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Steely Dan – Remastered!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kaxMrzrkzwI

So you like the Dan, eh? Are you just a greatest hits guy or do you know the secret handshake? Here's two that never got put on Gaucho. Lotta people don't even know these songs exists....

https://youtu.be/Vedh5kOFVPU

https://youtu.be/mx7mmRhG-Vg

promethean75 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 14, 2022 11:35 pm So you like the Dan, eh? Are you just a greatest hits guy or do you know the secret handshake? Here's two that never got put on Gaucho. Lotta people don't even know these songs exists....

https://youtu.be/Vedh5kOFVPU

https://youtu.be/mx7mmRhG-Vg

Those are new to me.

Never got past pop fandom with them. Don't even know much about them. Two people? One people? Looks like two from that photo.

Whoever they are, they are their music to most.

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I.G.Y.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3 ... hy&index=1

On that train all graphite and glitter
Undersea by rail
Ninety minutes from New York to Paris
(more leisure for artists everywhere)
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We'll be clean when their work is done
We'll be eternally free yes and eternally young


What a beautiful world this will be
What a glorious time to be free


Walk Between Raindrops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJRc4RZPqE

Yeah, the 'band' is essentially Fagen and Becker, who met in college, but several musicians (who came and went) were part of the project over the years.

Taxi ride with the fellas: https://youtu.be/ZXhUoP9tJGU

Donald's such a boss. I fuckin love that guy. At one time I was set on driving up to Jersey to try and meet em. I know he's got a studio at the house, so I wanted to get in there and play a few with him on drums.

Here's another not-so-popular one: https://youtu.be/TDZdNr9PHao

Whatever it is, their stuff is always so pristine, polished and perfectly arranged... and the vocal harmonies are unforgettable. Definitely in my handful of favorite bands.

p.s. not a fan of Becker's solo stuff at all. Really Fagen was the heart and brains of the operation, while Becker was a good guitarist and engineer. If you decide to dig in, know that 'two against nature' was their last good album, so listen to all the old stuff when they're in their prime.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 16, 2022 7:17 am
Whatever it is, their stuff is always so pristine, polished and perfectly arranged... and the vocal harmonies are unforgettable.

Well said. That's what I like about them, too.

Obviously then, likable is an objective thing independently recognized or discovered ... rather than a projection of personal taste.

And what is that thing recognized or discovered?
Order.

Surely, you must agree.

This Part keeps returning.
Best at a higher volume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WrP_9Jpfkc

Lee Dorsey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7ND17Zf68s

Bob Dylan - Boogie Woogie Country Girl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjd5fo6XVow

The bodhisattva song.

Solomon Burke - "None Of Us Are Free"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edaz7CUAZg8

“None of us are free, if one of us are chained
None of us are free”

R.I.P Meatloaf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wO8tox ... atLoafVEVO

Oh no, I should have checked with the morally-pristine neo-puritans to make sure that he was 'morally sound' before posting that

I saw Marvin on his Hang Cool Teddy Bear tour

He will be missed

-Imp

I never liked Meatloaf, and anytime I heard it I was begging someone to make it stop. He was like a regular dude who shouldn't have been in a band but could be because he appealed so much to a huge audience of regular dudes who also wished they could be rockers. I find the music excessively mediocre... er, I mean meatiocre. Obnoxious too, and not in a good way.

promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat Jan 22, 2022 12:10 am I never liked Meatloaf, and anytime I heard it I was begging someone to make it stop. He was like a regular dude who shouldn't have been in a band but could be because he appealed so much to a huge audience of regular dudes who also wished they could be rockers. I find the music excessively mediocre... er, I mean meatiocre. Obnoxious too, and not in a good way.

Hmm, I've seen your 'taste' in music. Meat loaf had a terrific voice in his prime and epitomised an era along with Jim Steinman.

Lol holy shit I just found out that Todd Rundgren produced Bat Out of Hell and I can totally hear it now. It's like a dumbed down version of something Utopia would do.