So if you want to spoil some upcoming surprises, look closely at the wall. In the meantime: SPOILER ALERT! Though Iron And Wine was the first band to choose a song, they weren't the first to perform. We're hoping against hope that Iron And Wine and their special duet guest can come back before the end of the run and perform 'Islands In The Stream' as sort of a bonus track. That special guest couldn't make it at the last minute, and rather than have Sam pick a different song from the list, we let him play one that he'd been itching to do anyway (and a song that feels completely in the spirit of Undercover). Here's what happened: Iron And Wine's Sam Beam chose 'Islands In The Stream' to cover, and had a special guest lined up to sing with him. Undercover, you'll know that 'One More Try' by George Michael is not actually on this year's list. Clem Snide's latest album is The Meat Of Life. Here's an amazing line from Wikipedia about Journey's original video: 'Steve Perry can be seen shaving his short-lived but talked-about moustache in the video.' Don't bail on this video, either: There's a surprise at the end that's even better than moustache-shaving. It helps that the slightly cheesy lyric is something that Barzelay can relate to-missing your family while out on the road. When he told us it'd be performed in solo-ukulele form, that delight was doubled. Clem Snide frontman (and only constant member) Eef Barzelay has made other artists' songs his own many times before, from Christina Aguilera's 'Beautiful' to Hank Williams' 'Lost On The River' to The Velvet Underground's 'I'll Be Your Mirror.' When we told Ben Folds that Barzelay would be shooting an Undercover, he said something like, 'I can listen to that guy sing anything, all day.' When he chose Journey's 1983 power ballad 'Faithfully' for Undercover, we were delighted.

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