Re: Steely Dan - The Royal Scam (1976)

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:06 pm

Nightjar wrote:
Nightjar wrote:The drumming is off-the-scale good.

No wonder, it's Bernard Bresslaw.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:07 pm

by Nightjar Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:07 pm

Dreamy saxamaphone. bounce

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:07 pm

Brass.

by Nightjar Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:07 pm

Glorious brassy coda.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:08 pm

Track 3 - Don't Take Me Alive.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:08 pm

Guitarry start.

by Nightjar Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:08 pm

by Nightjar Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:09 pm

Conceptually, there's a strong of seam of crime and sleaze about the songs on this album.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:10 pm

"I'm a goalkeeper's son." gasp

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:10 pm

This is more promising than the other songs.

by Nightjar Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:10 pm

I've always strung the songs together in a rough narrative.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:10 pm

Hints of I Heard it Through the Grapevine.

by Nightjar Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:11 pm

Very tight, technical backing vocals.

by Nightjar Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:12 pm

It does meander a bit this one.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:12 pm

Track 4 - Sign In Stranger.

by Nightjar Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:13 pm

Donald getting to be all fancy on the piano.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:13 pm

Piano.

by Nightjar Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:14 pm

Like, I imagine that the person who's saying "don't take alive" in the previous song has now turned up at this den of iniquity.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Sat Jul 17, 2021 7:14 pm

This one's not going anywhere.

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