Woo!

April 14, 2010 1:00 PM

I'm need help building a playlist of good melancholy songs with 'Woo' prominently in the background. Like Ane Brun's "10 seconds" or Wiz Khalifa's "When U Find". Not just songs that have a chorus, or have a chorus on the refrain, but ones that feature the 'woo' prominently like these two.
posted by cashman to Media & Arts (14 answers total)

A bit of Grizzly Bear?
posted by creeky at 1:48 PM on April 14, 2010

Elvis Presley- Blue Christmas
posted by kimdog at 1:59 PM on April 14, 2010

This song by The National has Sufjan Stevens on woo duty.
posted by creeky at 2:07 PM on April 14, 2010

That song from the shampoo commercial?
It's pretty prominently featured.
sigh . . .Diamonds and Guns but the Transplants
posted by Seamus at 2:18 PM on April 14, 2010

creeky beat me to the Grizzly Bear reference. Maybe Blind Melon's "No Rain"?
posted by schleppo at 2:22 PM on April 14, 2010

I obviously missed the important word "melancholy". Or else I am an idiot whose ideas on emotional responses to music are different than everyone else on the planet.
posted by Seamus at 2:29 PM on April 14, 2010

Sympathy for the Devil - Rolling Stones
posted by alikins at 2:36 PM on April 14, 2010

lykke li- possibility
corinne bailey rae- diving for hearts
sarah slean- john 23
posted by raw sugar at 2:55 PM on April 14, 2010

KT Tunstall- Black Horse & the Cherry Tree
posted by TDIpod at 5:10 PM on April 14, 2010

Dr. Wu?
posted by mrhappy at 5:51 PM on April 14, 2010

Best answer: Yo La Tengo - Paul is Dead
posted by hydrophonic at 6:33 PM on April 14, 2010

Pure For -- The Beta Band
posted by randomination at 6:52 AM on April 15, 2010

I spent way too long figuring this out. It became a bizarrely obsessive challenge, especially when most of the things I thought were "woo" were actually "aah" or "lah" or protracted end syllables. But here is what I came up with:

Elbow - "My Very Best"
Mirah - "You've Gone Away Enough"
Pinback - "Penelope"
Radiohead - "Nude"
The Shins - "New Slang"
TV on the Radio - "Staring at the Sun"
posted by superquail at 4:45 PM on April 15, 2010

Response by poster: Thanks, all. I'm still looking for songs like the two linked, where it is all woo all the time. Not one woo here or there or during the refrain, but nonstop woo. Looks like maybe there really aren't many other songs out there that I'm missing. Thank you for all the links.
posted by cashman at 7:02 PM on April 15, 2010