Sometimes I want to listen to raw song covers that are ideally just video recordings without digital alterations. I used to be able to just look up *song name* acoustic/unplugged cover on Youtube and I'd already get what I want.
These days sometimes covers labeled as such aren't acoustic in the first place. Or even if they are, they have an overly clean or a synthetic "overproduced" sound, which is not what I'm looking for. I want a white noise in the background or little nuisances. I want the artist in the foreground and not the assembly, production quality or the mixing. Therefore I'd have to filter for older videos, look for 'amateurish'/unprompted settings in the thumbnails or check out every video in the search results one by one.
For reference, this is an example for what I want: Creep (Radiohead) - Cover by Connie Park - Youtube.
As beautiful as it is, this is an example for what I want filtered out: Never gonna give you up (Rick Astley) - Cover by Callum J Wright.
Am I missing a trick to find what I'm looking for?
5 Comments
DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 208d
Well, I cant speak for others, but I post videos of my live shows roughly once a week of acoustic covers, and if you have any song requests, I'll do my best to add em!
Shameless self plug: youtube.com/@CrazyJamesRocks
TheV2@programming.dev · 2 pts · 208d
Awesome, love the Let it be cover!
Zelaf@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 207d
I think making higher quality stuff has generally gotten more accessible to do but I what could be a good outlier might be view count and especially subscriber count to be somewhat low. But the longer someone keeps making music, the more they're gonna yearn for quality.
eezeebee@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 208d
I come across these bedroom covers all the time when I'm looking for "(song name) acapella", even though a lot of the times they're not actually acapella versions. But sometimes they are. Love finding these and seeing another unknown person's passion for music.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 208d
I typically just make them myself