“We could have had it all.” Long live rock n’ roll! At the song’s finale, I just want to lip synch to Josh Kiszka’s Robert Plant-inspired vocals, air guitar to Jake Kiszka’s bluesy solo and throw in a few air-drum fills for good measure. The track starts out slowly, but now each time I hear it I wait for its explosive mid-song tempo shift. It took me a few listens to truly embrace the song’s power. I first learned about this version of “Rolling In the Deep” in a Cover Me article. Van Halen covered “You’re No Good,” a song first recorded by Dee Dee Warwick and popularized by Linda Ronstadt, on the 1979 album Van Halen II. Megadeth recorded a metal version of Nancy Sinatra’s feminist anthem “These Boots Were Made for Walkin’ ” in 1985. Judas Priest covered Joan Baez’s “Diamonds & Rust” in 1977. They are certainly not the first male rock band to cover the work of an iconic female singer early in their career. In early 2018, the group released a hard-rocking take on Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” as a Spotify single. The band exploded onto the global music scene in 2017 with a sound that channels the spirit of ‘70s rock. In recent years years, Greta Van Fleet, a band of five barely-legal boys from Frankenmuth, Michigan, have been vying for such a moniker. This, in turn, has led fans and critics to the inevitable search for a new savior. The pending die-off, combined with changing tastes in music, has led to claims that the rock n’ roll genre is in its final days. With so many fabled rockers now reaching their golden years, this trend will continue through the 2020s. These included rock’s founding fathers Fats Domino and Chuck Berry as well as icons such as Gregg Allman, David Bowie, Tom Petty and Prince. In the 2010s we saw the passing of many rock stars. It’s warm, it’s jaunty, and it doesn’t lodge in your brain the way earworms do so much as seep in and grow there.ĭan Reeder’s “Stand By Me” is now a part of my psychological fabric, and I’m very happy to have that be the case. Reeder’s version… well, it feels like home to me.
See, for me, King’s version is uplifting, taking pride in strength in numbers. Hell, I’ll start singing it in just about any context. King’s rightfully famous “Stand By Me” on the radio, I immediately start singing Dan Reeder’s version. Well, in this case, those weren’t just words. In fact, when I wrote about Dan Reeder‘s cover of “Stand By Me” in a 2016 Cover Me Post, I said that you wouldn’t hear the words “Darlin’, darlin'” the same way ever again. I’ve been guilty of using that cliche myself, many times. It’s become kind of a cliche when writing about cover songs to say that they will “change the way you hear the original,” or some variant thereof. Today’s question: What’s your favorite cover song of the 2010s?
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This will give us a chance to hold forth on covers we might not otherwise get to talk about, to give Cover Me readers a chance to learn more about individual staffers’ tastes and writing styles, and to provide an opportunity for some back-and-forth, as we’ll be taking requests (learn how to do so at feature’s end). Here at Cover Me Q&A, we’ll be taking questions about cover songs and giving as many different answers as we can.
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