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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 3, 2017 19:32:28 GMT
....well, not as we know it. Farewell Walter Becker; another of my musical 'heroes' gone.  |
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 3, 2017 21:02:30 GMT
Funnily enough I was listening to the soundtrack of "FM"* on the way to my dog show this morning, which is where I first came across Steely Dan.
*Crap film, but an iconic soundtrack, still cuts it to this very day, and what got me into soft/jazz rock.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 21:20:09 GMT
My one regret about my experience of the music of the 60s, 70s and in some cases the 80s, is that I just didn't realise how good it was when it was happening.
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 3, 2017 21:29:23 GMT
My one regret about my experience of the music of the 60s, 70s and in some cases the 80s, is that I just didn't realise how good it was when it was happening. Nostalgia's certainly not what it used to be.......... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2017 21:49:56 GMT
My one regret about my experience of the music of the 60s, 70s and in some cases the 80s, is that I just didn't realise how good it was when it was happening. I have a solo album by Donald Fagen from the late 80s (Night Fly?) which is great. I discovered it by chance and then discovered who Steely Dan were. Great music done particularly well. RIP Mr Becker. |
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 3, 2017 21:56:58 GMT
My one regret about my experience of the music of the 60s, 70s and in some cases the 80s, is that I just didn't realise how good it was when it was happening. Nostalgia's certainly not what it used to be.......... Bon Marche as far as we can tell. |
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 4, 2017 8:28:12 GMT
I was thinking about going to see them at Bluesfest, but by the time I realised they were on (with The Doobie Brothers), the tickets had gone.
Don't think I'll wait for the returns now.
(TBH I'm not sure about Dan as a live act. They're really a studio band, and half the attraction is that every note is exactly what and where it should be - with the best live bands, the attraction is sometimes the reverse)
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Post by manatee on Sept 6, 2017 10:38:38 GMT
I have long been a fan and collector - from Can't Buy a Thrill to date
The Dan had an obsession with recording quality. Coupled with the precision performances their music can sound a bit lifeless through a less than faithful sound system. Those big Bose speakers of old could have been made for them - a pair of those and an amp with some power behind it really brought out the quality, smootheness and dynamic range. Or am I just being nostalgic?
Some of the CD reissues were poor - I have a CD copy the Royal Scam that is dreadful compared with the vinyl.
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Post by Hofmeister on Sept 6, 2017 11:34:49 GMT
They had a prodigious output tho, so naturally some of it is a little lacking in imagination, a bit samey, tho of course with a lot material there are a lot of gems.
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Post by WDB on Sept 6, 2017 19:52:50 GMT
Care to post some recommendations? Like Otto, I missed all that at the time it was current, and it's a gap in my experience I wouldn't mind filling. The first notice I took was in 2013 when Dan was namechecked as one of the style donors to the Duckworth Lewis Method's delightful Sticky Wickets.
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 6, 2017 21:00:55 GMT
Opinions will vary, but for an introduction you could do worse than 'bookend" the first era with "Can't Buy a Thrill" and "Gaucho", which are rather different in style. Aja is probably the most critically acclaimed, but not my favourite.
Of the two more recent releases, "Everything Must Go" is, IMO, the better.
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Post by Alanović on Sept 7, 2017 8:40:10 GMT
Never really twigged this band, they just sound too smooth and technical for my tastes. Easily adaptable for elevator music.
Sad that matey has died of course, RIP.
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Post by WDB on Sept 7, 2017 12:39:30 GMT
Fair criticism of Gaucho, which I played on the Thalys train to Brussels this lunchtime. Not unpleasant at all (nor was my Thalys lunch) and would probably sound great in the right sort of car on the right sort of road trip (probably not one involving the IDR.)
...Can't Buy... may suit me better. We'll find out on the Eurostar in a few minutes.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 7, 2017 13:20:25 GMT
I think you misunderstand me WDB, or I explained myself badly.
I knew all the music, but I just treated it as a matter of course. Its these days when I listen to something again and think that I remember enjoying it, I just didn't realise how good it was. More aimed at the music scene in its entirety than any one band or artist in particular.
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Post by WDB on Sept 7, 2017 18:16:26 GMT
And I think you misunderstand me, because I was replying to Vić, not you.
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