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albummaster
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- Posted: 07/16/2021 20:00
- Post subject: Album of the day (#3862): Gaucho by Steely Dan
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Today's album of the day
Gaucho by Steely Dan (View album | Buy this album)
Year: 1980.
Country: 
Overall rank: 1,010
Average rating: 78/100 (from 289 votes).
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Tracks:
1. Babylon Sisters
2. Hey Nineteen
3. Glamour Profession
4. Gaucho
5. Time Out Of Mind
6. My Rival
7. Third World Man
About album of the day: The BestEverAlbums.com album of the day is the album appearing most prominently in member charts in the previous 24 hours. If an album, or artist, has previously been selected within a x day period, the next highest album is picked instead (and so on) to ensure a bit of variety. A full history of album of the day can be viewed here.
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Fischman
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- #2
- Posted: 07/16/2021 23:47
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I'm usually first in line to rave about the Dan, but I could just never warm up to this album. Maybe better than the average album, but still well at the bottom of the Dan pile for me.
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Skinny
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- Posted: 07/17/2021 02:21
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Other than ‘Hey Nineteen’ being literally the best song ever made, actual liquid chrome, the sound of fine Colombian, this is not one of their best. But it has ‘Hey Nineteen’ on it. Actual ‘Hey Nineteen’. The sound of a million lines. I really love ‘Hey Nineteen’. It’s the curviest song ever made. It’s all round edges. I don’t understand the logistics. Put it on anywhere and I’m yours though.
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cestuneblague
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- Posted: 07/17/2021 04:09
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"It can't be by hand. It's too perfect".
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Skinny
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- Posted: 07/17/2021 12:32
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| cestuneblague wrote: | | "It can't be by hand. It's too perfect". |
I think it is sonically the most impressive pop song ever made. How did they make it sound so clean? Nothing else ever recorded lies at that perfect midpoint between organic and synthetic. Me and a mate did a load of shrooms once and just marvelled at it on repeat for hours. It poured out of the speakers like mercury. The shit is unreal. It actually frightens me a little.
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Yann
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- Posted: 07/17/2021 16:48
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| Skinny wrote: | | I think it is sonically the most impressive pop song ever made. How did they make it sound so clean? Nothing else ever recorded lies at that perfect midpoint between organic and synthetic. Me and a mate did a load of shrooms once and just marvelled at it on repeat for hours. It poured out of the speakers like mercury. The shit is unreal. It actually frightens me a little. |
Yes it's a super clean sound on all the album, almost inhuman. The following one (Donald Fagen's The Nightfly) has the same clean sound but it's so much more personal and warm (actualy autobiographical). It makes a big difference.
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cestuneblague
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- Posted: 07/18/2021 15:14
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Yeah this was one of the more Yacht-Rock-y releases, definitely not top-tier 'cuz the songs here just kind of revolve and zag and Steely Dan are at their best when their tracks feel constantly mutating, but can't deny it's got a comforting atmosphere and very much of it's time.
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- Posted: 07/18/2021 16:10
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| Yann wrote: | | Yes it's a super clean sound on all the album, almost inhuman. The following one (Donald Fagen's The Nightfly) has the same clean sound but it's so much more personal and warm (actualy autobiographical). It makes a big difference. |
The Nightfly is incredible, probably as good as any actual Dan album, although I love Aja and Katy Lied and Pretzel Logic almost equally, with Countdown to Ecstasy and Can’t Buy a Thrill not far behind. This and The Royal Scam are the only two I don’t love wholeheartedly, and even then they have insane moments.
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- Posted: 07/18/2021 20:30
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I listened to Hey Nineteen today for first time and it was great song  I recall they do have some great albums before 1980 too
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