― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 11 June 2005 12:33 (eighteen years ago) link
That said, I can hear the sinister subtexts beneath the steely glint of the soporific music. For sure.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 11 June 2005 13:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Saturday, 11 June 2005 13:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 11 June 2005 13:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 11 June 2005 13:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― tricky (disco stu), Saturday, 11 June 2005 13:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 11 June 2005 13:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 11 June 2005 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 11 June 2005 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
(There had to be some dissent here...)
― Deric W. Haircare (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:00 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Saturday, 11 June 2005 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
By contrast, I've never connected as much with Aja for some reason -- possibly because the great Roger Nichols didn't engineer it (and you can tell) or maybe because they continue down the Royal Scam road but try to humanize it with songs like "Deacon Blues". Either way it doesn't really work -- by this point, they're just too hardened and SoCal'd out to pull it off.
Gaucho is just sort of the culmination of what started with Scam -- the soundtrack to hitting on the chick who works at the bank at the local Ramada bar. Yes, all the love has gone out of it -- every character's a total piece of shit, and relationships are all transactions of some kind. Yet it's also perfect in its way -- the singles are career highlights, sure. But at its core are "The Glamour Profession" and "Gaucho", with their soaring Tom Scott saxes and lyricons, brittle guitar parts and more than a touch of Broadway in the vocals and song construction. And then it all ends, yeah, on "Third World Man", which is just disturbing, slow and vague. It's hard to feel "satisfied" by it all, but an appropriate note to go out on for sure.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Sunday, 12 June 2005 04:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― retort pouch (retort pouch), Sunday, 12 June 2005 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link
gahhhhh
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Sunday, 12 June 2005 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Sunday, 12 June 2005 12:40 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Sunday, 12 June 2005 19:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:03 (eighteen years ago) link
Johnny's playroomIs a bunker filled with sandHe's become a third world man
Smoky SundayHe's been mobilized since dawnNow he's crouching on the lawnHe's a third world man
Soon you'll throw down your disguiseWe'll see behind those bright eyesBy and byWhen the sidewalks are safeFor the little guy
I saw the fireworksI believed that I was dreaming Till the neighbors came out screamingHe's a third world man
Soon you'll throw down your disguiseWe'll see behind those bright eyesBy and byWhen the sidewalks are safeFor the little guys
When he's crying outI just sing that Ghana RondoE l'era del terzo mondoHe's a third world man
― pdf (Phil Freeman), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:17 (eighteen years ago) link
OTMFM - about 'Aja,' that is.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:38 (eighteen years ago) link
Gaucho was the record where Fagen and sound engineer Roger Nichols wrestled endlessly with the drum machine that Nichols had developed. The strain between Fagen and Becker was starting to show, as well.
Despite all that, Gaucho has Babylon Sisters, one of the most harmonically advanced pop songs I can think of. And it gets stuck in your head! Must hear now...
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Will(iam), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:01 (eighteen years ago) link
there, I said it
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:35 (eighteen years ago) link
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― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:46 (eighteen years ago) link
OTM. I bought it when it came out and have tried to get into it about 15 times — and aside from the lecherous "Who has a friend named Melanie?/Who's not afraid to try new things?" couplet in "Janie Runaway" and a little bit of "West of Hollywood", absolutely nothing has stuck with me. It's actually hard to listen to...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― theodore fogelsanger (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:30 (eighteen years ago) link
You can thank Keith Jarrett for that.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 16 June 2005 06:19 (eighteen years ago) link
Is it "What Makes You Think You're the One" that I'm thinking of? The smashes right at the end of the song?
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 16 June 2005 06:24 (eighteen years ago) link
That's a review of Katy Lied, not Gaucho. And it does go somewhere, to this insightful place: "The music lets us know that their cynicism is no more a celebration of cynicism than their smack references are a celebration of smack, lets us know we can break the habit."
Gaucho is pretty devastating, actually. It's their most bitter album. I like that about it, but then again, I'm not entirely healthy.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 22 July 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
Though not as lively as "Chain Lightning" or "King of the World," from back when they masqueraded as a rock and roll band rather than a "sophisticated pop/jazz group."
Masqueraded? What did they ever masquerade as? That's huge, fat bullshit.
― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Friday, 22 July 2005 00:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
My father actually dated a nineteen-year old in 1980. She took my sister and I horseback riding. Weird to think that she'd be 45 this year.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 04:50 (eighteen years ago) link
does anyone have the unreleased version of it? the mp3s aren't on this site anymore but the story seems interesting.http://www.bigomagazine.com/archive/ARrarities/ARsdgaucho.html
― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 06:54 (eighteen years ago) link
The title track and "Third World Man" compete for best SD song.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 22 September 2020 11:57 (three years ago) link
40 years ago today
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 21 November 2020 16:47 (three years ago) link
Mass Romantic yesterday, Gaucho today....what's next in line for the excellent album birthday celebration?
― healthy cocaine off perfect butts (the table is the table), Saturday, 21 November 2020 18:25 (three years ago) link
Seeing the Gaucho show in Morristown, NJ tonight. Has anyone seen them yet on this tour? They haven't done a Gaucho night yet, so I'm not sure exactly what to expect from the second set, but I'm crossing my fingers for "Bad Sneakers" and/or "Deacon Blues" which both seem like realistic possibilities...
― J. Sam, Thursday, 4 November 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bf7Dr7CzmM
Morris Mobley cover of Glamour Profession
― saer, Thursday, 17 February 2022 16:17 (two years ago) link
fun cover, i like how he says "hoops mccain" instead of "hoops mccann," which makes me think he's talking about a black sheep member of that annoying family
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 17 February 2022 16:42 (two years ago) link
We're double-bumping the Gaucho threads tonight.
Seeing the Gaucho show in Morristown, NJ tonight. Has anyone seen them yet on this tour? They haven't done a Gaucho night yet, so I'm not sure exactly what to expect from the second set, but I'm crossing my fingers for "Bad Sneakers" and/or "Deacon Blues" which both seem like realistic possibilities...― J. Sam, Thursday, November 4, 2021 5:02 PM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
― J. Sam, Thursday, November 4, 2021 5:02 PM (nine months ago) bookmarkflaglink
In retrospect I was foolish to hope for "Deacon Blues." Looks like they only play it in the Aja shows :(
― J. Sam, Saturday, 27 August 2022 01:40 (one year ago) link
fantastic descriptions from the man himself
Donald explains Gauchonew liner notes from the man himself for the upcoming reissue from Analogue Productions pic.twitter.com/dBlaEsYyZn— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) April 12, 2024
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 12 April 2024 17:35 (one month ago) link