We were having a party but we weren't invited by Rob Conroy

Rob Conroy

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Submit Date: 7/25/2002
Format: CD
Category: Single Artist

We were having a party but we weren't invited


Artist	Song
Peter Laughner	Baudelaire

Peter Laughner	Rock It Down

Peter Laughner	Sylvia Plath

Peter Laughner	Cinderella Backstreet

Peter Laughner	Amphetamine

Rocket from the Tombs	So Cold

Rocket from the Tombs	What Love Is

Rocket from the Tombs	Ain't It Fun

Rocket from the Tombs	Transfusion

Rocket from the Tombs	Sonic Reducer [live]

Rocket from the Tombs	Never Gonna Kill Myself Again [live]

Rocket from the Tombs	Seventeen [live]

Pere Ubu	Heart of Darkness

Pere Ubu	30 Seconds Over Tokyo

Pere Ubu	Final Solution

Peter Laughner	Me and the Devil Blues

Comment:

My 80-minute tribute to one of American punk's founding grandfather types, who was (un)lucky enough to die just as "punk" was breaking in mid-1977 (at the age of 24) and whose entire recorded legacy (aside from two seven-inches with Pere Ubu) exists in the form of home-recorded demos, a legendary radio broadcast with the seminal RFTT, and audience tapes of two live shows with RFTT. Despite the temptation to extend the Pere Ubu portion of this disc into the magnificent "The Modern Dance" album, I held back and stuck to my Laughner-themed guns. Thanks to lottie for finally replacing my long-lost copy of the "Take the Guitar Player for a Ride" disc.

Feedback:

Moe
Date: 7/25/2002

Looks great Rob. Only familiar with Pere Ubu's Final Solution. (Why are you up so early? Or are you staying up late?)

McDonald12
Date: 7/25/2002

I don't know anything about this, but I would like it, as I have heard great things about Pere Ubu and I do like the one Rocket From The Tombs track I have heard. (Aint it fun)

artaud9
Date: 7/25/2002

ubu rules. haven't heard the laughner material. looks interesting.

FaeryWhspr
Date: 7/25/2002

i've never heard much ubu (for obvious reasons so neatly stated in your paragraph) but what i have heard i like. rock on

p the swede
Date: 7/25/2002

i just bought The Rocket from the tombs album, really excellent

Curtis_Burns
Date: 7/25/2002

Wonderful Rob.

CASETTA
Date: 7/30/2002

Easily excited at the the party though never invited, teaching niavete to kids reared on TV, buying a gun to take care of number one, getting so high he just can't cum then reaching the brink so he just can't think, getting tangled up in red, learning harmonica blues from old English dudes. If anyone broke glass as gracefully and cruelly as Sylvia Plath is was Peter Laughner. Great mix!

Mickeywack
Date: 8/2/2002

Excuse me kind sir, but might I fetch a copy of this?

Adam Bristor
Date: 1/13/2003

It took me so long to track down a copy of "Take the Guitar Player for a Ride", but in the end it was worth it. I was originally interested because of the Wilco connection; I figured anything good enough for Jeff Tweedy to flat out steal is good enough for me. And you just have to end this mix with those blues, nothing else will do. As much as Laughner borrowed from his idols, namely Lou Reed, I can safely say I've never heard anything quite like that one album.