Our Top Picks of Covid-19 Message Songs

The coronavirus epidemic has sparked an unlikely new trend: catchy songs released on Social media meant to educate but also make you laugh, sing and dance. FIB thinks every great life moment including a lethal Pandemic should have an anthem.

So what is yours?

Paul G Roberts
FIB CEO:

Live Lounge Allstars – Times Like These 

The quarantine content just keeps coming in … this time over 20 musicians from around the world have collaborated with Foo Fighters Dave Grohl and Taylor Hawkins for an incredible version of the Foo’s hit – Times Like These.

Artists, including musicians Chris Martin of Coldplay, Sam Fender,  Ellie Goulding, Dua Lipa, Biffy Clyro, Sean Paul, and Royal Blood recorded their parts from their homes and the BBC’s Fraser T. Smith produced them together.

Proceeds from the cover go to BBC’s Children in Need and Comic Relief.

The song is just one of many that fits the global climate perfectly …

It’s times like these you learn to live again
It’s times like these you give and give again
It’s times like these you learn to love again
It’s times like these time and time again

The Rolling Stones have a new song and video for you in these tough times.

The band released “Living in a Ghost Town” on Thursday, and it can be heard here.

Prior to the covid-19 lockdown, the Stones had been in the recording studio working on new music and the new track “really resonates with what we’re living through right now,” a statement read on the band’s website.

“Living in a Ghost Town” was recorded in Los Angeles, London and in isolation, the band notes.

Andrea Boccelli “Hope”

Andrea Bocelli was not going to let a pandemic stop him from helping deliver a little hope on Easter Sunday.

Invited by the city of Milan, the Italian opera star live-streamed a solo performance on YouTube — ‘Andrea Bocelli: Music for Hope’ — from the city’s main cathedral, the Duomo di Milano, on Sunday morning.

 

Smells Like Disinfectant by Coronarvana – the Facebook Version

Nirvana fans and others alike are loving this Facebook parody version of Smells like Teen Spirit, this time made by Coronarvana.

What could prove to be a new period of music for Bob Dylan, ‘Murder Most Foul’ is packed with enough allusion and enigmatism to warrant repeat listens during self-isolation.

Chris Mann’s Hello From The Inside- based on Adele’s Hello.

Celebrities singing Imagine by John Lennon

Now all celebrities have some some radical thing, they’ve also made many moves to convince us we’re ‘all in this together’ and that we’re all ‘equal’. But this cover….well I’m not exactly sure what it was trying to do or how it was supposed to make us feel.

Comforted? Moved? Emotional? You decide.