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Steely Dan’s appeal eludes me but let’s please give Austin credit for making this a must read thread again.

― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, February 22, 2022 6:13 AM

thank you, but my next controp is that no discussion thread on any forum —especially not one that i've posted in— has ever been a "must read." all the same, you are too kind.

happy 22222 everybody!

dumb luck, my friend, won't suck me in this time

brb gotta start a new topic: "communicate only with steely dan lyrics"

definitely not a must read, either.

I am definitely sensing a lot of must when I read this thread

you and me both, friend.

bodhi saba, would you take me by the hand

that one may have been a stretch but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saba_(condiment)

bodacious newbies--such as your friend--will never be welcome here

for all steely dan ever broke through here i couldn't call them in any way unique, notably they just sound like a mix of other bands on an off day (thin lizzy playing a toto album track but without any real interest)

I bet you could approximate any band with a linear combination of all other bands. I bet glenn is doing it...right now.

That description could actually work if all you've heard is "Reeling in the Years".

thin lizzy playing a toto track....from the future

Axl Rose was never as impressive a singer as some people may want you to believe.

Cool, so he can sing five octaves... his tone for half of it still sounds like shit to me.

I liked Guns N Roses better when they were called Aerosmith.

Didja ever hear the Axl parody on the first Bloodhound Gang album? The track is called "Shitty Record Offer"… it’s pretty funny

LOL. When the Village Voice temporarily showed scans of the original newspaper pages for every Pazz & Jop poll, Glenn Kenny submitted this joke for the 1988 poll's comments section: "How many members of Guns N' Roses does it take to screw in a light bulb?" "F*** you! Suck my ****!"

imo axl has a good voice but also one that starts to grate very quickly

good thing he didn't make many albums

just like i'm sure that the sky is blue and water is wet, i'm very sure that axl rose is a muppet. please reference the miss piggy-esque yowls heard on "knockin on heaven's door." remember some years back when somebody posted the isolated vocals of a van halen song? i need the axl rose ones for that song in my life.

Most vocal coaches actually shit on Axl's technique. He's a baritone who came up with a screechy falsetto that fit the sleazy nature of their music. I love his vocals, but he's a good bad singer IMO

Lana Del Rey makes laughably bad music.

the isolated vocals of a van halen song

this is still one of my favorite things in the world and i listen to it at least once a year

axl rose is a muppet.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/a5446f2af0c3f9ea7d14f900d79619e3/c73c14591fc24780-c3/s640x960/2587fa1debb58f20b5adbfc2a1601c71f8533072.jpg

Alex, that opinion is more unpopular than controversial

There were many of us in the "Video Games" era.

Alex I suspect Joan Crawford Loves Chachi will be your best friend for that opinion

Practicing my kegels
Eating lots of bagels
Video games

absolutely loathe LDR

Rabies is the best Skinny Puppy album.

That is controversial for Skinny Puppy fans, uncontroversial for people who only know "Worlock"

Fans know Rabies wasn't a true SP album. The Process... now that would probably raise some eyebrows.

I'm not saying it's better than their other work by a huge margin...but it's appreciably better. The songs are hookier, the guitars work really well in context...it's a really good record. Once upon a time, Al Jourgensen had really good pop instincts, and he brought them to that project.

With Jourgensen on board, I'm surprised it wasn't called "Rabies Home Journal" or something

Ronald Rabies

Agreed, but the hookier songs and rock guitars are exactly why it isn't as beloved by fans. It's just not a real SP album. They should have just called the band Rabies and had it be a one-off side project like a lot of other great stuff Jourgensen was doing back then.

The songs are hookier

idk remission and bites would like a word

i do love rabies though

The problem with Rabies is that has three incredible songs on it and then there’s the rest of it

Although I’m looking at the track list now and struggling to remember what the third incredible song was

Stevie Wonder won many science fairs in the 70s but made no albums I have any patience for

― flamboyant goon tie included, Tuesday, February 12, 2019 11:26 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Brave take, but I couldn't disagree more. I guess my controversial Stevie opinion is that Innervisions is by far the weakest of his "big four" 70s albums.

and fullfillingness' first finale is by far the best.

I agree with both of the preceding posts.

I'd go Songs... > Talking Book > Fulfillingness' > Innervisions, but there are no wrong answers when we're talking peak Stevie

If Songs had been a single album, it would be the best by a wide margin.

In the spirit of this thread, let me also state for the record that the Red Hot Chili Pepper's version of "Higher Ground" is better than the one on "Innervisions".

There are like 5 Stevie Wonder songs I adore and consider some of the best music ever made. I can do without the rest of his catalog, don't care for a lot of the textures he uses and other production choices. Basically he's the 70s Prince wrt me.

Curtis>>> Stevie