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Sarah Blasko in 2005 | Credit: Paul McConnell/Getty Images

triple j’s Like A Version in 2005

2005 was the first full year for triple j’s Like A Version. Here’s a list of every Like A Version broadcast on the station in the course of the year.

If you’re looking for the complete archive, including every Like A Version from 2004-2023, you can find that here.

2005

  • The Red Sun Band – ‘My Drug Buddy’ (The Lemonheads cover) – Listen
  • Chicks On Speed – ‘Mind Your Own Business’ (Delta 5 cover) – Listen
  • Gyroscope – ‘Monument’ (Jebediah cover) – Listen
  • Willy Mason – ‘The Way I Am’ (Merle Haggard cover) – Listen
  • Xavier Rudd – ‘Let It Be’ (The Beatles cover) – Listen
  • The Tea Party – ‘The Maker’ (Daniel Lanois cover) – Listen
  • The Vasco Era – ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’ (Neil Young cover) – Listen
  • Violent Femmes – ‘(I’m) Stranded’ (The Saints cover) – Listen
  • Tim Rogers & The Temperance Union – ‘Victoria’ (The Kinks cover) – Listen
  • The Herd – ‘I Was Only 19’ (Redgum cover) – Listen
  • The Drones – ‘Words From A Woman To Her Man’ (Beasts of Bourbon cover) – Listen
  • The Panda Band – ‘My Mistake/Golden Brown’ (Split Enz/The Stranglers cover) – Listen
  • The Mountain Goats – ‘Wildworld’ (The Birthday Party cover) – Listen
  • The Shins – ‘Strange Powers’ (The Magnetic Fields cover) – Listen
  • The Devoted Few – ‘Lost Highway’ (Hank Williams cover) – Listen
  • Spoon – ‘Upwards at 45 Degrees’ (Julian Cope cover) – Listen
  • Tegan and Sara – ‘Dancing In The Dark’ (Bruce Springsteen cover) – Listen
  • Sophie Koh – ‘Creep’ (Radiohead cover) – Listen
  • Speedstar – ‘There Is A Light That Never Goes Out’ (The Smiths cover) – Listen
  • Regurgitator – ‘Whole Lotta Love’ (Led Zeppelin cover) – Listen
  • Sarah Blasko – ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ (Elton John cover) – Listen
  • Sonic Animation – ‘Why Can’t I Be You?’ (The Cure cover) – Listen
  • Sons and Daughters – ‘Come In Out Of The Rain’ (Parliament cover) – Listen
  • Pegz – ‘Zebra’ (John Butler Trio cover) – Listen
  • New Buffalo – ‘Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood’ (The Animals cover) – Listen
  • Peabody – ‘Borderline’ (Madonna cover) – Listen
  • Lederhosen Lucil – ‘T.N.T.’ (AC/DC cover) – Listen
  • Laura Veirs – ‘I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry’ (Hank Williams cover) – Listen
  • Micah P. Hinson – ‘Suzanne’ (Leonard Cohen cover) – Listen
  • Lior – ‘The Needle and the Damage Done’ (Neil Young cover) – Listen
  • Live@subs – ‘Rolled Up’ (Long Beach Dub Allstars cover) – Listen
  • Mia Dyson – ‘Can’t Let Go’ (Lucinda Williams cover) – Listen
  • Kate Miller-Heidke – ‘Little Water Song’ (Nick Cave cover) – Listen
  • José González – ‘Teardrop’ (Massive Attack cover) – Listen
  • Karma County – ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ (AC/DC cover) – Listen
  • Josh Pyke – ‘House At Pooh Corner’ (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band cover) – Listen
  • Holidays On Ice – ‘The Holiday Song’ (Pixies cover) – Listen
  • Holly Throsby – ‘Mistress’ (Red House Painters cover) – Listen
  • Jen Cloher – ‘State Trooper’ (Bruce Springsteen cover) – Listen
  • Evermore – ‘Relapse’ (Little Birdy cover) – Listen
  • G. Love – ‘Paid in Full’ (Eric B. & Rakim cover) – Listen
  • Epicure – ‘Bluestoned’ (The Dead Salesmen cover) – Listen
  • Eels – ‘I Could Never Take the Place of Your Man’ (Prince cover) – Listen
  • Crooked Fingers – ‘Long Black Veil’ (Lefty Frizzell cover) – Listen
  • Butterfingers – ‘Like A Virgin’ (Madonna cover) – Listen
  • Art of Fighting – ‘All Night Long (All Night)’ (Lionel Richie cover) – Listen
  • 67 Special – ‘Scar’ (Missy Higgins cover) – Listen

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