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Steely Dan
Topic Started: Jun 5 2009, 03:28 PM (66 Views)
Mr.Mustard	Jun 5 2009, 03:28 PM Post #1
Posts: 769 Group: Members Member #645 Joined: March 20, 2009	I think i got the aja album for some long lost reason...No, wait! I got the nightfly by donald fagan, for some long loast reason and a few months later i was hitch-hking from Edinburgh to sheffield, where i'm originally from, when i got picekd up by a guy. He put on a tape and said it was by a group called Sttelly dan. It was the Aja album and when the first song, Black cow started I said. 'it sounds like donald Fagen.'..well i'm sure most if not all of you know what happened next. but the weird thing was that when i said to him 'what do you think of the Nightfly?" he said. 'i've never heard it." so i said 'you're fav band is Steely Dan and you've not heard the Nightfly'...this was in the early 90's. He'd been in S.D all those years and i remember him sayin'g 'my friends keep telling me to listn ot the nightfly'... I wonder if he's heard i tyet. so that's how i found out that D.Fagen was the main man for SD...after that car ride i got Aja...and Pretzel logic and the best of. They're the only Dan albums i've heard. altough i'm also familar withh the song King of the world on CTE 'cause i taped it from Stuart maconie's critical list and played it a lot...great song. i must get all the other albums
	onoooshheeeJedgue dubludegghe she does!


ThirdHarmony	Jun 5 2009, 04:49 PM Post #2
Posts: 359 Group: Members Member #328 Joined: January 14, 2007	SD is one of those bands that I alternate between being a huge admirer of and being really tired of. Sometimes it's just too surcigal for me, and other times it fits the mood or the moments to perfection. I'd recommend you get "Can't Buy a Thrill" and start digesting it. It's got some amazing stuff on it that never reaches "best of" compilations. "Countdown to Ecstasy" is worth it just for "Pearl of the Quarter" (and "King of the World").
	"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai Stevenson "Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith. I consider the capacity for it terrifying." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.


scottycatt	Jun 5 2009, 10:47 PM Post #3
Posts: 6,068 Group: Members Member #96 Joined: May 17, 2006	Back in the early '80s, Steely Dan was my group. I owned every single one of their LPs, including You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It (or You'll Lose That Beat) and I practically wore a hole through my vinyl collection. :blush: I later went through a period of time in which I didn't listen to them at all (change of BFs, different life circumstances) as they were by now reminders of people and memories I was hoping to forget. :P Fast forward to last year and a friend's buying me a ticket to see Donald Fagen and Walter Becker in concert. I instantly reconnected with my love of their music, even if Donald Fagen is a bit difficult to watch in concert. Not quite as painful as watching Joe Cocker perform, but still a bit of a wince producer. :blink: Btw, I still think Donald Fagen is a bit of a pompous, holier-than-thou ass but that a-hole sure did write and crank out some memorable music.
	Why?


Cleo	Jun 29 2009, 08:56 AM Post #4
Posts: 316 Group: Members Member #659 Joined: June 27, 2009	I like this song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbIIwH9VsjM Just a classic! We hear you're leaving, that's ok I thought our little wild time had just begun I guess you kind of scared yourself, you turn and run But if you have a change of heart Rikki, don't lose that number You don't wanna call nobody else Send it off in a letter to yourself Rikki, don't lose that number It's the only one you own You might use it if you feel better When you get home I have a friend in town, he's heard your name We can go out driving on Slow Hand Row We could stay inside and play games, I don't know And you could have a change of heart Rikki, don't lose that number You don't wanna call nobody else Send it off in a letter to yourself Rikki, don't lose that number It's the only one you own You might use it if you feel better When you get home You tell yourself you're not my kind But you don't even know your mind And you could have a change of heart Rikki, don't lose that number You don't wanna call nobody else Send it off in a letter to yourself Rikki, don't lose that number It's the only one you own You might use it if you feel better When you get home :)
	happy.


scottycatt	Jun 29 2009, 12:40 PM Post #5
Posts: 6,068 Group: Members Member #96 Joined: May 17, 2006	:D :ponder:
	Why?


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