Posted on 03/09/2022 12:46:42 PM PST by Bullish
Hopefully you have a huge collection :)
“...he was known to dish it out too. “And Your Bird Can Sing” being one example.”
I forget who or what was he ridiculing.
I think I heard once, but forgot.
Michael McDonald and his massive ego destroyed every band he was ever a part of. I also can’t stand his singing voice.
Yeah. I was “trapped” in high school with all these horrible bands being so popular and ubiquitous.
One of the things I love best about Steely Dan is the music is so upbeat and happy and the lyrics are so dark. That cognitive dissonance is great.
Thanks...Listened and I just had to fingertip tap along with it.
“Well, you must like ziffer music or something then.”
Not particularly, but better than Steely Dan for sure.
And Ziffer isn’t even a musical instrument.
Do you mean a pan pipe or a zither?
“The Beatles were bad but they weren’t the worst.”
No. Steely Dan was.
Ask the Babylon Sisters. :)
I don’t know what’s wrong with you but enjoy your Lawrence Welk and I’ll stick to my roots.
Your story reminded me of my situation: initially I liked them, bought two of their albums. Then, while I college a very sexy woman moved into the apartment above me. She had two annoying habits. First, she was a cocktail waitress and got home each night shortly after midnight, usually not alone. I was invariably awakened by the steady drumming of her headboard against the wall. This succeeded in waking me up and getting me in the mood, IYKWIM. Unfortunately, it did not have the same effect on my wife. The second was she played Steely Dan endlessly. I must have heard Bodishatva 100 times. I have not played Steely Dan since.
“I don’t know what’s wrong with you but enjoy your Lawrence Welk and I’ll stick to my roots.”
What’s wrong with Lawrence Welk?
What’s wrong with Steely Dan is they’re the Lawrence Welk of Rock when Lawrence Welk isn’t rock.
So...what do YOU like...?
I always find it interesting so many people have become so ingrained/ programmed into 1-4-5 music (basic blues type progressions). Such that anything outiside of that is either dismissed or relegated into jazz/ hybrid/ other music.
It is really unfortunate how homogenized/ generic/ packaged so much is these days.
It really seems all of these songs are pumped out of the same few writers, bought up and wrapped up as pop, rock, country, hip hop. The only thing changing is the instrumentation, and the accents.
“Ask the Babylon Sisters. :)”
Bzzzt. Fail.
Anything good.
I was listening to Cleoma Breaux last night.
“Lève tes fenêtres haut.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lgr27656hgU
“Ah one, and ah two, and ah…”
“ One of the most intellectual of all rock bands.”
Many many years ago I worked in record stores. Several of them, for years, before I went on to labels.
The majority of Steeley Dan purchasers were of a specific type, more so with the earlier stuff. The stoned pseudo-intellectual liberal arts major who thinks it’s jazzy enough to intoxicate the “natural” girls he tries to date. If he can actually get one into his shared studio apartment that is.
Yeah. Thanks.
Rolling Stones are kind of crappy but a lot better than Steely Dan.
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