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Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Mon January 29, 2018 3:52 am
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32497 Location: Where everybody knows your name
washing machine wrote:
Local record store was having a going out of business sale today. Everything in the store for $1. All the bins were super disorganized and you really had to thumb through the inventory to find anything. I got really excited when I spotted the sleeve for Pretzel Logic, but when I picked it up the disc was missing.
Dammit
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Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Tue January 30, 2018 2:06 pm
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wease wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Local record store was having a going out of business sale today. Everything in the store for $1. All the bins were super disorganized and you really had to thumb through the inventory to find anything. I got really excited when I spotted the sleeve for Pretzel Logic, but when I picked it up the disc was missing.
Dammit
The disc was gone forever Over a long time ago, oh yeah
Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Tue January 30, 2018 7:39 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32497 Location: Where everybody knows your name
i got bugs wrote:
wease wrote:
washing machine wrote:
Local record store was having a going out of business sale today. Everything in the store for $1. All the bins were super disorganized and you really had to thumb through the inventory to find anything. I got really excited when I spotted the sleeve for Pretzel Logic, but when I picked it up the disc was missing.
Dammit
The disc was gone forever Over a long time ago, oh yeah
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Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu February 15, 2018 6:14 pm
The Master
Joined: Sun May 25, 2014 9:32 pm Posts: 31614 Location: Garbage Dump
1. Katy Lied 2. Aja 3. The Royal Scam 4. Gaucho 5. Countdown to Ecstasy 6. Everything Must Go 7. Pretzel Logic 8. Can’t Buy a Thrill 9. Two Against Nature
Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu February 15, 2018 8:15 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32497 Location: Where everybody knows your name
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
1. Katy Lied 2. Aja 3. The Royal Scam 4. Gaucho 5. Countdown to Ecstasy 6. Everything Must Go 7. Pretzel Logic 8. Can’t Buy a Thrill 9. Two Against Nature
Is this your own personal preference or how you see them as actually best to worst? For instance, I think Katy Lied is a better album but Countdown to Ectasy is my favorite.
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Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu February 15, 2018 9:31 pm
The Master
Joined: Sun May 25, 2014 9:32 pm Posts: 31614 Location: Garbage Dump
wease wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
1. Katy Lied 2. Aja 3. The Royal Scam 4. Gaucho 5. Countdown to Ecstasy 6. Everything Must Go 7. Pretzel Logic 8. Can’t Buy a Thrill 9. Two Against Nature
Is this your own personal preference or how you see them as actually best to worst? For instance, I think Katy Lied is a better album but Countdown to Ectasy is my favorite.
Preference and best are interchangeable to me. I don’t know how to judge a work of art’s quality based on anything other than my own experience and interests.
1. Katy Lied 2. Aja 3. The Royal Scam 4. Gaucho 5. Countdown to Ecstasy 6. Everything Must Go 7. Pretzel Logic 8. Can’t Buy a Thrill 9. Two Against Nature
Is this your own personal preference or how you see them as actually best to worst? For instance, I think Katy Lied is a better album but Countdown to Ectasy is my favorite.
Preference and best are interchangeable to me. I don’t know how to judge a work of art’s quality based on anything other than my own experience and interests.
Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu February 15, 2018 9:33 pm
The Master
Joined: Sun May 25, 2014 9:32 pm Posts: 31614 Location: Garbage Dump
durdencommatyler wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
wease wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
1. Katy Lied 2. Aja 3. The Royal Scam 4. Gaucho 5. Countdown to Ecstasy 6. Everything Must Go 7. Pretzel Logic 8. Can’t Buy a Thrill 9. Two Against Nature
Is this your own personal preference or how you see them as actually best to worst? For instance, I think Katy Lied is a better album but Countdown to Ectasy is my favorite.
Preference and best are interchangeable to me. I don’t know how to judge a work of art’s quality based on anything other than my own experience and interests.
1. Katy Lied 2. Aja 3. The Royal Scam 4. Gaucho 5. Countdown to Ecstasy 6. Everything Must Go 7. Pretzel Logic 8. Can’t Buy a Thrill 9. Two Against Nature
Is this your own personal preference or how you see them as actually best to worst? For instance, I think Katy Lied is a better album but Countdown to Ectasy is my favorite.
Preference and best are interchangeable to me. I don’t know how to judge a work of art’s quality based on anything other than my own experience and interests.
Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu February 15, 2018 10:14 pm
Major Dude
Joined: Sat January 05, 2013 1:57 pm Posts: 32497 Location: Where everybody knows your name
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
wease wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
1. Katy Lied 2. Aja 3. The Royal Scam 4. Gaucho 5. Countdown to Ecstasy 6. Everything Must Go 7. Pretzel Logic 8. Can’t Buy a Thrill 9. Two Against Nature
Is this your own personal preference or how you see them as actually best to worst? For instance, I think Katy Lied is a better album but Countdown to Ectasy is my favorite.
Preference and best are interchangeable to me. I don’t know how to judge a work of art’s quality based on anything other than my own experience and interests.
Well, in this case, I know Katy Lied flows better as a whole album and there is a song ( well, maybe two, but I like the second one) on CoE that keeps it from being as good as an album.
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Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Sat February 17, 2018 3:54 am
The Master
Joined: Sun May 25, 2014 9:32 pm Posts: 31614 Location: Garbage Dump
I've been trying to figure out why I have a little more trouble with Two Against Nature than other Dan albums. The songs are there. The sound is there. The virtuosity is there. A lot of it is stuck in my head regularly. But something about it keeps me at arm's length, and I think I've figured out why:
1. "Cousin Dupree" is my least favorite Steely Dan song. It's definitely trademark Dan material, specifically in the vein of "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" - a kind-of gross song about a creepy perv. But it's so much more direct and vivid in its lyrical depictions of the sleaze that I wind up feeling skeeved out listening to it. I appreciate it, specifically in how it relates to the album thematically, but it kinda repulses me.
2. The sequencing. God, THE SEQUENCING! This is what really does it, I think. At its best, this album is the smoothest thing Dan has ever released. It slithers through your ears with liquid grace; cooler and jazzier and slicker than ever. But the album doesn't prime you for that at all by opening with the (musically) upbeat, foot-tapping "Gaslighting Abbie" and "What a Shame About Me". Great songs, no doubt, but an underwhelming way to open an album with compositions as masterfully airy and inventive as "Negative Girl" and "Jack of Speed".
So, with that said, I've been trying out a retracking, and it's been making me see the album in a new light. To the point where I think this incarnation easily ranks among their best work.
1. Jack of Speed 2. Almost Gothic 3. Gaslighting Abbie 4. What a Shame About Me 5. Two Against Nature 6. Janie Runaway 7. Negative Girl 8. West of Hollywood
Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Sat February 17, 2018 3:57 am
Misplaced My Sponge
Joined: Tue January 01, 2013 11:46 pm Posts: 5585
LoathedVermin72 wrote:
I've been trying to figure out why I have a little more trouble with Two Against Nature than other Dan albums. The songs are there. The sound is there. The virtuosity is there. A lot of it is stuck in my head regularly. But something about it keeps me at arm's length, and I think I've figured out why:
1. "Cousin Dupree" is my least favorite Steely Dan song. It's definitely trademark Dan material, specifically in the vein of "Everyone's Gone to the Movies" - a kind-of gross song about a creepy perv. But it's so much more direct and vivid in its lyrical depictions of the sleaze that I wind up feeling skeeved out listening to it. I appreciate it, specifically in how it relates to the album thematically, but it kinda repulses me.
2. The sequencing. God, THE SEQUENCING! This is what really does it, I think. At its best, this album is the smoothest thing Dan has ever released. It slithers through your ears with liquid grace; cooler and jazzier and slicker than ever. But the album doesn't prime you for that at all by opening with the (musically) upbeat, foot-tapping "Gaslighting Abbie" and "What a Shame About Me". Great songs, no doubt, but an underwhelming way to open an album with compositions as masterfully airy and inventive as "Negative Girl" and "Jack of Speed".
So, with that said, I've been trying out a retracking, and it's been making me see the album in a new light. To the point where I think this incarnation easily ranks among their best work.
1. Jack of Speed 2. Almost Gothic 3. Gaslighting Abbie 4. What a Shame About Me 5. Two Against Nature 6. Janie Runaway 7. Negative Girl 8. West of Hollywood
interesting. I'm with you though. This is their only meaningless album in my mind.
Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Sun February 18, 2018 2:11 am
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i 'get' steely dan more than anyone else
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Post subject: Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Sun February 18, 2018 2:11 am
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Dev wrote:
I feel like I have got about as much as I could from this band for the time being.
more than you
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