Other Mixes By Rob Conroy
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I could sleep for a thousand years (2 CDs)
Side A | ||
Artist | Song | |
The Velvet Underground | All Tomorrow's Parties | |
The Velvet Underground | I'll Be Your Mirror | |
The Velvet Underground | Sunday Morning | |
The Velvet Underground | Femme Fatale | |
The Velvet Underground | I'm Waiting for the Man | |
The Velvet Underground | Venus in Furs | |
The Velvet Underground | Heroin | |
The Velvet Underground | There She Goes Again | |
The Velvet Underground | White Light/White Heat | |
The Velvet Underground | Here She Comes Now | |
The Velvet Underground | I Heard Her Call My Name | |
The Velvet Underground | Sister Ray | |
The Velvet Underground | Stephanie Says | |
The Velvet Underground | What Goes On [closet mix] | |
The Velvet Underground | Pale Blue Eyes [closet mix] | |
The Velvet Underground | Jesus [closet mix] | |
The Velvet Underground | After Hours [closet mix] | |
Side B | ||
Artist | Song | Buy |
The Velvet Underground | Candy Says [closet mix] | |
The Velvet Underground | Beginning to See the Light [closet mix] | |
The Velvet Underground | I'm Set Free [closet mix] | |
The Velvet Underground | Foggy Notion | |
The Velvet Underground | Andy's Chest | |
The Velvet Underground | I'm Sticking with You | |
The Velvet Underground | She's My Best Friend | |
The Velvet Underground | I Can't Stand It | |
The Velvet Underground | Lisa Says | |
The Velvet Underground | Who Loves the Sun | |
The Velvet Underground | Oh! Sweet Nuthin' | |
The Velvet Underground | Sweet Jane [full-length version] | |
The Velvet Underground | Cool It Down | |
The Velvet Underground | New Age [full-length version] | |
The Velvet Underground | I Found a Reason | |
The Velvet Underground | Satellite of Love | |
The Velvet Underground | Sad Song | |
The Velvet Underground | Ocean | |
The Velvet Underground | Ride Into the Sun | |
The Velvet Underground | I Love You | |
Comment:
This is a re-make of the two-disc Velvet Underground mix that I submitted as two separate, chronological-but-self-contained discs in 2001 and 2002. I have nothing to say about this band that hasn't been said by a thousand superior writers, so I'll let the music speak for itself. However, I do regret that I had to juggle the order of the tracks from my favorite album of theirs (The Velvet Underground) in order to accommodate the 80-minute space limitations of each disc. Last tracks cut: "Head Held High," "The Gift," "Hey Mr. Rain (version II)," "Rock and Roll" (which I love as a song, but not as their recording), "We're Gonna Have a Real Good Time Together," "Some Kinda Love," "Lady Godiva's Operation," "European Son" and "Temptation Inside Your Heart."Feedback:
great update, rob, from one of my 10 or so all-time favorite bands, & one of the handful of groups who really kickstarted my music obsession at a young age. the self-titled third album is also my favorite (& one of my top 20 favorite albums of all-time), & i have a real sentimental attachment to their first album as well. the other two are in my top 100 somewhere as well. i find it interesting that you prefer the closet mix of the s/t album. good choices all about here.
Everybody's favorite influence (you and vu). Thanks!
Ditto Anthony's early comments; I can't begin to describe how much their first album means to me and how much it shaped my music-listening ways. Best album ever? Maybe. And plenty of other great stuff here, too.
What's not to like?? Great update, Sir.
Have you caught the "live at the gymnasium" shit yet? Uno momento.. http://www.mediafire.com/?9zcetzynbvo
and a few words of backround: http://sendmedeadflowers.com/2008/02/velvet-underground-live-at-gymnasium.html
all in all, I love the velvet underground, and clearly, you do too.
and a few words of backround: http://sendmedeadflowers.com/2008/02/velvet-underground-live-at-gymnasium.html
all in all, I love the velvet underground, and clearly, you do too.
CHEERS for After Hours, but JEERS for not putting the Murder Mystery before it.
So, who are the most influential band of all time? The Beatles or The Velvet Underground? There's only one way to find out. FIGHHTTTT!!
Erm; Great, great mix by the way...
Erm; Great, great mix by the way...
Nice retrospective. My own favorite is "White Light/White Heat," but it's all good.
Sweet
I like the VU from here.
This is simply amazing, Mr. Conroy!!!
Great compilation of songs by one of my favorite bands! I must have missed these the first time around. I too like their S/T album best, but love songs on all their albums.
Ah...wonderful job, Rob.
Like the Harry Hill reference Sammy. This mix pretty much makes itself , no disrespect to your mixing abilities Rob. Cautious pruning only necessary after LP3. Vastly Uplifting.
Tremendous, so much to love.
Quite nice. One of several bands for whom I've been wanting to expand my old single-cd mix (designed as an intro for newbies) into a 2-cd mix, which would create room for some of the pre-Nico demos from the box set and allow the use of an unabridged "Sister Ray."
Can't quarrel much with your choices (aside from the afore-referenced demos), though, as long as I'm here, I have to voice my disagreement with your omission of "Rock & Roll" (and, to a lesser extent, "Some Kinda Love" and "Lady Godiva"). As with others, my favorite is their third, self-titled album (the original version, not the closet mix). Still hoping that one of these days that album and White Light get the same deluxe reissue treatment as the others.
Can't quarrel much with your choices (aside from the afore-referenced demos), though, as long as I'm here, I have to voice my disagreement with your omission of "Rock & Roll" (and, to a lesser extent, "Some Kinda Love" and "Lady Godiva"). As with others, my favorite is their third, self-titled album (the original version, not the closet mix). Still hoping that one of these days that album and White Light get the same deluxe reissue treatment as the others.
Underrated band. Great mix.
classic stuff
they're so brilliant, i can go for months listening to them and nothing else. And it's been a while since I could fall asleep without the aid of Lou Reed's voice
I would have used the pre-Nico demos like Marc said, but even without it this is near perfection. Tough exclusion of "European Son".
Of the Foelsch Samplers Steve and I made together, #4 is long-lost, but had a great sequence of Venus in Furs backed by 39 Lashes, made for a fun party tape.I always enjoyed the Loaded version of Rock n' roll & Sweet Jane, though the Banana album is a big favorite as well.One of my old wood hippie buddies, Don, saw them here in St. Louis at some point. Lou comes out and says "You folks out here in the sticks won't understand this, this is a New York song," as the opening chords to Heroin started, half the audience was shooting up, including Don.
bloody excellent band . . . impressive seeing them distilled to 2 discs . . .
Lady Godiva and Rock & Roll are among my very favorites --or they were-- it's crazy to think it's been years & years since I've even listened to this band I adore so much.
I was just talking to my cousin about the VU the other day he's 21 and I turned him onto VU a few years ago) and was contemplating redoing my cassette comp that I threw together ages ago.
My cousin and I were talking about how frustrating it is to get ahold of all of their material. Hell, there's been three different versions of "Loaded" released now, each one slightly different. And the box has seven out of ten tracks from "VU," which means if you have the box you have to shell out cash for three songs.
And as I said a few years back, I'm glad other folks besides myself find the third album to be their most satisfying record (although I strongly prefer the Valentin mix to Reed's closet mix).
My cousin and I were talking about how frustrating it is to get ahold of all of their material. Hell, there's been three different versions of "Loaded" released now, each one slightly different. And the box has seven out of ten tracks from "VU," which means if you have the box you have to shell out cash for three songs.
And as I said a few years back, I'm glad other folks besides myself find the third album to be their most satisfying record (although I strongly prefer the Valentin mix to Reed's closet mix).
Oh, another thing...I've long wondered why they did stupid things like release a different mix of "Satellite of Love" on the "Fully Loaded" version of "Loaded." IIRC, the box includes the bass part, while "Fully Loaded" doesn't!