Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
I would suggest it's not just the singing so much as other things through which Gotye makes people think of Peter Gabriel and Sting. The songwriting: the unsympathetic first-person narrator (Big Time, Moon Over Bourbon Street, Every Breath You Take). And the video: it has so much in common with Sledgehammer that I think I'll show them one after the other in my music video lecture next semester.
It's a GREAT video.
Edited because I did a post-and-run and got some song titles wrong.
Sean -- You've heard tUnE-yArDs, yes?
Weirdly, this cover version also sounds a bit like Sting/Peter Gabriel to me: [link]
Wow, that was not long at all. RIP indeed. And what a great clip to link, sumi. Thanks.
Better quality version of that same clip: [link]
Short clip of Levon in 1959! [link]
Sean -- You've heard tUnE-yArDs, yes?
Jon, no I have not! Please enlighten me!
And now - Greg Ham from Men at Work has died.