Re: Band: Steely Dan
61Dansplaining.
We're headed for social anarchy when people start pissing on bookstores.
Re: Band: Steely Dan
63Stealing dansplaining...
Apart from the fact that they're called Steely Dan.Wood Goblin wrote: Wed Feb 08, 2023 9:15 am There was no secret filth being snuck onto easy-listening radio.
Re: Band: Steely Dan
66Beautiful. Dansplaining deserves to become a thing. I hate Steely Dan unapologetically, but now I want to learn everything I can, so I can torture people in social settings.
(is that girl holding a hedgehog?)
Re: Band: Steely Dan
67Love them, always have, one of the last bands I'd ever try to defend or even talk about.
I don't understand caring about what other people like when it comes to art. It's odd. There's something lame and embarrassing about it. Groupthink.
I don't understand caring about what other people like when it comes to art. It's odd. There's something lame and embarrassing about it. Groupthink.
Re: Band: Steely Dan
68They are one of the last bands one should bother foisting on the unconvinced, in so far as a one should bother foisting any band on the unconvinced.
Something about 'em . . . a switch is either on or off for most people. Not a breadth of middle ground. Fewer shades of gray than most popular bands, at any rate. A person usually either comes to the music of their own volition, or they don't, with whatever prodding being less important if it has an effect at all.
I even noticed it live, at the show I saw last summer (which was great, for those sympathetic to such music). Some people, maybe most in attendance, pretty into it, if somewhat reserved at times. Others (the unsuspecting or people's dates/wingmen/etc.), grinning and bearing it. No booing or groaning, but a certain distance (shifting in their seats, sitting when everyone else was standing, etc.).
Whatevs. Music be like that. Nothing to get bent out of shape over.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Something about 'em . . . a switch is either on or off for most people. Not a breadth of middle ground. Fewer shades of gray than most popular bands, at any rate. A person usually either comes to the music of their own volition, or they don't, with whatever prodding being less important if it has an effect at all.
I even noticed it live, at the show I saw last summer (which was great, for those sympathetic to such music). Some people, maybe most in attendance, pretty into it, if somewhat reserved at times. Others (the unsuspecting or people's dates/wingmen/etc.), grinning and bearing it. No booing or groaning, but a certain distance (shifting in their seats, sitting when everyone else was standing, etc.).
Whatevs. Music be like that. Nothing to get bent out of shape over.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: Band: Steely Dan
69Headline: "old edgelord yells at cloud"
Trey Wrote: "How great must a thread be to miss such a thing? Beans on the penis great, I suppose"
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70For me SD's music is vaguely evocative of 1970s dinner parties of my youth. It reminds me of being down at knee level while grownups enjoyed wine and banter. A vaguely familiar aroma would fill the air from time to time. Friendly warm socializing and smooth grooves in the background. 'Gaucho' mostly.
I 100% get the grossness but it's a fond sense memory nevertheless. NOT CRAP.
I 100% get the grossness but it's a fond sense memory nevertheless. NOT CRAP.