I don't think their music is crap. I'd assume many of the people that voted 'NC' feel the same way. There is absolutely no irony in my enjoyment of music ever. I have no respect for people who enjoy music ironically.
I think some of their melodies and phrasings are downright beautiful. the verses for Boston Rag are gorgeous (the chorus does suck ass, though). They write great pop songs.
Band: Steely Dan
82BadComrade wrote:Have you ever listened to Wild Planet by the B-52s, or do you just hate them for the stupid "Rock Lobster" and "Love Shack" songs? If you can only answer "yes" to the latter, then I understand.
I've got a B-52's live bootleg that will slay your fucking face off... After hearing it for the first time, I realized that Ricky Wilson's guitar playing was never properly captured on record, or the band's true energy for that matter.
The B52's were not a "shitty band".
Fuck, now I have to upload that B-52's show to the gmail account, cause I know someone out there's gonna wanna hear it.
I have to cop to the fact that I hate them for everything I have heard, even the albums that people have said were the 'good ones'. I dont' know the names, so it's entirely possible that there are 'good ones' that I would like.
Band: Steely Dan
84kerble wrote:so are you saying you dislike the music in an ironic way?
Huh?
I dislike it because it sounds like shit.
Band: Steely Dan
85vockins wrote:I know this band sucks.
Steely Dan is elevator music. You know how I know that? I hear it in elevators.
It is a soundtrack to buying carrots. I don't give a shit if the lyrics are about setting Jimmy Carter on fire and getting a Khmer Rouge donkey to fuck the carbonized corpse in the ass. People open home equity loans in Kansas to this band. That's not subversive, that's just fucking CRAP.
(Is subversive code for crap now?)
The namechecking this band does is nauseating. It appeals to some kind of comic book store mentality - a series of in jokes designed to keep let everyone that owns the decoder ring into the secret Steely Dan Skull & Bones society. I could care less about Bard and that fucking train. Namechecking Charle Parker doesn't make the band any better. My rock-n-roll doesn't need a goddamn owner's manual. Steely Dan should namecheck Walgreens on the next record, since 99% of their audience associates "Reelin' In The Years" with getting a prescription filled or buying some paper towels.
CRAP, with the exception of the previously maligned "My Old School", which is great.
Salut, vockins.
This is tremendous.
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.
Utilizing "subversion" is a dim trick anyway.
Ooooh, they're sneaking in sleaze and middle America doesn't get it! Ha!Ha!
This is no acheivement, chooches!
How much of rock n' roll is about sex and drugs and weird underbellies? You're creating value in hidden messages to justify your love of souless jass rock!
Steaming pile, this band. THE WORST.
H-GM wrote:Still don't make you mexican, Dances With Burros.
Band: Steely Dan
86I was just foolin, bigc, since you copped to unawaredness about B52s.
No?
would that invalidate:
[winky]
nitpickingly yours,
Faiz
vockins wrote:My rock-n-roll doesn't need a goddamn owner's manual.
No?
would that invalidate:
vockins wrote:Foolproof asshole tests:
1. Doesn't like the Minutemen
[winky]
nitpickingly yours,
Faiz
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kerble is right.
Band: Steely Dan
87BadComrade wrote:Fuck, now I have to upload that B-52's show to the gmail account, cause I know someone out there's gonna wanna hear it.
You're right.
Band: Steely Dan
88kerble wrote:would that invalidate:vockins wrote:Foolproof asshole tests:
1. Doesn't like the Minutemen
The Minutemen don't require the manual.
Band: Steely Dan
89vockins wrote:kerble wrote:would that invalidate:vockins wrote:Foolproof asshole tests:
1. Doesn't like the Minutemen
The Minutemen don't require the manual.
nor does Steely Dan require the fan-built site you linked to, compadre.
it's some jackass making some dumb website to let people know what a "54 Strat" is when they refer to it in a song. it's a point of reference that has nothing to do with the music, just like the Pedrospeak glossary for Minutemen/Watt lyrics.
kerble is right.
Band: Steely Dan
90itchy mcgoo wrote:...this coked-out musicless music.
Um, you just called Steely Dan "musicless". What exactly qualifies something as musicful? I think you kinda picked a bad choice of words here. Their skill as musicians and the density of some of their compositions and relative sparsity of others makes it kinda tough to call them "musicless" and not seem, um, like somebody who doesn't understand what the word "music" actually means.
What *specifically* does a music-ful band deliver that these guys don't? Melodies? Harmonies? Straight-up rock songs? Horn sections? Face-melting guitar solos?
They kinda have all of that stuff.
PS - I
you, but seriously, "musicless"? C'mon. C'mon."The bastards have landed"
www.myspace.com/thechromerobes - now has a couple songs from the new album
www.myspace.com/thechromerobes - now has a couple songs from the new album