In 2008, triple j’s Like A Version continued to bring us in-studio cover versions from Australian and international acts. Find every Like A Version broadcast in 2008 below.
If you’re looking for the complete archive, including every Like A Version from 2004-2023, you can find that here.
2008
- Mark Ronson – ‘Beggin” (Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons cover) – Listen
- Little Red – ‘It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll)’ (AC/DC cover) – Listen
- Muscles – ‘Wrapped Up’ (Eddy Current Suppression Ring cover) – Listen
- Queens of the Stone Age – ‘White Wedding’ (Billy Idol cover) – Listen
- Róisín Murphy – ‘Good Life’ (Inner City cover) – Listen
- Paul Dempsey – ‘If You Want My Love’ (Cheap Trick cover) – Listen
- The Drones – ‘Suicide Is Painless’ (Johnny Mandel cover) – Listen
- Sparkadia – ‘This Boys in Love’ (The Presets cover) – Listen
- The John Steel Singers – ‘Confide in Me’ (Kylie Minogue cover) – Listen
- Tom Morello – ‘Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap’ (AC/DC cover) – Listen
- The Wombats – ‘There She Goes’ (The La’s cover) – Listen
- Trial Kennedy – ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ (U2 cover) – Listen
- The Matches – ‘Bodysnatchers’ (Radiohead cover) – Listen
- True Live – ‘Never Tear Us Apart’ (INXS cover) – Listen
- The Kooks – ‘Kids’ (MGMT cover) – Listen
- TZU – ‘Heavy Heart’ (You Am I cover) – Listen
- Youth Group – ‘Beautiful Waste’ (The Triffids cover) – Listen
- Whitley – ‘Dancing Queen’ (ABBA cover) – Listen
- Vampire Weekend – ‘Everywhere’ (Fleetwood Mac cover) – Listen
- Spoon – ‘Peace Like a River’ (Paul Simon cover) – Listen
- Supergrass – ‘Next to You’ (The Police cover) – Listen
- Birds Of Tokyo – ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ (Marvin Gaye cover) – Listen
- Bluejuice – ‘Every Little Step’ (Bobby Brown cover) – Listen
- Dawn Landes – ‘Young Folks’ (Peter Bjorn and John cover) – Listen
- Eddy Current Suppression Ring – ‘There’s A Lot of It Going Round’ (The Chosen Few cover) – Listen
- Dan Sultan – ‘Pulse’ (Front End Loader cover) – Listen
- Iron & Wine – ‘Love Is The Foundation’ (Loretta Lynn cover) – Listen
- Holly Throsby – ‘Berlin Chair’ (You Am I cover) – Listen
- Josh Pyke – ‘Under The Milky Way’ (The Church cover) – Listen
- Gyroscope – ‘To Her Door’ (Paul Kelly cover) – Listen
- Hermitude – ‘Jóga’ (Björk cover) – Listen
- Kaki King – ‘LoveStoned / I Think She Knows (Interlude)’ (Justin Timberlake cover) – Listen
- Laura Marling – ‘The Wrote & The Writ’ (Johnny Flynn & The Sussex Wit cover) – Listen
- Liam Finn & EJ Barnes – ‘Old Man’ (Neil Young cover) – Listen
- K-OS – ‘Champion’ (Kanye West cover) – Listen
- Jess Ribeiro – ‘Into My Arms’ (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds cover) – Listen
- Bonde do Rolê – ‘It’s a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock ‘N’ Roll)’ (AC/DC cover) – Listen
- Faker – ‘Pet Sematary’ (Ramones cover) – Listen
- Jake Shimabukuro – ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ (George Harrison cover) – Listen
- Anti-Flag – ‘Beds Are Burning’ (Midnight Oil cover) – Listen
- Dan Kelly – ‘Head Full Of Steam’ (The Go-Betweens cover) – Listen
Further Reading
triple j’s Like A Version in 2005
triple j’s Like A Version in 2006
triple j’s Like A Version – The Complete List
