Rocktober '10s Song #7: "Safari Song" by Greta Van Fleet (2017)

It would be criminal to have a Rocktober celebrating the 2010s without including a Greta Van Fleet song.  Formed in 2012 in Frankenmuth, Michigan -- most well-known, at least to me, for being home to the world's largest Christmas store -- Greta Van Fleet is not, in fact, a woman's name, but rather a band of three brothers and a friend who make great rock and roll music.

They released their debut EP, Black Smoke Rising, in 2017, and the pretty much took the rock world by storm.  The comparisons to Led Zeppelin were ubiquitous, if not sometimes pejorative, but to the haters, I say that I wish there were more bands that sounded like Led Zeppelin and Greta Van Fleet these days.

It didn't take long before I discovered them, and I saw them for the first time at Lollapalooza in 2018.  By that time, they had released another EP (albeit 8 songs, so I don't know why it wasn't considered a full-length album), From The Fires.

"Safari Song," which is on both Black Smoke Rising and From The Fires, was the band's second single and their second #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.  It's a stellar, Zeppelin-esque hard rock song that starts with a great riff and a mighty wail from lead singer Joshua Kiszka, followed by subdued verses mixed in with bombastic choruses.  It's pure rock and roll, and again, I wish there was more modern rock like this.