The verdict on Steely Dan's "Aja"

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  • hah.
    If you girl knows how to whisper "choke me, but not too hard" I might be able to jump to such a task, but only if Daze is down for the filming (no fluffer).


  • Phill_MostPhill_Most 4,594 Posts
    i keep hearing dudes talk about "doctor's office music" (which i happen to enjoy immensely, BTW), but that schitt "Peg" went hard in the streets back when it came out. In the hood, the ghet-to, the "urban" areas. The skreetz!

    I think dudes who came up soft can't stand soft music, dudes who came up hard NEED some soft music... to some degree, anyway. Makes sense to me.


  • I think dudes who came up soft can't stand soft music, dudes who came up hard NEED some soft music.




    Plus, whoever that guy is talking about "am I the only one on earth who gets a violent reaction anytime I hear Steely Dan" sounds softer than a Vassar grad.

  • MjukisMjukis 1,675 Posts
    This would certainly explain the fondness for Coldplay and later Phil Collins and Sting efforts among certain rappers and hiphop moguls. I totally understand what people like about Steely Dan, it just isn't for me.

  • All I'm sayin is, If I want soft, I will fuck with soem Sade and not Steely... sometimes hood is not an authority on good, seen.

  • sometimes hood is not an authority on good, seen.

    Well, I would certainly have to agree with you there (I think moreso today than ever).
    But that goes for all music.


    And not for nothing, but I like (scratch that, love) Sade too.
    Also, Sade is definitely not soft, duke!!

  • wooshiewooshie 490 Posts
    There's no such thing as a perfect take.

    Doing 100 takes is pure overkill, and by the 100th take, I don't care how good your ear is, you're not gonna have the clear mind to distinguish the difference between those takes because you've heard it way too fucking much. you're just treating your under paid session muscians like slaves.

    BUT this record is pretty close to perfect.


  • Two of the best song writers ever. so essential.

  • I just check the Steely Dan threads to watch Marco go off.

  • Classic

    Timeless


  • sticky_dojahsticky_dojah New York City. 2,136 Posts
    I think dudes who came up soft can't stand soft music, dudes who came up hard NEED some soft music... to some degree, anyway. Makes sense to me.




    "PLAY SOME OF THIS SADE SHIT....NOW!!!!!"

  • "Josie" is the best song.

    Fuckin haters.

    This is the day of the expanding man
    That shape is my shade
    There where I used to stand
    It seems like only yesterday
    I gazed through the glass
    At ramblers, wild gamblers
    That's all in the past

    You call me a fool
    You say it's a crazy scheme
    This one's for real
    I already bought the dream
    So useless to ask me why
    Throw a kiss and say goodbye
    I'll make it this time
    I'm ready to cross that fine line

    I'll learn to work the saxaphone
    I play just what I feel
    Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
    And die behind the wheel
    They got a name for the winners in the world
    And I want a name when I lose
    They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
    Call me Deacon Blues

    My back to the wall
    A victim of laughing chance
    This is for me
    The essence of true romance
    Sharing the things we know and love
    With those of my kind
    Libations
    Sensations
    That stagger the mind

    I crawl like a viper
    Through these suburban streets
    Make love to these women
    Languid and bittersweet
    I'll rise when the sun goes down
    Cover every game in town
    A world of my own
    I'll make it my home sweet home

    (refrain)
    This is the night of the expanding man
    I take one last drag
    As I approach the stand
    I cried when I wrote this song
    Sue me if I play too long
    This brother is free
    I'll be what I want to be

  • edpowersedpowers 4,437 Posts
    I think dudes who came up soft can't stand soft music, dudes who came up hard NEED some soft music... to some degree, anyway. Makes sense to me.


  • 33thirdcom33thirdcom 2,049 Posts
    sometimes hood is not an authority on good, seen.

    Well, I would certainly have to agree with you there (I think moreso today than ever).
    But that goes for all music.


    And not for nothing, but I like (scratch that, love) Sade too.
    Also, Sade is definitely not soft, duke!!


    cosign...

    Steely Dan is great... Aja is Great...

    Sade is extraordinary...

  • white_teawhite_tea 3,262 Posts

    Sade is extraordinary...

    She ain't no ordinary love.

    Sorry, I had to say it.

  • DJ_EnkiDJ_Enki 6,473 Posts

    Plus, whoever that guy is talking about "am I the only one on earth who gets a violent reaction anytime I hear Steely Dan" sounds softer than a Vassar grad.

    Oh, schnap! Paul Nice just called you Arsenio!

  • frenziefrenzie 174 Posts
    i think Tim Maia included it in his list in a recent issue of wax poetics.

    It was Ed Motta.
    Tim Maia is dead

  • jaymackjaymack 5,199 Posts
    WHO EMBEDDED THAT AUDIO AND HOW????

    scared the fuck outta me!!!!


  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts


    YACHT ROCK CLASSIC!


  • asprinasprin 1,765 Posts
    EMBED src="http://www.solidsoundsystem.com/audio/steelydansucks.mp3" autostart=true hidden=true

    nice one Marco. I'm a Steelyn Dan lover and am not ashamed to say it. Aja gets slapped on very often in my household.


  • This record (and some fine Colombian) got me through my freshman year in college (1980-81). I prefer The Royal Scam but still love this album twenty five years (and twenty five genres) later.

  • SnagglepusSnagglepus 1,756 Posts
    THERE'S A REASON PUNK WAS INVENTED AND STEELY DAN WAS IT.

    Hee hee hee. Though I think the secret source of punk was Pat Metheny:



  • DrWuDrWu 4,021 Posts
    I see in my absence last week the haters got loose again. I will go over this one more time for the little dudes out there. What makes Steely Dan great is that there are writing some subersive type shit over soft rock jams. Do not be fooled by doctor's office format this music is nasty. If mother fuckers were playing this shit on acoustic guitars, you all would be calling them Dylanesque. Nice up to my fellow strutters who set them straight. Like the bumper sticker says, No Dan, No Peace- Know Dan, Know Peace



    Daddy don't live in that New York City
    No more
    He don't celebrate Sunday on a Saturday night
    No more
    Daddy don't need no lock and key
    For the piece he stowed
    Out on Avenue D
    Daddy don't live in that New York City
    No more
    Daddy don't drive in that Eldorado
    No more
    He don't travel on down to the neighborhood
    Liquor store
    Lucy still loves her coke and rum
    But she sits alone
    'Cause her daddy can't come
    Daddy don't drive in that Eldorado
    No more

    Driving like a fool out to Hackensack
    Drinking his dinner from a paper sack
    He says I gotta see a joker
    And I'll be right back

    Daddy don't live in that New York City
    No more
    He can't get tight every night
    Pass out on the barroom floor
    Daddy can't get no fine cigar
    But we know you're smoking
    Wherever you are
    Daddy don't live in that New York City
    No more

  • deejdeej 5,125 Posts
    Best Steely Dan song is "My Old School" without question.

  • Best Steely Dan song is "My Old School" without question.

    Don't cut it short or you'll miss some fresh Denny Diaz guitar licks on the fadeout......

  • Big_StacksBig_Stacks "I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
    "Josie" is the best song on .

    Fuckin haters.

    This is the day of the expanding man
    That shape is my shade
    There where I used to stand
    It seems like only yesterday
    I gazed through the glass
    At ramblers, wild gamblers
    That's all in the past

    You call me a fool
    You say it's a crazy scheme
    This one's for real
    I already bought the dream
    So useless to ask me why
    Throw a kiss and say goodbye
    I'll make it this time
    I'm ready to cross that fine line

    I'll learn to work the saxaphone
    I play just what I feel
    Drink Scotch whiskey all night long
    And die behind the wheel
    They got a name for the winners in the world
    And I want a name when I lose
    They call Alabama the Crimson Tide
    Call me Deacon Blues

    My back to the wall
    A victim of laughing chance
    This is for me
    The essence of true romance
    Sharing the things we know and love
    With those of my kind
    Libations
    Sensations
    That stagger the mind

    I crawl like a viper
    Through these suburban streets
    Make love to these women
    Languid and bittersweet
    I'll rise when the sun goes down
    Cover every game in town
    A world of my own
    I'll make it my home sweet home

    (refrain)
    This is the night of the expanding man
    I take one last drag
    As I approach the stand
    I cried when I wrote this song
    Sue me if I play too long
    This brother is free
    I'll be what I want to be

    Actually, these lyrics are from "Deacon Blues" (from Aja), which I do on occasion at karaoke.

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak

  • kicks79kicks79 1,338 Posts
    Slightly off topic but this is a pic of the dj booth in a resturant that a friend of mine plays at. They just had all these steely dan records on the wall. You can't see from the pic but under the decks are just stacks of records that you can dig through and play if you feel like.





  • Actually, these lyrics are from "Deacon Blues" (from Aja), which I do on occasion at karaoke.

    Peace,

    Big Stacks from Kakalak

    No doubt. Didn't mean to imply I was posting Josie. We need Big Stacks doin karaoke "Deacon Blues" up on YouTube, stat! You gotta really sleaze it up when you do that one bro.


  • I've cut up doubles of 'peg' many times, and have seen it keep a dancefloor full on many an occassion,

    and cut up black cow more than a few times, albeit sped up....classic,

    but I've never listened to the album all the way through, I am going to do so.
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