Let's make a mixtape of songs that sound like VU's "What Goes On"

• "Once in a Lifetime", which Jerry Harrison admitted to ripping off for the outro in the last 40 seconds

• Stereolab's "Perversion", which may as well be a straight cover

You know, that sort of nice motorik-ish beat, solid rhythm guitar, nice organ-y repetitions all over, lots of long vocal-free parts, etc

some of "maze" tracks sounds like this. an awful lot of them.

'vicious attacks' by anemones, though it leans in a little bit of a spacemen 3 direction at times too

Yeah I was going to say there are a ton of S3 tracks that fit this, though I might go for Spectrum's "How You Satisfy Me"

Hahaha funnily enough I've just realised How You Satisfy Me is pretty much a re-write of I Can't Let Go by Evie Sands

New, New Minglewood Blues - Grateful Dead
Can't Stop - That Petrol Emotion
Sedan Delivery - Neil Young
Heading For The Texas Border - Flamin' Groovies

for various but probably obvious reasons. Probably in the whatever came to mind category.

The Fall - New Face in Hell (and by extension, Pavement - Conduit for Sale).

Tighten Up - Archie Bell & The Drells

don't you mean "What Goes On" sounds like "Tighten Up," which it doesn't, really, at least all that much?

also no version beats the live 1969 volume one version of "What Goes On." in fact, i'm pretty much certain that that is the only Velvets album i still listen to on a regular basis.

Great call on that Fall song

I feel like theres a Pulp song that does this too but I can't recall

Yeah, most of my picks have the rhythm slightly wrong, but I'm just free associating shit that's repetitive riff with the loose vocal, more like the album version. Not exactly the criteria of the second clarifying post.

But that 1969 version is a force unto itself.

oh well, more bad picks Hawkwind - Master of the Universe and Quark Strangeness and Charm. (rhythm wrong, but even a samey mix-tape should vary)

The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else

Every track from side two of the Feelies' Crazy Rhythms.

Closest is Fall's "New Face In Hell", that's virtually a rip off

> also no version beats the live 1969 volume one version of "What Goes On."

The live version included on Peel Slowly... is my favorite. Sterling at his absolute best, imo. Then the applause after...sounds like there were maybe eight people in the audience. Incredible.

The live version included on Peel Slowly... is my favorite. Sterling at his absolute best, imo.

Lou does the lead on that version, so I assume you're complimenting Sterl's rhythm work?

I feel like theres a Pulp song that does this too but I can't recall

Stretches of David's Last Summer? 'We went driving…'

"Sheffield: Sex City" imo

Something by Luna.

Something by Brian Eno.

Faust, "It's a Rainy Day, Sunshine Girl"

"Jumpin' Jack Flash"

"Sympathy for the Devil"!!!!!!!!!

Every track the Feelies'

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With the possible exception of their cover of what goes on.

"Sympathy for the Devil"!!!!!!!!!

a band I was in used to cover the stones song and more than one person said they thought we were doing "what goes on" before the vocals came in

And "Sympathy for the Devil" cops a lot from Traffic's "Dear Mr Fantasy" so add that to the list

Take me by the Wedding Present.

Talking Heads - Found A Job

Or Kennedy (speeded up of course)

Yo La Tengo - Spec Bebop

The live version included on Peel Slowly... is my favorite. Sterling at his absolute best, imo.

Lou does the lead on that version

No shit?! I had no idea.

All the crazy out-of-control guitar playing in the Velvets is Lou. Sterling's style is totally different.

Sir John Betjeman "The Licorice Fields of Pontefract"

sterling plays the more, er, sterling guitar on the velvets stuff. though on the studio recording of what goes on, I *think* it's a triple tracked solo with lou, doug and sterling all playing.

Sounds awkward enough to be all Lou!

Some Amon Duul 1 stuff gets close, minus the vox.

The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else

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plz explain this

i can see it (well, as much as a lot of the songs listed thus far). kilgour's locomotion strum, the straight-ahead kinda motorik beat?

I'd go w/the two Wedding Present songs mentioned, also "Truck, Train, Tractor" by Pastels. Off the top of my head I'm not sure, but I'd be amazed if there wasn't a Black Lipstick song that ripped it off.

Yo La Tengo - Spec Bebop

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You know, I was going to post this! I like the way you think.

But ppl we must remember the nonstop droney organ is crucial here

the best song lou reed Never wrote

i can see it (well, as much as a lot of the songs listed thus far). kilgour's locomotion strum, the straight-ahead kinda motorik beat?

maybe. I hear it mostly only in the intertwining psych guitars in the instrumental break; PTTSWE is dronier than What Goes On. Plus, I think Reed's rhythm guitar trumps Moe's motorik beat in the song. PTTSWE sounds more like Oh Yeah imo.

New Face in Hell OTM though

(PTTSWE is like my second favorite song of all time; New Face in Hell is number three)

Look Blue Go Purple - Circumspect Penelope

(and pretty much everything else they ever recorded)

PTTSWE is dronier than What Goes On. Plus, I think Reed's rhythm guitar trumps Moe's motorik beat in the song
yeah, agreed. god, the rhythm guitar finale of the live 69 what goes on! holy shit! what's interesting is that on some of the other bootleg versions of that song recorded around the same time are nowhere near as good. (they're good, but don't lock in quite as incredibly.)

should just make a mixtape of live VU versions of this song.

Hackamore Brick - Oh Those Sweet Bananas

"Hollywoo Nights"

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i don't really think orange juice have a song that sounds quite like this, but i feel like I read edwyn collins saying he wanted his band to be a cross between "what goes on" and chic. or something to that effect ...

What Goes On seems like the opposite of motorik to me. It's more of a pounding, tribal stomp. It's got a groove and a swing, and feels very earth bound. While "motorik" to me means something lighter, faster, more floaty, and robotic. And while the organ is cool and essential, I think the rhythm guitar is really the defining characteristic.

Debbie Gibson, "Only In My Dreams" (although it's a little closer to the VU's "Rock and Roll")

if Remain in Light counts, then I think this should count too...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExcU_SH07OU

Remain in LightOnce in a Lifetime

never made any connection betw. once in a lifetime and what goes on. jerry harrison really said that's what they were ripping off?

I can hear it; skip ahead to 3:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU

from 2:46 on for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8REIw0amb8

(the Phish vid cuts off the end, but I think there is a similar transcendent minimal organ-drone solo thing going on there)

(I guess I can hear the PTTSWE similarities too, but that song is still way too motorik to really compare)

Maybe "O My Soul"?

never made any connection betw. once in a lifetime and what goes on. jerry harrison really said that's what they were ripping off?

Yep, fuck a RealPlayer but http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html#O

ha, i'll take your word for it! (and yeah, i do hear the similarities there with harrison's keyboards)

Actually that doesn't work but this shoud

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1072131

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBYxMsF_Bo8

<3 that song; thx!!!

Yeah, sometimes it's my favorite O jam. I'm kind of struggling with ideas for this thread but I want to participate.

yeah i'm sort of struggling too!

interestingly enough, the Peel session version of "New Face in Hell" sounds more like Can...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ2QgGjWGQs

this thread is making me want to check out Hackamore Bricks

and Look Go Purple Blue

All this talk of Jerry Harrison and ctrl+f no-one has mentioned the Modern Lovers yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lawYWr02a4s

^ some Hackamore Brick, first song is Sweet Bananas

NickB, you're looking for this thread: TS: "Sister Ray" vs. "Radio On" vs. "Hallogallo" vs. "Jenny Ondioline"

i dunno, do modern lovers have songs that sound like what goes on? they have songs that sound like the VU...but not really what goes on, that i can think of. xpost

Sweet Bananas sounds more like Beginning to See the Light, but, yeah this is sweet... :)

do modern lovers have songs that sound like what goes on?

Ah well I was kinda hoping you could tell me! Lots of close relatives to WGO perhaps?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZXx_N1KRlc

^ slight derail but this is IMO the best Hackamore Brick song btw Drugs A Money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r998weOUiM

^^^almost as crazy as anything on white light/white heat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyEO2IRamXQ

Somehow it never occurred to me that this song is basically a really slow and drugged version of "What Goes On"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hxd2-qmQix8

sustained major chord organ drones 4 lyfe imo

Jennyanykind - Why You Wanna Treat Me Like That

That Phish song sounds much more like "Oh! Sweet Nuthin" than it does "What Goes On"

http://soundcloud.com/fanaticpro/the-cannanes-bumper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6TGjIpmtAU