Does the rest of the new Azita album sound like Steely Dan?

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...Cuz this "Wasn't In The Bargain" song, which RULES, certainly could have come out of Fagan and co. I remember somebody - Dan Bunny maybe? - telling me they loved this record. I wasn't blown away by the first one but if all the songs sound like this one I'm sold...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 24 April 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

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― Nate in ST.P (natedetritus), Saturday, 24 April 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Now THAT is a cover connection.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 April 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

and how!

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 24 April 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought the record yesterday in princeton on my way down to DJ in philly and am listening to it right now. Never got more then the Steely Dan best of CD and the Nightfly, so I'm not totally fit to discuss the similarities, though they are definately there and the cover, well that tells you something. What I WILL say is the record is pretty damn fantastic. Great playing, fantastic piano playing, totally not over or underproduced as most records tend to be, I love her singing, her melodies. I swear to god in a million years I never would've thought she had it in her. I'm loving this. It's just good music, not necessarily "retro" or anything, pretty mature songwriting etc blah blah blah.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Saturday, 24 April 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

sounds good. I'll see if Earwax has it today.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 24 April 2004 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, most songs have a prominent Dan-ist element. "Wasn't in the Bargain" is easily the strongest track on first listen. "Miss Tony" is similarly up-tempo. I find her vocals monotonous over the course of an album, or even two or three songs. She's double tracked the same way on all the more rocking songs, and on the ballads, she vertures off key in a way that she must think is expressive, but just sounds bad. Still, I like it better than her first album.

― Curt (cgould), Saturday, 24 April 2004 18:40 (twenty-two years ago)

They just played here and I missed it :```````(

good live?

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Saturday, 24 April 2004 19:51 (twenty-two years ago)

she is good live, yeah.

― hstencil, Saturday, 24 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Not according to me.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:07 (twenty-two years ago)

thanks for your critical input.

― hstencil, Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:10 (twenty-two years ago)

You are hardly one to criticize considering you said she was 'good' live. Doesn't seem to be anymore insightful than what I said.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Saturday, 24 April 2004 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

three weeks pass...

Surely Azita is the only artist on AMG whose Similar Artists section mentions both Pavement and Norah Jones!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 May 2004 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)

i haven't heard anything by her.... so, how postrocky is this?

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:29 (twenty-two years ago)

well her backing band is Isotope 217 so...

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I need to actually buy some Azita soon. I'm just listening to the three mp3s I have over and over.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked her when I saw her live, but I occasionally bust out my impression of her singing to make Sarah laugh.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Her vocal stylings are easy to make fun of, yes. But that's part of the fun!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I think that "Wasn't in the Bargain" goes

"Mephisto's havin' a PARty / And I think that I will GOOOOOOHHHWWW."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:53 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know the names of any of them, since I've just seen her live, but the one I remember goes "ALLL of my FRRRIIIIEEENNNDS in this TOOOOOWWWWNN...."

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Her vocal stylings are easy to make fun of, yes. But that's part of the fun!

Some pervy old guy kept yelling "Fiona" at her. Then he made out w/his girlfriend who he was twice as old as.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)

When I saw her in concert, obv.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 17 May 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

well her backing band is Isotope 217 so...

i figured. i mean i saw the amg bio and it said chicago and i just figured, and then her bf is mcintire.

i think i'll sit this one out

the end

― JaXoN (JasonD), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Despite the pedigree of the players on the album, I don't see how a husky-voiced woman overenunciating over a rollicking Steely Dan-ish piano, in classic verse-chorus-verse style, counts as "post-rock."

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:21 (twenty-two years ago)

didn't you hear the hidden track?

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 17 May 2004 21:25 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

i bought the cd, and feel like i should retract my words. i'm amazed at how straight it seems, but then her melodies are so amazing. they're all over the place, and just as they're about to resolve on the root, she busts out a new weird chord and the melody is lost again. but it all makes so much sense

― JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

It's good, innit? The week I bought the CD, I played it non-stop.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeff Parker = Jeff Baxter??

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

no.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

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