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
― piscesx, Monday, April 5, 2010 5:28 AM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark
― 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
I played "I'm not the same without you" on the jukebox at the James Joyce today. The reception was lukewarm.
― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:30 (eleven years ago) link
i meant 'ojai' in the sense of an apart-y silverlake-y place: "up on the hill / people never stare / they just don't care" and "here at the dude ranch / above the sea." i've never been to ojai and it's obviously not like this.
where is the James Joyce?
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:38 (eleven years ago) link
I see it now. It is in Santa Barbara.
― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:46 (eleven years ago) link
deacon blues is a fucking masterpiece isn't it?
all of this is prompted by checking out most of the steely dan catalog from the city library and putting it on my computer. because yeah i'm pretty poor.
'i learn to work the sax o phone"
xp yeah!
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:47 (eleven years ago) link
although when they wrote the song i wonder where it actually was? some hill east of downtown? the hollywood hills? what hill
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
Dude ranch above the sea can work for ojai. But I feel faaaaaaaar away from the sea there. Deacon Blues is amazing. I learned to play the acoustic guitar chords as an act of devotion, but they are barley audible.
― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:50 (eleven years ago) link
Dude ranch above the sea could work for Santa Barbara, actually.
― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:51 (eleven years ago) link