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?