Pop punk band Mighty Vices release another excellent cover, this time putting their spin on the classic song “The Best Of Me.” The original version, made popular by The Starting Line, helped spur the scene’s mainstream explosion in the early 2000s.
“I remember the first time hearing ‘The Best Of Me’ and something just clicked,” bassist Adam Szmurlo says. “It gave me this desire to want to experience something that drove the kind of passion the song portrays, but also create the kind of music that can draw people in the way the song did for me.”
Szmurlo says “The Best Of Me” helped inspire him to pick up a guitar, as he tried to imitate the band.
“Just ask my parents how many times they heard my voice crack trying to sing the chorus,” he continues. “It has always been in the back of my mind as a song to cover, so we did!”
It’s the latest in a long line of covers from Mighty Vices, a band based out of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The group recently covered Hawthorne Heights’ classic “Ohio Is For Lovers” and Coheed and Cambria’s “A Favor House Atlantic.” Like those two songs, the new track really pops.
“My pubescent self would be pretty stoked to see how it turned out and happy to hear someone like Bryan (Bennett) completely smashing the vocals.”
Listen to more from Mighty Vices here.
