What Are You Listening To ~ Dec. 2019
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Now playing Steely Dan - Aja. Over 40 years later it still takes me away every time.
Done up in blueprint blue
It sure looks good on you
And when you smile for the camera
I know I’ll love you better
Peg
Jay Graydon’s guitar solo on Peg is a grad class in taste, style, harmony and groove in very few notes. Michael McDonald’s stacked vocal harmonies in the chorus are mind blowing. The whole song is a masterpiece of arrangement, harmony and performance masquerading as a pop tune. Just my opinion.
Done up in blueprint blue
It sure looks good on you
And when you smile for the camera
I know I’ll love you better
Peg
Jay Graydon’s guitar solo on Peg is a grad class in taste, style, harmony and groove in very few notes. Michael McDonald’s stacked vocal harmonies in the chorus are mind blowing. The whole song is a masterpiece of arrangement, harmony and performance masquerading as a pop tune. Just my opinion.
Did you know that Steely Dan used different guitarists for different songs, suiting them to the song, possibly different guitarists on the same track? Have you seen that clip where MCDonald complains about their required pronunciation of "ch," I think it was. You listen to their work and it's always a leg up from anyone else's. I listened to them exclusively for about 6 mos. and was happy to find their later work as well as the many concerts they did, Fagen with or without Becker. It's hard to imagine all the talent ending up an exit, needle in arm. Used to be that the culture of poverty and musicians in general were at risk; now it's everywhere.
I know this thread is full of wretched sinners (you know who you are).
If you can't dig this gospel, God help you.
If you can't dig this gospel, God help you.
Yeah, they’d have what amounts to completely different bands doing different takes of a single track. Frequently it was the drums that would make or break it. Graydon didn’t even know his solo got used until he heard it on the radio. Walter and Donald were Perfectionists with a clear vision of what they were after. Their engineer, Roger Nichols, was in a league of his own. At one point he wrote a drum sequencer in assembly language to get a sound he was trying to get. His all analogue recordings still sound better than most anything else that was contemporary. Most people would’ve created sterile perfection but The Dan produced records that grooved. IMO.
Currently listening to The Rolling Stones ~ Beggars Banquet. ?
That's it exactly.
I can only speak of the music I know well...and out of those, there are some other bands and solo artists who may have achieved non-sterile perfection on one or two albums, but only SD pulled it off on their entire catalog.
"Sargent Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
Bill Cosby...not the Beatles but, Bill Cosby. Yep,THAT Bill Cosby.
I found it (unfortunately) on another forum and, although it doesn't quite reach Yoko's high-water mark, it would surely be in the top 5 worst recordings ever.
Let's just say I warned you and leave it at that.
Bill Cosby...not the Beatles but, Bill Cosby. Yep,THAT Bill Cosby.
I found it (unfortunately) on another forum and, although it doesn't quite reach Yoko's high-water mark, it would surely be in the top 5 worst recordings ever.
Let's just say I warned you and leave it at that.
LOL ... I might have lived my entire life without knowing this. Fascinating. It's a strange world.
But I suppose if William Shatner could do all of those covers, why not Cosby? LOL
Currently listening to the Small Faces ~ Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake.
Listening to a random mix of Merle Haggard songs, mostly pulled from his numerous “best of“ albums.
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