Best Non-VU Velvet Underground Songs

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Not covers, but they might as well be.

I'll start:

The Feelies - "Slipping (Into Something)"
Jesus and Mary Chain - "Some Candy Talking" (even sounds like a VU title)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

more like "There She Goes Again" is a rip off of "Hitch Hike."

― hstencil, Friday, 25 April 2003 23:08 (twenty-two years ago)

"Why Don't You Smile Now" - Spiritualized

― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 25 April 2003 23:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm going to say "Jane Says" by Jane's Addiction just so I can imagine the Velvet Underground making Mo Tucker play the steel drums.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Baby Blue" - Warlocks

― paul cox (paul cox), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Luna and Galaxie 500 to thread.

On a related topic, I was surprised how well-suited Bob Dylan's "Foot of Pride" was for Lou Reed to cover. It was like Bob said,"I shall not right a Bob Dylan song, but write something that sounds like I'm covering Lou Reed!"

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yo La Tengo to thread, or I guess all NYC YLT fans are at the Beaconn right now.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:29 (twenty-two years ago)

"Queen Bitch"

― Sean (Sean), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Galaxie 500 sounds like the double live VU album played at 16 RPM.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

The entire Hackamore Brick One Kiss Leads to Another lp.

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Orange Juice-"Sad Lament"

― Arthur (Arthur), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

mr cab driver - lenny kravitz

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Jonathan Richman - "Roadrunner", "Velvet Underground"

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Beautiful Way" - Beck

― Leslie Chong, Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Sloan's "The Lines You Amend" coulda been on Loaded.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Saturday, 26 April 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)

The Las "Her she comes" (or whatever it is 6 pence non the richer covered)

― A Nairn (moretap), Saturday, 26 April 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Simply Saucer - "BulletProof Nothing"

― pauls00, Saturday, 26 April 2003 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The La's track is "There She Goes".

Anyway the answer is obv. the song which ends every set by a local band.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 26 April 2003 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

"The Modern Age", DUH!!

― Adam A. (Keiko), Saturday, 26 April 2003 04:56 (twenty-two years ago)

"X-Ray Man," Liz Phair.

― Burr (Burr), Saturday, 26 April 2003 07:45 (twenty-two years ago)

"When I Was Single," the Jive Five.

― Burr (Burr), Saturday, 26 April 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

oh yeah, "In A Little While" by Uncle Kracker features the Sweet Jane chords AND has a verse where each line starts with "some people..." though it sounds more like a non-Bob Seger Bog Seger song.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 26 April 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Suzanne Said by the Shallows.

― hamish (hamish), Saturday, 26 April 2003 22:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Monkey Gone To Heaven" by Pixies

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 26 April 2003 22:43 (twenty-two years ago)

just like candy,some candy talking and cut dead are all idealized vu pastiches,but brilliant anyway
if all the vu/stoogesetcetc rip off bands now were like the above tracks things wouldn't be so shit

― robin (robin), Saturday, 26 April 2003 22:44 (twenty-two years ago)

"Halloween," Dream Syndicate.

― Burr (Burr), Sunday, 27 April 2003 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, I wanted to be the first to mention Dream Syndicate! But I'd say "That's What You Always Say" or "Sure Thing" from the first EP.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 27 April 2003 05:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The Real Kids "Just Like Darts" also has that slow VU song vibe.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 27 April 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

The entire Hackamore Brick One Kiss Leads to Another lp.

Well atleast some songs, and hey, they had the VU fanclub...:-)
Anyone looking for the record: email me

Jonathan richman - Velvet underground (the mid section-)

― Jens (brighter), Sunday, 27 April 2003 07:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jump," Aztec Camera.

― Burr (Burr), Sunday, 27 April 2003 18:07 (twenty-two years ago)

"Candida"--Ultra Vivid Scene
"The First Time I Saw You"--England's Glory. (Well...most of that record, and a good deal of the Only Ones' stuff for that matter.)
"T.V. (Girl on Fire)"--The Perfect Disaster (ditto.)

― M Specktor (M Specktor), Sunday, 27 April 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Several songs by Subsonics sound like VU on speed. Good Violence is a good representative disc to seek out.

― John Bullabaugh (John Bullabaugh), Monday, 28 April 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Several songs by Subsonics sound like VU on speed

Listen to "White Light, White Heat" that is the VU on speed.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Monday, 28 April 2003 12:07 (twenty-two years ago)

IT'S A RAINY DAY, SUNSHINE GIRL

― j fail (cenotaph), Monday, 28 April 2003 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

"outside my door" - Can.

― rexJr., Monday, 28 April 2003 15:08 (twenty-two years ago)

six years pass...

The Clientele - Reflections after Jane
The Owls - Isaac Bashevis singer

― Moka, Monday, 19 April 2010 20:38 (fifteen years ago)

Some of da tunes by Crystal Stilts have a VU-ish glow about them. Ditto for Woven Bones. "She Cracked" by JOnathan Richman.

― ImprovSpirit, Monday, 19 April 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

"Amphetamine" by Peter Laughner/Rocket From The Tombs is kinda like Springsteen doing "Heroin" ...

― tylerw, Monday, 19 April 2010 21:43 (fifteen years ago)

Belle & Sebastian-"Lazy Line Painter Jane" (really a bunch of B & S stuff jumps off from late VU)

― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 April 2010 21:58 (fifteen years ago)

The Stuart Price 3 mix of I Told You So by New Order sounds like VU. Great version.

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:02 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xI31038L6kQ

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:03 (fifteen years ago)

"Send No Letter" - The Velvet Underground.

― Mark G, Monday, 19 April 2010 22:35 (fifteen years ago)

Well, "Lou Weed" by Dandy Warhols, though it's on purpose. And Lou probably couldn't have managed the 10/4 meter...

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 00:50 (fifteen years ago)

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