Up on the hill Hurry up Bee OKThat's what we say
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
haha
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 17:24 (ten years ago) link
what is hungry reggae?
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 19:50 (ten years ago) link
i mean, besides being an aphrodisiac, what is it?
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
Dem belly not so full?
― nickn, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 20:02 (ten years ago) link
I'm working an event where a high school choir instructor is getting a music educator award, and the video package about him features a pretty nifty vocal arrangement of "Peg"
― CANS.... and D? (some dude), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Bummed that Bowie (whom I love) beat out SD--don't think I've ever been so jones'd for a poll result!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 20:47 (ten years ago) link
Dude, it was Bowie. I mean, has Steely Dan even been to outer space?
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 20:49 (ten years ago) link
Weekends on All Things Considered continues its "Why Music Matters" series with music from the heavens, as chosen by astronaut Stan Love.
"In space, every day is an important day of work," Love says. But when he was sent up to the space station to drop off and pick up crew members, the returning station crew member asked, "Dudes, where are the tunes?"
Suddenly, the shuttle mid-deck is filled with Steely Dan and "some other kind of old-guy music, since we're largely old guys here," Love says. All the lights were turned off in the cabin as the shuttle flew across "the cloud tops at 17,000 miles per hour, so [the Earth is] always spinning underneath you, scrolling past.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
xp imagining Becker-Fagen floating in a space capsule is makin' me chuckle over here
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/202469main_sl3-jsc2007e21208.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
^^ Stan Love
all the stars come out at night
― weatheringdaleson, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Stteely Dan Love
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
damn i fucked that up
Can we be shown gauchos + Stan Love?
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:23 (ten years ago) link
You'll have to baig us.
― nickn, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:26 (ten years ago) link
sleeve and clemenza, thank you for the shout-out! I am new here and that makes me feel very welcome.
― Sandy, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
And clemenza, I saw the Stones in 72, too. I was 16. Got my driver's license that morning, went to see the Stones and opening act Stevie Wonder that night. That was a good day.
― Sandy, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
shocked that 'california! tumbles into the sea!' didn't make the lyrics rundown, this poll has already lost all credibility.
― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
^^We're all too busy smoking with the boys upstairs to notice/vote.
― How About A Kiss For Your Cousin Doogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 22:00 (ten years ago) link
i considered "california tumbles into the sea" but ultimately rejected it after deciding warren zevon had said it better.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 22:02 (ten years ago) link
Stones and opening act Stevie Wonder
why even go on living after seeing that? i mean, at that point, you're pretty much done, aren't you?
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 22:03 (ten years ago) link
xp otm, with the motel standing and all
― g simmel, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 22:22 (ten years ago) link
And clemenza, I saw the Stones in 72, too. I was 16. Got my driver's license that morning, went to see the Stones and opening act Stevie Wonder that night. That was a good day.― Sandy, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 5:46 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Sandy, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 5:46 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
welcome Sandy, and I am SO jealous of you! I think if I could time travel to one show it would be '72 Stones and Stevie
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 22:23 (ten years ago) link
That was a good day.
Hall of Fame understatement.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 22:29 (ten years ago) link
As Bee OK pointed out to me in his confirmation email I accidentally only voted for 19 SD songs, but I never got back to him with my number 20, which was "King of the World". So when the tracks ultimately roll out just imagine it has 12 more points. Wonder if it'll need the boost?
― thewufs, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:06 (ten years ago) link
Also, any world that I'm welcome to is one where "Beg us" rhymes with "Vegas". I don't know where y'all come from.
― thewufs, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:09 (ten years ago) link
king of the world is a cool song and could have made the bottom of my 20 on a different day
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:15 (ten years ago) link
if "Dirty Work" were Steely Dan's only song, Sandy's post about seeing the dan wouldn't be awesome. it wouldn't make sense. "Dirty Work" tears down my entire image of becker and fagen as genius assholes bc I know fagen's not singing due to insecurity. For this and other reasons, I move that "Dirty Work" be stricken from the poll.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
Isn't the Do It Again line"Now you swear and kick and beg usThat you're not a gamblin' manThen you find you're back in VegasWith a handle in your hand"
― nickn, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 9:48 AM (6 hours ago)
Thanks. I voted that line and apparently had it wrong this whole time. The real first line is even better! Aside from the badass lyrics themselves I've always loved how they kick straight back into this verse after the solos and windchimes.
― Leather and James (Whitey on the Moon), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
dirty work rules
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:41 (ten years ago) link
those who voted for "Dirty Work" will be given the option to transfer their vote to either "Your Gold Teeth" or "Your Gold Teeth II." if one already voted for one gold teeth but not the other, the vote shall be automatically given to the gold tooth without a vote. if one already voted for both gold teeth, well this is called money bags. So: copy this to your status and money will arrive within 4 days... based on Chinese Feng Shui. The one who does not copy will be without money.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:41 (ten years ago) link
shut the fuck up already
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:45 (ten years ago) link
I foresee terrible trouble, and I stay here just the same
― CANS.... and D? (some dude), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:46 (ten years ago) link
sorry. i'm getting antsy waiting for the roll out.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
mb david palmer should post for me
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
damn, that actually came out kinda pretty.
http://i.imgur.com/5loA6uk.jpg
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
How high did you rank "Jazzman", Graft?
― pplains, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:54 (ten years ago) link
super stoked for the solo tracks rollout.
― how's life, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:54 (ten years ago) link
xp I like jazzman. I like Palmer and the song Dirty Work to be honest. It just bothers me on the album, and it'd be a small personal tragedy if it makes top 10.
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 April 2014 00:04 (ten years ago) link
super stoked for the Stones Dirty Work poll
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 3 April 2014 00:05 (ten years ago) link
lol I love and voted for "dirty work" but it has no chance in hell of making the top 10, you can chill already
― CANS.... and D? (some dude), Thursday, 3 April 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
What is Jazzman, like Seals & Crofts? Man, this thread is like delirious with anticipation!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 3 April 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
i believe in dirty work for top 10. we can do it.
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 3 April 2014 00:41 (ten years ago) link
Jazzman. One of those songs you hear, and you're Ohhhh, that Jazzman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGrSiW7GRHs
Palmer wrote the lyrics.
― pplains, Thursday, 3 April 2014 00:51 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, thanks-I was thinking of "Summer Breeze" which I always thought went, "blowin' through the jazzman in my mind"
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 3 April 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
i believe in dirty work for top 10. we can do it.― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 5:41 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 5:41 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
the wind is driving in my face the smell of prickly pear
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 April 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
are you ready to go? just got home from work. poured me a glass of wine.
let's get this going!
― Bee OK, Thursday, 3 April 2014 01:00 (ten years ago) link
doooooooo it!!
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 April 2014 01:01 (ten years ago) link
IIRC, AOR radio back in the 70s deleted the word "fuck" from that song
did aor radio back in the 70s ever actually play that song? but, yeah, if they did, there's zero chance a commercial radio station in the 70s would have knowingly aired that word in any context.
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
I love "Peg" but I agree. I'd sooner put Deacon Blues at #1 but more likely much further down.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
did aor radio back in the 70s ever actually play that song?
I definitely heard it when I was a kid in Denver, and there were only two places I could have heard it: KBPI or KAZY, the two competing AOR stations back then.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
Re: "Showbiz Kids," apparently on the old (1985?) CD master or the early 1990s remaster of "Show Biz Kids" there is a 1.75 second edit that was inserted at around 1:02. This segment was sourced from a different analog tape transfer than the rest of the track. (It features a few different guitar notes and the female choir is missing 'NOT' in 'Not Wages' on the 1985 version.)
I bring it up because if they wanted it to get radio play and decided to edit the master to make that possible, I wonder if this caused that weird anomaly on those CD's?
― birdistheword, Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
Was it "not wages"? I always heard "lost wages," or maybe "Las Wages."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
definitely "lost wages"
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link
I thought it was lost wages, but I just deferred to whoever discovered the info above.
― birdistheword, Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
two places I could have heard it: KBPI or KAZY, the two competing AOR stations back then
a toast to the classic days of classic rock!
― fact checking cuz, Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:33 (one year ago) link
"KBPI rocks the Rockies"
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:35 (one year ago) link
I'm glad to see this thread bumped with Dan-related content, instead of the one with the weirdly long stupid quote that gets truncated mid-phrase and
Steely Dan: "Steely Dan's name has been popping up as a hip musical crush. Remember, this glossy bop-pop was the indifferent aristocracy to punk rock's stone-throwing in the late 70's. People fought
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 20 October 2022 20:51 (one year ago) link
also that thread title seems to imply that Steely Dan is saying that quote.
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:01 (one year ago) link
I hate being commanded to remember something
― lets hear some blues on those synths (brimstead), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
Could be from a Walter Becker mid-show monologue.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
the best part of review where quote came from is the contrast between the out-of-touch boomer Steely Dan fan and the young, hip kid listening to the fucking Fragile
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:22 (one year ago) link
The Fragile: the Gaucho of Industrial Alternative
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:31 (one year ago) link
ha, that's at least kind of plausible. I though the young, hip kid was listening to Fragile by Yes!
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 19:38 (one year ago) link
that dicrescenzo review remains so breathtakingly dumb, my second least favorite review from Pitchfork
― omar little, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:04 (one year ago) link
The Fragile is now as old as Aja was at the time of the review, but nobody bothers to make fun of aging Gen Xers except ourselves.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:31 (one year ago) link
i do wish NiN had spent a little more time working the vein of glossy bop-pop, tho
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:34 (one year ago) link
I hurt myself todayIn that ditch out in the valleyThat they're digging just for me
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
DiCrescenzo an equal opportunity misanthrope - he gave The Fragile a 2.0 five months before he wrote the Dan review!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 26 October 2022 20:45 (one year ago) link
You go back, Jack, do it againBow down before the one you serve
― blissfully unawarewolf (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 22:38 (one year ago) link
The Cuervo Goldthe fine ColumbianMake me want to fuck you like an animal
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Thursday, 27 October 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
When Black Friday comesI'm gonna dig myself a holeBlack as your soulI'd rather die than give you control.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 27 October 2022 03:27 (one year ago) link
On the water down in New OrleansMy baby's the pearl of the quarterShe's a charmer like you've never seenSinging: "starfuckers incorporated"
― Florin Cuchares, Thursday, 27 October 2022 06:36 (one year ago) link
i love the other thread title. "People fought" cracks me up
― flopson, Thursday, 27 October 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link