Steely Dan, aja, where's the good bit?

[Dad3353]

12 minutes ago, Beedster said:

Everyone like Yellow Submarine

[Dad3353]

3 minutes ago, FinnDave said:

Shakedown Street? The track, not the entire album…that's a funky Dead song (and great fun to play).

Second Warning : DON'T GET ME STARTED ON 'FUNK' OR 'DISCO'..! Schubert, on the other hand...

[odysseus]

Sometimes something just doesn't tickle your gonads in the way it does for other people.  I'm still trying to fathom the appeal of the Foo Fighters....

 

Such is life...

[Frank Blank]

2 minutes ago, AndyTravis said:

Given it a few goes now...

im going to give it another go soon.

It took me a a long time to get into The Nightfly, I mean decades, I was always put off by that cheesy opening to I.G.Y. Eventually I listened to the lyrics, which are brilliant as usual, from then on it grew on me. New Frontier was my in.

[Frank Blank]

5 minutes ago, odysseus said:

I'm still trying to fathom the appeal of the Foo Fighters...

Couldn’t agree more, another band that just leaves my gonads firmly un-tickled.

[AndyTravis]

3 minutes ago, Frank Blank said:

Couldn’t agree more, another band that just leaves my gonads firmly un-tickled.

First 2 albums are ace. After that...not so much. 
 

I don’t listen to them every day though - once in a blue moon.

[Frank Blank]

1 minute ago, AndyTravis said:

First 2 albums are ace. After that...not so much. 

Oddly it was those two that put me off, I’ve never listened to anything else of theirs, recordings that is, I’ve been unfortunate enough to have been working at several festivals where they’ve played too, live they leave me cold too.

[ambient]

1 hour ago, spectoremg said:

I've tried and tried with this album and I still I can't see what people rave about. Is there a backwards subliminal message saying 'mention this at dinner parties and other guests will think you're really good at music'. 

Please tell me. 

If you do manage to find it, please be sure to let me know.

[spectoremg]

53 minutes ago, BigRedX said:

Superb musicianship is IMO irrelevant if I'm not enjoying the actual music being played.

That dinner party - 'the musicianship's terribly good zzz...' 

[Count Bassy]

36 minutes ago, odysseus said:

 I'm still trying to fathom the appeal of the Foo Fighters....

A pointless exercise - there is none.

[Count Bassy]

1 hour ago, thebigyin said:

Put your headphones on chill out to some superb musicianship.....it's a classic.

Unfortunately superb musicianship does not always make superb music. (Just a general comment, not on SD particularly).

[AndyTravis]

Just now, Count Bassy said:

A pointless exercise - there is none.

They’ll get the doubters, one by one - even if it takes everlong...and eventually you’ll be telling everyone “Dave Grohl - he’s my hero” 

 

[oldslapper]

There have been a couple of references to tickling gonads with LPs.

I think you’re doing it wrong. 

[odysseus]

2 minutes ago, oldslapper said:

There have been a couple of references to tickling gonads with LPs.

I think you’re doing it wrong. 

Spoilsport... 😋

[4000]

I went through a phase of trying to like SD (my older brother was a fan). Eventually I just realised that I didn’t. I don’t hate them, they just leave me cold, for the most part. I find them really soulless. But plenty of bands I like leave others cold. I don’t think you have to like anything. If it works for you, great. If not, try something else. 

[oldslapper]

7 minutes ago, odysseus said:

Spoilsport... 😋

You’ll Spoil something(S)

[Rich]

6 hours ago, Rich said:

I get the feeling this is another thread that can be filed under It's A Good Job We All Like Different Stuff.

As I was saying earlier, elsewhere...

[Guest]

1 hour ago, spectoremg said:

That dinner party - 'the musicianship's terribly good zzz...' 

Hmm. I’ve never heard that even when speaking to other musicians!

It’s musical taste - some things you like, others not so much. There’s another thread on here about Talking Heads. Can’t stand them.

[Linus27]

I've not even listened to the Aja album or for that matter any other albums. I have listened to the track FM which I loved. I think it's called FM but maybe it's called No Static. Anyway, I liked it.

Can't stand The Beatles or The Stones in fact a lot of music leaves me cold and doesn't tickle the twins. Foo Fighters I like a bit, some tracks are great but most are dull.

[AndyTravis]

Bob Dylan and Lou Reed for me. If we’re saying bands/artists other people love but I don’t get...

[Happy Jack]

Shame ... Bob speaks very highly of you. 

[AndyTravis]

9 minutes ago, Happy Jack said:

Shame ... Bob speaks very highly of you. 

He doesn’t, I’ve heard what he says about me on “Www.Gobironchat.co.uk”

[Doctor J]

Wait a minute, I think we're going off topic, here.

 

Someone doesn't like Aja?

[AndyTravis]

Aha, well yes...I’m led to believe Aja speaks highly of all those naysayers...

I got the news that this thread is Home at last...

[Ricky 4000]

2 hours ago, Frank Blank said:

There isn’t one Beatles track I like, they just leave me cold

Everyone like Helter Skelter.