Excepting Kneecap and Bob Vylan for entirely different reasons, there may not be a more talked-about rock band than Geese in 2025, for good reason. Their runaway word-of-mouth sensation Getting Killed does in fact rule, and doesn't entirely besmirch the description "The Rolling Stones meet Radiohead."
They're big classic rock fans, as both their own music and choice of covers has shown, recently jamming on the Stooges' "Down on the Street," "Loose," and "TV Eye," a/k/a the immortal opening trifecta of 1970's proto-punk landmark Fun House as well as the Velvet Underground's "I'm Waiting for the Man" at a show (updating the original "26 dollars in my hand" line for inflation: "got $347 in my hand"). Singer Cameron Winter did Bruce Springsteen's immortal "Dancing in the Dark" for an Xbox commercial, and they've tackled Talking Heads' "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)" in the past.
But this time, after performing Getting Killed's "100 Horses" and "Cobra" on BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, they gave what they give to New Radicals' "You Get What You Give." There is no stronger way to win the heart of a '90s kid like me, even if it's a rather spacey, deadpan reading. Presumably they left off the ending about Beck (and Hanson, Courtney Love, and Marilyn Manson) because Winter sounds an awful lot like him. You can listen below, and the New Radicals tune begins around 6:40 or so.
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