Gaucho Poll

anyone with a big heart want to rapidshare or torrent us the lost gaucho and katy lied demos? would be eternally grateful!

I got you on the gaucho outtakes, but it's going to have to wait for tomorrow

thanks dyao! that's really nice of you

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

With coke in your nose and a young girl on your dick.

this record makes me never want to go to work again.

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.

bodacious cowboys

glad to see the love. my favorite dan too. can't really play it in the winter though

gaucho outtakes:

http://www.mediafire.com/?yd12zyjrjmu

would love to hear katy lied demos, hint hint

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

yo i found the katy lied demos/outtakes just on blogs via google search

http://greenalienchick.blogspot.com/2009/08/steely-dan-katy-lied-outtakes-rough.html

thanks, hobbes

thanks! didn't realize there were so many gaucho outtakes out there. (I had one discs worth.)

CHILDREN WE HAVE IT RIGHT HERE

god, even the outtakes are gold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Qpo4hxJys

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

isn't Purdie nuts? was his'i played on 21 Beatles songs instead of Ringo' story ever mentioned on ILX?

Wow! "The Bear" is awesome.

if you guys haven't heard 'second arrangement' ya prob should

yeah Second Arrangement KILLS.

I heard it a few years ago, but I prefer "The Bear" for the clavinet and Fagen's vocal.

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.

man, the riff that kicks off "second arrangement" is SO GOOD. love it!!

I'll repeat: "The Bear" is terrific, especially how it builds to the chorus punch line.

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.

Alfred's repping for "Third World Man" in other threads has really raised its reputation in my view

― 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."

Would probably switch my vote to "Third World Man" nowadays.

I love this album but will always consider Aja its superior

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!

glamour profession got fucking robbed here

it's been six years i think we're due for another gaucho poll

If you're gonna do one make it weighted

I'll have to give that title track another chance. I'm not a fan of this album (a lot of it feels boring), but even though it's the least of their 1972-1980 run of releases, it's still okay. There's some fine stuff, and "Hey Nineteen" and "Time Out of Mind" are great singles. (The latter was even the highlight of both Steely Dan shows that I've seen over the years, thanks to the addition of an extended solo from Fagen.)

Title track is my favorite, too.

soon you’ll throw down your disguise
we’ll see behind those briiiiiight eyes

Gaucho outtakes poll would be more interesting

glamour profession got fucking robbed here

― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Monday, 5 May 2014 07:55 (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

for me, the right answer is clearly track 1 or track 2

I regret to inform you that not enough people are shaking it

Qualifier 64!

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4 John Lennon! https://t.co/iw7xbSyiS4

— World Cup Of 1980 (@peoples_pop) November 15, 2020

40 years old today

Man the instrumental outro of "Gaucho" is so amazing. It's like they heard the theme from Donohue and said "let's show that Mike Post hack how it's done" (yeah I know the timeline doesn't work out but I'd imagine the inspiration was something along those lines)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv4SkB72XdA

lmao they do have a similar melody

mike post rocks though

the "my rival" guitar sounds like it got repurposed in sheryl crow's "my favorite mistake"

xp yeah no disrespect to Mike Post. For some reason I imagined Becker and Fagen turning their noses up at him, but on second thought that's a flimsy assumption; I remember Fagen talking in an interview about how TV music was a major inspiration for him. I would bet that he appreciated Post's work in a kitschy way

Basically "let's take this kinda cheesy TV theme music and make it super harmonically complex"