From: none@dontbother.co.uk
"diane" wrote in message
news:1138950192.828831.326490@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> i kinda like dipping my toe in the water, especially when the samples
> are so lo-fi. the difference in quality between the radio edit of h
> gang, for example, is night and day, so hearing the download for the
> first time was like hearing it for the first time.
>
> i suspect the CD will perform even better than the downloadable stuff,
> for whatever reason, and am looking forward to hearing all the clips as
> god and donald fagen intended them.
>
> and dick, i respect what you're saying but the last several listens
> i've given the clips have the word "masterpiece" running through my
> brain. how da fuck did he think of this stuff, the way he builds the
> music, the harmonies, the inflections?
>
> i'm plotzing. i just forced myself to close the barnes & noble site so
> i can go to bed instead of listening to these cannibalized bits of
> genius.
>
> i may have to leave civilization for the next few weeks to purge my
> insane longing for the release of this CD.
>
> if it was substandard in any way, you know i'd be talking about that. i
> think donald has reclaimed his position in the rarefied air of genius
> composers, stylists, vocalists and arrangers of the mid-20th century
> and into posterity.
>
> honestly, i didn't know he had it in him... still. what a man.
>
> love and kisses
> diane <-- trying and failing to sing along with Morph the Cat--whoo!
>
diane, I'll buy the album. Then shove it in the pile under Kamakiriad + The
nightfly.
From the clips I listened to, I ain't that impressed. I don't want to piss
on your fire.
Donald has no more fire left in his gut. I can't hear any semblance of Dons
earlier
urgency in any of the tracks. I'll stick my neck out here & suggest he
should have
.....
Well it's his album, so I won't bother.
It sounds like a Stinker .
tim r
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