awesome! can't wait!
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Thursday, 2 April 2015 14:38 (nine years ago) link
sweet
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Friday, 3 April 2015 01:45 (nine years ago) link
Don't ever change, Index of /files/mp3 directory search:
http://i.imgur.com/xTTor3f.png
― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
we're still havin' fun, and you're still reelin' in the years,won't you let me help you find the door?
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 23 April 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
man the most awesomely cynical thing the dan could have done would have been to open their coachella set with "takin it to the streets" or something.
― da croupier, Thursday, 23 April 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
like if the replacements began a festival gig with "hey jealousy"
That would be so awesome. Back in the free-for-all file sharing days I recall regularly coming across "Play That Funky Music White Boy" by, wait for it...... Funkadelic. Uh huh.
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 23 April 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
i almost feel like there's a thread where we listed some examples of artists covering songs many already assumed they sang - big examples are rod stewart's "ooh la la" and billy idol's "don't you forget about me"
― da croupier, Thursday, 23 April 2015 18:44 (nine years ago) link
Was wondering as I posted whether P-Funk ever did a version of "Play that funky music" -- my sense was that it was as unlikely as say Ishmael Reed writing an episode of Mork & Mindy, but maybe not quite as unlikely as that.
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 23 April 2015 18:47 (nine years ago) link
I recall regularly coming across "Play That Funky Music White Boy" by, wait for it...... Funkadelic
who says a funk band can't play funky white boy music?
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 23 April 2015 19:37 (nine years ago) link
Sly & The Family Stone "Don't Play It Funky, White Boy (Don't Play It White Boy, Funky)"
― Vic Perry, Thursday, 23 April 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
misattributed songs in Napster, AudioGalaxy, etc.
and lol @ SD kicking off with Takin' It to the Streets
― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
There were many more on that list, but nothing worth a revival:
Air Supply - All By Myself.MP3Blood Sweat & Tears - Does Anybody Really Know What Time It.mp3Bob Dylan - Stuck In The Middle With You.mp3Bob Segar - Your Momma Don't Dance & Your Daddy Don't R & R.mp3Donna Summer - I Will Survive.mp3Donna Summer - I'm So Excited.MP3
etc
― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 21:24 (nine years ago) link
Each time I post one of those though, I worry I'm falling into that trap of "Well yeah, but you see, the Beach Boys did cover California Dreamin' on one of their greatest hits collections…"
― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 21:25 (nine years ago) link
Paul McCartney - Hey Jude
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 23 April 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
Hall & Oats - Baby Come Back.mp3Hall & Oats - Every Time You Go Away.mp3
― pplains, Thursday, 23 April 2015 21:33 (nine years ago) link
Kinda weird - several album openers missing from Spotify:
"Bodhisattva", Countdown to Ecstasy."Black Friday", "Bad Sneakers", Katy Lied."Kid Charlemagne", The Royal Scam.
Everything else looks in place - "Babylon Sisters", "Black Cow", "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" - just not those four?
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 14:34 (eight years ago) link
are those songs available on a greatest hits comp? I've noticed on Spotify that sometimes singles are missing from albums but available on comps
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
Going to the show tomorrow! Elvis C opening, alas.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 11 August 2015 15:37 (eight years ago) link
are those songs available on a greatest hits comp?
Omitted there too -- and "FM".
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
I saw them 2 weeks ago in NJ. I hope you like band introductions.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 21:47 (eight years ago) link
did walter do the long monologue in the middle of hey nineteen
― gr8080, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
several album openers missing from Spotify
strange. all fully available in both apple music and rhapsody.
― fact checking cuz, Tuesday, 11 August 2015 23:55 (eight years ago) link
They've kinda sucked the last 2 times I've seen em
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 01:32 (eight years ago) link
how was it different from earlier shows
― some dude, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
I'm seeing a few missing songs too, and it's weird because it's not like it's *the hits* and it's not every album that has songs missing.
― five six and (man alive), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 03:38 (eight years ago) link
Weaker set lists. Less enthusiasm. Less stage banter.
― chaki (kurt schwitterz), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 03:40 (eight years ago) link
xpost are those tracks present in the Citizen Steely Dan box?
― Corn on the macabre (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:22 (eight years ago) link
Xpost: Walter did the Hey nineteen speech. There was a ton of banter and they introduced the 14 piece band multiple times. Musicians were excellent but somehow the whole did not equal the sum of its parts. With that said, Reelin I'm Th Years was fantastic. The extra long Aja was rough.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
Hey Nineteen speech will be delivered by an animatronic Becker at the end of Steely Dan: The Ride
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 16 August 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
but maybe he also says your name like E.T.
― oh, i am a lonlely poster. i live in a box of posts. (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 16 August 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
they were excellent last Wednesday night.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 16 August 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/KcFRDMV.jpg
― gr8080, Friday, 11 September 2015 19:59 (eight years ago) link
awes
― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, 11 September 2015 20:11 (eight years ago) link
wsj article on the making of deacon blues: http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-steely-dan-created-deacon-blues-1441727645
― brimstead, Friday, 11 September 2015 20:14 (eight years ago) link
hah, Oliver Nelson! I had "DB" come up on shuffle right next to "Stolen Moments" the other day....
― Swag Heathen (theStalePrince), Saturday, 12 September 2015 00:43 (eight years ago) link
That Wall St Journal article is so good. I could listen to Walter Becker all day. What I wouldn't give to have that kind of treatment of the whole corpus!
― Iago Galdston, Saturday, 12 September 2015 14:10 (eight years ago) link
Apropos of nothing, I just found this quote on the Wikipedia page for Bitches Brew and feel like it reinforces the side of Dan I like the least:
Donald Fagen, co-founder of Steely Dan, called the album "essentially just a big trash-out for Miles" in 2007: "To me it was just silly, and out of tune, and bad. I couldn't listen to it. It sounded like Davis was trying for a funk record, and just picked the wrong guys. They didn't understand how to play funk. They weren't steady enough."
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:28 (eight years ago) link
he's wrong, but i guess i can appreciate the iconoclasm
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
i have to say that love steely dan, but for all their vaunted love of jazz, their music strikes me as antithetical to a major component of postwar jazz, in that every lick feels locked in place. it's very dense and accomplished pop music, but the jazz influence is present largely in instrumental color IMO.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 16 September 2015 22:57 (eight years ago) link
maybe fagen would agree tho
Good points. It's crazy how Fagen kind of sounds almost identical to the sanctimonious "insult to the intellect of the people"-type criticisms Miles received from 1969-73 from critics and biographers like Ian Carr and Jack Chambers – people with this rigidly romanticized, oh-so-precious view of what jazz was supposed to be.
I think this may be why I've never liked "Deacon Blues" at all.
― Naive Teen Idol, Wednesday, 16 September 2015 23:24 (eight years ago) link
It's not too surprising to me that Fagen is not the type of jazz fan who would appreciate fusion-period Miles. There were plenty of jazz fans who didn't, mostly of a more trad bent. In that quote Fagen kind of echoes Stanley Crouch, who called Bitches Brew "static beats and clutter".
― o. nate, Friday, 18 September 2015 02:21 (eight years ago) link
Cool jazz / hard bop era is the last jazz period Becker & Fagen like. Super cranky interview with them in Musician in 1980 where they go on about how Ornette Coleman is retrograde. And R&B peaks with Ray Charles, according to Fagen in Eminent Hipsters ..... where Fagen also admits his tastes did not develop in pretty much anything beyond his youthful obsessions.
Steely Dan a prime example of great artist with narrow - positively reactionary - tastes.
― Vic Perry, Friday, 18 September 2015 16:33 (eight years ago) link
what's jarring is how their avowed tastes are largely not reflected in their music
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 September 2015 16:35 (eight years ago) link
I mean apart from East St. Louis Toodle-oo and more subliminal stuff like chord voicings and having tight horn arrangements, their music bears zero resemblance to hard bop or ray charles or whatever
― Οὖτις, Friday, 18 September 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
I think of their version of East St. L T. as a "nice gesture" - Duke was dying that year. Musically it's a travesty, a Disneyfication. Both the 20s and 30s versions by Duke are weird, spooky records that still sound alive. I've said this before, but the enshrinement of Duke Ellington as Cultural Institution means a lot of people miss a lot of wild sonic kicks thinking they are visiting a monument or something.
I think what worked for Steely Dan was that they did rock and pop with extra confidence, out of a sense they were in on something harder that they were not worthy of, but could compensate with pop music that was comparatively complicated.
This attitude has also produced some of the most awful crap from nearly anybody else who has it ---- all those classically trained idiots who think pop music is easy until they embarrass themselves. (name your own examples).
― Vic Perry, Friday, 18 September 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
pplains is going to be my co-poll runner for Talking Heads. Bumping this tread to look again at what he did for us before. I also think he did Sonic Youth?
― To Live and Die In L.A. (Bee OK), Thursday, 23 March 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Aw, too much of a bourgeois ILXor for SY.
Along with this one, I've done Gotta Make Polls for the Polls I Make - ILM HUSKER DU POLL RESULTS and Deez POLLABLE Heroes - THE ILM //METALLICA\ POLL RESULTS
This one, by far - and so far, has been my favorite. Gotta say, there is something to running these polls by EITHER crunching the numbers OR doing the art. Looking forward to another side gig!
― pplains, Thursday, 23 March 2017 21:38 (seven years ago) link
it was Husker Du that i was looking for, thought it was SY. i should have also remembered Metallica as that was more recent.
i agree, Steely Dan might actually be ILM's best poll.
again, thanks.
― To Live and Die In L.A. (Bee OK), Friday, 24 March 2017 04:19 (seven years ago) link