― Andy K, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― born clippy, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyway nice to see evidence this is changing. All the SD albums before Aja are great. Aja and Gaucho I like less though they each have one great track (Deacon Blues and Babylon Sister).
― ArfArf, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
All Saints sampled 'The Fez' for 'Never Ever'...
― Spongebob, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yes, I vote Steely Dan. Plus they never published any bad poetry books, as far as I know.
― DeRayMi, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Steely Dan = Highly literate, xenophobic musos with unapologetic jazz leanings and studio know-how, making music designed for Manhattan divorcee bars and aesthetes in corduroy blazers.
Patti Smith = Arguably literate, insufferably earnest 'poet'/ 'priestess' often mistaken for iconoclastic stormbringer as opposed to actual status as groupie-made-good.
― Alex in NYC, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Once again, I have to object to the stereotyping of Steely Dan's audience. I liked their hits well enough as a little kid. I never much liked any Patti Smith I heard, even during the period when I would have been most sympathetic to her music.
― Sean, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
does music do that - shit dont look at my collection its one big mess of negs and positives
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.
― Sterling Clover, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― nickn, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Simon, Friday, 26 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Patti = unreasonably overrated The Dan = unfairly maligned
― J, Saturday, 27 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew, Sunday, 28 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andrew L, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― shlongdong, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― damo, Tuesday, 30 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
What a weird matchup. Steely Dan. Though Smith's memoir is fantastic.
― Pentenema Karten, Saturday, 25 October 2014 07:02 (nine years ago) link