Music Thread (post a song)

Great band, but that song is far from their best.

Rob Sheffield once wrote Steely Dan’s Gaucho album was so slick, smooth and Yacht Rocking that it slid right off the turntable and into the wastebasket.

 

G. Love's The Hustle

So much good stuff on here. I posted a link to the whole album.

 

Classic track which ended up on Tipper's hit list--courtesy of Rick James

 

"In My House" (see above) everyday is Steely Dan Day

 

As an admitted (big) Huey Lewis and the News fan, I kinda loved this:

 

When the time comes for me to move my collection of Huey Lewis and The News memorabilia I will link this clip.

I thank you.

 

These 'new' Dan Fans are annoying.

The Dan is the Dan.

Accept the Dan.

The Dan is who they were then and what they are now. Walter Becker is gone.

I'm half a country away from home with crappy pizza and meh beer in a hipster hotel so I feel Dan angst to some degree.

Mary Shut the Garden Door is on.

 

I'm automatically skeptical of any young Dan fans.

When I was younger I had no interest. Once I hit my mid-40s Steely Dan spoke to me in a way that was not possible earlier. Like, you're not going to "get" Hey Nineteen in your 20s.

 

Not even the best on "Gaucho." Not as long as "Third World Man" is still on it.

But still, it's Steely Dan. Enjoy. Completely with PCLL here ... appreciating what the group did more than the first time around. Sometimes, getting old isn't so bad.

 

Totally agree with you guys, when I was younger - and they were still making albums - I liked the stuff they played on the radio but the older I got and the more I explored their catalogue the more I got impressed by the awesome musicianship, witty lyrics and how even the deep tracks are awesome.

 

I came across a thread about the book The McCartney Legacy which I reviewed in the Books Thread and when the authors joined the conversation it turned into rampant, pandering fanbois fellating these guys for their epic work. And that's when some of them weren't ripping into Ian Gomm who was quoted in the book with some disparaging remarks about Linda's performance on stage, as if Gomm, who is or was a working musician, wasn't allowed to have an opinion about a member of a band he also happened to be in.

 

Terry Reid was under the wing of producer Mickie Most about the same time as Donovan, and the two occasionally recorded the same song. Here's Reid's take on "Season of the Witch."