oyrgawd wrote:

kerble wrote:

oyrgawd wrote:when I'm shopping for a white belt

haha. liar.

I shit you not. The first time I heard anything from the stellar Morph The Cat was in Marshall Field's when I was looking for a white belt to go with my seersucker suit. Found a nice chapeau right there too.

oh. ok. I was thinking of the white belts the emo kids love these days, (not suit couture), and it didn't make any sense.

Morph is good, though?

Scott-

I stand by "musicless". Of course the word is retarded. Steely Dan warrants the creation of a new, completely retarded word because attempting to discuss their music is like trying to discuss Joan Rivers' natural beauty. Just about impossible with our limited lexicon.

Absolute shit, pure and simple.

kerble wrote:

oyrgawd wrote:

kerble wrote:

oyrgawd wrote:when I'm shopping for a white belt

haha. liar.

I shit you not. The first time I heard anything from the stellar Morph The Cat was in Marshall Field's when I was looking for a white belt to go with my seersucker suit. Found a nice chapeau right there too.

oh. ok. I was thinking of the white belts the emo kids love these days, (not suit couture), and it didn't make any sense.

Morph is good, though?

I've had Morph The Cat on heavy rotation for weeks now. Don goes nuts with the vocal layering and harmonies. Very good. Very smooth.

Sample it here.

itchy mcgoo wrote:Scott-

I stand by "musicless". Of course the word is retarded. Steely Dan warrants the creation of a new, completely retarded word because attempting to discuss their music is like trying to discuss Joan Rivers' natural beauty. Just about impossible with our limited lexicon.

NO! STOP TALKING LIKE THAT!

Seriously Beff, if you could get some drinks in you, nice and drinkey, and then have Bodhisattva come on and you don't get to dancing, well then, hey, the hell do I know?

And yeah, definitely don't listen to the words! I don't think they're very good on that one. But I can see you dancing to it, Beff. I can see you tipsy and unable to resist, it's got such a silly fun swing to it.

Beff, we need to get you drinked up, and get that song on the muzak system in the grocery store, and dammit, you're gonna be unable to keep from dancing with the guy stocking the shelves. I *PROMISE*

Scott-

1. You are admitting it would take a combination of alcohol and a tuning out of the lyrics for me to enjoy this band.

2. Hire a bodyguard, I seriously want to beat you. You are the embodiment of the "no, you should like it" Dan fan.

3. I am a stubborn motherfucker, but I will take this challenge if bumble agrees to endure it with me. I am not afraid of being wrong. For reals, EA night at the Goldstar, with the Dan stacked on the jukebox after libations are imbibed. I'll listen. And I'll listen to all of you mofos try and tell me what the fuck you hear in there and I'll listen for that.

Then we can drink and thumbwrestle and talk about the 2006 4th quarter concert schedule.

edit-i repeat words and spell poorly.

If I remember correctly (and I do), bumble danced to the Dan on accident at Gold Star last time.


haha.

itchy mcgoo wrote: EA night at the Goldstar

Is the Goldstar taking its name from BSA?

That's a namedrop I'm OK with.

kerble wrote:

itchy mcgoo wrote:The only thing I hate worse than this wretched, slick, utterly fucking worthless band is the chorus of it's minions telling me "I don't get it". Fuck. You.

I get it.
It's CRAP. The worst CRAP i have ever heard. I would ride Greyhound for six months straight through the American South than have to hear an entire album side of this coked-out musicless music.

recall the "either you like it or don't" paradigm I pointed out in my first post on this thread. I don't think you 'dont' get it', I just think you 'don't like it'. s'fine.

This is good! And this is the way a discussion of this or any band should go. But a Steely Dan conversation frequently takes another path, one in which the fan insists you don't "get it" and then attempt to sell you on the hooey lyrics while admitting that the music is wanky slick shit.

This is especially amusing to me when it happens after I say that I just can't fucking stand the sound of the band. The next sentence is usually something akin to listening past the music and appreciating the "subversion"/irony/wool-pulling.

Which to me sounds like justification. Or qualification. I'm not saying it's mean, and I know it's born of a love of this band. It's prominent when it comes to these turkeys. Here is something of an example:

BadComrade wrote:

itchy mcgoo wrote:Steely Dan would be the ideal soundtrack for my murderous rampage to follow.

God, I hate Steely Dan.

That's just... depressing. As witty as you appear to be, you should totally appreciate those guys. I mean, how can you have no appreciation for a band who named themselves after a steam-powered dildo, and write lyrics like:

"Well I've kicked around a lot since high school
I've worked a lot of nowhere gigs
From keyboard man in a rock'n ska band
...

Also, bumble claims to have been "deaf-drunk" during the dancing to the Dan. Dancing to Dan while deaf-drunk does not equal Dan love. Especially when one's dance partner is persuasive and wears assless chaps when asking for a twirl.

vockins--we actually get together and race BSA's. Well, I smoke everyone on my Vincent Black Shadow. You thought we just hung out and drank at some bar?

BSA? wazzat?

Goldstar is just a local dive. it's nice. free pool. often empty. reasonable drinks.