Also, Steely Dan totally rocked the Beacon yesterday, great show.
― ablaeser, Monday, 23 June 2008 02:12 (4 years ago) Permalink
Surprised that "I Got the News" and "Josie" did so poorly. Those would be my 3rd and 4th picks.
― o. nate, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
Hey- I was at that Beacon show too. Good show - would have liked to hear a few more pre-Royal Scam tunes, but good stuff.
― o. nate, Monday, 23 June 2008 17:06 (4 years ago) Permalink
I saw the tuesday night show at the beacon... I wish becker didn't sing on gaucho or do that narrative bit on hey nineteen. both were a little embarrassing. maybe fagen felt he had to throw him a bone since they played one of his solo tracks?
anyway, great show otherwise! and they played more gaucho material than aja, if memory serves. so the dan like gaucho better too!
― Alan N, Monday, 23 June 2008 18:43 (4 years ago) Permalink
Beacon Duels
― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 23 June 2008 18:45 (4 years ago) Permalink
According to my faulty memory this is what they played off each album on Saturday:
Can't Buy: nada Countdown: Showbiz Kids Pretzel: Parker's Band Katy Lied: nada Royal Scam: Kid Charlemagne, Don't Take Me Alive, The Fez (instrumental bit only), Green Earrings, Royal Scam Aja: Peg, I Got the News, Josie Gaucho: Babylon Sisters, Hey Nineteen, Glamour Profession, Gaucho
And they also played "New Frontier" off of Fagen's Nightfly and "Two Against Nature".
― o. nate, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
how was "Glamor Profession"?
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:05 (4 years ago) Permalink
Sounded great. The band was in fine form.
― o. nate, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
Oh, I forgot they played one non-album track: "FM".
― o. nate, Monday, 23 June 2008 19:14 (4 years ago) Permalink
"home at last" way underrated
― deej, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:09 (4 years ago) Permalink
I'm somewhat surprised at the lack of love "I Got the News" got. Personally I'd take it over "Aja" or "Home at Last."
― ablaeser, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 00:04 (4 years ago) Permalink
LOVE "Home At Last"
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 00:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
I was just singing along to Deacon Blues on my way back from the supermarket. It would be my ideal karaoke song if it didn't have such a long sax solo.
I think I missed voting on this poll, probably would have chosen the title track for that sweet Steve Gadd beat during the fade-out.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 01:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
Alfred if we ever have a few hours to kill together I will explain to you why this is a better album than Gaucho and you will agree by the time I get done.
― J0hn D., Tuesday, 15 July 2008 01:15 (4 years ago) Permalink
Deal. As long as we meet in a bar much like the one where The Gaucho hangs out.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 01:19 (4 years ago) Permalink
Anyone besides me old enough to remember this commercial?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 12 December 2008 08:56 (4 years ago) Permalink
no but I am going to sample "welcome to the land... of Steely Dan" and edit it into the beginning of every single song of theirs
― With a little bit of gold and a Peja (bernard snowy), Friday, 12 December 2008 13:28 (4 years ago) Permalink
splendid find.
― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Friday, 12 December 2008 13:49 (4 years ago) Permalink
I looked for it a few months ago but didn't find it until last night. I know that by the time of Gaucho ABC Records no longer even existed. But those were the boom years, and I can recall several high-profile LPs getting television advertising.
(First time I'd heard of Steely Dan, incidentally, altho I was familiar with "Do It Again" and "Reelin'" and "Rikki".)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 12 December 2008 19:51 (4 years ago) Permalink
I just realized what that announcer's voice sounds exactly like: Asian Correspondent Tricia Takanawa from Family Guy!
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Monday, 15 December 2008 05:11 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol I am an ILMer now in every sense of the word XD
― goodbye pork pie scarf (The Reverend), Monday, 23 March 2009 07:55 (4 years ago) Permalink
lol
― 20 HOOS poppin steens on kawasakis (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 23 March 2009 08:02 (4 years ago) Permalink
ok whoa I think I get "Home At Last" now, and I don't mean the Odyssey references. Have you ever had a funeral for yourself while you're still alive? You thought that you were allowing yourself to be bound just to avoid a passing danger on your way home, but now that the danger is past, you recognize you'd rather be bound: you recognize that this is now your home. You aren't who you were when you set out; in a way you've been ruined. Drugs aren't the only thing that work this way.
― Euler, Thursday, 4 February 2010 14:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Life works that way.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 4 February 2010 14:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
the 33 1/3 on this album is amazing so far
― some dude, Thursday, 4 February 2010 15:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
OMG WANT.
Although what I want even more is an entire book about each album written by SD themselves along the lines of their reissue liner notes.
― Tim F, Thursday, 4 February 2010 15:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah ideally. the author of this book got to interview Fagen, though, so there's plenty of his voice in there too.
― some dude, Friday, 5 February 2010 02:09 (3 years ago) Permalink
I've read mixed reviews -- too "muso" (lots of discussion of diminished chords, etc)
― Inculcate a spirit of serfdom in children (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 February 2010 02:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
it was way too dry for me but i know very little about music theory so ymmv.
― jabba hands, Friday, 5 February 2010 02:57 (3 years ago) Permalink
weird, I think it's very engaging and well written and that the theory stuff, which pretty much all goes over my head, is doled out pretty sparingly.
― some dude, Friday, 5 February 2010 03:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
― Tim F, Thursday, February 4, 2010 10:49 AM (Yesterday)
i only have the "can't buy a thrill" reissue but the shit they wrote there was awesome
― rasta batman gigolo (k3vin k.), Friday, 5 February 2010 05:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
i just flicked through the Aja book again and it wasn't quite as technical as i'd remembered, although the line-by-line lyrical analysis and the part where he lists how many bars there are in each section of each song are brutal.
would love to read a book by either of the guys themselves. it's amazing how little has been published about the band really. the Aja book and the Reelin' In The Years biog (which is also very dry) and that's pretty much it i think?
― jabba hands, Friday, 5 February 2010 05:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
poor show for Josie.
― piscesx, Monday, 5 April 2010 04:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
Woulda voted "Black Cow."
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 5 April 2010 04:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
me too probably. so bummed i didn't have the $$ to see at least one of the shows last year.
― hobbes, Monday, 5 April 2010 05:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
i'm bummed that that '77 tv ad is no more
― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 5 April 2010 05:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
DRINK YOUR BIG BLACK COW AND GET OUTTA HERE
― gucci mane leflaur leflah eshkoshka (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 April 2010 05:05 (3 years ago) Permalink
BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCHES!
wheres option "it was alex in nyc"
― and what, Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:40 PM (1 year ago)
― mr. que surprise (k3vin k.), Saturday, 17 April 2010 05:06 (3 years ago) Permalink
SO OUTRAGEOUS
― gucci mane leflaur leflah eshkoshka (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 April 2010 05:08 (3 years ago) Permalink
wow, without even reading the recent revive posts, and scanning the results of this, wz about to come here and post that "Josie" got absolutely robbed. piscesx OTM
― Stormy Davis, Saturday, 17 April 2010 05:20 (3 years ago) Permalink
poor show for Josie.― piscesx, Monday, April 5, 2010 5:28 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
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― X-101, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 08:30 (3 years ago) Permalink
yep. voted deacon blues but josie comes in a close second in my mind.
― ¬_¬ (Alan N), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
"Josie" is the only SD hit that I kind of roll my eyes at and go yeah yeah whatever, I don't need to hear this again
― Spiney G. Porcupinegarden (some dude), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
daaaamn.
I love the riff that kicks it off. for about 10 seconds, shit sounds pretty freakin evil.
― ¬_¬ (Alan N), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:49 (3 years ago) Permalink
also when fagen says, "so good"
"Black Cow" is Steely Dan condensed
― Wishes he picked a cooler name. Fat. (will), Tuesday, 20 April 2010 15:43 (3 years ago) Permalink
it has taken many years, but i think i am ready to understand steely dan.
i purchased this album today, and it is good.
― call all destroyer, Saturday, 21 May 2011 23:01 (2 years ago) Permalink
"josie" was robbed
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 21 May 2011 23:32 (2 years ago) Permalink
shit just got real.
next please search out The Royal Scam or Katy Lied
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Saturday, 21 May 2011 23:56 (2 years ago) Permalink
drink your big black cow and get out of here
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 March 2013 03:34 (2 months ago) Permalink
Black Cow can refer to either:A cow that is black.A Root Beer Float.An alcoholic drink (sometimes referred to as a Black Cow #2) featuring Kahlúa, half-and-half, and Coca-Cola.A 1977 song by Steely Dan on the Aja album, referring to the alcoholic drink.A candy, a Sugar Daddy bar covered in chocolate.
― fit and working again, Monday, 4 March 2013 03:39 (2 months ago) Permalink
(c) is more likely
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 March 2013 03:39 (2 months ago) Permalink
Aja and a lot of steely dans work has a topanga canyon feel, even thought doesn't precisely reflect the music of that area I guess. I feel like the royal scam is the pt of frisson where the 60s dream burns away and melts into late 70s sleaze and Aja and gaucho is the takeover by the survivors who have cashed in but remain fucked up and hanging on to the more base elements of their youth minus the empty idealism. Or at least that's how those albums sometimes sound. Whatever the case they sound like nothing but LA. I feel like I prepared myself pretty well for this city by listening to steely Dan and ice cube, though admittedly the times had changed somewhat since those albums.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 4 March 2013 03:46 (2 months ago) Permalink