Steely Dan
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Topic: Steely Dan
Posted By: yesfan88
Subject: Steely Dan
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 14:12
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I love Steely Dan and was just wondering if anyone else liked them. ------------- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"- Evelyn Beatrice Hall |
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Posted By: Bastille Dude
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 15:50
I love Steely Dan also.  I missed a chance to see them back in April,  There were playing at a Casino that is only about 30 minutes from my house. Actually it was in June.  ------------- DEATH TO FALSE PROG! |
Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 15:52
I know someone who likes Steely Dan.  What is he like? ------------- 
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 15:56
Steely Dan are a good blend of pop, rock, and some jazz influences. They're hard NOT to like IMO. ------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Ricochet wrote:Posted By: bhikkhu
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 19:16
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Fantastic. One of my all time favorites. There is not one bad song in their entire catalogue (but some are better than others). ------------- a.k.a. H.T. http://riekels.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow - http://riekels.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 19:23
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I have their Gaucho album and love it! Excellent band! ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 19:29
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A huge Steely Dan fan... got my first Lp.. Aja by accident from
Columbia House in the late 70's. Loved the album.. and been a fan ever
since. Katy Lied is foremost amoung a career of favorite albums ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: goochnhell
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:44
| Been a fan since the very first. Listened to them with my mother one year on an old Transistor radio playing gin rummy when we had an ice storm that knocked out power for days. This was back with Can't buy a thrill. 1972! |
Posted By: tardis
Date Posted: September 30 2006 at 20:58
I only have one album, Aja, but I really like it. 
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Posted By: Zoot Allures
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 00:31
   ------------- The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Hunter S. Thompson |
Posted By: gong
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 02:24
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awesome music at all!
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Posted By: superprog
Date Posted: October 01 2006 at 12:13
| All i have is Aja....that though is in my Top 50 albums of all time....been meanng to check out more stuff of theirs and i will in due course!! |
Posted By: valravennz
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 02:28
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Have been a fan of Steely Dan since "Can't Buy A Thrill" arrived on the scene back in 72. I have that album, "Count Down To Ecstasy", "Aja" and "Gaucho" on Vinyl. It is hard to pick a best album but I think "Aja" would have to be one of my top albums of all time - a masterpiece of rock and jazz fusion. ------------- 
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Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 10:12
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You can currently get most of their albums on Amazon for about $8
apiece and I recommend that everyone take advantage. "Aja" "The
Royal Scam" and "Countdown to Extasy" are essential recordings to have
in your collection. I got to see them two months ago in concert
and they were magnificent. They might be a little too jazzy to be
considered true prog but very inventive and unlike anyone else.
The guitar leads are reason enough to listen.
------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 13:36
| I have the album Pretzel Logic by them, but I haven't listened through it sufficiently yet. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 15:51
No -- no one else likes them.
You are their only fan, but Becker & Fagin told me that they really appreciate your fandom.
(They want you to keep buying millions of their albums.)
 They're OK -- I have their "Best of." ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 07:22
someone that missed the good stuff
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 07:31
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They're a good band, but I have to admit, I find them a bit "samey" after a while.
Still - I'll forgive a band anything, when they write classics like 'Haitian Divorce' & 'Reelin' In The Years' (which has one of the most catchy guitar hooks of all time) ------------- 
Jon Lord 1941 - 2012 |
Posted By: Dalezilla
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 10:11
| I only have Gaucho and The Royal Scam, but I love those albums. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 16:58
Not necessarily.
I've certainly heard more than the compilation I own, but the band never excited me overmuch.
They are very good at what they do, but that particular style of music has just never been one that really "grabs" me, like good rock & roll does. ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Arsillus
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 17:01
| I love Steely Dan. One of my all-time favorite bands! I saw them live back in July and it was worth every penny. |
Posted By: E-Dub
Date Posted: October 05 2006 at 00:13
Steely Dan friggin' rocks. Such cool music by two of the whitest guys on the face of the earth. 
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Posted By: rupert
Date Posted: October 14 2006 at 10:43
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Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: October 14 2006 at 10:51
If you mean that poll, that's in regards to the albums and not the band itself, so this thread is fine. Way to ruin the fun, Rico.  ------------- 
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: October 14 2006 at 10:53
getting sentimental, pal. way to ruin my mistake correction. (since I realized, indeed, that we're talking different subjects and deleted my post) -------------
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