Rob Conroy

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Member Since: 1/22/2001
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The sound of loneliness turned up to 10

Artist Song
Donovan  Sunny South Kensington 
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band  Sure 'Nuff 'N Yes I Do 
Television  Venus 
Prince  I Wanna Be Your Lover 
Siren  Some Dark Day 
DJ Shadow  Building Steam with a Grain of Salt 
The Godz  Lay in the Sun 
Super Furry Animals  If You Don't Want Me to Destroy You 
Dungen  Skiter du i 
Yoko Ono with the Plastic Ono Band  Mindtrain 
Paul McCartney  That Would Be Something 
Robert Wyatt  Sea Song 
The Magnetic Fields  How Fucking Romantic 
Tom Waits  Don't Go Into That Barn 
Pulp  The Fear 
Wire  Three Girl Rhumba 
Pere Ubu  Heaven 
Husker Du  Pink Turns to Blue 
Funkadelic  Can You Get to That 
Dusty Springfield  I Think It's Going to Rain Today 

Comment:

For the hell of it. Thanks to lo-fi for reminding me how much I love that Godz song (it was on his latest--very fine--mix creation) and to p the swede for the Siren track. Title from Jarvis Cocker. Oh, and I have to admit that I decided that Yoko's 17-minute song worked better as an 11-and-a-half minute song, so I edited accordingly (incorporating a long, slow 45-second fade for effect). :-) [Note: I seriously revised the ending of this on 3/14/05. I really appreciate all of the positive comments that folks had about that section but, quite frankly, that series of songs wasn't working for me at all after repeated listens. So this mix no longer includes Jimmy Cliff, the Flaming Lips or Gil Scott-Heron. But trust me, it works much better now.]

Feedback:

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LIBRE007
Date: 2/25/2005
love the Husker DU track. The rest is nice too.
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GodOfTheMixxx
Date: 2/25/2005
Donovan and McCartney were friends in real life.
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Mo Twang!
Date: 2/26/2005
Looks great, Rob.
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p the swede
Date: 2/26/2005
"Skiter du i" ha ha

well maybe Lennart translate that. nice stuffDid you get my messages
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French Connection
Date: 2/26/2005
The sound of something good too!
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laura.witkowski
Date: 2/26/2005
Looks very nice. :)
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sport !
Date: 2/26/2005
THIS one goes up to eleven!
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lo-fi jr.
Date: 2/26/2005
Very Cool looking mix, Rob. Yoko & Sir Paul side-by-side? Now that would be something!
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The Misfit
Date: 2/26/2005
Very nice.
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FLWB
Date: 2/26/2005
Looks good especially 15--out
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Rob_z2.
Date: 2/27/2005
Fantastic!
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McDonald12
Date: 2/27/2005
Nice one. Especiually like the opening threee and closing three tracks.
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mckbrd
Date: 2/27/2005
looks interesting Rob!!!!!!
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zeke
Date: 2/27/2005
mmm... and there's that Dungen track. I like it... and I'll have to check out The Godz.
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bufo alvarius
Date: 2/28/2005
Sorry I missed this one. Looks fantastic, Rob. Love the Beefheart, Prince, Godz, Dungen and Wire->Jimmy Cliff stretch at the end there a LOT.
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Salman1
Date: 2/28/2005
A lot of great stuff here. Digging 1, 3, 9 and 12 - 18.
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SMoss
Date: 2/28/2005
Hey Rob - I'll bet you have all the material to make a lovely pastoral Donovan single or double mix that focuses (for the most part) on the songs that are not hits. I only have his greatest hits, but would love some English countryside Donovan. Make Donovan take me on a picnic to the English Lake District. We could all use it given the recent snow, eh?Maybe you would want the Almost Famous? Very nice counterpoints there between the Green era and the blissful Kirwin/C.McVie/Welshlatter tracks.btw, never seen the lovely McCartney song used in a mix. That'll take me to the Lake District as well!
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plushpig
Date: 3/1/2005
Wyatt, Super Furries, Godz, Husker Du how could this not be wonderful?
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ahfunkuverymuch
Date: 3/3/2005
Paul after YOKO??!! Get out of town! Seriously. BTW, is that the original album version of 'i wanna be your lover'?--much funkier than the single edit
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Curtis_Burns
Date: 3/6/2005
Incredibly cool Rob. Television -> Prince is blasphemy . . . and I love it. The DJ Shadow through Magnetic Fields is a thing of beauty too with or without the extra 5 1/2 minutes of Yoko.
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12vman
Date: 3/11/2005
excellent
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Orchid
Date: 3/16/2005
Looks great! You're on quite a Yoko kick, n'est-ce pas?