"Pretzel Logic is proto-90s radio-friendly alt rock"
ahah, so true.
― charlie h, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:46 (ten years ago) link
Steel Daniel Pilots
― THIS IS NOT A BENGHAZI T-SHIRT (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Thursday, 30 May 2013 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Surprised by Katy coming first. I know a lot of people like it, but I don't really dig it that much.
Good to see a big turnout though!
― arctic mindbath (President of the People's Republic of Antarctica), Thursday, 30 May 2013 00:06 (ten years ago) link
56 votes for boring, 36 votes for awesome, and 2 trolls.
― wk, Thursday, 30 May 2013 01:45 (ten years ago) link
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― sons of plutarchy (will), Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:07 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i love this
― ʎqןıs (gr8080), Thursday, 30 May 2013 03:43 (ten years ago) link
it's remarkable that a band that were such perfectionists on the music end of things seemed to just not give a fuck - like, at ALL - about the album artwork. Liner notes, sure, but the art = "eh, who cares"
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
aja is a legitimately great album cover imo, and pretzel logic has its charms.
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link
also think katy lied and gaucho are pretty charming
at this point i only think the reunion records have godawful covers
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
Countdown to Ecstasy is pretty bad
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
no
― brimstead, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:18 (four years ago) link
i love that one, it's pretty fuckin cracked
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link
nearly all of this band's album artwork is shit. I like the Aja art, and I also like the Katy Lied art but that's also probably my least favorite Dan album. Gaucho is just incomprehensible to me as a cover, it's hard to think of album art that relates less in content or aesthetic to the music.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:35 (four years ago) link
come on the gaucho painting would totally be hanging in luxury apartment of someone who's done so much coke they think the walls have eyes
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
I think the Gaucho art makes sense if you consider it as this sort of fantasy image, considering how many of the tracks are these imagined scenarios in which the narrator tries to mythologize themselves or their situations or even their adversaries, while in the meantime they’re living this empty existence facing down middle age and partying past their sell by date.
― omar little, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:49 (four years ago) link
i like katy lied, aja, gaucho, pretzel logic, and find the remainder VILE
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 20:51 (four years ago) link
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, December 3, 2019 9:49 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
i have gaucho framed on my wall
― gr8080, Thursday, May 16, 2013 5:52 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Strong disagree about their album art being shite tbf. Aja cover is a work of art. And so are Gaucho (which makes total sense w/ the music imo) and Katie Lied: all great. I'm with Brad, only the reunion album ones are meh.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:10 (four years ago) link
katy lied is a good cover for the pun, but the image itself is not my bag
― jacquees, full of cobras (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
the royal scam artwork is hilariously bad, tho i can't imagine the album without it at this point
i find the picture of the cricket on katy lied to be super ominous and haunting for some reason. it was the first steely dan record i bought for that reason
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:20 (four years ago) link
katy lied beating out aja is probably the most inexplicable thing i've seen from an ilx poll
― lukas, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
^^ yep.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
royal scam cover makes more sense if you imagine it as a missing scene from the end of ghostbusters
― brimstead, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
The Royal Scam cover is at least kind of interesting and weird, though also very ugly.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
Royal Scam cover was originally made for Van Morrison's unreleased follow-up to Veedon Fleece!
http://www.bigozine2.com/MP307/VMbliss/VMblissFr2.jpg
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:31 (four years ago) link
yeah, that's hella funny. "what do we do with this thing? idk give it to the dan"
― brimstead, Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:33 (four years ago) link
I mean, it fits the song pretty well.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
xpost woah
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 23:45 (four years ago) link
Steely Van
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/0xfo8mM.jpg
― gr8080, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:33 (four years ago) link
Oh my god...
What a post to return to ilx for <3
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
gr8080, this isn't the cursed images thread
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
absolutely not
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
also coke will kill you before you ever start hallucinating
― gr8080, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link