![]() ![]() It may be an unusual choice for a cover centerpiece, but the scarab immediately stood out on the front of Journey's sixth LP, 1980's Departure, as a rainbow-hued winged creature flies among the planets. "But it was a scarab beetle with wings - very art nouveau, all done, airbrushed," he added of the image, prints of which are currently available for sale under the title "Power of Soul." "And when we got back to San Francisco … I knew the bass player in Journey, and he came over and said, 'Hey, can you do us an album cover?' So we morphed the Jimi Hendrix beetle into the Journey emblem, and that's where the Journey scarab was born." "And just as we finished it, died, so the album cover never came out. Learn more at Patreon."We got the job to do a Jimi Hendrix album cover," visual artist Stanley Mouse told NBC Bay Area in 2017, referencing his creative partner Alton Kelley. There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. ‘Escape’ – an album that we swear has many songs besides “Don’t Stop Believin'” – came out on July 31, 1981. This is more of a fun video than a cover with some deep artistic merit, but still…it’s a really fun video. Bonus: Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Elton John, Debbie Harry, Shirley Bassey – Don’t Stop Believin’ Forget South Detroit she’s headed straight to South America. It rises above the typical novelty cross-genre cover though, finding a heart and soul pretty much absent in the original. ![]() The newest cover of the bunch, Menescal’s 2016 south-of-the-border “Believin'” gives the track a bossa nova twist. Which shows with this cover, weirder and less chipper than the Glee-ful competition. So, suffice to say, not your typical a cappella act. After all, this is the same singer who recorded a complete a cappella version of The Who Sell Out. “Wait, you spent half the intro trashing a cappella covers, and now you’re posting one?” I know, but Petra Haden is different. “Don’t Stop Believin'” certainly qualifies – and Eef makes it much less hateable. If you sign up as a VIP member, you can even suggest a “song we hate” to make him cover. Good thing too, as he’s got dozens and dozens on his Bandcamp page. Clem Snide – Don’t Stop Believin’Ĭlem Snide’s Eef Barzelay can sell a solo acoustic cover as well as any musician alive. It’s the most similar to the original of the bunch, but her punky energy sells it. Guitar goddess Marnie Stern can fret-tap like no one’s business, and she shows it off to perfection on this heavy cover. Rather than inspirational, this “Don’t Stop Believin'” sounds like a man who has definitely stopped believing. The band thanked him shortly after with this gorgeously tender live cover. Though Steve Perry no longer sings with Journey, he came out of semi-retirement a few years back to sing onstage with eels. The enigmatic Mark Oliver Everett (aka “e” of eels) appears to be a genuine Journey fan. Even if at some point in your life you’ve prayed to never hear “Don’t Stop Believin'” again – and who hasn’t – these five will make you reconsider. It’s a heavy lift to make such an overplayed song enjoyable again, and most artists who try fail.īut we’ve dug up five who succeed. ![]() Spotify features hundreds of insufferable a cappella slogs and novelty let’s-play-it-on-banjo/violin/harp/xylophone/18th-century-lute versions. They only cover “Don’t Stop Believin’.”Īnd they mostly cover it badly. “Don’t Stop Believin’,” meanwhile, barely scraped its way into the top ten.Įscape turns 36 this week, which might occasion a Full Album if anyone ever covered any of the other songs off it. The funny thing is that when it came out, not only was it not Journey’s biggest hit, it wasn’t even the biggest hit on that same album. It is not only Journey’s biggest song by a mile, it’s one of the most well-known songs of the 1980s, period. Even The Sopranos couldn’t give it a coolness bump. Its ubiquity on class rock radio, bad karaoke stages, and every college a cappella group that ever donned bow ties has made in insufferable (thank the Glee cover inexplicably going to #4 on the charts for the last one). When people argue over the Worst Song of All Time, inevitably someone will mention Journey’s (in)famous “Don’t Stop Believin’.” If Starship had never built that city on rock and roll, it would probably take the crown.įrankly, I like other Journey songs, but “Don’t Stop Believin'” deserves most of the hate it gets. ![]()
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