buffyleigh
I should probably mark this as 'did not listen' because I couldn't stand more than a couple songs.
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I should probably mark this as 'did not listen' because I couldn't stand more than a couple songs.
I don't think that I ever before listened to a Steely Dan album, but I liked this release from the first bar. I love the the horns section. The sound is fantastic considering the year of the recording.
I like prog rock. I can appreciate funk. I love jazz. And yet, while mixing these genres, Steely Dan succeeded to make this album deeply blunt and boring.
The only thing that I know about Steely Dan is that they were named after a steam powered dildo from William Burroughs’ drug classic The Naked Lunch. This album feels very polished and technically accomplished but like several other classic albums on this list, it didn’t grab me. According to Wikipedia this is classed as Yacht Rock, so maybe I need to own a yacht before I can appreciate it properly?
The only good thing about listening to this is that I now know where the sample on Eye Know by De La Soul came from.
Fine as a background music, but it's not really my thing.