"home at last" way underrated
― deej, Monday, 14 July 2008 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
LOVE "Home At Last"
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 July 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
Anyone besides me old enough to remember this commercial?
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Friday, 12 December 2008 08:56 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
splendid find.
― get that pion down you son (Frogman Henry), Friday, 12 December 2008 13:49 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fifteen years ago) link
lol
― 20 HOOS poppin steens on kawasakis (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 23 March 2009 08:02 (fifteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
Life works that way.
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 4 February 2010 14:33 (fourteen years ago) link
the 33 1/3 on this album is amazing so far
― some dude, Thursday, 4 February 2010 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
poor show for Josie.
― piscesx, Monday, 5 April 2010 04:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Woulda voted "Black Cow."
― queen frostine (Eric H.), Monday, 5 April 2010 04:43 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
DRINK YOUR BIG BLACK COW AND GET OUTTA HERE
― gucci mane leflaur leflah eshkoshka (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 April 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
SO OUTRAGEOUS
― gucci mane leflaur leflah eshkoshka (The Reverend), Saturday, 17 April 2010 05:08 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
yep. voted deacon blues but josie comes in a close second in my mind.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:14 (fourteen years ago) link
"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 (fourteen years ago) link
daaaamn.
I love the riff that kicks it off. for about 10 seconds, shit sounds pretty freakin evil.
― original bgm, Tuesday, 20 April 2010 14:49 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (fourteen years ago) link
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 (twelve years ago) link
"josie" was robbed
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 21 May 2011 23:32 (twelve years ago) link
shit just got real.
next please search out The Royal Scam or Katy Lied
― reallysmoothmusic (Jamie_ATP), Saturday, 21 May 2011 23:56 (twelve years ago) link
Yay, found the commercial again!
http://www.fuzzymemories.tv/index.php?c=2901#videoclip-1675
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 6 September 2011 04:35 (twelve years ago) link
i remember that
― buzza, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 04:40 (twelve years ago) link
there's an hour-long Aja documentary on netflix streaming now. It's making me v v happy.
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
OMG the bit where they play back the rejected 'Peg' guitar solos in isolation-- so cold, so hilar
― aluminum rivets must not be proud of their plastic bosses (Jon Lewis), Saturday, 21 April 2012 23:07 (twelve years ago) link
yeahhhh, just watched this! recommended, though i feel like it could be an hour longer. i'd dig just an uncut "commentary" cut of fagen and becker going through the album. bernard purdie scenes are super classic, where he's playing the ridiculous beat for home at last as though it's the easiest thing in the world.
there are a ton of these classic album things on netflix streaming now. my wife is already rolling her eyes at me as i describe such fascinating tidbits as herbie flower's double tracked bass on "walk on the wild side."
― tylerw, Sunday, 6 May 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah! Purdie was such a highlight.
I'm gonna watch almost all these shits, probably. So far just Aja and Paranoid. Probably 2112 next.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
The 2112/Moving Pictures one is really good. I recommend renting the actual DVD as it has some really good deleted scenes too.
― Moodles, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
I watched the Rio one last night.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
Oh man I have to see that! My wife might even agree to that one.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link