Other Mixes By Rob Conroy
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Here's your chance to look me in the eyes (W-Z and beyond)
| Artist | Song | |
| R.E.M. | 1,000,000 | |
| Lemonheads | Mallo Cup | |
| Big Drill Car | In Green Fields | |
| The Cure | Catch | |
| The Dream Syndicate | Definitely Clean | |
| Opal | My Only Friend | |
| Depeche Mode | A Question of Lust | |
| fIREHOSE | What Gets Heard | |
| Prince & the Revolution | The Beautiful Ones | |
| The Young Fresh Fellows | No One Really Knows | |
| The Wedding Present | Give My Love to Kevin | |
| The Cynics | Blue Train Station | |
| The Smithereens | Behind the Wall of Sleep | |
| X | Because I Do | |
| The Roches | Losing True | |
| Robert Wyatt | Strange Fruit | |
| The Beastie Boys | Looking Down the Barrel of a Gun | |
| The Dead Kennedys | Holiday in Cambodia | |
| Neil Young | Captain Kennedy | |
| Lucinda Williams | Like a Rose | |
| XTC | Ladybird | |
| Rickie Lee Jones | Hey, Bub | |
| Bob Dylan | Every Grain of Sand | |
Comment:
Okay, this is the end of the 80's series (Vol. 4). I now began implementing CDRs, as the purchased-CD alphabet finished after six bands (the Wedding Present, Lucinda Williams, Robert Wyatt, X, Neil Young and the venerable Young Fresh Fellows). If anyone wants to guess which two additional purchased-CD artists who are included here that I had idiotically neglected on previous volumes, feel free. :-) (Hint: It's *not* R.E.M., as I've got all of their records through "Monster" on LP and have dubbed the newest ones, without replacing my vinyl copies.) The Depeche Mode song is dedicated with good thoughts to Ion Moe (yes, I actually like the song quite a bit). And thanks for the positive response to the prior installments of this little undertaking.Feedback:
so insanely great, this mix. incredibly cool. and so forth.
Great job,again--although I could have done without the Depeche Mode (I've always really disliked that band--probably because all the trendy kids in high school tried to force feed them to me while neglecting great music by the 'Mats, the Chameleons, and Echo and the Bunnymen).
oh my. that's a rather impressive mix. and good job on "catch" by the cure.
Yes yes yes! Fantastic job with this Rob. I love the Cure, DM, & DK picks.
Rob, uh, thanks for the dedication. No one's ever dedicated a song to me before. Oh wait, I was taking photos at a Long Ryders concert once and they dedicated a song to the "kid with the camera"--but I digress. I'm guessing that the "purchased CD artists" are Firehose and Prince. I'm surprised I didn't raise a fuss when you overlooked the Purple One in your previous installment, because I think I have everything the man did in the 80s, including all the 12-inch singles.
Thanks a lot, folks. :-) And just for the record, Moe (or rather anyone else on the site), the Depeche Mode song is *only* dedicated to you because of your question about them on the first installment. lol And I'm sorry to say that you're incorrect about the artists: I have the first three fIREHOSE records on vinyl and CDR only, and detest the last two full-lengths; and I've got all the Prince stuff from "Dirty Mind" through "Lovesexy" on vinyl as well and haven't replaced them on CD (I did, however, do two Prince mixes earlier this year from my friend Dan's comprehensive Purple One CD discography).
tsk, tsk. still no field mice... (or 14 iced bears for that matter! ;)
Hell, I'm bored at work so I'll guess again. I'll say the (underrated) Lemonheads and Opal. I have all the Prince stuff on vinyl too. I jumped off the Prince bandwagon in the early 90s, but a lot of his 80s stuff is fantastic --Pop Life, Boys & Girls and Hello, to name a few songs, although I could live without the 20+ minute version of America.
great series, rob.
Lovely mix, Rob. As for your comment to Brandt - didn't I see in your best of for 2001 a cd by the Ladybug Transistor - aren't they "twee-pop"? (or at least very close) - yes they aren't 80s, but they steal from the great twee-poppers of the 80s.
Sorry, Rob, I guess you're right on this one - although since I like both I thought other people (like yourself) may as well. I recently got a lovely mix cd with The Field Mice and The Ladybug Transistor back to back - and it fit together so well. And you're welcome :)
hmmm...the ladybug as baroque pop? i guess i can see that. probably no better way to describe them really. and my field mice comment was made half in jest--i think that field mice transcend their tweeness...especially since i know you own stuff like the luckies and belle and sebastian (who i consider very baroque at times...)
when i think baroque pop...i think bach (even though he's not purely baroque...) in a crappy film clip...but anyway