Like this? 
I’ve heard even worse. About ten years ago, somebody started a thread about being annoyed by this style of singing. I’ve never seen a thread get revived as often as this one.
This is… unusual.
The Propellerheads did a cover of the theme to On Her Majesty’s Secret Service - I may well have posted it in this thread previously - here it is anyways: https://youtu.be/7O1_0hikl-A?feature=shared/2
Okay, so it turns out that there is a band who specialize in performing cover versions of James Bond movie music - they’re called Q The Music (geddit?). And here is a video of them doing a cover of the Propellerheads cover, seemingly performing live. Uh…strange. And remarkable: https://youtu.be/Lt0JNtIX3DI?feature=shared/3
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@Ponch8 will hate this one (you’re not going to get much more breathy and soft than this one), but it just resurfaced in my YouTube recommendations. A 9 year old strips an Eagles song down to its bare bones, creating an imperfect gem (backstory on this project and an interview of the grown singer, starting at the 11 minute mark, can be heard on this 17 minute NPR audio).
For what it’s worth, I’ve thought that it was a great song performance ever since I first hear it, which was probably not long after it was released in 2001. It was actually recorded about 25 years before that. You can find a post in which I mention it at Your Ten Favorite Songs .
I have continued to expand my list of my favorite songs as I think more about the songs I’ve listened to. I now have 50 songs on that list. The Sheila Behman version of “Desperado” is still on the list, of course.
I love that version - it’s been a favorite for a while specifically because of the stripped-back nature of it.
So this is fun. Loving the drummer’s vibe especially.
Wow, that’s an amped up Disney!
Postmodern Jukebox and Willie Ray Moore Jr deliver a soulful rendition of the same:
Just got this in my deezer recommendations: Keith Richards doing Velvet Underground’s “I’m Waiting For The Man”. It’s obviously from a Lou Reed tribute album from earlier this year, I hadn’t heard about it before. Very cool version, very much in the style of later Lou Reed, and who could tackle the song subject better than Keef? I wonder if this is Robert Quine on second guitar, it sounds like him and he was a long time collaborator of Lou Reed.
I ran across this great cover of Dream On by Postmodern Jukebox. I’m not familiar with the singer, Morgan James, but her wailing is right up there with Steven Tyler’s.
This isn’t so much a great cover as a hilarious one. An up-tempo bluegrass version of Pink Floyd’s Brain Damage.
Been a fan of theirs for a looong time. Also, check out The Dogs They Really Miss You. Very clever and hilarious tune, by the Lizards.
There’s a band called Luther Wright and The Wrongs that redid the The Wall as a bluegrass/country album. It’s worth checking out. In college I downloaded it on Napster. I probably still have the CD I burned, but the whole thing is on you tube now.
Other than a couple of specific parts, this IMHO, sounds a lot more like David Gilmore than SRV
He’s got a lot of other covers as well, though most of them involve Dire Straits in one way or another.
Here’s another good one from her (and that’s Telly Savalas’ daughter on the left)
Since Wednesday, I’ve been avoiding political threads, online and cable news, and anything else that brings a thudding reality to hammer me down into deeper depression. One of my outlets is (a lot of) browsing YouTube music (and cat videos), I just ran across this live cover and Beth Hart put it best in her intro. “It just makes me feel somehow, no matter what happens, everything’s gonna turn out alright. It gives me hope.”
I suppose this counts as a cover even if one of the players was on the original recording: “Bodhisattiva”, by the short-lived supergroup The Best
Hey, that was good. And after looking at the credits list it turns out I’d heard of several of those performers.