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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:05 pm | |
| Immediately goes Easy Listening. _________________  |
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:05 pm | |
| Xylophone solo.  _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:06 pm | |
| The coming is so close at hand. _________________ a "couldn't care less, come on life ... amuse me, merchant" |
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:06 pm | |
| - SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
- Nightjar wrote:
- Now, what were we saying yesterday about this song being a dig at Lennon and his ilk?
Can't remember now.
Or won't.  Something something rich idiots who appropriate Eastern philosophies and religions to preach to people, but who don't actually give up any of their own shiny, expensive things.
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:06 pm | |
| - The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
- Xylophone solo.
Marimba. 
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:07 pm | |
| "Skunk" Baxter with some luverly pedal steel guitar.
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:08 pm | |
| Track 3 - The Boston Rag. _________________ |
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:08 pm | |
| It's nice this.
Quite slight, but nice.
Despite the bleak lyrics.
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:08 pm | |
| The Boston Rag
Sounds like something else, nope, it's gone. _________________ a "couldn't care less, come on life ... amuse me, merchant" |
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:09 pm | |
| This one's ace.
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:10 pm | |
| Another one of their cryptic, veiled narratives.
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:11 pm | |
| Is this about a newspaper? _________________ a "couldn't care less, come on life ... amuse me, merchant" |
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:11 pm | |
| It sounds way more later-'70s than 1973 this.
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:11 pm | |
| - SiberianPrincess’sMidriff wrote:
- Is this about a newspaper?
Probably some tawdry story from their college days.
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:12 pm | |
| Funereal plodding bit.
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| | Subject: Re: Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy (1973) Sun Jul 09, 2023 7:12 pm | |
| Top top TOP guitar solo.
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