Originals & Cover Songs Remakes Spotify Playlist
Unity Power Force just released our remake version of Rock’n Me as our first cover song release on Spotify and other major music streaming platforms. This tune was originally done by Steve Miller Band and is considered a classic rock song. I had been playing this same song live at local open mic events in Mississauga for a few years now on acoustic guitar but always wanted to do a full band electric version of it.
In addition to our original songs like In Harmony and Shoot It In The Net, it was always the plan for Unity Power Force to record some cover songs as well but unlike many of the YouTube and TikTok videos of folks playing well known songs, we wanted to do remakes in our own musical style. We don’t want to sound just like the original artists.
In the case of Rock’n Me, the guitars are heavier and louder giving our version a hard rock sound. Our version also has bigger vocal harmonies as all three singers (Clint Cora, Michelle Alton ‘Angelee’ and Chantall) all recorded multiple tracks each to create a big wall of voices. I also chose to add in more guitar solos than in the original version by Steve Miller Band resulting in our version being longer in duration.
Many other musical artists have done cover song remakes of older songs including Van Halen and Guns & Roses. I just love the way Van Halen did the old Kinks song, You Really Got Me and even liked their version of Linda Ronstadt’s song, You’re No Good. Although I did not like the way they covered Dancing In The Streets, I loved their hard rock version of Roy Orbison’s classic, Pretty Woman. It was this influence that made me want to do similar musical treatments to selected classic songs Unity Power Force will take on as remakes.
I created a special playlist on Spotify that has many classic rock and pop songs that were covered later by other artists. I listed them back to back with the originals followed by their cover song remake counterpart so you could get an immediate comparison of both versions. This playlist is called Original & Cover Songs Back To Back and the link will take you directly to it on Spotify plus it is also embedded right below.
