo
Steal Your Heart	Suade		Suade (Loz Blain / The Colonel)
Completely	The House Jacks		The House Jacks (Andrew Chaikin)
Different For Girls	Ice Haloes	No commercially available album... yet!	Joe Jackson
I'd Do Anything For Love	Jabberwocks		Meat Loaf
What A Fool Believes	Firedrill!		Doobie Brothers
Simpsons Theme	Canvas		Danny Elfman

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Oh Firedrill!, we'll miss you. Your riveting covers of delicious Eighties tunes brought me back in time to the explosion of college a cappella, but with over 20 years of arranging, production, and advancement of the art.  Keep us up to date on whatever you guys do next.

Don't forget that if you are registered with twitter, you can follow me (http://www.twitter.com/acapodcast) and tweet the phrase "Firedrill! rocks!" to me to be entered into a drawing for one of two Firedrill! CDs.

I mentioned that Andrew Chaikin performs under the stage name of Kid Beyond.  Here's a great wikipedia article detailing much of his amazing efforts.  In a secret special commonality, Andrew got his start with the Brown Jabberwocks!

Send me thoughts and suggestions for show #57, which will be a Michael Jackson tribute episode.

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Boston based Firedrill! has just announced they are taking pre-orders for their new album, "...Sings Without Music, Vol. II".  Already this promises to be a totally kicka** album.  In addition, there is a release party happening in Boston/Cambridge's Johnny D's.  If you're within a 100-mile radius it'd be well worth your time to come on down.  I'll be there, so come on up and say hi! (I'll be the one wearing the Acapodcast shirt - unless someone else has bought one from the swag store on the left - then there might be two of us wearing Acapodcast shirts!)

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Christoph from No Strings Attached kindly let me know that you can pick up their album on iTunes. Now you needn't navigate through their German retailer. Instead, click right here!

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Phew!  Got some free time, so I cranked out Show #55 for you all!  This one features all new releases!  Some are by well known groups, others are putting out their first albums.  I gotta say, there's no wrong albums in this group.  All of them are worth picking up and adding to your collection.  Check out the artists and see what tickles your fancy.

Track Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
Who Are You	Tufts Beelzebubs		The Who
Don't Stop Me Now	Brandeis University Voicemale		Queen
Hamburg, Meine Perle	No Strings Attached		Lotto King Karl
On My Way	Slapdash Graduate	Not Available on Any Album Yet!	Slapdash Graduate (Ian Koff)
Sonny Came Home	Too Cheap For Instruments		Shawn Colvin
Debra	Tufts Beelzebubs		Beck

As I said above, each of these is worth picking up.  What more can I say?  Well, quite a bit.

Starting with Play The Game, it was recently reviewed by the hosts of a new a cappella podcast, Mouth Off! Do check them out, these dudes are -in the -middle- of the a cappella world, and know what they're talking about.  It's well worth their time. (And to add to controversy, I agree with them on the topic of Ben Fold's new album.)  Play The Game took almost 2 years from beginning to end, and the care and time shines through.  It's an excellent blend of studio talent and student talent.

Suit Up. features a couple of original tracks, something I wish the Bubs would take a stab at.  As much as I love great a cappella covers, I love great a cappella originals at least as much.  Ok guys, which of you posed for the cover?

No Strings Attached...  why no English web site? Apologies to those in the listening audience who don't speak German but are trying to work your way through the purchase process anyhow.

Superawesomesauce!  On My Way is available as a --free-- download from Slapdash Graduate.  You can find that on their web site.  See?  Original tunes carry no restrictions, and make for the best promos.  Go download it now.

Heh, it turnes out TCFI actually did release an earlier album, and Syllabolical is their second release.  The first album seems not to have gotten wide distribution though.  I'll see about tracking down a copy (I'm such a completist).

Enough of my chatter, you came here to listen to the show, right?  Then what are you waiting for?  Start listening to Show #55 [Play]
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A long time in the making, 54 is chock full of awards and competitions goodness!

Let's try something a little different.  Here is what you'll hear on show #54:

Track Title	Artist	Album	Original Artist
Wall of Sound	Naturally 7		Naturally 7
Where's the Love?	Brandeis University Voicemale		Hanson
Papercut	The Chorallaries of MIT		Linkin Park
Zombie	Wellesley College Tupelos		The Cranberries
All For You	Missouri State Beartones		Sister Hazel
Ne'ilah	Six13		Six13

Oh, hey, the Tupelos have this awesome "Stalkapella" shirt.  I think I need one of those.

I apologize to those of the listening audience who don't get why the Six13 parodies are funny.  I admit, some of them go over my head as well.  That said, even without the jokes, the music is abso-smashing-fantastic, and the fact that they're even -making- jokes based on some of these pop songs is pretty funny.

As mentioned during the show, if you're affiliated with a cappella in any way, and are looking for webhosting, the fine folks over at A'Cappella Hosting are top notch, and can help you out from bits to bolts.

Oh, and as promised, the YouTube video of Naturally Seven.  (Boo, NBC has pulled the Leno clip from YouTube, so here is an equally excellent clip of them on the Ellen show)

Some of you may remember them from their Paris Subway video last year.  If not, here's that too:

And now, on with the show!

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