re: Someone on the MB get me into Steely Dan

So the song "Charlie Freak" is a REALLY good song

I love when I listen to a relatively new artist (to me anyway) and find a deep cut on an album that really clicks with me

The little things in life

Hey dan, can triumvirate collaborate on a chillwave thread?

don't act like youre above it. who doesnt like blasting some Active Child?

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I tried firing one up awhile back but it never caught on...I'm looking to share and learn about more chillwave artists

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yea, probably because there are only like six posters on this website with good taste in music. hard to get good threads going

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I thought that was like the whole point of this board

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well yea but eventually we become even too jaded for the most jaded posters on this board. i think we are reaching that threshhold. its getting bad

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And I also strongly agree about Fagan's solo album The Nightfly, its basically a Steely Dan album. Green Flower Street and IGY are great songs.

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I always loved "The Goodbye Look". The lyrics crack me up, and the music is just so damn bouncy.

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I always loved "The Goodbye Look". The lyrics crack me up, and the music is just so damn bouncy.

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Me too. "Would you pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen?"

My favorite off The Nightfly is either the title track or New Frontier. The Nightfly (song) is about a late-night jazz and talk show DJ. The way he worked in the radio jingle (Double-u jay ay zeeeeee) is brilliant. New Frontier is about a party in a fallout shelter. The part where he's talking to a girl he likes about Brubeck and he slips in "I like your eyes, I like him too." is very clever.

New Frontier
The Nightfly

the worst line in music history? the best!

i have never read up on what the lyrics mean, but I think this song has some of the all time best, in fact the lyrics are one of the major draws of this band (Captain Obvious)

Excepts:

"...On the hill the stuff was laced with kerosene
But yours was kitchen clean
Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home
Every A-Frame had your number on the wall
You must have had it all
You'd go to L.A. on a dare
And you'd go it alone..."

"you'd go to L A on a dare and you'd go it alone..." pretty classic

and this:


"...Clean this mess up else we'll all end up in jail
Those test tubes and the scale
Just get them all out of here
Is there gas in the car
Yes, there's gas in the car
I think the people down the hall
Know who you are

Careful what you carry
'Cause the man is wise
You are still an outlaw in their eyes"

many people from the 70's (and others)have had this exact experience

"is there gas in the car? yes there's gas in the car"

they are on the run

thank you