"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.”
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
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.
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.
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 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.
Having just listened to Master Blaster again, I noticed, that it would be perfect to dance Rave to… cutting shapes on the (dusty warehouse) dance floo - while my peers were listening to Michael Jackson and the whole Disco era movement, I was chilling to Stevie W playing on an old Grundig stereogram.
Ok, so I’ll answer that question if you answer one for me… why would Stevie Wonder, when he made ‘I Just Called To Say I Love You’, make it sound out of key? That song sets me on edge because of that, and it definitely ain’t because of the lyrics. That track being off key is off key, by its very own definition.
World-famous Superstar-DJ Carl Cox, a British house and techno record producer and DJ, with a net worth of $16 million dollars… well, with that amount of cash you’d think he’d get some veneers done, wouldn’t ya. So… to me, he’s not about da looks, though, he’s probably always surrounded by the good-looking jet-set crowd.