Reviews (page 9 of 9)
Je respire... C’est enfin fini. Le supplice touche à sa fin et je peux vous dire que le sentiment de soulagement est bien plus intense que n'importe quelle mélodie de cet album. Après m’être farci Aja, Can't Buy a Thrill et Pretzel Logic, j’arrive au bout de la "période Steely Dan" de ce projet. Quatre albums. Quatre fois la même sensation de vide intersidéral habillé en costume de soie. Quatre fois la note de 1 sur 5. C’est une constante, une ligne droite, un encéphalogramme plat de mon intérêt pour cette musique. Je ne vais pas tourner autour du pot : ce Countdown To Ecstasy n'a rien d'extatique. Le titre est une publicité mensongère, un appât pour gogos en quête de sensations fortes qui finissent par se retrouver devant une tasse de thé tiède. Le seul compte à rebours que j'ai ressenti, c'est celui des minutes qui s'égrenaient sur mon lecteur, me rapprochant de la libération. Pourquoi tant de haine, me direz-vous ? Ce n’est pas de la haine. La haine, c’est une émotion, une réaction viscérale, quelque chose qui brûle. Ici, il n’y a rien qui brûle car tout a été refroidi à l'azote liquide. On est dans la même veine que les trois autres disques : du soft rock parfaitement calibré. Un mélange de rock, de pop et de jazz, mais un jazz qui aurait été passé à la javel. Je regarde la pochette, je regarde les noms des musiciens. Ce sont des Musiciens avec un grand M. Des virtuoses, des mecs qui dorment probablement avec leur métronome. Il n'y a pas un pet de travers, pas une fausse note, pas une harmonique qui dépasse. Chaque coup de batterie est pesé, chaque solo est mesuré au millimètre près. C'est la perfection au sens littéral du terme et le perfectionnisme de Becker et Fagen me fatigue car c'est une insulte à l'imperfection magnifique du rock. C’est une démonstration de force technique qui finit par devenir une faiblesse émotionnelle. C’est la musique de gens qui n’ont plus rien à dire mais qui savent très bien comment le dire. Je ne vais pas vous détailler les morceaux un par un. À quoi bon ? Que ce soit Bodhisattva ou My Old School, c'est la même tambouille sophistiquée. Des accords de jazz complexes plaqués sur des rythmiques rock pépères. Alors voilà, c’est mon dernier mot sur ce groupe pour ce projet et Countdown to Ecstasy repart avec son petit 1 sur 5 bien mérité. Ce n'est pas une question de talent, c'est une question de vision. Et nous n'avons pas la même vision du monde.
I made it through 1.5 songs and gave up.
This album does not need to be listened to. It is very technically well played music, but it is boring and soulless. Not sure why this is on the list other than a strong bias in the list towards 70s rock.
Someday my kids are going to be listening to music I liked when I was a teenager, and they're going to say "oh no, it's music my mom likes". That's how I feel about this album. It's music my mom and her brothers probably liked, and it does nothing for me.
Just because you can play all sorts of instruments doesn't mean you should.
🥱 I tried, but holy fucking boring 😴
Nah
UGH Steely Dan.
Oh dear
The rock with simple vocal perhaps. Dont like at all
Just painful
of all the Steely dan albums they could choose, i don’t understand this one. terrible
Thought you’d trick me into listening to Steely Dan…
They can’t keep getting away with this
I absolutely loathe this band. So awful.
supermarket music
Not impressed. Early prog rock, which means we're gonna try to be jazz folks but we don't have the credentials to actually be jazz folks. It all descends into musical masturbation. Let's cut it out and quit being pretentious. My Rating: 1/5 joints
More Steely Dan?! How? Why? I could’ve gone my whole life without listening to a single song and now I’ve listened to three albums of this boring drivel. There are very few artists who have produced enough great music to feature multiple times on a list like this and Steely fucking Dan certainly ain’t one of them.
Awful
Not good
Dirge
Never got behind Steely Dan - not for me.
Someone missed their D.A.R.E. Class.
Not my Style, zu jazzig
Enough Steely Dan already.
weird vibe, no likey
To add insult to injury, I listened to this whole album in bumper to bumper traffic on 75 yesterday over roughly 15 miles.
Countdown to never having to listen to a Steely Dan album ever again. 5…4…3…2…and 1.
Probably the most disgusting album title of all time. Just eww. I’ve had enough of these guys. So much so that I don’t even need to hear this to know it’s a 1. Fuck them.
I don’t know what it is about these guys but I just really don’t like it. Great musicians but it just falls flat for me. And then it starts to bother me. And then I get angry. And countdown to ecstasy? What the hell is that? If it were a Prince album named that, I’d be like…yeah, that guy fucks. But these jabronis? Nah.
Not my favorite. I am glad I gave it a listen but I wont be recommending it or going back. Great riffs, a bit samey. Talent exists but not my thing. I feel there is better in that era. I've never listened to Aja and assume it will pop up on this list at some stage.
It was the countdown to ecstasy of this album ending.
Terrible. Its like Toto without hits. And its the second Steely dan album you made me listen to in a month.
It's like all the shit bits of rock and all the shit bits of jazz had a retarded baby
Another steely Dan album 😩
Some high level wankery. I really hope this is the last Steely Dan record I have to listen to on this list.
Yawn…
Stop with this crap
Steely Dan have some good songs but there aren’t any in this album.
The nicest thing iI can say is i am just never in the mood to hear Steely Dan. That being said, for about 45 seconds, the middle of that first song was interesting.
Meh
I’m still counting.
The most over rated bamd in the history of music.
I just don't get Steely Dan. People race about Aha, but it's just boomer bullshit. This record is no better.
It's just shit. Like everything else they do.
I still find these guys incredibly tiresome, the more I hear them. There is a bit more prog rock styling on this album, which doesn’t help its case for me. The rockabilly styling on the opening track was an immediate turn off.
I hate Steely Dan
Wow. Boring and bad.
Didnt Listen. Too jam-bandy for my taste in the moment.
God these guys suck, who the fuck listens to Steely Dan? This is music for people that don't actually enjoy listening to music they just want to show off their $10,000 Soundsystem while looking down at you, guess what, you're an asshole and so are Ted Steely and Dan Danielson! Ain't nobody fucking to this record BTW
Really bland listen. I know now why I'd never heard of this album before.
Niet mijn stijl
I ALREADY RATED THIS YOU IDIOTS
I asked for jazz - that’s not jazz
If I was in a bad mood this would piss me off so bad i gave aja a two because it is "good" on paper. To balance it out ill give this a strong 1
Like listening to AOR mixed with early Yacht Rock. Which is a truly awful sound.
Rock jazz.....nice....not....dull as fuck
I'm really sorry Ryan, but I just couldn't get into this.
Encore un inconnu !!! Je reconnais ne pas être un grand fan des groupes américains... Mes ecoutes de Steely Dan m'ont toujours désarçonné par un côté "jazz" qui m'est totalement étranger... Mais, n'etant pas obtus comme certains Angles, je vais de ce pas sur Spotify pour ecouter ce "machin"... Après tout, je m'est peut être ben gourré ? Tout est possible ! -+-+-+-+-+-(-(-+-+-+-++-)-)+)+)-))---- Bon après écoute, je confirme hélas mon appréciation initiale : trop jazz, trop de cuivres, trop américain... Désolé... De mémoire, l'album GAUCHO avait eu du succès du fait de la participation de Mark Knopfler...
Busy friday, not the vibe, sausage and peppers, drink, allison hit me, dans cafe, jps again, drunk
Kjedelig
Steeley Dan just does not wow me.
Blandy McBlandface
boring. grandpas music.
Really not my cup of tea. Ray seventies soft rock at its worst!
There's much better Steely Dan than this album. There's much better everything than this album. I haven't figured out why it's on this list but it's not good and not special or important.
I refuse to listen to Steely Dan