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    Posted: April 24 2025 at 23:08
^ I tend to go with the later CD remasters personally although I also have that Atlantic one. The vinyl pressing I have from about 15 years ago is rubbish although I note it is being reissued again on vinyl along with Pictures at an Exhibition. The best I ever heard that album was a long now lost German cassette edition that was released early 80's. That thing was fantastic and the only time I heard the album how it should be heard.
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ELP-Brain Salad Surgery-believe me, I have tried, but it doesn't jive with me the way their previous albums do...

Anything by Camel, with painful honesty, I find it trite and dull....

ELP-Brain Salad Surgery-believe me, I have tried, but it doesn't jive with me   ]

I have made my peace with BSS; I recently bought a first generation cd of it, you know the Atlantic one remastered by Barry Diament, and on listening to it with my Sennheiser headphones, I found myself really digging it; intelligently crafted music, it is...
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Aja is almost too slick but I tend to go along with the general opinion that it's their masterpiece but only because I don't know enough about the band to argue otherwise (but I really prefer their earlier more 'earthy' albums)
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Valdez Valdez wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2
Opeth - Still Life
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Big Big Train - English Electric
Kansas - Leftoverture
Neil Morse - ?
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Spocks Beard - V
Steely Dan - Aja


I agree with you on almost all of these but I have never heard of anyone not liking Steely Dans Aja.


No idea why, I've tried several times, the production is excellent but it never connects with me.

I'm guessing it's probably a bit too 'Breezy" for some people. I've seen your show playlists. You seem more of an avant/jazz guy.
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Originally posted by Sean Trane Sean Trane wrote:




Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Wait a sec, Hugues. Are you saying you think LIB is their second best album of all of them?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCcJZRtkXc

Just ahead of Sgt, Revolver & Rubber Soul.

Never big on MMT or White Album (too much junk on those)




Thank you for the beautiful video. The cleaned up video of that period has been a real treat to see. There was more joy to the proceedings than was evident in the old film's original release.

Sounds like we actually aren't so far off in our rankings really.

The White Album as a single disc would have been formidable.
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Can't stomach this one

Should be titled Let It Come Up


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Steely's best is IMHO Royal Scam, but I was never big about Dan



Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

Wait a sec, Hugues. Are you saying you think LIB is their second best album of all of them?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCcJZRtkXc

Just ahead of Sgt, Revolver & Rubber Soul.

Never big on MMT or White Album (too much junk on those)




Edited by Sean Trane - April 23 2025 at 17:05
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
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I probably spin Aja on a monthly basis, for me it has everything that Steely Dan is. I play Gaucho as well, but Aja has everything for me. Production wise easily one of the best ever.
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I like gaucho and the royal scam too. Haven’t listened to them in a while though.
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Makes me wonder if anyone prefers Gaucho to Aja?
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Originally posted by Valdez Valdez wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2
Opeth - Still Life
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Big Big Train - English Electric
Kansas - Leftoverture
Neil Morse - ?
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Spocks Beard - V
Steely Dan - Aja


I agree with you on almost all of these but I have never heard of anyone not liking Steely Dans Aja.


No idea why, I've tried several times, the production is excellent but it never connects with me.
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Wait a sec, Hugues. Are you saying you think LIB is their second best album of all of them?
...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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I knew I'd be roasted for saying that, but I stand by it ferociously. Aside from the throwaway junk Maggie/Dig it, there isn't a bad track there. Instead there is some really beautiful stuff (Across the Universe better than anything John did on Abbey), Long Winding, and more rock/roll passion than they'd managed in a long time.

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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Originally posted by Finnforest Finnforest wrote:

In the spirit of the thread, I again will go with Abbey Road.

Harrison's two songs are both fabulous, but excepting those two songs, the rest of the album is relatively weak compared to their earlier work. I've never understood the pedestal created for nonsense like Maxwell, Poly Pam, Mr. Mustard. I want you? Lennon was really phoning it in here. I don't hate the album. It's still the Fabs, but I just feel like they were really eyeing the parking lot by this point, and I don't agree with the popular notion that this album was some rabbit pulled out of a hat. The songs of Let it Be are far stronger in my opinion despite that being the album people like to hate. Yes, I believe LIB is WAY, way better than Abbey Road any way you slice it.



would you accept Pam, Maxwell & Mustard from Zappa?

If yes, accept it from the fab four. IMHO, Abbey Road is by far their better albums, with LIB a distant second, just ahead of Sgt Pepper.

The studio side of LIB is half-baked, sometimes sounding like somebad tracks from White Album... and Spector's got nothuing to do with my remark.


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In the spirit of the thread, I again will go with Abbey Road.

Harrison's two songs are both fabulous, but excepting those two songs, the rest of the album is relatively weak compared to their earlier work. I've never understood the pedestal created for nonsense like Maxwell, Poly Pam, Mr. Mustard. I want you? Lennon was really phoning it in here. I don't hate the album. It's still the Fabs, but I just feel like they were really eyeing the parking lot by this point, and I don't agree with the popular notion that this album was some rabbit pulled out of a hat. The songs of Let it Be are far stronger in my opinion despite that being the album people like to hate. Yes, I believe LIB is WAY, way better than Abbey Road any way you slice it.

...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2
Opeth - Still Life
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Big Big Train - English Electric
Kansas - Leftoverture
Neil Morse - ?
Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever
Spocks Beard - V
Steely Dan - Aja


I agree with you on almost all of these but I have never heard of anyone not liking Steely Dans Aja.
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I immediately turn U2 off when it interrupts my day. Same with AC DC and Aerosmith. TOoL is another one.
But the Beatles breeze on by every time. For 60 years now!
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Some bands are certainly noted for over zealous fans , The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Rush are the bands that cannot be trashed under any circumstances it seems.I like all of them personally. One band I just can't abide though is U2. The point of them totally escapes me.


I'm not a U2 fan either. War is the exception to their discography. I like that album. Edge's guitar playing relies less on effects (particularly delay) and is more direct a little more raw on that album. Outside that album, I've liked a song here and there, but never cared much for their music overall.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Some bands are certainly noted for over zealous fans , The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Rush are the bands that cannot be trashed under any circumstances it seems.I like all of them personally. One band I just can't abide though is U2. The point of them totally escapes me.



I used to like U2.
My U2 and KISS collection did not age well.

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