has you browser ever crashed in the middle of drafting a long post? sometimes you boot right back up and re-do it from memory as quickly as you can, and sometimes you just throw up your hands and say "fuck it, it wasn't that important."
true, true. maybe this is more about me wishing they had properly re-recorded it than anything!
― original bgm, Monday, 28 July 2008 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
second arrangement, sans drums (and most everything else): http://www.sendspace.com/file/an8bsw
― original bgm, Friday, 1 August 2008 02:27 (fifteen years ago) link
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― calstars, Saturday, 21 February 2009 17:45 (fifteen years ago) link
the finest of all SD albums.
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Alfred's repping for "Third World Man" in other threads has really raised its reputation in my view
― dyao, Monday, 12 October 2009 04:45 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks, dyao.
is this the ultimate Sunday night album?
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 March 2010 01:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yes
― iatee, Monday, 29 March 2010 02:38 (fourteen years ago) link
ultimate sunday night band really
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Monday, 29 March 2010 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
I almost turned off the stereo during the title track -- too intense.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 March 2010 02:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i still don't get it -- this album barely has a pulse (and the first 6 albums very frequently rock pretty hard imo)
― ruh roh I'm having a scooby snack (some dude), Monday, 29 March 2010 02:58 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, don't look for hard rockin' on this one -- all the intensity is in the intricacies of the chord changes, the way in which the rhythm section interacts with the guitars and sax, and Fagen's voice. It's an album whose virtues are difficult to proselytize about.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 March 2010 03:09 (fourteen years ago) link
it's also hilarious - their funniest record?
i know what ppl mean when they say it sounds kinda lethargic tho. it's pretty impressively world-weary for 2 guys that were barely out of their 20s.
― jabba hands, Monday, 29 March 2010 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
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True, it doesn't exactly rock hard. All the edges have been air brushed clean and songs glide along on a cloud of coked up glory.
― Moodles, Monday, 29 March 2010 03:46 (fourteen years ago) link
And that's one reason why I love it so much.
god, I love this album so much.
― original bgm, Monday, 29 March 2010 04:09 (fourteen years ago) link
and def their funniest record for "gaucho" alone.
― original bgm, Monday, 29 March 2010 04:11 (fourteen years ago) link
also -
it's pretty impressively world-weary for 2 guys that were barely out of their 20s.
this kind of just blew my mind.
― original bgm, Monday, 29 March 2010 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
living hard will take its toll
― original bgm, Monday, 29 March 2010 04:19 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone with a big heart want to rapidshare or torrent us the lost gaucho and katy lied demos? would be eternally grateful!
― iago g., Monday, 29 March 2010 13:53 (fourteen years ago) link
I got you on the gaucho outtakes, but it's going to have to wait for tomorrow
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks dyao! that's really nice of you
― iago g., Monday, 29 March 2010 14:21 (fourteen years ago) link
np
I imagine this is the kind of album you listen to in a lawn chair on your rooftop overlooking the city, watching the dull sun set slowly into the horizon
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Monday, 29 March 2010 14:25 (fourteen years ago) link
With coke in your nose and a young girl on your dick.
― filling the medicare donut hole with the semen of liberal (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 29 March 2010 14:31 (fourteen years ago) link
this record makes me never want to go to work again.
― Wishes he picked a cooler name. Fat. (will), Monday, 29 March 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
My favorite Dan record. Has the feeling of a collection of short stories. Would've voted Time Out Of Mind or Glamour Profession, but there's really no going wrong on this platter and F U MY RIVAL IS CLASSIC.
― Bonnie Prince Stabby (Jon Lewis), Monday, 29 March 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
bodacious cowboys
― hobbes, Monday, 29 March 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
glad to see the love. my favorite dan too. can't really play it in the winter though
― sonderangerbot, Monday, 29 March 2010 22:53 (fourteen years ago) link
gaucho outtakes:
http://www.mediafire.com/?yd12zyjrjmu
would love to hear katy lied demos, hint hint
― ain't no thang but a chicken ㅋ (dyao), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 03:35 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks dyao. if i ever get the kay lied demos, i'll figure out how to post them...had them once, they are really great, particularly "mr. sam" an amazing unreleased song
― iago g., Wednesday, 31 March 2010 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
yo i found the katy lied demos/outtakes just on blogs via google search
― bodacious cowboy (hobbes), Wednesday, 31 March 2010 07:44 (fourteen years ago) link
http://greenalienchick.blogspot.com/2009/08/steely-dan-katy-lied-outtakes-rough.html
thanks, hobbes
― iago g., Wednesday, 31 March 2010 07:56 (fourteen years ago) link
thanks! didn't realize there were so many gaucho outtakes out there. (I had one discs worth.)
― original bgm, Wednesday, 31 March 2010 13:59 (fourteen years ago) link
CHILDREN WE HAVE IT RIGHT HERE
― brad whitford's guitar explorations (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Friday, 23 April 2010 04:47 (fourteen years ago) link
god, even the outtakes are gold.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Qpo4hxJys
― original bgm, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at that vid btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EI3bPC4O8U
You're all off your nut. It's Pretty Purdie on the drums. Take a listen to the purdie shuffle. You done it...you done hired the hitmaker.No one but!jupiterjazz 1 week ago
― original bgm, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't Purdie nuts? was his'i played on 21 Beatles songs instead of Ringo' story ever mentioned on ILX?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 03:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow! "The Bear" is awesome.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 04:05 (thirteen years ago) link
if you guys haven't heard 'second arrangement' ya prob should
― iatee, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 04:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah Second Arrangement KILLS.
― piscesx, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 21:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I heard it a few years ago, but I prefer "The Bear" for the clavinet and Fagen's vocal.
― Rich Lolwry (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 1 February 2011 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, "second arrangement" is killer, no doubt about it. and though I find the low fidelity on both of the takes I've heard charming, I can't help but wonder what the song would sound like given the pristine dan treatment. it really seems to beg for it - it just pops.
but "the bear" is a sparser, dirtier groove. I may prefer it as well, given the circumstances.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 1 February 2011 23:33 (thirteen years ago) link
man, the riff that kicks off "second arrangement" is SO GOOD. love it!!
― original bgm, Monday, 18 April 2011 01:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I'll repeat: "The Bear" is terrific, especially how it builds to the chorus punch line.
― My mom is all about capital gains tax butthurtedness (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 18 April 2011 01:45 (thirteen years ago) link
it's true. gaucho has slowly worked its way to the top of the dan releases for me. but if "second arrangement" and "the bear" were on it too? damn.
― original bgm, Monday, 18 April 2011 01:51 (thirteen years ago) link
― dyao, Monday, October 12, 2009
I never saw this post but am getting teary about it. Thanks!
I'm listening to "Time Out of Mind."
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 8 April 2012 03:22 (twelve years ago) link
Would probably switch my vote to "Third World Man" nowadays.
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 8 April 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
I love this album but will always consider Aja its superior
― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 8 April 2012 04:56 (twelve years ago) link
it really is mind-blowing that fagen and becker were 32 and 30 respectively when this album was released. the recording sessions began when they were 30 and 28!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Sunday, 12 May 2013 07:23 (eleven years ago) link
glamour profession got fucking robbed here
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 5 May 2014 06:55 (ten years ago) link