songs like velvet underground "oh! sweet nuthin"

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?

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

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"

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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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