songs like velvet underground "oh! sweet nuthin"

Sleater Kinney - Leave You Behind
Yo La Tengo (my god) - (Straight Down to the) Bitter End
Neil Young - Ambulance Blues

https://youtu.be/Wlykn_KSQ3o

alfred gave j0rdan weed

Doesn't get better than this imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDXBPZoV2jw

My go-to YLT mood-psych

https://youtu.be/vw2nqCfxvNA

(And its 60s ancestor)

https://youtu.be/Hd4iEtpRjQQ

xxp I woulda chosen "Run" from Technique actually

Faust - Jennifer

Last one I can think of

https://youtu.be/bnCkiNi_ssY

Gene Clark - Strength of Strings
Pavement - We are Underused
Parquet Courts - Uncast Shadow of a Southern Myth
Steve Gunn - Wildwood
Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio

(Ok I promise I'm out now; lol I'm p sure J0rdan didn't need me to tell him abt Exile :/)

https://youtu.be/MEFPOqEmxHU

Paul Simon: "Duncan"
Van Morrison: "Listen To The Lion"
Kinks: "Strangers"
Sir Douglas Quintet: "I Don't Want To Go Home"
Fleetwood Mac: "Future Games"

French, Frith, Kaiser, Thompson - Drowned Dog Black Night and Tir-Nan-Darag
tons of solo Thompson, "Calvary Cross" and beyond

jordan do you use spotify ?

made this for you

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

Marshall Tucker Band - Can't You See

kinda cheating, maybe, but: baxter dury 'oscar brown'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfQd3oHp3eY

"let it loose" and "jennifer" both good picks imo, if "obvious" (who cares)

Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna

(I ain’t afraid of “obvious”)

Ofege - "It Ain't Easy"

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

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

Traffic - Dear Mr Fantasy

Some more

Faces - Debris
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Tuesday’s Gone
The Band - It Makes No Difference
Built To Spill - Kicked It In The Sun
Dinosaur Jr - Said The People
The Hold Steady - Lord, I’m Discouraged
The Rolling Stones - No Expectations
Songs: Ohio - Farewell Transmission (the granddaddy of em all)

Built to Spill - Nowhere Nothin' Fuckup (actually sort of a cover version)

Morning Dew
https://youtu.be/NDuZfdf4hFQ

Maddy Star - Look On Down From the Bridge

silly phone lol *mazzy

Mojave 3 - Love Songs On The Radio
Big Thief - Paul
Modest Mouse - Gravity Rides Everything
Spiritualized - Soul On Fire

this might be my fav kinda song

Roxy Music - Psalm

Skip Spence - Grey/Afro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4U6uRbGVkL4

Last one, I promise:

Lucero - Drink Til We’re Gone

Not enturely sure I get the criteria, but here’s a few favourites:

REM - Country Feedback
Thin White Rope - Take It Home (not much acoustic)
Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise
Rain Parade - Broken Horse
Idaho - Skyscrape
Patti Smith - Free Money

Ah shit, didn’t see ref to «vibe». I might be some way off then...

Oh shit, forgot one of my favorites -- Julian Cope, "Gimme Back My Flag"

my mind goes to "ain't that nothin'" - maybe it's superficial. i get the two conflated in my head. last songs on the last (not really) albums by the respective bands - and yeah "ain't that nothin'" is the penultimate track, but train round the bend->oh sweet nuthin' occupies the same space in my head as ain't that nothin'->the dream's dream. i also think of "ain't that nothin'" as the ten minute instrumental run-through on the '03 cd reissue, my first encounter with the album.

ofege track reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWkLS058QBc
wendell stuart & the downbeaters - jude

Mick Ronson - I'd Give Anything To See You

Stereolab - Golden Ball

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?

should make for a good listen!

I know what I’ll play as my Sunday bbq playlist next time

i want that patch

thanks mookie! :)

man mary chapin carpenter goes so hard on "between the dirt and the stars"

i may be stretching the aesthetic parameters of this thread a bit but

atlanta rhythm section - so into you (live) (1979)

https://open.spotify.com/track/6lPj1rmGFRb8tQn2LGlSoO?si=8d7787034b8f4333

I love that song, one of my favs

it always made me think of paul simon - oh marion for some reason

Glad this thread was revived because said VU song (and indeed Loaded but specifically said song) was featured prominently and diagetically in last week's Loki episode. Bit an an amazing moment!

man mary chapin carpenter goes so hard on "between the dirt and the stars"

otm

lmao was thor all like “I prefer the alt version on the fully loaded cd set”

Imagine if.

okkervil river - blue tulip

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

Uncle Michael on Hinky Dinky Time/WFMU just played and eulogised "Oh! Sweet Nuthin", and called it "the most Lou Reed song that Lou Reed never wrote". Not sure I agree with that, but okay. He also mentioned Loki as Ned said above. I was waiting for him to mention the Spotify playlist, but sadly, no. Btw the track should be on the playlist, shouldn't it?? I want to recommend it to ppl and refer to the track, so I've had to duplicate it and add the song..

“that Lou Reed never wrote"? I don’t get it…

I guess assuming incorrectly that Doug Yule wrote it because he sang it?

I am pretty sure I am not misremembering that that is what he said, he said Yule wrote it. Anyway, there's your answer Uncle Michel, that's why it sounds so Lou Reedish

It’s credited to Lou Reed

And always has been. Nowhere does it say “this song was written by my brother Doug.”

If he'd said "Friends" I might have agreed with him.

Didn't early copies of Loaded say "all songs by the Velvet Underground", a Steve Sesnick gesture?

Yes. I think Lou got the lawyers involved.

would add 'til it gets dark' by the dwindling party, which is a user tylerw joint, but it doesn't seem to be online

it's not wholly unlike 'doug martsch sings oh! sweet nuthin' but i'm sure tyler has heard that before

there are v. good guitars but i (sappily, admittedly) wanted a jam fadeout

haha, i'm flattered / amazed anyone remembers the dwindling party! thanks, mookie, high praise indeed.

Just updated the link for the whole album over here ... I have not revisited this stuff in a long time ... https://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/26650006390/the-dwindling-party-a-re-up-of-my-very-own-album

apologies for dropping this here, but recently have been listening again to Brian McMahon's (ex-Electric Eels) 17 Volts, which is very Lou sounding (though not OSN specifically) to my ear and doesn't seem to have every been mentioned on ILM. love this (and the whole record):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5lZv8BCZgQ

I see Hozac published a memoir from McMahon in 2017, but no copies about for less than collector scum pricing.

Haven't seen that episode of Loki but I'm slowly working my way through Fringe and Oh Sweet Nuthin' showed up in one of the episodes I watched this week! Who knew there were so many VU deep cut fans out there in TV land!

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

mercromina 'evolution'

John Cale - "Big White Cloud"

the comas - centipedes

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

wednesday - chosen to deserve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTi7e9gEpN4

the new ratboys single fits the bill. it would fit even better if there was a thread called "songs that sound like 'debris' by the faces"

📹

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn4M0HvuxGs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooXb_Ck2ZZ0

yeah that ratboys song turned into one of my very favs of the year

Been trying to remember this for days. But this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLUD75vITwU

And while we’re here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vUcg6Mo_aA

saints song is perfect! thx

A little laid back perhaps, but:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99k6hYq_0s4

(Nikki Sudden - Broken Door)

well this is the wrong answer but enjoyable all the same
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKlZeE2Haac

prefab sprout - "doo wop in harlem" live versions i.e. beginning at the 4:50 mark of this video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtisWO16aTQ

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mint mile, halocline

2000 version
2024 version