Not enough Steely Dan appreciation threads here at DU!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

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One of the best debut albums of the 70s, IMHO. Great artwork, too: Bananas, hookers, naked men, BJ lips, electric-colored sperm..... :evilgrin:

Currently listening to "Only a Fool Would Say That." Great stuff....This was as close as the 'Dan got to commercial classic rock. I wouldn't say it's their best album, but it's still really good.

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[LynneSin]

1. I love Steely Dan - I have all of their work on Vinyl

Did you hear about them blasting Owen Wilson for basically using their song as the premise for "You, Me and Dupree"

[WritingIsMyReligion]

3. Yeah, I was on the website last night reading that.

"What a shame about Owen."

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Magrittes Pipe]

2. There's a goddamned Steely Dan appreciation thread every goddamned day!

Usually started by you, I might add. x(

:P

[WritingIsMyReligion]

4. Who, me? Never! Never!

I would NEVER do that. Shame, shame!

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[Gormy Cuss]

5. I had a friend who thought the 'Peg' refrain lyrics were

PAIN, it will come back to you.


She was somewhat relieved when we told her the real words. :D

[WritingIsMyReligion]

6. OMG

:rofl::rofl::rofl:

I love Jay Graydon's solo on "Peg." SO cool! :thumbsup:

[jobycom]

7. I thought that, too. And I hated the darn song no matter which way

I heard the lyrics. Although it seemed to have at least a shred of dignity when it said Pain...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. So this doesn't do it for yah?

I've seen your picture
Your name in lights above it
This is your big debut
Just like a dream come true....

:P :P

[jobycom]

9. Written down like that they aren't completely horrible

just a bit banal and doggerel-ish. But put to their music and sung with those scraping, screechy things they call voices.... ARGGHHHHH!!!! Now I'm hearing it in my head! My boss is wondering why I've started screaming in pain. They are coming to take me away, oh no, they're coming to take me away!!!!

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. "Peg" wasn't their best composition, for sure.

"Deacon Blues," also from Aja, is a much better song.

:P :P

I take it you aren't a Fagen fan, then? I love his voice.... :evilgrin:

[jobycom]

14. I know he's good

I really just don't like his voice. He's not, like, Rick Astley or something. I respect his musical skill, I can see what he's doing on an intellectual level (as much as my semi-untrained musical ears can recognize it, I mean). I just don't like the sound that comes out.

Deacon Blues--growing up in Mississippi, I used to like the line about Alabama, but even that I thought sounded more like conversation than music.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

18. I like his voice on solo songs like "IGY."

Damned addictive chorus: What a wonderful world this will be....

:D

[jobycom]

21. I don't know

It's more than the voice. It's the clipt way he sings, the fake harmonies, the lake of a timbre to his voice. Even the vocal patterns. I think it's all in the vocals, too, because I actually find some of their music and rhythms clever enough. I don't like their lyrics, though, usually.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

22. That's just so funny.

:rofl:

(Not you or your opinions. Just the way you say it......)

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[Gormy Cuss]

15. those nice young men in the long white coats,

they're coming to take me away.


Speaking of earworms :hi:

[jobycom]

17. I know, I was halfway through writing that, and it came unbidden to

finish my line!

[Taverner]

11. Caaaaalifornia..........show and teelllllllllllllll

Loves me some Dan

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. "Hey Nineteen" is better.

:P :P :P

She don't know the queen of soul!

[Taverner]

13. The entire album "Gaucho" is pure bliss

only outdone by Aja...

[WritingIsMyReligion]

16. I only have CAN'T BUY A THRILL and AJA.

*hangs head in shame*

I've heard so many more of their songs, though, through friends, etc. I've done so much lyrics researching, etc. that it feels like I've heard the albums, even though I haven't. I really want to get PRETZEL LOGIC and KATY LIED, considering how much I love "Doctor Wu."

My b-day list this year is going to be all SD albums.... :evilgrin:

[Taverner]

19. Don't despair

Think of it this way - you still get to enjoy "Gaucho" and "Royal Scam" for the first time....

I remember the first time I heard "Gaucho" all the way through - it was the summer of 91. I was staying up in Corvallis during the summer, and it was hot.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

20. I LOVE LOVE LOVE "Hey Nineteen" and "Kid Charlemagne."

Hearing them in their album-contexts will be bliss.

:)

[Taverner]

23. "Gaucho" is a album dedicated to late-70's LA excess

All the songs are either about lots of drugs (Glamour Profession, Time out of Mind) or wild sex with young starlets (Babylon Sistes, Hey Nineteen) with the last tune being about the repurcussions (Third World Man)