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
I think you need to get north of west ho to be in dude ranch territory
― that Django got me Nuages (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 3 March 2013 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
i'm co-locating it with zuma just on feel.
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 09:40 (eleven years ago) link
ANYONE here ever have a Black Cow? even Don n Walt seemed unsure of the actual recipe but it seems its root beer and milk? sounds revolting tbf.
― piscesx, Sunday, 3 March 2013 10:28 (eleven years ago) link
otm
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
not sure if it's as bad as this rum and water i'm swallowing atm.
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 10:33 (eleven years ago) link
What?
― Mark G, Sunday, 3 March 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
that's the question i always ask after i read everything you post on here to bee really real.
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
but everyone else seems able to read egyptian english or w/e so i never complain.
― Gunoka Cuntles (Matt P), Sunday, 3 March 2013 11:02 (eleven years ago) link
I've never listened to the Dan before but this is great! I get what the fuss is about now.
― Ismael Klata, Sunday, 3 March 2013 14:11 (eleven years ago) link
A Black Cow, a.k.a. a Root Beer Float, is usually root beer and vanilla ice cream, though there are regional variations.
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 4 March 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
drink your big black cow and get out of here
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 March 2013 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
Black Cow can refer to either:A cow that is black.A Root Beer Float.An alcoholic drink (sometimes referred to as a Black Cow #2) featuring Kahlúa, half-and-half, and Coca-Cola.A 1977 song by Steely Dan on the Aja album, referring to the alcoholic drink.A candy, a Sugar Daddy bar covered in chocolate.
― fit and working again, Monday, 4 March 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
(c) is more likely
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 March 2013 03:39 (eleven years ago) link
Aja and a lot of steely dans work has a topanga canyon feel, even thought doesn't precisely reflect the music of that area I guess. I feel like the royal scam is the pt of frisson where the 60s dream burns away and melts into late 70s sleaze and Aja and gaucho is the takeover by the survivors who have cashed in but remain fucked up and hanging on to the more base elements of their youth minus the empty idealism. Or at least that's how those albums sometimes sound. Whatever the case they sound like nothing but LA. I feel like I prepared myself pretty well for this city by listening to steely Dan and ice cube, though admittedly the times had changed somewhat since those albums.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Monday, 4 March 2013 03:46 (eleven years ago) link
I would be tempted to go for I Got The News...not solely because I am contrary but also because it's brilliant.
Aja is my first foray into Steely Dan.
http://devonrecordclub.com/2014/06/17/steely-dan-aja-round-68-toms-selection/
What should I get next?
― yugi ex, Tuesday, 17 June 2014 11:08 (nine years ago) link