Any reason why ILM is so quiet these days?

*raises hand*

*raises it higher*

I think that Steely Dan is like cilantro -- there are people that just aren't into it, no matter how much someone that loves it can try and convince someone that it's awesome, it just tastes like soap or whatever people who don't like cilantro think it tastes like -- whatever that taste is, that is how I feel about Steely Dan. And as a lover of cilantro, I can accept that people have different tastes: people that love Steely Dan can just shake their heads and believe I am missing out, just like I do about people who dislike cilantro, one of the most delicious herbs known to humanity.

I don't really like Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Steely Dan OR Eric Clapton, AMA.

ABBA were critically rehabilitated more than 20 years ago, you would have to be the most unreconstructed classical rockist mojo reader to not consider them canon now (for better or for worse - I like them, not as much as some though)

Not sure what Eric Clapton is doing in there, no-one likes him.

I think that Steely Dan is like cilantro -- there are people that just aren't into it, no matter how much someone that loves it can try and convince someone that it's awesome, it just tastes like soap or whatever people who don't like cilantro think it tastes like -- whatever that taste is, that is how I feel about Steely Dan. And as a lover of cilantro, I can accept that people have different tastes: people that love Steely Dan can just shake their heads and believe I am missing out, just like I do about people who dislike cilantro, one of the most delicious herbs known to humanity.

for Steely Dan insert any artist in any sphere of art and this is true, which is why certain kinds of opinion - those that seek to prove cilantro tastes great/horrible by algebra, or those that just repeat over and over "I love/hate cilantro and there's nothing you can do to stop me", or those furrow-browed "why the hell does anybody like the taste of cilantro?" comments - are stupid and mockworthy and to be chased away if you feel like it on any given day

xp Fair enough. Sure there is someone out there though.

Steely Dan seem to be all-time-favourite-artists of pretty much everyone at the AV Club

Have Steely Dan got anything with this yacht rock thing? Something of which I have no knowledge whatsoever beyond the fact that there's a thread about it on ILM... I think.

I think all this bloody Steely Dan talk is a deterrent for younger music nerds far more than the fighting.

xxp - we haven't polled the best food products that contain cilantro

Steely Dan are Yacht Rock-adjacent iirc

As a young person I can confirm I made fun of a middle aged customer in front of his mates for liking Steely Dan within the last year.

(I am open to being converted tho)

you monster

Show no mercy to dickhole dads.

heyyy was there ever a yacht rock poll?

Is Cilantro any different to Coriander? Like in the way US Ginseng is completely different to Chinese Ginseng.

I don't really like Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Steely Dan OR Eric Clapton, AMA.

ABBA were critically rehabilitated more than 20 years ago, you would have to be the most unreconstructed classical rockist mojo reader to not consider them canon now (for better or for worse - I like them, not as much as some though)

― Camaraderie at Arms Length

i think even mojo like abba now. as for eric clapton he is at least hatable on "racist shitbag" grounds. kind of like there's a contingent who really love the music of kiss, and they'd probably be unimpeachably canon if gene simmons wasn't such a completely horrible human being.

(I am open to being converted tho)

― devvvine, Thursday, February 9, 2017 4:09 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

read one of the long threads about gaucho then listen to gaucho imo

Will give it a try, thanks.

then apologise to that elderly man you attacked

lol

"i think even mojo like abba now."

They did and ABBA cover issue about 15 years ago

Or redouble your attack depending on what you think of Gaucho.(xp)

Gaucho is the grower for the already-converted - start with Katy Lied imo.

A greatest hits would be best. I wouldn't start with Gaucho.

yeah i thought about that even though i immediately loved gaucho

i've never been a newcomer to a band through an ilm poll but the steely dan poll is a really good summary of their stuff. good writing in the rollout too iirc

Committed to Gaucho, Don't hate this so far. Babylon Sisters vibe reminds me of the drinks party in The Player.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uwxTYjq2ChU/UVTTliSW_vI/AAAAAAAAGzo/PQjkK93fnBo/s1600/DicksParty_ThePlayer.jpg

I listened to some of Katy Lied. I just don't like it, sorry. Specifically I don't like those 70s classic rock vocals and guitar solos, they just leave me completely cold.

serious, i highly recommend the "buy up the discography, focus on it for a week" approach. when i picked up SD's stuff, i didn't go on my computer for a month. try it!

― gear (gear), Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:13 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this post haunts my thoughts quite often

Cilantro has no business being anywhere near Cuban food.

reminds me that I need to check out the new-ish cuban restaurant

i'll resist bringing my own cilantro

serious, i highly recommend the "buy up the discography, focus on it for a week" approach. when i picked up SD's stuff, i didn't go on my computer for a month. try it!

― gear (gear), Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:13 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's what i did. i think i picked up the entire SD catalog for a few bucks an album at a single record store

i hate abba btw

steely dan rule.

Listen to peg on repeat as you eat a cilantro salad no dressing

it will come back to you

you'll see it all in 3d

for Steely Dan insert any artist in any sphere of art and this is true, which is why certain kinds of opinion - those that seek to prove cilantro tastes great/horrible by algebra, or those that just repeat over and over "I love/hate cilantro and there's nothing you can do to stop me", or those furrow-browed "why the hell does anybody like the taste of cilantro?" comments - are stupid and mockworthy and to be chased away if you feel like it on any given day

solitary posts that single-handedly define ILX

serious, i highly recommend the "buy up the discography, focus on it for a week" approach. when i picked up SD's stuff, i didn't go on my computer for a month. try it!

― gear (gear), Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:13 PM (ten years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is how I'd consume media if the average human lifespan was a million years

Cilantro Is Delicious On Tacos. Here's Why.

Ha that's how I got into Steely Dan. The Goodwill had a bunch of cassettes so I bought Katy Lied to see if I liked it. I did and went back and bought the rest. All of the original run except Gaucho. I listened to nothing else for a few months.

this is some stepford wives shit

it definitely happens to people who never thought they would end up sitting around listening to steely dan. The Steely Dan Epiphany. someone should write that book. it's probably an age thing most of the time. this is probably true for genre too. mellow major dudes listening to more jazz as they get older and more sedentary.

you fight it, imago, and in five years, bam, you are a goner. crying along to deacon blues. a pathetic mess.

I turn 30 next week. aaaaaaaaaargh

rip imago

lj's run

your steely dan albums are in the mail