― 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
― howell huser (chaki), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
mine in order: Aja just barely edging out Countdown to Ecstasy, then Katy Lied, then Gaucho though I can go back & forth on the order there - then Pretzel Logic, Royal Scam & Can't Buy a Thrill
admittedly I've listened less to Scam since my first big I-only-wanna-listen-to-SD phase circa 1989 so I should probably go look at it again...I seriously can't imagine ranking it higher than Katy Lied though, c'mon, that thing is the mid-period monster
― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― 2 columbus circle in 1964 (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:16 (eighteen years ago) link
Ha ha, never seen those, but great minds, jaxon...
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:32 (eighteen years ago) link
― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Naive Teen Idol (Naive Teen Idol), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
kid charmalagne is the achilles last stand of steely dan!
i do like prescense and royal scam alot though....i even like two against nature...sort of...but there's something wierd about the melodies and chord changes that grates on me....i'm not musically knowledgable enough to tell you what that is...
― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:40 (eighteen years ago) link
Apt comparison!
Countdown to Ecstasy and Katy Lied seem like their masterworks.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 12 January 2006 21:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Friday, 10 February 2006 11:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 10 February 2006 12:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Clignancourt (baaderonixx), Thursday, 2 March 2006 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Autonomous University of Zacatecas (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 2 March 2006 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't listen to "Third World Man" without tearing up - the only song in their vast catalogue that unnerves me.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Clignancourt (baaderonixx), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
The whole album is awesome!
The only thing that would make it better would be making it a double album with Aja.
― Dan (Loving The Dan) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 2 March 2006 15:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Le Baaderonixx de Clignancourt (baaderonixx), Thursday, 2 March 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link