SwankExpress

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Member Since: 12/3/2006
Total Mixes: 11
Total Feedback: 37

Other Mixes By SwankExpress

CD | Theme - Romantic
CD | Theme - Romantic
CD | Theme - Romantic

You won't feel it 'til it grows...

Artist Song
The Mothers of Invention  Flower Punk 
Boris & Merzbow  Walrus 
Guitar Wolf  Motor Cycle Leather Boy 
The Attack  Try It 
Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band  Diddy Wah Diddy 
Big Brother and the Holding Company  Ball and Chain [live at the Monterey Pop Festival] 
Devo  S.I.B. (Swelling Itching Brain) 
The Puppets  Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart 
J Dilla  Workinonit 
The Equals  Police on My Back 
James Brown  Mother Popcorn 
Wipers  Youth of America 
R.E.M.  HarborcOat 
Steely Dan  Rose Darling 
John Martyn  Sweet Little Mystery 
The Beach Boys  I'm So Young 
Bob Dylan and the Hawks  Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) 
David Sylvian (with Derek Bailey)  The Good Son 
Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas  From a Window 

Comment:

From the keyboard of Rob Conroy: This one is a bit different from our previous efforts, in that I had earmarked all of the above tracks for inclusion in my next mixed-genre mix, then left with my laptop in tow for a long weekend with SwankQueen. On my way there, I had a revelation: "Hey, wouldn't it be really cool/neat/nifty/swell if SQ took the songs I'd picked and sequenced them in her own inimitable style?" I asked my otherwise unoccupied car. "Why yes, it would," the OU car responded. I took the car's advice for the truly life-altering prophecy that it was and this is the very pleasing, mildly mind-bending (meaning that it is indeed mind-bending, but not in a way that would incite motion sickness or any other negative side effects) result. There is also a substantial chance that a gussied-up copy of this will be making its way to Weez at Mondo Video in Buffalo, as he hipped me to that Puppets cover (of the Young Rascals song) and would almost certainly dig the rest. Title by Becker & Fagen.

Feedback:

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hemizen
Date: 7/30/2007
Nice work you two.
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SwankQueen
Date: 7/30/2007
Ahh, the notorious battle of the sequencers has called a truce with this effort. I dig it. Thanks for letting me take the helm with all of the terrific material you've provided, it was so much fun, I love every song on it, and it's interesting to see just how different our styles are, knowing what you'd have done if left to your own devices.
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sleepyroot
Date: 7/30/2007
How do I listen to it?
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sport !
Date: 7/30/2007
Especially love the Beach Boys, Dylan and Equals picks!
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gobi
Date: 7/30/2007
what would you have done left to your own devices, Rob ?Lots to enjoy, but I'm drawn strangely to the older material here.
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The Misfit
Date: 7/31/2007
Very nice! Great Beefheart and Equals and James Brown picks, among many others.
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 7/31/2007
Nicely done on both counts. The 5-6-7 run cranks. Great opener also.
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anthony lombardi
Date: 7/31/2007
jesus christ this is good - the dylan/band track, the beach boys, R.E.M., james brown & j dilla all knock me upside the head (in a good way) - very, very cool, would love to hear this one
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ofthaltned
Date: 8/1/2007
Wow, you three (SwankQueen, Rob and Rob's car) are a good team, for sure. Looks great, unsurprisingly enough.
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French Connection
Date: 8/3/2007
Oh likin' this one muchly.