Rob Conroy

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  • Submit Date: 12/7/2005
  • Format: CD
  • Category: Theme

My favorite work(s) of art: The List, Pt. 1

Artist Song
The Rolling Stones  Paint It, Black 
The Byrds  I'll Feel a Whole Lot Better 
The Kinks  Do You Remember Walter 
The Smiths  This Charming Man 
The Rolling Stones  Under My Thumb 
The Beatles  Paperback Writer 
James Carr  The Dark End of the Street 
Leonard Cohen  Chelsea Hotel #2 
Husker Du  Books About UFOs 
Bob Dylan  I'll Keep It with Mine 
The Beatles  Strawberry Fields Forever 
The Beach Boys  God Only Knows 
The Only Ones  Another Girl, Another Planet 
The Clash  (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais 
The La's  There She Goes 
The Beatles  Penny Lane 
Chet Baker  My Funny Valentine 
The Mountain Goats  Going to Georgia 
Otis Redding  That's How Strong My Love Is 
Bob Dylan  Mama, You Been on My Mind 
Big Star  September Gurls 
Leonard Cohen  Famous Blue Raincoat 
Brian Wilson  Surf's Up [1967 solo performance] 
Rufus Wainwright  Hallelujah 
The Kinks  Strangers 

Comment:

A week or two ago, Charlie Rose (of this fine site, not of the TV show) asked me to put together a list of my Top 40 favorite songs of all-time (I've actually made it a Top 56 at this point). These are the first 25, albeit in mixable order rather than straight ranking order. FYI, "Paperback Writer" is #1. Title (appropriately enough) from the pen of Lorenz Hart. [Note: Due to excessive OCD on my part, I've revised both the list and the mix. This revision was posted on 11/10/07.]

Feedback:

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The Misfit
Date: 12/7/2005
Fantastic.
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sport !
Date: 12/7/2005
How could you top this??
OK, maybe a Small Faces Track. I really like the way the last 3 songs flow together.
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steelkillie
Date: 12/7/2005
Some absolutely GREAT songs here.
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hemizen
Date: 12/7/2005
All winners!
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Siobhan
Date: 12/7/2005
Nice work, Rob! Great picks. I've had arguments about the merits of Paperback Writer before - I love it, so I'm glad to see it there. So many great other tracks - The Only Ones, All Green, The Clash, The La's, etc. And I'm glad to see The Smiths represented. :)
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lo-fi jr.
Date: 12/9/2005
No arguments from me! Knew I shouldn't have looked at these before compiling my own. Mucho crossover here & on volume II. Excellent choice on the Plush tune.
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Dom1
Date: 12/10/2005
Can't argue with any of your choices here - all classic stuff!
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Erock Music
Date: 12/14/2005
Great mix!Disturbing how many of my fav songs from my fav bands are on this and its sister mix. Inspiring.
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gobi
Date: 12/19/2005
another girl, another planet - wow - what a great song.
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SMoss
Date: 12/24/2005
Hi Rob -Merry Christmas (if appropriate). This looks like a fine mix. so the Wainwright version of Hallelujah is better than Jeff Buckley's, eh? I love the latter, and have not heard the former. But I did enjoy Wainwright on stage when he opened for Roxy Music a couple of years back. Best to you, Steve
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Vinz Clortho Keymaster of Gozer
Date: 4/6/2006
Is this an offshoot of the lists we were making at the AotM group? Might have to make a disc myself...
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pf
Date: 7/18/2006
HOW DO YOU DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS?!?! Seriously, I'd love to pick your brain about methodologies, because any attempt I'd make at a thing like this would probably get hopelessly bogged down in current fixations and/or childhood favorites I couldn't stand to hear even one more time. I wouldn't even know where to begin....
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doowad
Date: 11/11/2007
Love that 10-12 run, but really the entire disk is superb.
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Pop Kulcher
Date: 11/13/2007
Quite great, obviously. This is the one mix I've never ventured to make; I've come close (i.e. my mix of my 40 favorite-ish songs from 40 years, the songs most influential to my musical life), but never a simple list of my favorite songs.
While my own would overlap a tiny bit, and certainly we'd have a fair (but not overwhelming) number of overlapping artists, it's interesting to see how different our picks might be.
I love most of what's here, particularly the Kinks, Clash, Husker, Beach Boys, Big Star, and Beatles picks. But, looking just at artists we have in common, I might be more likely to go with Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone," Beatles' "Rain" or "Day in the Life," Big Star's "Ballad of El Goodo," Clash's... geez, can't settle on one just now, Kinks' "Days" or "Village Green Preservation Society," Stones' "Tumbling Dice," and so on.
But obviously everything here is amazing.
Incidentally, I'd probably go with the one-per-artist approach just to avoid too much Beatles.