songs like velvet underground "oh! sweet nuthin"

open to all recommendations for acoustic-y vaguely stonery and morose epics, guitar solos much appreciated

lol -- wow

Chicago - "Hard to Say I'm Sorry"

hm I'm not sure what happened to my brain, hope you will accept Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain" and Love - "Signed D.C." instead

Led Zep - Ten Years Gone

i've got loads of acoustic-y vaguely stonery and morose tunes to recommend but not many "epics" come to mind

I know what Sarge has in mind: contemplating the beloved over guitars while lovestoned. So:

Luna -- Lovedust
New Order - Dream Attack
Spoon - WhisperI'lllistentohearit
R.E.M. - Half a World Away
Pavement - Type Slowly
Justin Timberlake - I Think That She Knows/LoveStoned
Liz Phair - Divorce Song
Waxahatchee - Hell
Bryan Ferry - Slave to Love

i've got loads of acoustic-y vaguely stonery and morose tunes to recommend but not many "epics" come to mind

― budo jeru, Tuesday, May 12, 2020 9:31 PM (three minutes ago)

im looking for something i can vibe to

thank you alfred :)

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

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

✓

mint mile, halocline

2000 version
2024 version

https://nowagainrecords.bandcamp.com/album/pale-shades-of-grey-heavy-psychedelic-ballads-and-dirges-1969-1976

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiIVmWJ05kk

(harmonium - Un musicien parmi tant d'autres, 1974)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agx-kVgC3sg
(Michael Kiwanuka - Lowdown

dope

Les Rallizes Denudes - Enter The Mirror

mj lenderman “joker lips” is one stretched out guitar solo away from being the best new entry into this canon since ratboys “black earth, WI” but it’s such a good song that i feel compelled to mention it anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TW0o5hjxcQ

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2GUKxbwlbQ

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

we appreciate artist names & song titles itt thank you :)

it’s nice because youtube links break and someone in 10 years might wanna check out doo rag’s entries into the canon

oh ok for poss fut ref purps
*new riders of the purple sage - death & destruction
*nikki sudden - johnny smiled slowly
*tv personalities - a sense of belonging
*grateful dead - loser

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDlVy0Db87w

(pittsburgh's own) merce lemon - backyard lover

don't think it's *exactly* nuthincore, but it's close enough and i like it a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8j-fV17i54

spiritualized - lord can you hear me ('soul on fire' has already been mentioned; i'm sure many others would also fit the bill)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cov57ZlGyGQ

the walkabouts ft. mark lanegan - feel like going home (see also charlie rich's original versions with and without choir)

Luna, Tigerlily Girl

^^ for many years I thought that was actually a cover of a VU song

agreed! but i wanted more from the solo

Two good VU covers of diff songs that I think fans of Oh Sweet Nothin' would enjoy. Would love to hear either of them cover it.

https://tuluumshimmering.bandcamp.com/album/sister-ray-meets-china-cat-sunflower-uptown

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

my band has this tune on a new LA wildfires benefit comp, kind of a covert "sweet nuthin" cover: https://islandhouserecordings.bandcamp.com/track/beyond-the-zero-prariewolf

that is a really beautiful track

This always makes me think of Prince covering "Sweet Nuthin":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGXQe2iE0bI

Ofege "It's Not Easy," mentioned on the first day of this thread, shows up in the opening scenes of the new Michael Fassbinder spy series "The Agency."

Had me fumbling for Shazam.

Ethel Cain - Thoroughfare

I find them both to have a languid beauty about them.

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

totally, that was a good listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5nJEs835CI

huh!