I can't crush that water in my hand by Rob Conroy

Rob Conroy

Member Since: 1/22/2001

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Submit Date: 7/27/2001
Format: CD
Category: Single Artist

I can't crush that water in my hand


Artist	Song
Scud Mountain Boys	Reservoir

Scud Mountain Boys	One Hand

Scud Mountain Boys	Where's the Playground, Susie

Scud Mountain Boys	Silo

Scud Mountain Boys	In a Ditch

Scud Mountain Boys	Scratch Ticket

Scud Mountain Boys	Penthouse in the Woods

Scud Mountain Boys	Grudge Fuck

Scud Mountain Boys	A Ride

Scud Mountain Boys	Holy Ghost

Scud Mountain Boys	Massachusetts

Scud Mountain Boys	Knievel

The Pernice Brothers	Crestfallen

The Pernice Brothers	Overcome by Happiness

The Pernice Brothers	Clear Spot

The Pernice Brothers	Monkey Suit

Chappaquiddick Skyline	Everyone Else is Evolving

Chappaquiddick Skyline	Breakneck Speed

Chappaquiddick Skyline	Knights of the Night Vol. 1

The Pernice Brothers	Flaming Wreck

The Pernice Brothers	Cronulla Breakdown

Comment:

Another in a series of warm, rich, distinctively moving vocalist mixes: Joe Pernice. Although my bias for the Scud Mountain Boys' "Massachusetts" album shines through here with a whopping 8 cuts representing it, I tried to be fair about my track selection. The only album not represented is the "Big Tobacco" solo record, simply because nothing on it appeals to me more than any of these songs. However, these are the tunes that it REALLY hurt to cut: "Peter Graves' Anatomy" (Scud Mt. Boys), "Chicken Wire" and "7:30" (Pernice Brothers), "Theme to an Endless Bummer" (Chappaquiddick Skyline) and "Prince Valium" (Big Tobacco).

Feedback:

Martin Andersen
Date: 7/29/2001

This looks cool. I would like a copy. Would you care to trade?

Andrew Forbes
Date: 7/29/2001

I have already had crystalized the moment which will define this summer for me in the future, and that is driving along a rural road, farms on all sides of me, listening to "Crestfallen." This looks like a wonderful tape. Joe Pernice is amazing.

Rob Conroy
Date: 8/6/2001

Oh, sorry for the delay in my response, Martin... yeah, I'll trade with you. Just let me check out your stuff to see what I'd like from you.

Christian Durrett
Date: 1/3/2002

I would have the hardest time making a Pernice tape. It really _hurts_ to cut anything. Nice-o mix.. My soft spot would be Massachusetts too.

Adam Bristor
Date: 7/2/2003

I don't think I noticed this one before. As perfect as one would expect a Joe Pernice mix to be. I have to say I would have liked to see their cover (Scud Mt. Boys , that is) of "Witchita Lineman"...just phenomenal. Again though, what can you do? So many worthy songs. Well done.

Rob Conroy1
Date: 7/3/2003

I love that cover, too, Adam. But as you said, what can you do? He's done so much quality stuff over the past ten or so years...

mrtimmins
Date: 2/15/2007

Why would you attempt to condense Pernice's work into a single CD, and then weight it so heavily toward a single album, however wonderful the album Massachusetts may be? That just seems to violate an unwritten rule of compiling....

I've just made my own 1-CD comp for Scud Mountain Boys (which includes all of your selections except "Kneivel"), as well as a 2-CD comp of post-Scud work (Pernice Bros. and all Joe's alter ego projects), though there is of course a lot more of this material to work with now (Feb. 2007)than when you made your comp. Even in distilling the essence of Pernice into 3 CDs, I had to make some hard choices, esp. for the Scud comp.

You don't happen to own any recordings by The Scuds, the band which morphed into Scud Mountain Boys?