― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 12 June 2005 20:03 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
OTMFM - about 'Aja,' that is.
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Sunday, 12 June 2005 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 13:38 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Will(iam), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:01 (nineteen years ago) link
there, I said it
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Brooker Buckingham (Brooker B), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:46 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 17:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Susan Douglas (Susan Douglas), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― theodore fogelsanger (herbert hebert), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
You can thank Keith Jarrett for that.
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 18:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 21:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Thursday, 16 June 2005 06:19 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 07:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― camandas (camandas), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 08:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 09:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaxon (jaxon), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
The Nightfly was a nice comeback.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― frankiemachine, Wednesday, 11 January 2006 20:53 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 11 January 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 12 January 2006 04:38 (eighteen years ago) link
anyway, I rank their LPs thusly: Countdown>Pretzel>Can't Buy>Katy>Aja>Gaucho>Scam. "Scam" is just too fucking dried out for me, even though "Kid Charlemagne" and "Haitian Divorce" are ace. But "Haitian" sure pales beside August Darnell's "Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy," while "Kid" ain't as good a bye-bye-counterculture song as the one they wrote for Thomas Jefferson Kaye, "American Lovers." that's ze rub, to my mind.
and their last two, I can't get into them at all, although they're certainly well-done and nastily funny, sexist, middle-aged lust and its discontents, whatever. maybe some day I'll change my mind about them too.
― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Thursday, 12 January 2006 17:58 (eighteen years ago) link
I didn't hear Gaucho until much later, because I thought (wrongly I now suspect) that my problem with Aja and Nightfly was their too glossy production; Gaucho had the reputation of being more of the same but with weaker songs, so I avoided it. Something must have persuaded me to give it a try, and while there are jazz-fusion-lite meanderings I don't care for, I do like a lot of the album. Babylon Sister especially is one of those rare tracks that when the track finishes I just want to hear it again.
― frankiemachine, Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:11 (eighteen years ago) link
thanks "friend"
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:25 (eighteen years ago) link
www.megaupload.com/?d=794BE365
― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 12 January 2006 19:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link