Take a bad song and make it better

[woodwindy]

Fantastic cover. Seriously. Just listen. It's actually even better if you don't know what the song is before it starts -- like I didn't when David Dye said "Trust me, you'll know this song" before broadcasting it on XPN -- but I don't know how/where to steer you to it without giving that away...

Ben Howard, doing a killer coverETA: Immediately

Comments

[melaniesuzanne]

I don't know the song, but he's got an intoxicating voice. And yes, that image is ~perfect~.

[woodwindy]

Hee, really? It's uber-ubiquitous on popular radio right now. Hmmm -- it might hurt your brain to listen to it, but it'll help your appreciation of exactly how brilliant the cover version is if you check out the original here...

[rymenhild]

XPN. David Dye.

I always forget that you come from my neck of the woods, and then I remember again.

The point of this comment being that I have just moved back to my parents' house in Elkins Park, probably for about a year while I save money, and maybe we should finally get around to meeting up?

[woodwindy]

I would be *delighted* to meet up. :) Do you want to pm me and give me a rough idea what times/days might work for you?

[ghislainedel]

I had to look at this video just to make sure that my cousin Ben Howard wasn't who you were talking about. I'm pretty sure most videos of my cousin involve camo and loud noises.

[woodwindy]

Ha! Different Ben Howard. :) Did you like the song?

[ghislainedel]

I didn't actually end up playing the video, just saw the image that comes up. If I played the video, I'd be stock at the computer for the next hour plus with my daughter on my lap watching all kinds of YouTube videos. *grins* Which we do sometimes, but it's a little crazy around here today.