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I Want a Name When I Lose

by Alex Belth   |   September 10, 2015 12:50 pm

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They called Alabama the Crimson Tide. 

Categories:  1: Featured  Arts and Culture  Creative Process  Music

Tags:  aja  deacon blues  donald fagen  steely dan  walter becker

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6 comments

1 MSM35   ~  Sep 10, 2015 1:23 pm

I heard this track yesterday on Sirius. Can't be anyone else.

2 Alex Belth   ~  Sep 10, 2015 2:34 pm

Steely Dan is like cilantro--you either dig it or really dislike it.

3 rbj   ~  Sep 10, 2015 5:39 pm

One of the first albums I got as a kid. Christmas present from older sister, I thought she was being pretentious, didn't play it for a couple of years (probably 14 at the time) but when I dd, wow.

I even wound up going to Bard College.

4 Boatzilla   ~  Sep 10, 2015 5:48 pm

Cool sister. I didn't hear it until college.

5 Alex Belth   ~  Sep 10, 2015 6:05 pm

rbj, That is Awesome! I've been to that campus. Can see it must have been a swell place to go to school. Yeah, Fagen and Becker were at their peak, compressing things, using fewer overall tracks but having each song be more ochestrated and involved.

6 rbj   ~  Sep 10, 2015 7:04 pm

Yeah, it was great. All my classes were seminars, no lectures, so you had to have points of view challenged.

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