Tuesday 20 September 2011

Best Voices in the Industry

So I've recently discovered an amazing find on youtube, apparently BBC has a radio, and on that radio they have a show called live lounge, where they get artists with awesome voices and they let them cover other songs, or do their own but with an acoustic feel. 


I've been looking through alot of videos, discovering even more amazing voices. I've always had the weirdest taste in music I only listen to rock, weird stuff you've never heard off, but I've always valued talented artists with amazing voices. 


The best way to find out how good a singer is, is when its live or acoustic, so I've compiled as many acoustics as I could, trying to find a song that's not the artists original to see how good they truly are, for example, we all know Teenage dirtbag, well world, I'd like you to meet Eddplant. He does the best cover I've ever heard of the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akFkNOVoNR4


Panic At The Disco is a punk band. But I have no idea where they found Brendon, their lead singer. I was hooked onto their music because his voice pulls you deep. I'm trying to look for an acoustic version of a song, and here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuV1zXXF9zg&feature=related


Robert Smith of the band The Cure, a British band in the 1980s, now he's doing duets, here's a recent song, with Crystal Castles, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32udqal_lyQ.
I discovered Robert a few years ago when Blink 182 borrowed him for a song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnV0-dqfifM&feature=related I cant seem to find a video of him actually singing it... this fan made video will do.
Whats with Robert and his hair? Blimey...






A tribute to the ladies. This first time I heard this lady's voice, I was driving in the car, and it wasn't till I saw her on TV and watch her sing that I realized she's not black, she has this unique quality that I've never heard in a white woman before. Adele had blown me off my feet the same way Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston have. Here's her doing a cover of Cheryl Cole http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czwlth4mx5Q
Amy Lee has one of the best voices I've heard, there's a rare copy of Amy covering Nirvana, not my favorite, so here's performing one of her songs, amazing abilities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODavKwQi0RI


I like it when an artist covers a song for another artist and does it better, especially when they have an accent, like a English artist covering an american artist. Here's an amazing British band called The Kooks with a lead singer whos voice is like an angel, doing a cover of Gnarls Barkley. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDyO4yt45f4


Or, when the Arctic Monkeys lead Alex does a cover of Rihanna. Unfortunately, he brutally murdered the song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9YL_zvdkLk&feature=related


Annnnd, of course... If you know Fight Club, 30 seconds to Mars, or Jared Leto, or if you're as a big fan as I am of this pure talent, genius uniqueness, and seductive voice, you'll enjoy this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ga_pr0vuHA 
Theres just something about him...So I'll also post another acoustic song with Jared.. Just because its Jared. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7fH8_-cQpo


There must be a million amazing voices out there, I just picked out a few, rock related gals and fellows that I wanted to share. Sharing mood tonight. Seeing as how its 2 30 am and I have work tomorrow, I shall go to bed now. 

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