songs like velvet underground "oh! sweet nuthin"

Ofege - "It Ain't Easy"
This is the correct answer. Although, I believe the name of the song is actually "It's Not Easy."

also nigerian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs4bMuCYPAo
P.R.O. (People Rock Outfit) - Blacky Joe

Ofege - "It Ain't Easy"
This is the correct answer. Although, I believe the name of the song is actually "It's Not Easy."

― TO BE A JAZZ SINGER YOU HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SCAT (Jazzbo), Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:05 AM (twelve minutes ago)

hah, whoops... that's what I get for searching youtube for: ofege+easy

oh god, i have another one

Kevin Morby - Parade

jordan do you use spotify ?

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:11 PM (yesterday)bookmarkflaglink

made this for you

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZkT45lBW6JVYTbcOrQHVw?si=t3g7XZicQqepwU0yu-9IRQ

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 10:14 PM (yesterday)

i use apple music but i'll cross reference thank u

someone already said "Farewell Transmission" but also "John Henry Split This Heart" imo is more epic.

b.b. king - hummingbird

bernie leadon - glass off

yr welcome xp

Berry Sakharov - Sparks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BD7pi77S8w

The Posies - Flood of Sunshine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK1My1turMY

Some pretty epic guitar soloing from a band not particularly known for it.

I don't get the connecting line between any of these. How about Fearless, Pink Floyd?

everything by Swell?

al green - georgia boy

van morrison - madame george

13th floor elevators - it's all over now baby blue

"dust" too

gene clark - polly

damn 'dust' sounds a lot like j0hn d

crosby, stills & nash - dark star

tom petty - you don't know how it feels

I was gonna post that Ofege

dillard & clark - out on the side
gene clark - some misunderstanding

gene clark for sure.. there's this overstuffed 80s version of 'mr tambourine man' he does on the 'flying high' compilation that kills me

I don't get the connecting line between any of these. How about Fearless, Pink Floyd?

― akm, Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:17 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is a great one

gene clark otm too

threads like this remind me that we all hear music in very different way

to me, the defining trait of Oh! Sweet Nuthin' is repetition. it's the same phrase, over and over again, at varying volumes and intensity. the chorus is the same as the verse, with different vocal melodies. everyone else repeats their parts for the entire song.

so i'm the really harsh judge ott that is like "the chorus is slightly different than the verse? no. disqualified."

in a long overdue fulfillment of my missouri upbringing, now i am soviet russia

Well you could also say that none of those are asking for prayers for anyone..

How about "Save a prayer" Duran Duran?

Karl, your definition leaves no allowances for musical similarities, and would eliminate something like “Can’t You See,” which has the same chord progression, the same structure (quiet opening slow burning into rock city before coming down again at the end) and is even a similar length

I assume I don't get the criteria since no one has posted Donovan's "Atlantis" yet? I suppose it isn't morose. Not so much epic but the Relatively Clean Rivers album might be worth a listen

p'haps excepting morose oh sweet nuthin sounds like approx two dozen grateful dead songs imo

like the tempo is a lil different but row jimmy sounds just like oh! 2 me, repetition included

other possible criteria: major key, but sad; clean guitar sound; vamping chord progression; loose, but not quite jammy feel; intangible sense of "soulfulness"

Ofege - "It Ain't Easy"

This record was released in 1973 (3 years after Loaded) by a group of teenaagers in Lagos, Nigeria.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:24 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I think the lead guitar on taht record was actually overdubbed by the guy from Blo!.
Have heard tehre are later lps taht are all by the band who were school age when they recorded taht first one apparentl;y.
Got it on cd a few years ago but not the later stuff.
Wish somebody would write a book on the psycedelic rock created i sub saharan Africa by indigenous groups and how the various influences washed over the continent. I thgink the first major wave was actually Latin stuff .

But that hasn't much to do with The VU.

"Wakin on a Pretty Day" by Kurt Vile is rambly, epicish, guitar solos stretching out to space, mumbly and stoney and it has that line about suicide, that's pretty morose I guess

The Walkabouts Train to Mercy seems like a good fit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr5EHyGBsgg

Headful by King Black Acid - all 18 blissful 18 minutes of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjKCcLDHKtk

Rain on Tin, off Murray Street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev4n7Bkn5QA

threads like this remind me that we all hear music in very different way
haha yeah ... no idea which "oh! sweet nuthin'" most of you are listening to ...

yeah, my first thought on reading the OP was the BBC version of Smog's "I Break Horses" which can't possibly be what j0rdan is after

smog @ bbc is a good call !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-Zb4djwwoM

this was my spotify playlist btw

amanaz - khala my friend
dion - your own back yard
moby grape - what's to choose (prev. unreleased)
f.j. mcmahon - sister, brother
the contents are - no chance to choose (1969 version)
rainbow ffolly - sun sing (demo)
skip spence - all come to meet her now
pink floyd - fearless
mazhar ve fuat -adimiz miskindir bizim
rolling stones - winter
ron elliott - all time
amon düül ii - sleepwalker's timeless bridge
fleetwood mac - jewel eyed judy

i'm sure there are songs in the world that sound more identical to OSN and maybe are closer thematically

i just kind of went by a vague feeling. i was also very drunk

relatively clean rivers LP is a good call xp

stones' "winter" is a good call.
you can pretty much sing the end of Hey Jude along to the chorus of Sweet Nuthin.

check the wendell stuart track i linked !

Mick Ronson - I'd Give Anything To See You

― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, May 13, 2020 9:46 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i love this. i didn't realize there was a whole disc of unreleased 1976 material by this guy !

xp to tylerw

yeah, that's the I-bVII-IV, big classic rock progression. let it loose (mostly), can't you see, it's not easy, dear mr fantasy, they all have that goin on too

people get really excited about posting something and get loose with the criteria. I did it too

The song that actually sounds just like "Oh Sweet Nuthin'" is "Lonesome Surprise" by Refrigerator

https://youtu.be/CsLEg0rL_kA

also notably covered by the Mountain Goats

I see what people above mean by their Pavement choices, but to me the obvious Pavement track for this is "Summer Babe"

And finally, the song that really hits this vibe for me is Beta Band, "Dry The Rain," but I'm not sure if everyone will agree.

^^^
Secos & Molhados "Primavera Nos Dentes"

it's maybe played a liiiitle fast but: this is lorelei - "an extra beat for you and me" (live) (stay for the outro solo)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3fP_bPnctQ

idk about "oh sweet nuthin" but i think this would be a great fit in a hypothetical "songs that sound like 'is it wicked not to care?'" thread