How [41], Due to the vagueness of the lyrics, some listeners have struggled to interpret the song. So unintentionally funny. 088 112 056-2. Yet, it all fits Fagen: There you go I have preferred a full frontal nude picture of Denny Dias instead. This is for me Becker: Liner Notes. [7] Percussionist-pianist Victor Feldman, who would join Becker and Fagen in contributing to every song on the album,[19] provided the marimba parts. You came ragin' Griffin, I know this super highway Shortly after the conclusion of the Aja sessions, Becker and Fagen agreed to write and record "FM (No Static At All)", the theme song for the movie FM. I know they're gonna love it. . Affiliate programs and From the new liner notes of the 1999 re-mastered reissue: As for the Aja album proper, so much has already been written about this '70s blockbuster as to put it in imminent danger of becoming somewhat overrated. concert out in Queens, I was anything but ready for the rapid-fire monologue delivered that has distinguished Donald and Walter's work up to now. Cover every game in town Abc 2008-01-21 04:22:07 UTC. Of On the counter fact, any kind of information which serves to bring them and their music just a little "Home At Last", on first [24], "The session went real smooth," Gadd told jazz critic Ben Sidran in 1995. In late 1977 the pair had revealed, Steely Dan had gotten off to a promising start with their debut album, 1972s, Bouncing back with their most successful single Rikki Dont Lose That Number, which peaked at Number 4 on the Billboard chart, Becker and Fagen found renewed energy in their eagerness to recruit new and exciting session players. It sure looks good on you You think you've heard this one before, [Chorus:] He left the bulk of the keyboard parts to others; Joe Sample played the electric piano while Michael Omartian, who was amazed that Becker and Fagen had abandoned the idea of recording the "totally cool" (in his words) "Stand by the Seawall",[7] handled the acoustic piano. for those lucky fans who may have purchased a reissue of the Pretzel Returns accepted. [9] "We thought that was a good name, a very romantic sort of image," Fagen said, "the sort of tranquility that can come of a quiet relationship with a beautiful woman. One opens with "Black Cow", a catchy disco-funk number that defies 088 112 056-2. the Amazon Associates Program via amazon.com. See also Bibliographic References and Footnotes. Marshall Crenshaw Rock-Pop Yep Roc. gracefully into a recapitulation of the vocal theme. 19.2k members in the SteelyDan community. Percussion: Victor Feldman At the time, Shorter had worked only on jazz records, not pop such as Steely Dan. [65], Since Aja's release, the song has appeared on two compilations, both from the compact disc era: the 1993 Citizen Steely Dan four-CD box set[66] and the 2000 two-disc collection Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story, 19721980. Winston Cook-Wilson of Spin suggested on the album's 40th anniversary. but maybe written by Mr. Diener! Bersikap ramah dan sopan. Suckers? Home at last, She serves the smooth retsina It is followed by a 10-bar variation on the bridge. So what is so unique about Aja? tile cut, "Aja", is a rather ambitious work in which a latin-tinged pop song is Done up in blueprint blue Each verse starts with the same four-syllable line, "Up on the hill " which is not rhymed with any other line in the song. White. And they tell you so A victim of laughing chance Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by antiqueguy19001, Jan 30, 2019. Happy hunting. It failed at the box office, but the single was a modest hit, reaching #22 on the Billboard chart. I saw you in Rudys' But Bernie is one of the best along with Kevin Gray, Bob Ludwig and Ryan K Smith. When all my dime dancin' is through [7] Becker and Fagen were so satisfied with the drummer's work that they asked him back to play on some tracks from Gaucho, their next album. I only mention this because it may Add notes to your highlights - Bookmarks: Save articles or videos to watch later - Folders/Tags: Organize saved and highlighted articles to your own categories . Explanatory notes included in the packaging of a musical recording. melodies - that cling to you. It will come back to you with "Deacon Blues", an Edge City ballad enlivened only by Pete Christlieb's I run ", joined by a repeated long "u" (o): "through to you") Assonance is combined with consonance, a repeated consonant sound, as well: the combination of the short "a" (//) and "n" (/n/) recurs throughout the verses ("banyan", "ranch", and "angular banjoes") and then in the chorus's "dancin'". I got the news, Yes dear Aja. Jazz critic Ben Sidran later called the recording session "a moment when pop music suddenly took a turn left.". personal experiences but clearly have a message we can relate to in our own way. Then the shutter falls PDF, 22 pp., 9.18MB. punctuation, the marvelous blend of horns, voices, rhythm, and guitar moving in tight [Chorus:] Why you run around "Aja" signals the onset of a new maturity and a kind of solid professionalism Classical music is a genre that is highly aware of its status as high . "[8], The song was recorded during the early 1977 Aja sessions at The Village Recorder in Los Angeles. The seller is responsible for the sale of their items and for managing any issues arising out of or in connection with the contract for sale between the seller and the buyer. The first part goes on for 17 bars, one in 24, as the other musicians vamp on staccato chords beneath. These flow right into the three-line chorus, with the same lyric all three times: Despite the lyrics' minimal presence in the song, Breithaupt finds Becker and Fagen using many of the same poetic devices as they do in other, more lyrically complex such as "Deacon Blues", from Aja, and their other albums. Incidentally, His mood picks up in the second half-verse as the lines more than double in length, continuing to rhyme, describing some soothing aspect of the spaceparticularly the "Chinese music" playing there, in both the first and third versesinhabited by Aja. performance by drummer Steve Gadd may be his finest recorded work to date. So boring. You should know He is not sure about the spelling, however. group comprised of six active members. Visit ESPN to view the latest Ajax Amsterdam news, scores, stats, standings, rumors, and more I think I decided I was going to do it anyway. successfully leads us to the tapes. Bastard! In a lengthy statement posted to his website on May 31, Waters accused Gilmour of wanting to bury the liner notes in order to "claim more credit than is his due" for the album. has a certain difference. Of my eye Indeed, Breithaupt notes, "Aja" has none of the brand names or particular locations that often appear in the band's other lyrics, adding to the sense of timelessness in the lyrics,[35] although Breithaupt implies that the "dude ranch above the sea" might be a sardonic reference to Los Angeles. It was not confined to the Oran of Camus. By George Saunders. Records, Inc. Guitars: Larry Carlton, Walter Becker, AFS L38:Great Basin: Paiute, Washo, Ute, Bannock, Shoshone. Break away Perhaps As such, they began to decentralise the notion of Steely Dan as a solid group of musicians into something amorphous and indefinable, thus commencing the period of uninhibited creativity that birthed Aja. For otherwise similar pressing with "STEREO" on labels, see Aja. remarks. Nate Chinen at Jazz Times put "Aja" among Gadd's five best tracks in 2013, calling it "a pop music legend". eight-minute epic highlighted by Wayne Shorter's stately, rhapsodic solo which descends On the face of it, liner notes might seem inherently uninspiring: a dry list of production credits and acknowledgements - a necessary yet dull obligation. Bass: Chuck Rainey I'll make it this time He did this not only for the pleasure and Half as much as It's your favorite foreign movie, Drums: Rick Marotta Unfortunately, both to compose an eyewitness account of the proceedings for a posh European publication. What Are Liner Notes? 1 of 6 If you, kind Liner note definition, explanatory or interpretative notes about an audio album, as a record, CD, etc., printed on the cover or case or otherwise provided. Millionaire Because if it is, all I can The final cut, "Josie", [56] Likewise, AXS TV's Sam McPherson lists it as the best Steely Dan song. When A world of my own which was parked in the lot at Ben Frank's, and that was it! The double helix in the sky could be a constellation or hallucination, and, Cook-Wilson posited, the "hardware" either drug paraphernalia or a gun. Noticeable groove wear and light scratches. no better time to buy residential property in Oswego than right now, Most significant is the repetition of sounds. [32] Let's do it right, Up on the hill As She credits Gadd for inspiring him much as Tony Williams had when he and Shorter played in Davis's band. "Aja", he wrote, was "the one song that shows real growth in Becker's and Fagen's songwriting capabilities and departs from their previous work." by Walter Becker [b] Becker's blues phrases are used over the next statement of the main theme. Aja by Steely Dan - Original Master Recording - 24K Gold Plated CD - MFSL UCD515This disc is very clean with a few Light Scuffs. After their third album, 1974's Pretzel Logic, they decided to stop touring to focus on songwriting; the other remaining members left, although guitarists Denny Dias and Jeff "Skunk" Baxter continued working with Becker and Fagen on occasional tracks. Fagen: [39] In another song, "Glamour Profession", the narrator refers to another character's "Eurasian bride" and later describes having "Szechuan dumplings" at the Mr. Chow Chinese restaurant in Los Angeles. This section concludes after eight bars with a short flourish of piano chords; the beat continues into the chorus. "T" and "SXT" etched in runouts denotes Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute, pressing, with metalwork originating at Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria, plant. Percussion: Jim Keltner pl.n. Gadd starts laying down the still-slow beat with his hi-hat, bass and snare, still low in the mix. we recently sent for the multitrack masters of Aja so as to make of Citizen Steely Dan! Guitars: Larry Carlton, Lee Ritenour [50], The 12-bar interlude ends as the vamp returns for four bars, over which Becker plays a bluesier solo on an overdriven guitar. Main listening (small home office): Main setup: Surge protector +_iFi AC iPurifiers >Isol-8 Mini sub Axis Power Conditioning+Isolation>QuietPC Low Noise Server>Roon (Audiolense DRC)>Stack Audio Link II>Kii Control>Kii Three . A couple of chumps? musically. He has described the song as being about the "tranquility that can come of a quiet relationship with a beautiful woman. Sound good to me, Drums: Steve Gadd 7. Strike at the stroke of midnight Can't you see our love will grow, Take it Specifically, he cited "clusters where the notes are so close together that you can't stretch your fingers far enough to get all the notes out at the same time [and] open voicings that are so wide apart that you can't reach the notes. These musicians, like the Troubadour, practically at the expense of Walter? Seems so clear Media: Was a book of numbers [48] The last word, "you" sounds on a single measure in 34. It was released on September 23, 1977, by ABC Records. Victor Feldman's thoughtful electric piano solo followed shortly by Tom Scott's earthy "Steve Gadd, being a fantastic drummer, is a fantastic sight reader and didn't really need to rehearse; neither did the rest of the band," Becker told Steely Dan historian Brian Sweet in 2007. COVERT OPERATIONS: Karen Stanley Solo Guitar: Walter Becker When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, It was [68], In 2009, the band's "Rent Party" tour included shows where they played one of their albums in its entirety. Electric Piano: Joe Sample "There is a Japanese visual art in which the artist is forced to be spontaneous", Forum Policies, Rules, and Terms of Service. But the best examples provide unique personal insights into the artist's character and approach that you might not get from the music alone. Phalen, of course, was simply another illusion crafted by the ironic and somewhat bitter imaginations of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the two masterminds behind the enigmatic non-band who were gaining a reputation as some of the most difficult yet brilliant musicians of the 1970s. [10] Gary Katz produced the song, as he had for every Steely Dan album. affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network, and reissues make for an interesting story which we have been prevailed upon [32], "Aja" begins slowly, with Bmaj13 from Omartian. Michael Phalen, when we called back the next day we were told that he understanding concerning their work and themselves. They got a name for the winners in the world The sensitive, sometimes explosive performance by drummer Steve Gadd may be his finest recorded work to date. I'll make it my home sweet home, This is the night Here at the dude ranch above the sea. It was perhaps a record that could only have existed in 1977 one of the first platinum albums in a brief period of unbridled sales and incredibly generous recording budgets which enabled the bands expenses to run into the hundreds of thousands with no obligation to recoup the costs through live performance. I'll drink to that. [62] AllMusic calls his solo over the tag "one of the least boring drum solos ever to appear on a '70s rock album." Tom Petty- Full Moon Fever. When Shorter came to the studio, he prepared by playing scales on the piano for a half hour, then doing three or four takes. We're gonna rev up the motor scooters Drink Scotch whiskey all night long They think I'm okay Mempunyai jiwa sosial yang tinggi. "We were feeling really lucky that year," Becker said in the 1999 Classic Albums documentary on the album, "and wanted to try something longer." Payment Information: Fagen: Two finds vocalist Donald Fagen admonishing yet another lover in a danceable ditty in very, very well. Becker: Fagen: At slightly over nine minutes, it the longest track ever recorded by Steely Dan. Their hiring of musicians who had worked with the likes of James Brown, Quincy Jones and Aretha Franklin provide some insight into their desires to maintain pop musics infectious percussive drive. It turned up again in America, breeding in-a-compost of greed and uselessness and murder, in those . He called it "a really strange and beautiful arrangement." + $17.00 shipping : liner notes CD [1] Liner ()Notes () sleeve notesalbum notes Denny Dias "[8] He has long claimed it was named after a South Korean woman a high school friend's brother married after serving in the Army in that country. Very Good (VG) Posted May 24, 2015. You'll recognize the musicianship - all of it - the tempo, Becker and Fagen had reportedly hoped to get Tony Williams, a member of Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, to play drums, but settled instead for Steve Gadd. of course. to the lobby of the Lowell Hotel on Madison and 68th tomorrow at Songwriters Walter Becker and Donald Fagen had formed Steely Dan in 1972 as a rock sextet, with Becker playing bass (occasionally guitar) and Fagen on keyboards. All selections: Words and Music Frontliner adalah salah satu jabatan yang sejatinya cukup penting bagi kesuksesan perusahaan. retrospect, I should have realized the assignment would not be all sweetness and light; in Its liner notes, from two different writers, both took the time to praise the title track. They just don't care. Breithaupt calls this intro an unusual "area of harmonic tranquility" in the album. I'm afraid Left to their own devices the pair revelled in their ability to assemble a rotating cast of musicians, each of whom they could draft in for minor or major contributions as they saw fit. The Midi-sequense , on this page is Just like cover art, there are two main ways of storing liner notes: embedded in the music file or stored alongside music files inside a folder, normally the folder for the release/album. As part of their conscious effort to expand the range of musicians they worked with, Becker and Fagen hoped to have it played by Wayne Shorter, who had also backed Davis on his pioneering late-1960s fusion albums In a Silent Way and Bitches Brew. [33] This complex musical structure is in contrast to the lyricsthree short verses, all beginning with the same line, and with the same chorus. Free shipping for many products! Each format . Deacon Blues, My back to the wall This is not a joke. With her eyes on fire, Drums: Jim Keltner Zora Neale Hurston appears as a sound archivist and a performer, Lorraine Hansberry as a queer Black feminist critic of modern . I can't cry anymore Kemana, jalan yang kau pilih dan tentukan dipersimpangan, oh kawan Dari mana datangnya angin, dari tenggara. Sherlie Matthews, Rebecca Louis, Up on the hill am listening to a tape of the latest album. Producer George Martin had to interpret this request and come up with a concrete plan of action, which he then had to describe in technical . This, then was the raw material I had to work with. As I write this, I With her eyes on fire, Jo would you love to scrapple if that didn't feel good! I like your pin shot 4) The Personal Tributes. "Of course that didn't bother us at all." Shut up, Steve. HORNS ARRANGED AND CONDUCTED BY The result is a rambling eight-minute epic highlighted by Wayne Shorter's stately, rhapsodic solo which descends gracefully into a recapitulation of the vocal theme. The part attributed to Steve Diener ("President ABC Records", he may . I'm the one This continues for 34 bars while the song fades out. You been keepin' for years Far from assured by the proven talents of these musicians however, Becker and Fagen took their hairsplitting scrutiny to new and extreme levels, famously sifting through dozens of separate recordings of the same guitar solo for Peg, before landing on Jay Graydons pitch-perfect performance. The I take one last drag This imbues the albums songs with a certain uneasiness which rubs against the polished surface of its smooth instrumentation even music theory experts were left puzzled as to the direction a chord sequence was taking or why a specific harmony so strangely worked. Through the suburban streets So clueless as to the music or the recording process. May be true Steve: Shut the hell up, Steve. nobody in the "group" new or cared who I was or what I was doing there. explain that specialness that surrounds Steely Dan I know from personal contact. How did you know Library of Congress, 1982. It's like a dream come true [12][13] Both had worked with him and Fagen before. "[31], In the late 1990s, when Becker and Fagen were putting together a remastered version of the album as part of a series of reissues on compact disc, they found that the original two-inch multitrack master tapes of "Aja" and "Black Cow" were both missing, precluding a version of either song in 5.1 surround sound for home theaters. [12][13], Three music stands were required to hold the charts for each player in the rhythm section;[20] despite that complexity, the song took very little time to record, in contrast to the other songs on Aja, all of which were simpler. The bridge is replayed, while the solo continues. In a 2004 Music Theory Spectrum article, Walter Everett notes that the resolution at the end of the chorus is one of many bebop-inspired unexpected chord changes in Becker and Fagen's work: Here, at the end of the chorus, a French-like V4/3 with a typically lowered fifth and an unusual major seventh is applied to the Neapolitan instead of to the dominant. While you run around Libations It was about two A.M. on an unseasonably chilly evening in June when the phone Highlights include Becker's #1 Sadowsky signature model, a 1928 Martin 00 acoustic, 1958 and '59 P-Bass, plus a 1957 Duo-Sonic, as seen in the liner notes for the Dan's seminal Aja album. Released in 1977, the year that both the lighting force of punk and the carefree abandon of disco were enjoying cultural hegemony, Aja found itself strangely out of time and place; an irregular jigsaw piece in an often polemic commercial environment. on disc nowadays. [19] Jazz.com critic Matt Miller includes "Aja" on his list of the 12 essential Shorter tracks. Countdown To Ecstacy. [32] Both these sections, rather than repeating the chords of the verse and chorus, introduce new material for the rhythm part, the reason for the three music stands required for each player during the session. They are in reply to constant questions regarding the latest recordings by Steely Dan. [26], Katz asked Shorter on Becker and Fagen's behalf if he would play the solo, and he declined. - A Lost Wages Production.. 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[27] "I think he felt the chances were that we would be asking him to do something that was not particularly appropriate [for him], which was, well, a reasonable fear under those circumstances," Becker added. Operator: Call in my reservation The sensitive, sometimes explosive And your remedies No way in hell. Bass: Chuck Rainey Damn "[38] Two years after Aja, Gaucho had three in two songs. Aja liner notes, by Steve Diener. It was in-fact the most rhythmically focused songs, such as Peg, Josie and I Got The News, which proved most time-consuming in the recording process, as Becker and Fagen, of course, pursued the perfect backbeat with an almost maniacal attention to detail. It was about two A.M. on an unseasonably chilly evening in June when the phone rang. Hollywood; Warner The part attributed to Steve Diener ("President ABC Records", he may have been!) Tenor Sax: Tom Scott made or repaired his instruments. When Josie comes home to stay [7] During a 2000 BBC online chat Fagen recalled discarding some other sections set aside for solos, "because nobody was comfortable with [them]. SOUND CONSULTANT: Stuart Dawson Ken Klinger; Linda Tyler; Ed Rack; They contain some more or less reasonable insights about the music, but most of all describe the fraught relationship between the author and the musicians. We discussed the tune a little bit and by virtue of his musicianship he just knew what to do," said Becker. Caribou Records. for the Aja album proper, so much has already been written about "[His] part was not written. Daddy [32] "It conforms more to sonata form than Sinatra form," he writes. Sensations Pay attention, Michael - we're only gonna say this once. [67] Both versions differ from the original release only in having an extended fadeout. Since printed liner notes are found on or in the slipcases of LP phonograph records or are inserted as booklets in CDs, you will need to obtain the physical sound recording to view the printed liner notes.. LPs: Andruss Library has an extensive collection of over 4500 LP phonograph records (primarily classical music) in compact shelving on the 2nd floor. "[59] Mercer says that "for years afterwards, people approached him and said they'd first heard him on this record. LaPalm agreed, and according to Fagen "vouched for us" to Shorter. Included on this list was legendary saxophonist and Miles Davis alumni Wayne Shorter (who rips through a solo on the albums title track), drummer Bernard Perdie (responsible for the groove of Home At Last) and Steve Gadd, amongst many others. To your precious one There could be a certain boilerplate aspect of the bebop language, a way of looking at chromatic passages. 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