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Jan 6, 2023 17:38
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we could all hang out and talk about how cool it would have been if Second Arrangement hadnt been left off Gaucho
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Jan 6, 2023 17:41
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the nightfly is pretty much the second arrangement
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guess ill post this here toomycophobia posted:after having listened to all of them several times over the years i am ready to present
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My only issue with Nightfly is it really lacks that Walter Becker dark sarcasm. I'll be listening to a song and it's about 50s nostalgia or some woman or whatever and I keep waiting for someone to get murdered or a sentient robot having an existential crisis or whatever but it never comes.
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Jan 6, 2023 17:54
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how about the additional lines from Caves of Altamira that were in the demo. adds quite a bit to the story
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Jan 6, 2023 17:58
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Herbie Hancock riffing on your gold teeth pt. 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzFzRZtvczM
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Jan 6, 2023 18:09
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What Fagen and Becker did to Peter Gunz and Lord Tariq wrt the Black Cow sample was some down low and gross industry perv poo poo, for two guys who staked a lot of their names on being Artist's Artists and industry outsiders
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mycophobia posted:guess ill post this here too Wow. Fly away, troll.
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Jan 6, 2023 18:44
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Wake me up when Fleetwood March rolls around
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mycophobia posted:guess ill post this here too I'd put Royal Scam and Countdown to Ecstasy higher but otherwise I could co-sign this list.
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Jan 6, 2023 19:39
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my problem with royal scam is that its like half really good and half utterly skippable. countdown on the whole is too long and noodly, they hadnt earned that kind of song length yet. which is why its good they went back to basics with pretzel logic and built up from there
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Jan 6, 2023 19:50
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mycophobia posted:my problem with royal scam is that its like half really good and half utterly skippable. countdown on the whole is too long and noodly, they hadnt earned that kind of song length yet. which is why its good they went back to basics with pretzel logic and built up from there I thought i was the only one who had that problem with royal scam! I'm not crazy!!
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Toxic Mental posted:Asking why they mixed the drums so low on so many of their "classic" albums when they claim to be recording, mixing and mastering gods and let George Duke and George Benson outshine them All 70's music sounds like it was recorded by a downstairs neighbor.
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Jan 6, 2023 20:04
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stainless steely dan
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Yeah man. Steely Dan is known for three things. 1) Their dark sarcastic lyrics. 2) Their studio perfectionism. 3) Their bitter feud with the Eagles. You were a roller skater You gonna show me later (Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening)
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Failed Imagineer posted:The "steely knives" line was, in fact, a reference to the Dan, right? yeah in response to Everything You Did
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kntfkr posted:Steely Dan is known for three things. I'm glad you didn't list "their music." lol
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Jan 6, 2023 20:32
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What's with his weird accent in Glamour Profession? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tub5csVUG2k&t=106s
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sigher posted:I'm glad you didn't list "their music." lol their music =SUM(dark sarcastic lyrics, studio perfectionism)
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Warm und Fuzzy posted:All 70's music sounds like it was recorded by a downstairs neighbor. I mean I'll take any track from Master of the Game over any SD track any day. You'd think if they had their way, they'd have put a hard filter for everything under 100hz and another one for anything over 3000hz and said "we want an album that is nothing. but. trebble." Gaucho being the exception on that front, but Aja is particularly bad. The Expanding Man sounds like it's recorded on an iPhone.
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This is my favorite Steely Dan cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZRyuiefjE
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Dick Fontaine posted:Wake me up when Fleetwood March rolls around Holy poo poo, Gypsy 83, baby me loooved that film.
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I just found this thread because of what I correctly assumed was a Steel Dan nod in the Lepers Colony. Has anyone talked about some of the great Christopher Cross songs that exist yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eHh7qI8OtI I’ve been on a mock recently. Also John Mayer tried to do a pastiche album recently in a Soft Rock style that has some of the worst lyrics I’ve ever heard.
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TheMightyBoops posted:I just found this thread because of what I correctly assumed was a Steel Dan nod in the Lepers Colony. I made a yacht rock thread a few years back and Ride Like Tbe Wind loving shreds rear end. Christopher Cross is also an oddly endearing follow on IG? He’s just havin a good time.
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teen witch posted:I made a yacht rock thread a few years back and Ride Like Tbe Wind loving shreds rear end. Christopher Cross is also an oddly endearing follow on IG? He’s just havin a good time. That whole record is good front to back; I do skip track 1 sometimes because track 2 rules. As for Steely Dan the interlocking piano/guitar groove on The Fez is one of my favorite musical moments ever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCdKBHdPz30
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Tarkus posted:What's with his weird accent in Glamour Profession? Which part - his insanely old New York pronunciation of "QUART-ah" , or the mustard he puts on the delivery of "Mr. Chauuuuss"? Cause the rest just sounds like old Donny. I love those kind of weird single-word deliveries, Tom Waits does it all the time and it rules (check out Burma Shave's " so drill me a hole... with a barber pole"). Also yeah, The Fez is extremely hard
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I always liked the cover of Royal Scam, so when I saw this in some weird record shop in the early Nineties, I had to have it.  Then I read an interview with Fagen where he said he hates the cover because it’s so ugly.
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I am a huge Steely Dan fan but I know better than to read up on what Fagan thinks about anything.
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TheMightyBoops posted:I just found this thread because of what I correctly assumed was a Steel Dan nod in the Lepers Colony. Brother how are you gonna post a video of that song in what sounds like VHS qualtiy? Here's one actually worth listening to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTWNPiRZooA
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Laterite posted:I am a huge Steely Dan fan but I know better than to read up on what Fagan thinks about anything. Fagen hates Steely Dan.
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Diddy actually did sample a Christopher Cross song.
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JnnyThndrs posted:I always liked the cover of Royal Scam, so when I saw this in some weird record shop in the early Nineties, I had to have it. If memory serves his line was that it was actually the second ugliest album cover of the whole decade, behind of course Can’t Buy a Thrill.
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royal scam is cool rear end cover. cant buy a thrill? yeah not the best lol
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JnnyThndrs posted:I always liked the cover of Royal Scam, so when I saw this in some weird record shop in the early Nineties, I had to have it. Van Morrison originally commissioned the art for his Mechanical Bliss LP that never came out (there's a few demos on youtube)
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