Rob Conroy

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Member Since: 1/22/2001
Total Mixes: 629
Total Feedback: 9267

Nothing can be done without the willingness to succeed

Artist Song
The Olivia Tremor Control  The Opera House 
The Fiery Furnaces  Straight Street 
Talking Heads  Houses in Motion 
The Stranglers  Golden Brown 
Queen  Killer Queen 
Patti Smith  Redondo Beach 
Graham Coxon  Life It Sucks 
The Libertines  What Katie Did 
The Stooges  1970 (take 8) 
T. Rex  Jeepster 
AC/DC  Problem Child 
The Knack  Your Number or Your Name 
Devendra Banhart  This is the Way 
The Clash  The Card Cheat 
David Crosby  Cowboy Movie 
Tom Waits  Blind Love 
Bessie Smith  Me and My Gin 
Elvis Presley  Love Me Tender 
Sonny Sharrock  Blind Willie [Black Woman] 
The Pogues  A Rainy Night in Soho 

Comment:

Another laborious "for-the-hell-of-it" mix encompassing pretty much every song that has had a direct connection to me (or what I've been hearing) in the past couple of weeks. Thanks to lo-fi (again) for the ultra-rare Sonny track. Title from the OTC song.
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Feedback:

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Siobhan
Date: 10/2/2004
Yes yes yes to the Clash, Fiery Furnaces, Tom Waits, Libs and Banhart picks! I really like this overall and there's nothing wrong with a good "for the hell of it" mix from time to time!
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p the swede
Date: 10/2/2004
nice stuff
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A.D. 69
Date: 10/2/2004
Looks pretty sweet.
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heatherspace
Date: 10/2/2004
I find "for-the-hell-of-it" mixes end up being the most satisfying in the long run. Big smiles on "The Card Cheat", as my husband and I were discussing its brilliance while listening to the new London Calling deluxe edition. I'm especially enamored of the Stranglers-Queen-Patti Smith triple threat.
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 10/2/2004
Excellent Rob. Love the opening stretch through Patti and the Bessie, Elvis, Sonny triple play.
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bufo alvarius
Date: 10/2/2004
Agreed with Curtis and heatherspace about that opening stretch. Fantastic mix, good sir.
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McDonald12
Date: 10/3/2004
a lesson in eclecticism, Rob. Love just about all of this, especially t-rex, stranglers and ac/dc
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James Jackson
Date: 10/3/2004
What Curtis said. Excellent.
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Slack-a-gogo
Date: 10/3/2004
Fine stuff. Great AC/DC pick and a killer from the Stranglers. And the Funhouse box is a mix makers dream if you are like me and try to not repeat songs from mix to mix. "Oh sure, I've used 1970 before, but theat was take SIX! This is cut EIGHT." It's strange how different many of those versions are. It really shows how they apparently just started out with the riffs and let the songs groove into whatever they ended up as on record. -Dale
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hemizen
Date: 10/3/2004
This is terrific and I can't begin to explain what the Waits tune does to me.
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FLWB
Date: 10/3/2004
Queen & Patti Smith / Tom Waits & Bessie Smith. Some disparate yet coherent couplings. Excellent!
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Dom1
Date: 10/3/2004
Nice'n'eclectic here, Rob..good stuff..esp nice to see Stranglers and Bessie Smith on same mix!
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Salman1
Date: 10/3/2004
Cool mix. Any mix wih the OTC in it is great in my book.
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sam? sam!
Date: 10/4/2004
'houses in motion' needs to be on more mixtapes. this looks pretty fantastic.
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Bear
Date: 10/4/2004
Loads of good stuff. Real nice.
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Hollis
Date: 10/6/2004
scrolling through some mixes here (searched for tom waits), and quite in awe of this. the fiery furnaces are great, as are the clash, the libs, anything remotely blur-ish, and marvelling at the magnificence of houses in motion. someone should give that david byrne a medal.
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Jana
Date: 10/13/2004
This is pretty amazing.