*raises hand*
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 9 February 2017 09:48 (seven years ago) link
*raises it higher*
I think that Steely Dan is like cilantro -- there are people that just aren't into it, no matter how much someone that loves it can try and convince someone that it's awesome, it just tastes like soap or whatever people who don't like cilantro think it tastes like -- whatever that taste is, that is how I feel about Steely Dan. And as a lover of cilantro, I can accept that people have different tastes: people that love Steely Dan can just shake their heads and believe I am missing out, just like I do about people who dislike cilantro, one of the most delicious herbs known to humanity.
― sarahell, Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:18 (seven years ago) link
I don't really like Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Steely Dan OR Eric Clapton, AMA.
ABBA were critically rehabilitated more than 20 years ago, you would have to be the most unreconstructed classical rockist mojo reader to not consider them canon now (for better or for worse - I like them, not as much as some though)
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:40 (seven years ago) link
Not sure what Eric Clapton is doing in there, no-one likes him.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:45 (seven years ago) link
for Steely Dan insert any artist in any sphere of art and this is true, which is why certain kinds of opinion - those that seek to prove cilantro tastes great/horrible by algebra, or those that just repeat over and over "I love/hate cilantro and there's nothing you can do to stop me", or those furrow-browed "why the hell does anybody like the taste of cilantro?" comments - are stupid and mockworthy and to be chased away if you feel like it on any given day
― Dick Hole Son (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:48 (seven years ago) link
xp Fair enough. Sure there is someone out there though.
Steely Dan seem to be all-time-favourite-artists of pretty much everyone at the AV Club
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:50 (seven years ago) link
Have Steely Dan got anything with this yacht rock thing? Something of which I have no knowledge whatsoever beyond the fact that there's a thread about it on ILM... I think.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:57 (seven years ago) link
I think all this bloody Steely Dan talk is a deterrent for younger music nerds far more than the fighting.
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:58 (seven years ago) link
xxp - we haven't polled the best food products that contain cilantro
― sarahell, Thursday, 9 February 2017 10:59 (seven years ago) link
Steely Dan are Yacht Rock-adjacent iirc
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 February 2017 11:04 (seven years ago) link
As a young person I can confirm I made fun of a middle aged customer in front of his mates for liking Steely Dan within the last year.
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 February 2017 11:08 (seven years ago) link
(I am open to being converted tho)
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 February 2017 11:09 (seven years ago) link
you monster
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 9 February 2017 11:27 (seven years ago) link
Show no mercy to dickhole dads.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2017 11:46 (seven years ago) link
heyyy was there ever a yacht rock poll?
― niels, Thursday, 9 February 2017 12:10 (seven years ago) link
Is Cilantro any different to Coriander? Like in the way US Ginseng is completely different to Chinese Ginseng.
― calzino, Thursday, 9 February 2017 12:44 (seven years ago) link
― Camaraderie at Arms Length
i think even mojo like abba now. as for eric clapton he is at least hatable on "racist shitbag" grounds. kind of like there's a contingent who really love the music of kiss, and they'd probably be unimpeachably canon if gene simmons wasn't such a completely horrible human being.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 February 2017 12:53 (seven years ago) link
― devvvine, Thursday, February 9, 2017 4:09 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
read one of the long threads about gaucho then listen to gaucho imo
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:25 (seven years ago) link
Will give it a try, thanks.
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:31 (seven years ago) link
then apologise to that elderly man you attacked
― wins, Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:34 (seven years ago) link
lol
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:34 (seven years ago) link
"i think even mojo like abba now."
They did and ABBA cover issue about 15 years ago
― glumdalclitch, Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Or redouble your attack depending on what you think of Gaucho.(xp)
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:40 (seven years ago) link
Gaucho is the grower for the already-converted - start with Katy Lied imo.
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:42 (seven years ago) link
A greatest hits would be best. I wouldn't start with Gaucho.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:46 (seven years ago) link
yeah i thought about that even though i immediately loved gaucho
i've never been a newcomer to a band through an ilm poll but the steely dan poll is a really good summary of their stuff. good writing in the rollout too iirc
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:48 (seven years ago) link
Committed to Gaucho, Don't hate this so far. Babylon Sisters vibe reminds me of the drinks party in The Player.
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:52 (seven years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uwxTYjq2ChU/UVTTliSW_vI/AAAAAAAAGzo/PQjkK93fnBo/s1600/DicksParty_ThePlayer.jpg
― devvvine, Thursday, 9 February 2017 13:53 (seven years ago) link
I listened to some of Katy Lied. I just don't like it, sorry. Specifically I don't like those 70s classic rock vocals and guitar solos, they just leave me completely cold.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:07 (seven years ago) link
serious, i highly recommend the "buy up the discography, focus on it for a week" approach. when i picked up SD's stuff, i didn't go on my computer for a month. try it!
― gear (gear), Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:13 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
this post haunts my thoughts quite often
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
Cilantro has no business being anywhere near Cuban food.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:12 (seven years ago) link
reminds me that I need to check out the new-ish cuban restaurant
i'll resist bringing my own cilantro
― mh 😏, Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:20 (seven years ago) link
that's what i did. i think i picked up the entire SD catalog for a few bucks an album at a single record store
― marcos, Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:32 (seven years ago) link
i hate abba btw
steely dan rule.
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
Listen to peg on repeat as you eat a cilantro salad no dressing
― Sufjan Grafton, Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:41 (seven years ago) link
it will come back to you
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:44 (seven years ago) link
you'll see it all in 3d
― who is extremely unqualified to review this pop album (BradNelson), Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:45 (seven years ago) link
solitary posts that single-handedly define ILX
― sleeve, Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:15 (seven years ago) link
This is how I'd consume media if the average human lifespan was a million years
― Treeship, Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:20 (seven years ago) link
Cilantro Is Delicious On Tacos. Here's Why.
― though she denies it to the press, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:21 (seven years ago) link
Ha that's how I got into Steely Dan. The Goodwill had a bunch of cassettes so I bought Katy Lied to see if I liked it. I did and went back and bought the rest. All of the original run except Gaucho. I listened to nothing else for a few months.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link
this is some stepford wives shit
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:28 (seven years ago) link
it definitely happens to people who never thought they would end up sitting around listening to steely dan. The Steely Dan Epiphany. someone should write that book. it's probably an age thing most of the time. this is probably true for genre too. mellow major dudes listening to more jazz as they get older and more sedentary.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:29 (seven years ago) link
you fight it, imago, and in five years, bam, you are a goner. crying along to deacon blues. a pathetic mess.
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link
I turn 30 next week. aaaaaaaaaargh
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:33 (seven years ago) link
rip imago
― mh 😏, Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:35 (seven years ago) link
lj's run
― I Am In Atlanta And Thug Is Young (imago), Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:38 (seven years ago) link
your steely dan albums are in the mail
― mh 😏, Thursday, 9 February 2017 15:39 (seven years ago) link