I think most people round here consider Babylon the weakest song on the record?
― how's life, Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:41 (ten years ago) link
"Gaucho, apparently their last LP, demonstrates why they broke up: It's the kind of music that passes for jazz in Holiday Inn lounges, with the kind of lyrics that pass for poetry in freshman English classes." - Dave Marsh
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
has Marsh ever taken an English class
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:44 (ten years ago) link
For years I just assumed Marsh was right about Gaucho, given the beigeness of its singles.
But then when I heard the rest of the record I realized how utterly wrong he was; this music would only pass for jazz in Ramada lounges.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
I think most people round here consider Babylon the weakest song on the record?no shortage of weird opinions surfacing in this poll.― how's life, Saturday, April 5, 2014 12:41 PM
no shortage of weird opinions surfacing in this poll.
― how's life, Saturday, April 5, 2014 12:41 PM
i also dig voulezvoulezvoulezvous, but I gather some ppl aren't fond― yuoowemeone, Friday, April 4, 2014 7:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post PermalinkI don't like it in Lady Marmalade. Love it here.― how's life, Friday, April 4, 2014 7:13 AM
― yuoowemeone, Friday, April 4, 2014 7:04 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I don't like it in Lady Marmalade. Love it here.
― how's life, Friday, April 4, 2014 7:13 AM
I know! This guy doesn't like the chorus to Lady Marmalade, can you believe?
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:55 (ten years ago) link
touche
― how's life, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:00 (ten years ago) link
Babylon Sisters has got to be pretty high on this list. Such a stone cold classic, it seems to have plenty of boosters on here. It was in contention for my #1.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
& Marsh presumably loves Springsteen lyrics, which, me too sometimes, but there is nothing more earnestly scholastic than Springsteen's poetry; shit, intro to lit editors are always trying to squeeze the Boss into their texts in the name of Relevance and Youth...
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
Springsteen, whom I like, has at least six lines I can quote that are embarrassing whereas Becker-Fagen's are at worst abstruse.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
i love both, but comparing steely dan and springsteen is like comparing bourbon and lettuce.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Drive west on Sunsetto the seaStrap your hands cross my engines
....it's like oil and water, really
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:31 (ten years ago) link
lol
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
are we ready for some more songs?
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
xp Steely Dan and Springsteen both write song-as-movie narratives, though in completely different styles
I'm ready, if there's gas in the car
― Brad C., Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:57 (ten years ago) link
yes, there's gas in the caaaaaaaaaAAAaaar
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Bee OK's got the news
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26. BarrytownFrom: Pretzel LogicReleased: February 20, 1974556 Points, 27 Votes, 1 Number One
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
OK, this is so weird. I am def in some Bizzarro world of SD fandom
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
Nice. I posted that all of my remaining seven would place, then realized that "Barrytown" was the one I wasn't sure of.
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:10 (ten years ago) link
(I wasn't the #1, though.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:11 (ten years ago) link
you don't dig the more straight-ahead rock Dan, Iago?(didn't vote this myself but like it a lot)
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:13 (ten years ago) link
you don't dig the more straight-ahead rock Dan, Iago?(didn't vote this myself but like it a lot)― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince),
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince),
It's looking that way isn't it? I like the big hits that are straight rock, deep cuts less so. Anyway, I'm going to pipe down
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
here's one in which I hear Dylan's vocal influence
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
I think Christgau might have had "Barrytown" in mind when he wrote this: "And even when Donald Fagen's voice dominates as it comes out of the speakers it tends to sink into the mix in the mind's ear--recollected in tranquility, the vocals seem like the golden mean of pop ensemble singing, stripped of histrionics and displays of technique, almost...sincere, modest."
(Followed by a qualifying "Yeah, sure," but still.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
Forgot that this was one of my possible outliers. It was one of the last songs to make my cut.
― Sandy, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:16 (ten years ago) link
this is the one from PL I voted for. Pretty straightforward but still dense, e g my last listen was the first time I really noted the pedal steel.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
This one didn't click for me until I knew he was singing it to a Krishna. Perfect from then on.
― bentelec, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:22 (ten years ago) link
I thought it was a cult specific to Barrytown?
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:26 (ten years ago) link
Barrytown: A town in upstate New York, close to Annandale-on-Hudson and Bard College (Becker & Fagen's alma mater). Its biggest claim to fame would be as the headquarters of The Unification Church, a.k.a. "The Moonies", a religious cult who gained notoriety in the 70s from reports of its mass weddings & alleged brainwashing of members. As a fundraising measure, followers would often stand at street corners, carrying small bouquets of flowers for sale (hence the lyric).
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:27 (ten years ago) link
The lyrics are oblique, but when you get that context, everything snaps into focus.
― Brad C., Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:28 (ten years ago) link
in the beginning we recall that the word was hurled
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:29 (ten years ago) link
a song i regret not voting for incidentally
it just barely made the cut for me, I'm glad I left it on
― Brad C., Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:32 (ten years ago) link
krishna, moonie, whoever he is believed to be siging to -- i had absolutely no idea, and that completely, like 100 percent, reverses how i have always heard the song. i think.
― fact checking cuz, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
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25. Black FridayFrom: Katy LiedReleased: March 1975575 Points, 28 Votes
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
Nice.
Could we get a quick summary post of the first 25?
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
Top ten!
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 April 2014 18:59 (ten years ago) link
25)575 Black Friday 2826)556 Barrytown 1-2727)543 Only A Fool Would Say That 2228)540 Time Out Of Mind 2429)522 Night By Night 2430)513 Razor Boy 2231)492 Rose Darling 2432)478 Your Gold Teeth II (2-23)33)475 Haitian Divorce 2334)468 Your Gold Teeth 1-2335)433 Bodhisattva 1-2036)427 Glamour Profession 2137)418 Don’t Take Me Alive 1-2038)408 Home At Last 1-1939)402 Midnight Cruiser 1840)374 Any World (That I'm Welcome To) 1-15
41)308 Pearl Of The Quarter 1442)304 The Royal Scam 1643)302 Everyone’s Gone To The Movies 1744)268 Charlie Freak 1-1245)264 The Fez 1346)259 Green Earrings 1-1347)244 Here At the Western World 1348)227 Daddy Don’t Live In That New York City No More 1349)189 Sign In Stranger 1050)179 Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me) 9
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:03 (ten years ago) link
so already 9 tracks with #1 votes...will end up with, what? 25 different tracks? how many voters again?
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
Thanks!
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
77 ballots.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
I gave up trying to order my 20 tracks and just sent an unranked ballot, don't know if lots of people did this and that's why there are fewer number ones than expected?
― soref, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
only 2 unranked ballots received.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
Black Friday is their most classic rock FM radio sounding ime
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:15 (ten years ago) link
only track from KL i voted for
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24. The Caves Of AltamiraFrom: The Royal Scam Released: May, 1976627 Points, 25 Votes
― Bee OK, Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
pplains killing it with the graphics
― Brad C., Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
re: Black Friday, those rapid fire hammer-ons are crazy, and I tried to play them on guitar in high school with no success
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:21 (ten years ago) link
voted for this one, caves of altamira is incredible.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
some dude has been otm about the horn arrangement making caves great
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 5 April 2014 19:24 (ten years ago) link