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RapturesoftheDeep posted:They are pretty much the quintessential cynical middle-aged man band. My best friend liked them in high school (because he was an insecure, frustrated nerd and they are also a quintessential band for guys like that) and my punk rock rear end disparaged them and said they were for perverted guys in their forties. One day when I was about 38, "Showbiz Kids" came on the radio and I was hooked. I don't know what it is, maybe all the diminished 9th chords mirror my diminished erectile function. Yeah like I’m months from 30 and the past year has been “ok gently caress they’re really loving good” Me in my goth rear end garb loving losing it to Gaucho. It’s good!
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gaucho is a great song, and album. the 3 album run of aja, gaucho and nightfly is really stellar stuff altogether
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I saw Steely Dan at Rock on the Range a few years ago. Their bassist kept applying makeup during the set, though and I'm not even sure he was actually playing. I was a fan of the genre in the 80s, but aside from the nostalgia factor and all the tits in the crowd during their set, it just wasn't for me.
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mycophobia posted:gaucho is a great song, and album. the 3 album run of aja, gaucho and nightfly is really stellar stuff altogether gaucho is a deeply funny song. dan is also how i learned to finally appreciate michael mcdonald fully
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RapturesoftheDeep posted:They are pretty much the quintessential cynical middle-aged man band. My best friend liked them in high school (because he was an insecure, frustrated nerd and they are also a quintessential band for guys like that) and my punk rock rear end disparaged them and said they were for perverted guys in their forties. One day when I was about 38, "Showbiz Kids" came on the radio and I was hooked. I don't know what it is, maybe all the diminished 9th chords mirror my diminished erectile function. Showbiz Kids is great because you can be jamming out to yacht rock and then you cry "Show business kids making movies of themselves, you know they don't give a gently caress about anybody else, you know you go to" and go back to jamming
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bell jar posted:Showbiz Kids is great because you can be jamming out to yacht rock and then you cry "Show business kids making movies of themselves, you know they don't give a gently caress about anybody else, you know you go to" and go back to jamming i've heard this uncensored on FM radio more than once when i was driving around in the middle of the night
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Listening to Deacon Blues in my ES 350 is peak middle age man.
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teen witch posted:What’s your album? Have you made the pilgrimage to Annandale? I used to go to this great Korean restaurant in Annandale, but I haven't eaten there in years. Maybe I'll have to go back, jack, and do it again?
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Rhadamanthus posted:reading Naked Lunch Watching Naked Lunch. 
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Eating lunch naked
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listening to Traffic, which is like steely dan but interesting
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Klyith posted:listening to Traffic, which is like steely dan but interesting ah yes, the low spark of some high heeled bullshit right here
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Klyith posted:listening to Traffic, which is like steely dan but interesting look at this Medicated Goon
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Also I cannot emphasize the need for y’all to watch Oh Hello! On Broadway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPvVjVbyljo
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Jan 27, 2021 15:44
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I named my cat Peg in part after their song op
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World War Mammories posted:I named my cat Peg in part after their song op as a child before i knew what steely dan was i remember hearing Peg on the radio and thinking "wow thats a crazy intro how on earth did they get that sound" and later i learned the answer is by spending dozens of hours in the studio obsessively re-recording and re-mixing just to get a 30 second part like that exactly how they wanted it. i read that they recorded literally hours of mark knopfler playing for gaucho and ended up using less than 10 seconds on the album lol
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I am not done hating on this post First, he admits in the video he would have done the same thing if some moron put out a song sampling his song without bothering to get the rights cleared up first (which, hey, kudos to Gunz on his honesty). Secondly, even though I totally agree the way sampling rights works is incredibly stupid and stymying to the advancement of musical forms, what happened happened, and the very fact that they literally never had another hit song further illustrates just how much credit Steely Dan deserves for making that song a hit in the first place. He even acknowledges P. Diddy was about to put out a track using the same sample but they beat him to the punch; it was literally only a matter of time before someone came out with a hit song that sampled "Black Cow." I actually felt good learning that background, because I remember wondering at the time if racism was animating Steely Dan's actions, but knowing they had already agreed to a much more reasonable cut with P. Diddy for the same sample makes it more a case of greed seemingly. That said, Peter Gunz' son Cory is amazing so clearly this story has a happy ending. This is a hip-hop thread right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7tOAGY59uQ&t=184s
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That has got to be the most annoying use of a sample I’ve ever heard
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1redflag posted:That has got to be the most annoying use of a sample I’ve ever heard
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what the gently caress is up I got Donald Fagen’s - The Nightfly on vinyl when I visited my sister and it’s time to celebrate Steely Danuary
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turns out one of my parents had Gaucho so I yoinked that too. Owns bones, even if it isn’t the parts of Aja I really love
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Royal scam is probably my favorite that is one solid as gently caress album
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The Dan is my all time fav band. I'll make sure to swing by my FIL's huge vinyl room(there's a secret bookshelf that swings around to reveal... more vinyl. I'll rock some Dan when I'm there Sunday. Although last few times I checked there was no Aja so it must have gotten misfiled, because he def has the complete discography, he has the complete discography of everyone. For God's sake he has three different Tommy Tutone albums, he has everything!
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Mostly listen to countdown to ecstacy right now, your gold teeth is my current favorite song. Spotify tells me "time out of mind" was my most listened track last year and also that I was in the top .5% of Dan listeners last year. Also just heard the fagen track "morph the cat" for the first time recently and really like it.
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large hands posted:Mostly listen to countdown to ecstacy right now, your gold teeth is my current favorite song. Spotify tells me "time out of mind" was my most listened track last year and also that I was in the top .5% of Dan listeners last year. . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpQ1MLA_FG0
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eSports Chaebol posted:as a child before i knew what steely dan was i remember hearing Peg on the radio and thinking "wow thats a crazy intro how on earth did they get that sound" and later i learned the answer is by spending dozens of hours in the studio obsessively re-recording and re-mixing just to get a 30 second part like that exactly how they wanted it. i read that they recorded literally hours of mark knopfler playing for gaucho and ended up using less than 10 seconds on the album lol The 30 second guitar solo finally solidified after they had several known soloists try again and again. They finally settled on Jay Graydon once he had recorded solo after solo with them for six straight hours.
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Nooner posted:Royal scam is probably my favorite that is one solid as gently caress album drat straight. The intro to ‘Don’t Take Me Alive’ is loving epic, thanks Larry, and the overall angry, sullen, paranoid tone suits my goon personality.
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teen witch posted:Let’s do both. I want both. Rosa Klebuary
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Asking why they mixed the drums so low on so many of their "classic" albums when they claim to be recording, mixing and mastering gods and let George Duke and George Benson outshine them
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I live reasonably close to Muswellbrook. Should I go?
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eSports Chaebol posted:i read that they recorded literally hours of mark knopfler playing for gaucho and ended up using less than 10 seconds on the album lol I love that, top trolling.
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It has a different singer but Midnight Cruiser is probably my favorite Dan song still for whatever reason. felonious my old friend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD_DyoB4Cjs
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Holy crap what boring bands are listed in this thread (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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AARD VARKMAN posted:It has a different singer but Midnight Cruiser is probably my favorite Dan song still for whatever reason. felonious my old friend Gentlemen loser feels appropriate a lot of the time.
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Listening to Night By Night, one of their crunchiest tracks, up nice and loud
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We talking steely dan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdoCQn_Tjac Everyone probably already knows this about FM but there's an alternate version that was only played on AM stations since they wouldn't allow FM stations to be advertised on AM stations (warring factions of radio you see) so instead of rerecording the chorus they just cut off the Aja chorus (just the A, no Ja found here) and made it say AM instead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P39Dl8KJDlw
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my former boss right before he retired told me to check out aja after i told him i thought katy lied was an awesome album title/cover and i dug a few tracks off of it. i told him it sounded like progressive rock kind of and he recoiled a bit and did his best "well i've heard it referred to as jazz fusion" you can't hide your music snobbiness from me, old man!
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In 2000, when Reelin' In The Years would randomly play on my Winamp playlist, my dog would start hopping around because he knew that opening riff meant it was time to dance
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