Rob Conroy

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Member Since: 1/22/2001
Total Mixes: 629
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Sometimes our voices give out, but not our ages and phone numbers

Artist Song
The Roches  We 
The Roches  Hammond Song 
The Roches  Mr. Sellack 
The Roches  The Troubles 
The Roches  The Train 
The Roches  The Married Men 
The Roches  Runs in the Family 
The Roches  Quitting Time 
The Roches  Pretty and High 
The Roches  Nurds 
The Roches  The Boat Family 
The Roches  My Sick Mind 
The Roches  The Death of Suzzy Roche 
The Roches  One Season 
The Roches  The Hallelujah Chorus 
The Roches  Losing True 
The Roches  Steady with the Maestro 
The Roches  The Largest Elizabeth in the World 
The Roches  Want Not Want Not 
The Roches  Older Girls 

Comment:

80 minutes from New Jersey's finest female vocal trio produced by Robert Fripp. It was tough to cut anything from their pretty much perfect first album, but I managed to cut "Damned Old Dog". It's a real shame that only "Losing True" measures up to the first album in terms of quality and that the rest of their stuff got so nondescript so quickly.

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Slack-a-gogo
Date: 10/26/2003
I love the damn variety of mixes people do on this list. Gased on your other mixes I would not have pegged you as a Roches man. A band that I've tried several times to get into, but there's just something about them that doesn't sit right with me.
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McDonald12
Date: 10/26/2003
I would comment, Rob, but I've never even heard of this band! One for the future perhaps
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Dom1
Date: 10/26/2003
ditto Gerard
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Vinz Clortho Keymaster of Gozer
Date: 10/27/2003
I've seen the clip of them doing The Hallelujah Chorus on Saturday Night Live back in the day. Very strange.
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Sean Lally
Date: 10/27/2003
good candidate for a single artist mix. i *like* them, but don't love them. maybe they're a bit precious & peculiar for my liking.
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buglady
Date: 10/27/2003
I had a roommate years ago who loved the Roches, especially their first album (which I ended up hearing A LOT). I have to second Sean, I like them okay, but I don't know if I could get into 80 minutes of them. Perhaps you can change my mind. =)
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G-Sphere
Date: 10/27/2003
I liked their first album, saw them put on a good show at a folk festival and then lost track of them except on an occasional folk program. I used lots of their first album on assorted mixes in the 80s. Small doses but they always stood out.
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lo-fi jr.
Date: 10/28/2003
How I confounded family & friends with my love of that first LP. Probably never would've checked it out if not for the Fripp connection. Seems like the reviews I'd read for every subsequent release would try to convince me (& maybe the reviewer) that this one was every bit nearly as good as that debut. They did put out a decent kids album. Pretty sure a cassette copy still resides under one of the seats in the family car if you're interested.
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Orchid
Date: 7/11/2004
I completely forgot about this band. I used to own one of their albums... i don't even remember which one. I just remember thinking that they were a tad bit BIZARRO :)
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p-e-t-e-r
Date: 3/2/2006
but i LOVE Damned Old Dog! Bow-wowwwwww. Seriously.