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   "Doctor Mu"  wrote in message   
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   > The clips indicate to me a much more open production and compositional   
   > style, far more like the Nightfly than Kama or TvN.  The harmonies   
   > tight with background vocals are mostly Donald and Carolyn Leonhart.   
   > Keith Carlock sounds a lot more relaxed than on EMG.  Freddie   
   > Washington steadies the rhtym section with a might bad**s bass.  The   
   > mix is excellent.  Vocals up fron and center.  Instrument separation   
   > was good on EMG, but even   
   >   
   > The melodies lyrical, as opposed to simply rhythmic with the exception   
   > of Brite Nitegown with the funky Prince groove.  I hear more Cole   
   > Porter and Gershwin and Bacharach than before.   
   >   
   > MTC,more than Kama, TvN, and EMG, may rank with Nigthfly, Aja, Katy   
   > Lied.   
   >   
   > The melodies and Fagen's vocals in the 30 sec snippets are brave   
   > indeed,   
   > particularly on What I Do, Great Pagoda of Funn, The Night Belongs to   
   > Mona, and Mary Shut the Garden Door...Frankly there's more in the 30   
   > sec Mona and Mary clips that there is in most artists entire careers.   
   > I truly believe Mona *could* be as good a song as Doctor Wu - and   
   > that's my personal fav   
   >   
   > "...while the city sleeps   
   > That's when she comes alive   
   > Yes, the night belongs to Mona   
   > when she's dancing all alone   
   > Forty floors above the city   
   > CD spinning   
   > A/C humming..."   
   >   
   >   
   > "...I woke up   
   > sensed the new condition   
   > May 1   
   > Storms rage   
   > Things change forever..."   
   >   
   >   
   > soulful, slinky, sexy, dead   
   >   
      
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