From: thawryluk@optonline.net   
      
   Not for nuthin, but they've frequently inserted quick little song summations   
   in the liner notes ever since CBAT.   
      
   I really like Morph too, but it seems that there's an awful lot of really   
   good musicians on that CD that never had the chance to "stretch out" like on   
   lots of previous albums.   
      
   "J-Dog"  wrote in message   
   news:1155852080.547469.277910@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...   
   >I really like Morph, I think it has something that the other   
   > Diet-Steely Dan or Steely Dan-Lite records don't.  Not quite sure what   
   > that is, but perhaps it almost acknowledges a sort of "hey i'm not the   
   > sardonic witty guy i was in the 70"s, but here's my take on the world I   
   > live in today" attitude.  He even gives a sort of explanation for the   
   > songs in the liner notes, or on the website.  When has SD ever done   
   > that?  He's gettin' older, he knows what he does well and he's just   
   > going for it.   
   >   
   > And as a piece of music in general, listen to that rich deep bass on   
   > the title track man! My God, just crank that sucker as your cruising   
   > down the road, it fucking rocks!   Personally i would have been happy   
   > with a 30 minute jam session of Morph The Cat and "What I do" and i'd   
   > have paid my 14 bucks.   
   >   
   > The Morph The Cat reprise is just freakin beautiful, again i wish it   
   > would go on for a good 14 minutes or so with some solos.  That ending   
   > is just chilling to me.   It's like a big musical GOODBYE!   
   >   
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   >   
   > ana1ana2@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >> I don't find myself putting it on very much, although I don't mind   
   >> when it pops up in my ITunes shuffle.   
   >>   
   >> Definitely no Nightfly, but better than most new music out there.   
   >> The production certainly lacks Nightfly's warmth (as did Kamakiriad,   
   >> for the most part)...in fact, Everything Must Go is much easier on the   
   >> ears, production-wise, as well.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:31:14 GMT, "jimbo"  wrote:   
   >>   
   >> >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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