Rob Conroy

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Member Since: 1/22/2001
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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
ArtistSongBuy
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:

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anthony lombardi
Date: 3/22/2008
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.
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mahdishain
Date: 3/22/2008
Everybody's favorite influence (you and vu). Thanks!
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Bear
Date: 3/22/2008
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.
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sport !
Date: 3/22/2008
What's not to like?? Great update, Sir.
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Nick Falivena
Date: 3/22/2008
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.

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Essex Dog
Date: 3/22/2008
CHEERS for After Hours, but JEERS for not putting the Murder Mystery before it.
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sammyg123
Date: 3/22/2008
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...
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avocado rabbit
Date: 3/22/2008
Nice retrospective. My own favorite is "White Light/White Heat," but it's all good.
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hemizen
Date: 3/22/2008
Sweet
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Mixxer
Date: 3/22/2008
I like the VU from here.
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DJ Karen Adams
Date: 3/22/2008
This is simply amazing, Mr. Conroy!!!
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buglady
Date: 3/22/2008
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.
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Funky Ratchet
Date: 3/23/2008
Ah...wonderful job, Rob.
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KathrynandRupert
Date: 3/23/2008
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.
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Mark Petruccelli
Date: 3/24/2008
Tremendous, so much to love.
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Pop Kulcher
Date: 3/24/2008
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.
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Media Vixen: Radio Sally
Date: 3/24/2008
Underrated band. Great mix.
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p the swede
Date: 3/24/2008
classic stuff
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MintCondition
Date: 3/24/2008
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
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Salman1
Date: 3/25/2008
I would have used the pre-Nico demos like Marc said, but even without it this is near perfection. Tough exclusion of "European Son".
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doowad
Date: 3/25/2008
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.
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gobi
Date: 3/25/2008
bloody excellent band . . . impressive seeing them distilled to 2 discs . . .
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Orchid
Date: 3/26/2008
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.
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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).
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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!