Other Mixes By Rob Conroy
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My mind is a Cleveland afternoon
| Artist | Song | |
| Pete Townshend | Substitute (demo) | |
| Pete Townshend | So Sad About Us (demo) | |
| Pete Townshend | Pictures of Lily (demo) | |
| Pete Townshend | I Don't Know Myself (demo) | |
| Pete Townshend | Getting in Tune (demo) | |
| Pete Townshend | Relay (demo) | |
| Pete Townshend | Too Much of Anything (demo) | |
| Pete Townshend | Greyhound Girl (demo) | |
| Pete Townshend | Pure and Easy | |
| Pete Townshend | There's a Heartache Followin' Me | |
| Pete Townshend | Sheraton Gibson | |
| Pete Townshend | Sleeping Dog | |
| Pete Townshend (& Ronnie Lane) | My Baby Gives It Away | |
| Pete Townshend (& Ronnie Lane) | Keep Me Turning | |
| Pete Townshend | Rough Boys | |
| Pete Townshend | And I Moved | |
| Pete Townshend | I am an Animal | |
| Pete Townshend | Let My Love Open the Door | |
| Pete Townshend | Slit Skirts | |
| Pete Townshend | Give Blood | |
Comment:
The newest installment of my quest to have all of the same single-artist mixes as popkulcher (just kidding)... On a more serious note, his mix reminded me that Pete actually had some cool solo work that would easily fit onto one disc. With that in mind, I asked him for some assistance (okay, extensive/almost complete assistance) in acquiring Pete's early solo career and demos albums and this is the result. Nothing exciting here, really, and nothing that I'll listen to often, but worth having around.Feedback:
Nothing exciting here?!? I think cuts 1 thru 20 are pretty exciting. You can easily do a great 80 minute disc of just his demos (my fave is the demo of "circles"). Great stuff Rob. "Sheraton Gibson" was a song that never lept out at me until I saw him do it live at House of Blues in Chicago and now I don't understand what took me so long to come around to loving it. After Andy Partridge Pete is my fave songwriter.
Funny that you should mention that "Circles" demo, Dale, as it was the perennial Last Track Cut (TM). :-)
A good idea for a single artist mix, Rob. Something for the pile here, I think, as I don't have any of his solo stuff.
This looks pretty cool. Like Gerry, I haven't heard much of the solo recordings, but it looks good nonetheless.
long time since I heard Rough boys, remember it as good
I don't think Pete's solo stuff is lacklustre at all - in fact, an argument can be made for much of his solo stuff being a damn site better than any post 1970 Who album. ESPECIALLY "Who came first", which is easily better than the Who of the 1970s and (ugh) beyond. Of course, so is Entwistle's solo stuff, and the highlights of Daltrey's and Moon's solo lps are much better than the dregs of the Who's latter period.
I'm with Sean on this one Rob.
I agree wholeheartedly that his solo stuff is better than the Who's stuff from this period (although Who's Next and Quadrophenia are just fine, if not pretty great). And I like this stuff. I just don't think it's one of my favorite mixed-genre mixes.
This looks like a worthy single artist mix! But it does include perhaps the worst Pete Townshend line .... "Unlike me, she can't work out her frustrations in a gym" from Slit Skirts....