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I've never heard of this connection before today. Of course, this might be something that everyone here knows about already. A friend saw some youtube channel that pointed it out.

The arrangement of All Tomorrow's Parties seem to owe a bit to Carole King's A Road To Nowhere. I looked up the release date of the single and it was March 1966 so could easily pre-date the arrangement they developed for All Tomorrow's Parties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uCGjTWlXzc

I don't hear much of a connection. There are numerous songs with minor key, moody background instumentation, but this doesn't seem to share any other similarities to the VU song! I dunno...curious to hear what other folks think...

Are they both Mixolydian or something? (I'm pretty ignorant on musical theory, so I'm sorry if this is a silly question!)

I would say ATP does indeed "owe a bit" to this Carole King track.

For what it's worth, the song was originally released by... Tomorrow Records :

https://www.45cat.com/record/nc059935us

This is a brilliant song, and I thank you for introducing it to me, but I really don't hear any connection to ATP.

Even though there are some similarities in the arrangement & production (heavy reverb on the vocals and piano, kind of Spectorish, and the arrangement in the intro) I'm not at all convinced that there is a connection. It's possible that they heard it and were inspired by its sound in the studio, but it's certainly not similar enough to know for sure.

Great song though, so thanks for posting!