wease wrote:Just listened to Countdown to Ecstasy on the way home. New favorite song: King of the World. Fucking A. I listened to it at least 10 times.
I mean, yeah, but every song on that album is gold. I suppose King of the World is in the top half though.
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Fri January 06, 2017 10:14 pm
by wease
Dev wrote:
wease wrote:Just listened to Countdown to Ecstasy on the way home. New favorite song: King of the World. Fucking A. I listened to it at least 10 times.
I mean, yeah, but every song on that album is gold. I suppose King of the World is in the top half though.
Just learned the bass line. This song is the tits, sure enough.
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Wed January 11, 2017 3:32 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I absolutely love this band. I'm on to Gaucho now.
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Wed January 11, 2017 4:02 pm
by LoathedVermin72
LoathedVermin72 wrote:I absolutely love this band. I'm on to Gaucho now.
This album has a special sound. The playing, the musicianship, the command of the instruments. Sounds just seem to float in and out of each other with a striking grace and control. I'm not sure I've ever heard anything quite like it.
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Wed January 11, 2017 4:05 pm
by LoathedVermin72
"Third World Man" just floors me.
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Wed January 11, 2017 4:10 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Wed January 11, 2017 4:14 pm
by LoathedVermin72
tragabigzanda wrote:If Aja and Pretzel Logic are the only two SD records I know, where should I head next? Do they have a good rabbit-hole album? Something like The White Album/Tusk/Vitalogy?
The Royal Scam
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Wed January 11, 2017 4:17 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Wed January 11, 2017 11:29 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Hot take: "Bodhisattva" is the most overrated SD song, and plays to almost none of their strengths.
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Wed January 11, 2017 11:43 pm
by wease
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Hot take: "Bodhisattva" is the most overrated SD song, and plays to almost none of their strengths.
I like the intro of it, but when it goes to the meat and potatoes of the song, I lose interest. Certainly not the best track on the album. (That would be King of the World, of course.)
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 12:58 am
by LoathedVermin72
wease wrote:
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Hot take: "Bodhisattva" is the most overrated SD song, and plays to almost none of their strengths.
I like the intro of it, but when it goes to the meat and potatoes of the song, I lose interest. Certainly not the best track on the album. (That would be King of the World, of course.)
Yeah, holy shit, what a song that is.
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 7:14 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 7:19 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 7:23 pm
by tragabigzanda
tragabigzanda wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:Top 10 maybe?
Hello Morning
Close Captioned
The Kill
Place/Position
Do You Like Me?
Latest Disgrace
Recap Modotti
Nightshop
Break
Life & Limb
I'd maybe bump Life & Limb for Epic Problem
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 7:25 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 7:37 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 7:40 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Those are two of my favorite songs on the album.
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 7:42 pm
by Dev
tragabigzanda wrote:The Fez and Green Stranger both sort of went by without much of anything happening. I might just be hitting my Steely Dan limit about halfway through this record.
These and Everything You Did are probably the least interesting moments on the record, imo. Everything You Did is the only one I don't really enjoy tho.
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 7:43 pm
by tragabigzanda
Re: When did you get into Steely Dan?
Posted: Thu January 12, 2017 7:59 pm
by Dev
no offence but you guys are all way too square to ever become full dan-heads.