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
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, 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
I watched the Rio one last night.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:17 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link
cool, yeah i'll watch all of these. the lou reed transformer one wasn't particularly amazing, but some good bits. nice that reed really goes out of his way to credit mick ronson with a lot of the album's sound (as opposed to just bowie bowie bowie). ronson's comments on lou are pretty funny.
― tylerw, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
god this album is great, i was sitting here enjoying the hell out of "I Got The News" for a few minutes when it suddenly occurred to me that oh this is the consensus 'worst' song on the album and it's awesome.
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 18:03 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah, it's pretty astonishing
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
there isn't a day that's gone by recently that i don't get this stuck in my head
In the corner Of my eye I saw you in Rudy's You were very high (You were high)
― omar little, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
I get that, followed by West side, baby/West side, baby
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
i got the news is so great bc of the michael mcdonald bit.
― of family bonds and individual triumph. Narrated by Tim Allen, (zachlyon), Friday, 25 May 2012 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
the original Katy Lied version of "I Got The News" is pretty good too but i really don't know which i prefer
― some dude, Friday, 25 May 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
can never hear the 'you were high' verse without picturing Don doing his lyrical walk-thru on the classic album show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nv7Qicg2Og
also classic yeah the Purdie bits. "you done did it, you hired the hitmaker" etc
― piscesx, Friday, 25 May 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
christ now i'm watching the whole damn show again.
― piscesx, Friday, 25 May 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
so funny this thread got bumped as i just listened to this album today in my car.
their best but now wondering if i might actually like Gaucho more these days. that doesn't take away anything from this album however.
― Bee OK, Saturday, 26 May 2012 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
DRINK THCOTCH WHITHKEYALL NIGHT LONG
― this guy's a gangsta? his real name's mittens. (Hurting 2), Saturday, 26 May 2012 04:41 (eleven years ago) link
this album is los angeles for me.
'aja' is the most evocative track because i imagine a cross of the hollywood hills with ojai or something for the chorus and the sex finale. the last minute or so is legit transcendent.
'deacon blues' is viscerally embarrassing because i did a weird-lonely-guy karaoke of it at la cita (and 'life during wartime' by talking heads the same night).
i've still never had a black cow.
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:16 (eleven years ago) link
josie is maaaaybe my favorite track
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:20 (eleven years ago) link
(this might have something to do with c0ry skl4r.)
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:21 (eleven years ago) link
ok, specifically, i remember chaki posting something about that track and then i recognized.
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:23 (eleven years ago) link
Ojai is a pretty strange and isolated place. I don't know what you mean about Aja. But this album is amazing and I'm glad you sang deacon blues. Deacon blues is the only thing that makes me feel better about the NCAA football championship game
― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
I guess I mean that ojai is strange in a boring way
― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:25 (eleven years ago) link
But c'mon. Peg?
― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:28 (eleven years ago) link