When did you get into Steely Dan?

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So, I listened to The Nightfly by Fagen the other day and it's a great fucking album. I had been hearing IGY (What a Beautiful World) and never knew it was him. I always thought it was some black smooth R&B early 80's artist. Completely floored. I remembered hearing New Frontier, too. Both great tracks on a fantastic album.

[LoathedVermin72]

Ha, I just listened to that yesterday! It's awesome. Both of their solo stuff is great in different ways; I love both of Becker's solo records. These guys are crazy talented.

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I've not gotten any solo Becker stuff yet. I did find almost all of their early demos on YouTube the other day. And that movie they did the soundtrack to before they were Steely Dan.

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Becker may be in pretty poor health. He missed both of those big classic bands shows from two weeks ago and last night due to illness.

[LoathedVermin72]

Becker may be in pretty poor health. He missed both of those big classic bands shows from two weeks ago and last night due to illness.

He better not fucking die before I get to see them, I swear to god

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Becker may be in pretty poor health. He missed both of those big classic bands shows from two weeks ago and last night due to illness.

He better not fucking die before I get to see them, I swear to god

My thoughts, too.

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https://www.google.com/amp/www.billboar ... -interview

[LoathedVermin72]

I love all their albums, but I think they really hit on something special with Aja and Gaucho. They are just sonic perfection. There's nothing else that sounds like them.

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I love all their albums, but I think they really hit on something special with Aja and Gaucho. They are just sonic perfection. There's nothing else that sounds like them.

Sonic perfection is what they were going for. It's why it took them so long to record them.

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http://somethingelsereviews.com/2014/07 ... nreleased/

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Spent the morning and early afternoon with Papa Wease laying down track on 4 Dan tunes. I put down all the leads except for the last one on Reelin in the Years as well as rythym guitar, so as soon as I can learn that last ride, it'll be done.

Started Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Peg and Pretzel Logic by putting down drum tracks. He's going to try and get a buddy of his to learn the bass parts on Rikki and Pretzel, but I gotta learn the rest. I'm hoping he'll work up some guitar parts, but he hasn't done any yet... He also wanting to do FM, but I don't know the drum part well enough to record it yet.

I still have to figure out some sort of jazzy stuff that Dias is doing on King of the World, but I don't know if I'll ever be able to pull off anything that sounds good. We finished Do It Again years ago. I only played drums and sang it.

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I don't listen to steely dan, but the title of this thread is awesome.

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Just listened to Night By Night from Pretzel Logic. Goddamn, what a song!

[LoathedVermin72]

I LOVE Night by Night. One of their (many) best songs.

Lately I've been bowled over by "Pixeleen". There is so much going on in that song - crazy dynamic. Reminds me a lot of why I love The Dillinger Escape Plan. My wife thinks I'm crazy when I say they sound similar to me but they really do.

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So, I'm learning the piano part on Pretzel Logic right now. As a preface, I took piano lessons for three months when I was 15. That was 30 years ago. I can barely use both hands at the same time. I just figured out what he does in the chorus. He's a fucking genius. I've not felt this good learning a part in a long time. And the beauty is that what he does is what I didn't realize made me love the song in the first place. Just fucking genius.

[LoathedVermin72]

I'M A RANKING FOOL

Do It Again
Reelin' in the Years
Only a Fool Would Say That
Turn That Heartbeat Over Again
Midnite Cruiser
Kings
Dirty Work
Change of the Guard
Fire in the Hole
Brooklyn

King of the World
Show Biz Kids
Your Gold Teeth
My Old School
The Boston Rag
Bodhisattva
Razor Boy
Pearl of the Quarter

Through with Buzz
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Night by Night
Parker's Band
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Barrytown
Monkey in Your Soul
With a Gun
Charlie Freak
Pretzel Logic
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo

Your Gold Teeth II
Bad Sneakers
Daddy Don't Live in That New York City No More
Black Friday
Everyone's Gone to the Movies
Doctor Wu
Rose Darling
Any World
Throw Back the Little Ones
Chain Lightning

Kid Charlemagne
The Royal Scam
Green Earrings
Don't Take Me Alive
Haitian Divorce
The Caves of Altamira
The Fez
Sign in Stranger
Everything You Did

Deacon Blues
Aja
Home at Last
Black Cow
Peg
Josie
I Got the News

Third World Man
Babylon Sisters
Glamour Profession
My Rival
Hey Nineteen
Time out of Mind
Gaucho

Two Against Nature
Jack of Speed
What a Shame About Me
Negative Girl
Cousin Dupree
Janie Runaway
Gaslighting Abbie
West of Hollywood
Almost Gothic

Pixeleen
Green Book
Everything Must Go
Slang of Ages
The Last Mall
Lunch with Gina
Things I Miss the Most
Godwhacker
Blues Beach

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Challenge accepted. I'll get mine up in a bit.

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Do It Again
Reelin' in the Years
Kings
Dirty Work
Brooklyn
Midnite Cruiser
Only A Fool Would Say That
Fire in the Hole
Change of the Guard
Turn That Heartbeat Over Again

King of the World
Show Biz Kids
Your Gold Teeth
Boston Rag
My Old School
Bodhisattva
Pearl of the Quarter
Razor Boy

Pretzel Logic
Rikki Don't Lose That Number
Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Night By Night
Charlie Freak
Parker's Band
Through With Buzz
With A Gun
Barrytown
Monkey in Your Soul
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo

Your Gold Teeth II
Bad Sneakers
Black Friday
Doctor Wu
Throw Back The Little Ones
Chain Lightning
Rose Darling
Everyone's Gone to the Movies
Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
Daddy Don't Live in that New York City No More

Kid Charlemagne
Green Earrings
The Caves of Altamira
Haitian Divorce
Everything You Did
The Fez
Sign In Stranger
The Royal Scam
Don't Take Me Alive

Peg
Deacon Blues
Josie
Black Cow
Home At Last
Aja
I Got the News

Hey Nineteen
Third World Man
Glamour Profession
Time Out of Mind
Babylon Sisters
My Rival
Gaucho

Two Against Nature
Jack of Speed
Cousin Dupree
Janie Runaway
Negative Girl
West of Hollywood
What a Shame About Me
Almost Gothic
Gaslighting Abbie

Godwhacker
Blues Beach
Green Book
Slang of Ages
Pixeleen
Things I Miss the Most
The Last Mall
Everything Must Go
Lunch with Gina

FM

[LoathedVermin72]

A lot of ours are pretty similar! Not that any of those songs are bad. God what a damn band.

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The cream does rise to the top