From: owl2@herandnow.com   
      
   There does appear to be a fevered fawning for Fagan - as though everything   
   he produces supersedes previous works.   
      
   A dose of reality and honesty wouldn't go amiss here.   
      
   personally Morph doesn't come anywhere near the nightlfly or even kamakiriad   
   (still very chilled and ideal summer cruising tunes - as was the intention)   
      
   this blind reverence for morph is mindless and embarrassing.   
      
   Jim   
      
      
      
   "Lester the Nightfly"  wrote in message   
   news:1144007359.638199.142120@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...   
   > I'll vouch for Tim being on this news group for many a year. I even had   
   > a drink with him a couple of years back, and no one loves Steely Dan   
   > more than him.   
   >   
   > Tim, for what it counts, on first hearing I played the first 30 seconds   
   > or so of each track off MTC and having skipped quickly from one to   
   > another declared myself deeply dissapointed. Sure, the band was as   
   > tight as ever and the lyrics clever, but I felt that it could offer no   
   > more than a slick groove. And we Dan fans have come to expect more. So   
   > I gave the album to my brother who expected little from it ( he   
   > believes rock greats should never record more than 4 albums and quit   
   > whilst ahead).I was suprised when he called me a couple of days later   
   > and said he thought it better than Kamakeriad and the two recent Dan   
   > albums. So, I listened again. Played it over and over in the car. And   
   > now... I like it, quite a lot actually. Sure, it won't make my all time   
   > top 10 albums, but it's better than 90% of all the albums I usually   
   > buy. Some of the cords and key changes remind me of the Night Fly (no   
   > bad thing),a couple of passages on the album take me back to Gaucho.   
   >   
   > I do think we are all wrong if we expect anything Donald (or for that   
   > matter Steely Dan) writes in the year 2006 could come anyway near the   
   > material of 1976. The benchmark was set so high, and I understand that   
   > it's all too easy for us to feel dissapointed. But if I approach the   
   > new material from a realistic standpoint, I'm a pretty contented   
   > devotee.   
   >   
   > Steve (north side of Sheffield)   
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