steeley dan vs patti smith

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I know that Peg is liked by a lot of people. The general critical reputation of Aja and even Gaucho is much higher than it used to be. But apart from the two tracks I mentioned these albums still leave me cold.

The vocabulary that used to be used to criticise these albums ("over- produced", "soul-less", "too glossy") sounds so old-fashioned now that I hesitate to use it - except that it still seems to describe my response to the music.

― ArfArf, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Wave is great and pretty and 80s with wide open synths.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Sterl is right, you should own both albums. Though if you like Horses and Radio Ethiopia you may think Waves is too mellow, but the tunes are great, and the intensity is there, just held in.

― nickn, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Aren't "Frederick" and "Dancing Barefoot" on Waves? These are amazing songs!

― Simon, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Now let's do: Steelye Span v. Ewald Spiss.

― DeRayMi, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

It's Wave, no "s" btw.

― Sean, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I got the new Patti Smith boxset, and it's pretty dull. I've had "Countdown to Ecstacy" for probably ten years, and I still can't get "Pearl of the Quarter" out of my head.

Patti = unreasonably overrated The Dan = unfairly maligned

― J, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

unreasonably overrated? radio Ethiopia to you!

― Andrew, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Yah, I've heard it and I'm not impressed.

― J, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

"Fuck radio Ethiopia man, I'm radio Brooklyn"

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

sez andrew l as he looks for a vein that isn't collapsed

― shlongdong, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've done far too much 'Patti Smith', it's true...

― Andrew L, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

steely dan hands down.. it's very clear from reading the above earlier- I guess I should say past comments- comments all about this whole steely patti thing- that this is clearly without a single doubt the case. however....

― damo, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

twelve years pass...

What a weird matchup. Steely Dan. Though Smith's memoir is fantastic.

― Pentenema Karten, Saturday, 25 October 2014 07:02 (nine years ago) link

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