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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Sun Dec 1, 2013, 10:47 PM Dec 2013

Okay, I'm just gonna come out and say it...I didn't care for Steely Dan's "Aja" at all.

Too smooth, too superficial, too pop. Sounds like smooth jazz boys trading inside jokes. Which also sums up most of their previous work, but those songs had teeth. I am a big Dan Fan, but my interest pretty much ended with "The Royal Scam." Thought "Gaucho" was even worse. Don't know much about their new post-reunion material but hated "Cousin Dupree" from "Two Against Nature."

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Okay, I'm just gonna come out and say it...I didn't care for Steely Dan's "Aja" at all. (Original Post) Miles Archer Dec 2013 OP

Your opinion is duly incorrect. Systematic Chaos Dec 2013 #1

Oh so wrong. nt onehandle Dec 2013 #2

Oh well... nolabear Dec 2013 #3

You just don't understand genius. BlueStreak Dec 2013 #4

Can't go along with you on this..... lastlib Dec 2013 #5

Wonderful Album. Fun to play. Nice Chords. Love the E7sus4th on "Peg" BlueJazz Dec 2013 #6

that is pretty much my opinion on them all together Kali Dec 2013 #7

I liked it alright but, I liked their early stuff better. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2013 #8

Systematic Chaos

(8,601 posts)

1. Your opinion is duly incorrect.

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Sun Dec 1, 2013, 10:49 PM

Dec 2013

n/t

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

2. Oh so wrong. nt

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Sun Dec 1, 2013, 11:04 PM

Dec 2013

nolabear

(41,963 posts)

3. Oh well...

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Sun Dec 1, 2013, 11:14 PM

Dec 2013

BlueStreak

(8,377 posts)

4. You just don't understand genius.

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Sun Dec 1, 2013, 11:51 PM

Dec 2013

lastlib

(23,236 posts)

5. Can't go along with you on this.....

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Mon Dec 2, 2013, 01:01 AM

Dec 2013

When I first heard them in my teens in the 70s, I thought they were okay, not special really. Took me a long time to realize just how GOOD they really were. Nobody else was doing what they did at the time, and nobody else has done it as well. Yeah, I might agree that, post-Aja, their work wasn't as good, but all in all, they have stood the test of time amazingly well. They blended rock and jazz in ways that no one else has been able to imitate successfully, and that gives them a unique place in music history.

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

6. Wonderful Album. Fun to play. Nice Chords. Love the E7sus4th on "Peg"

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Mon Dec 2, 2013, 01:46 AM

Dec 2013

Cmaj7 Gsus2/B Cmaj7 Gsus2
I've seen your

Cmaj7 Gsus2 Cmaj7 Gsus2
picture your name in lights

Cmaj7 Gsus2 Cmaj7 Gsus2
a bove it this is your

Fmaj7 Csus2 Fmaj7 Csus2
big de- but it's like a

Cmaj7 Gsus2 Cmaj7 Gsus2
dream come true so won't you

Gmaj7 Dsus2 Fmaj7 Csus2
smile for the camera I know you're gonna

Cmaj7 Gsus2 Cmaj7 Gsus2
love it

VERSE 2:

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I've got your pin shot

I keep it with your letter

Done up in blue-print blue

It sure looks good on you

So won't you smile for the camers

I know they're gonna love it Peg

CHORUS:

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Cmaj7 Gsus2/B Am11 E7sus4
Peg it will come back to you

Cmaj7 Gsus2/B Am11 E7sus4
Peg it will come back to you

Asus2/C# C6/9 G F#7
Then the shutter falls

Bm7 E7#9 Am7 C/D Cmaj7 Gsus2
You see it all in 3D it's your favourite foreign movie

Cmaj7 Gsus2 F#m7 Bm7 Em7 Bm7 C6/9

Kali

(55,008 posts)

7. that is pretty much my opinion on them all together

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Mon Dec 2, 2013, 02:40 AM

Dec 2013

I can appreciate their skills and listen to them in a general way, but I am not really a fan and never got into them.

Tuesday Afternoon

(56,912 posts)

8. I liked it alright but, I liked their early stuff better.

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Mon Dec 2, 2013, 02:48 AM

Dec 2013

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