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tntracy
06-13-2003, 10:44 PM
OK, all you Steely Dan fans out there who haven't heard their new album, "Everything Must Go", yet.
Just let me say, ###en and Becker still have it.
In spades.
I just bought the CD today and I love it after only one listen. Highly recommended!
Tom
ashawley
06-14-2003, 02:52 AM
Really? That's great! Man, I gotta go get it. I've recently been rediscovering Steely Dan. I'm proud to say Aja was the first album I ever owned as a wee little tyke. ;)
Adam
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll head over to Amazon and add it to my pending book order. I've liked Steely Dan since I bought Cant' Buy a Thrill on vinyl.
richard
06-15-2003, 09:40 AM
Sounds like generic Steely Dan to me. Very good, but nothing new and exciting.
tntracy
06-15-2003, 11:50 PM
Originally posted by richard
Sounds like generic Steely Dan to me. Very good, but nothing new and exciting.
And that's a bad thing??? :confused:
Tom
Ah, Steely Dan - one of my all time favourites.
I am a great SD follower, almost up there with Dave Matthews in the number of albums I have.
"Can't Buy A Thrill", "Countdown to Ecstasy" and "Pretzel Logic" are still my favs.
I think the time has come to get digital versions of my LP's (long playing records for you young uns:D) so I can load my iPod with some great classics.
A little story - my wife visited her brother in LA a few years back (I had to stay home) and just before she came home he managed to get tickets for a concert in the Hollywood Bowl. She didn't know who she was going to see but just told me they were going to a gig.
When I spoke to her next and asked who she had seen, she replied "Oh, Steely Dan - bunch of old guys standing around on stage - boring" :eek::rolleyes:
It was only the anniversary SD concert or some such important milestone!!
Boring!!!
Aaaaarrrrgggghhhhh :)
Palazzo
06-19-2003, 05:50 PM
Agreement!
It's sounding much better than any of the recent band/solo efforts, at least on the first few listens, with the title track sounding like a candidate for any Best of.
We'll see how time treats it, though. But for now it's a top-of-the-playlists fixture.
Accompanying DVD of an interview in a cab pretty entertaining too - Becker and ###en talking about Essex girls! Surreal!
tntracy
06-20-2003, 04:08 PM
Originally posted by Palazzo
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Accompanying DVD of an interview in a cab pretty entertaining too - Becker and ###en talking about Essex girls! Surreal!
WHAT "accompanying DVD"!?! I didn't get one! :mad:
Tom
Tom,
There appears to be 2 versions for sale - you seem to have one version and Palazzo has the other - not a lot to differentiate between the two 'cept for a piddley wee sticker. Oh and a price hike!!
Palazzo
06-20-2003, 04:42 PM
Originally posted by tntracy
WHAT "accompanying DVD"!?! I didn't get one! :mad:
Tom
Well, it's not essential stuff. It added 2 quid to the price but as I was ordering it from the States it was still cheaper than us poor Brits usually pay.
It's a twenty-odd minute interview of the chaps by a Las Vagas cabbie woman - hardly searching stuff, but odd, as I say, because other passengers are taken in (mostly young females) including some Brits and a girl with a snake, and another girl with the intellectual capacity of a snake.
tntracy
06-20-2003, 04:51 PM
Ah, thanks guys. I guess I didn't miss much.
But the smake does sound intriguing! :D
Tom
cjett
06-21-2003, 06:34 AM
The accompaning DVD is a spin-off of a late night show on HBO (for those outside the US, HBO is the pay station responsible for The Sopranos, Sex and the City, etc), called Taxi Cab Confessions. They put hidden cameras in the cabs, and the cab drivers spur the riders, via questions, to say and do "interesting things". The cab driving woman in the Steely Dan short is a regular on the HBO show.
Very Steely Dan, tounge in cheek-type of humour, that obviously did not translate very well to the parts of the world who have not seen the original.
cjett
Podunk
06-28-2003, 11:25 AM
Tom,
Thanks for the tip. I had most of the old stuff, at least all the "Best of"
Two Against Nature didn't really grab me. I'm loving Everthing Must Go. Fun, good tunes, and excellent production. Its made for listening on the iPod. (Similar to ###en's Kamakiriad).
I listen to all kinds of music and this is probably my favorite so far this year, at least measured by listening time.
Thanks again.
Well I purchased the latest offering of ###en and Becker and initial impressions are it is more finger popping and foot tapping than "2 Against Nature" - certainly a nice selection of tunes and expect it will grow on every listen.
Well I carried out a rather unscientific test this morning with this album. I ripped it to iTunes using AAC (first album I have done this with) and I was interested to compare the ripped track with the original as AAC is supposed to be a better format.
So with the CD in my PC and iPod ready to go I started both album versions at the same time.
Now admittedly I wasn't using the same 'phones on each player but it was a rough comparison only - I had Apple earbuds on the PC and EX70's on the iPod.
There was absolutley no difference between the two tracks. Syncing them was fun, and I noticed by the midpoint of the first track the iPod had actually gone ahead of the PC by a beat or two!! Must be my old PC running slow :)
The EX70's sounded as good as the Apple 'buds, which are good 'phones, just hard to get a good fit.
Now I just have to go through my iTunes library re-ripping everything to AAC :(