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I'm sitting here listening to the title song on Launchcast, and it suddenly strikes me how fuckin' fantastic this song is! Why did it take me so long? It just didn't "hit" me before...
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Re: Everything Must Go
Mon, September 13, 2004 - 6:35 PMSD Music is very subtle. It seems so pop accessible until you hear what Walter Becker and Donald Fagen are really doing and an whole other level opens up. That's happened to me with a number of their songs. And if you take in account They've contract different musicians for different songs, each song has a unique style and sense much like a painting. -
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Re: Everything Must Go
Tue, September 14, 2004 - 1:11 PMHeh. I think I already went on in another post somewhere in this tribe about how EMG was a real stealth album for me, in that the first listen or so was nice but didn't really grab me, or so I thought--until I realized that several of the songs had gotten stuck in my head like glue. And then on subsequent listenings more of all that subtle stuff began opening up to me and really taking over my brain in earnest.
FWIW, Gaucho was that way for me too. I did *not* appreciate that album when it first came out; it took several years for me to mature enough to fall in love with it properly, and now I wonder what in hell possessed me that I didn't used to care for it. -
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Re: Everything Must Go
Tue, September 14, 2004 - 6:20 PM
Funny, 'cause "Gaucho" had me on the first listen! Not a song on that album I do not like.
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Re: Everything Must Go
Wed, September 15, 2004 - 1:20 PMYeah, well, I was still a twenty-something rocker-grrl when Gaucho first came out, and so was in the wrong mindset to appreciate its mellowness--much more into the Dan's earlier harder-rocking albums then. That's what I meant about my maturing enough to appreciate Gaucho--I had to get over my punk-rawk 'tude and open my mind a bit more to the jazzer side of the Dan's influences. Now "Babylon Sisters" is up near the top of my Dan faves. Still don't care all that much for "Hey Nineteen" -- but I have become fond of it through the Dan's live shows since the 90s, mainly because of the amusing little spoken-word thingies Donald would do in the middle of that song, about hitting the beach with a girlfriend, a sleeping bag, some excellent reefer, and..."what's that tequila called, girls?" :-) -
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Re: Everything Must Go
Thu, September 16, 2004 - 12:57 PM"The Cuervo Gold...The Fine Columbian" You know, by the way, that one line has been mangled by dedicated fan and casual listeners alike. There's a book of mangled song lyrics and that's one of them.
I think with "Everything Must Go", It is the fact of new elements are in place and Donald and Walter are using new recording technology and music styles. Donald is employing sounds he perfected from Kamakiriad and previous albums and Walter from "11 tracks of whack". Both from producing
for themselves and other has helped them hone and refine these elements so you really have to listen a little closer and trust them(heh,Heh). "I thought about "Almost Gothic" and after the first few plays, I began to uncover the lyrical and musical references their making. With it's slow tempo is deceptive and subtle masks all of what has happened in that song. I think you feel it more that you hear it which is same thing in terms "Everything Must Go" and so many other their classics songs. -
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Re: Everything Must Go
Sun, May 28, 2006 - 1:17 PMMy favorite tracks on EMG are "The Things I Miss The Most" and the title song. There's nothing I DON'T like, but those two stand out for me. Love that sax. I played this disc two or three times a day for months when it first came out. Been listening to Fagen's KAMAKIRIAD lately.
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