The year is still 1989.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HOfaSSIVcE[/youtube]
Another unreleased one originally to be put on Gaucho, but never made it for whatever reason. Two other things I forgot to mention about the difficulty of recording this album. I’ll tell you only because you are genuinely interested. Becker finds his girl dead from heroin overdose in the apartment (in addition to being hit by the taxi), and both Becker and Fagen were stressed out over owing one more album to fulfill a contract. Everything was working against them.
Some time after this they broke for a decade. Becker moves to Hawaii to farm avocados and produce two solo albums (which aren’t incredibly good), while Fagen continues writing solo stuff.
But only time will tell if you got the bear, or the bear got u.
youtu.be/wu8dMG0PB-4
This is just wrong on so many levels. Deacon Blues is wayyyy to deep for these two. Id’a directed em to Peg or Hey Nineteen… something much more manageable.
With stocking face… I bought a gun
The plan was set… the plan was done…
"Musically, it is a tonally sophisticated and structurally complex work that was praised on its release as the most ambitious track the duo had ever attempted. The song’s lyrics center around the interior monologue of a man who runs to the title character to escape the stresses of his life “up on the hill.” Fagen claimed that it was inspired by a relative of someone he knew, who had married a Korean woman named Aja. He has described the song as being about the “tranquility that can come of a quiet relationship with a beautiful woman.”
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-FMrz7OwLo[/youtube]
personel:
Donald Fagen – lead vocals, synthesizer, police whistle
Steve Gadd – drums
Victor Feldman – percussion, vibraphone
Chuck Rainey – bass guitar
Walter Becker, Denny Dias and Larry Carlton – guitars
Michael Omartian – piano
Joe Sample – electric piano
Wayne Shorter – tenor saxophone
Timothy B. Schmit – backing vocals
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MusH-QijY[/youtube]
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb8HMScSgoc[/youtube]
Lost in the Barrio I walk like an Injun
So Carlo won’t suspect something’s wrong here
I dance in place
And paint my face
And act like I belong here
Fagen offers a chilling confession about his tumultuous relationship with the arp odyssey, and how it came to a sudden end…
See one of my problems with the rap genre is that it is too quickly summarized and taken to it’s very limits. I immediately think lil dicky when I listen to that, and I start hearing banal formulas that, while being amusing once in a while, very quickly lose my interest. When you start hearing the general in the particular more often than not, the particular loses its ontological independence and becomes profane representation only. I have no idea what that means. I just said it. It did kinda sound good though.
Lil Dicky freaky friday is one of the greatest recordings of all time.
What I was listening to in the 80s… fuck Disco, Disco my ass, Disco what.
Be your own Boss!
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC2ZY2loo74[/youtube]
My bastard of a brother stole this (original) album from me, which was given to me by my ex-brother-in-law, and is probably now worth bear £££s… what a wanker, but karma’s a bitch, and he’s now seeing. My payback price is very high.
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4n27JuJhXc[/youtube]
Pfft… ya’ll don’t know nothing about the Wonder. Y’all think very superstitious and I just called to say I love you is the gold. Nah fuck that. One is not qualified to pass judgement on the Wonder until inner visions and songs in the key of life have been thoroughly reviewed.
I saw James Brown in the summer of 2000 on about a half a vial of acid at this festival that used to happen every year in Bham called City Stages.
@ 6.44 
Who is Natty Bongo though… what kinda name is that 
Almost as bad as Jah Wobble 
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVxag9GZrVw[/youtube]
I don’t like the latter… something about the rhythm / the beat, that I don’t like… it almost sounds like it’s off key, but maybe that was his intention.
I’ll check out that album, and get back to you… can’t guarantee I’ll like it though. 