Many years ago on a Christmas Eve I put this album on and my girl said "why are you smiling so much today" ? Then I got on one knee and asked her to marry me. Memories. Great reaction Verdy...
I agree. What makes her different from other channel reactors is the fact that she is reacting to entire albums not just the hits! Also her album selections are among the best albums ever.
Stylistically, the albums are very similar, which is not surprising given that Fagen had to handle so much of the production and mastering on Gaucho due to Becker's accident and addiction problems. But personally I kind of prefer Nightfly. It's such an amazingly polished work and I really appreciate the intentional thematic coherence it has.
I love the whole Steely Dan discography and Gaucho is one of my favorites and the sound they create through the whole album was so elegant and shinny that it's like the music were dressed in Prada. Absolutely delicious.
Love that you're doing the whole album! While I love most everything SD did, Gaucho, as a whole, is my favorite album. I can't listen to just one tune; has to be the whole album, start to finish. Always the best traveling music. :)
Hope, what I feel whenever i see younger generation discover Steely Dan. Love your reactions. Lucky to see them 3 time in San Diego. Their musicians on tour still play the jazz bars in NYC, stumble into one and talk SD with them, amazing!
Lovely reaction! "Time Out Of Mind" is one of the coolest recordings they ever did, so tight and graceful and with that great, glowing, sonorous bras floating over the keyboards. It really feels like a song about being in the prime of life, it sonically captures this effortless sense of youth: "it's perfection and grace - the smile on my face". There's a Beach Boys quality to the tune and the bouncy, bopping swing, one could imagine it as a Brian Wilson song (though the lyrics have some different meanings that he would not have touched upon, I think...) - I would actually have loved to see him commenting on the track, but never mind... :) The track just feels like it's bathing in sunshine. ☀☀ One thing I guess you noticed is, there are two different rhythmic layers to the song, one carried by that forward-leaning drum beat and the other by the keyboards and brass. Donald is mostly following the keyboards' rhythm scheme, but also connecting with the drums sometimes. :)
I hate to harsh your mellow, but you do realize the song is about heroine addiction, don't you? But I agree completely it's so smooth and graceful and I love the vibe.
@@submandave1125 I know the lyrics are about being introduced to dope, yes, but I didn't want to throw that openly into her face when I was mostly talking about the sound and groove of the song. I did hint that some of it is about stuff that Brian Wilson wouldn't have wanted to write lyrics about.... :)
Hey Ms A!...thank you for being my long distance friend, listening to the best albums, for over a year or so. Always wishing you the Best! ❤ From Oklahoma , The States.
"Time Out of Mind" has Mark Knopfler on lead guitar from Dire Straights. I saw them in early 1990s when they announced a rare tour. For Deacon Blues the entire SunCoast Dome sang as loud as we could, knew every word, and we were all in key. Many thousands in the crowd. I saw Bowie there too. And Guns and Roses there too. But yhere was no better place for concerts on the west coast of Florida than the old St Pete Bayfront Center. Wow, the performances I have seen there. Steely used the Becker brothers on horns.
Gaucho, title track-my favorite Dan, again highlighting the clash between classy and sleazy. As near as I can tell, this is about a successful closeted gay man hosting a party for all his rich friends, and his secret lover shows up with HIS side piece, and that dude is a FREAK. He’s telling his lover (like, in the foyer of the house while his guests all party), “what are you doing with this dude, how could you bring him here? You’re going to mess up my gig and that will mess up YOUR gig.” That’s a pretty sophisticated and tawdry story for Fm radio lol. But it works so well.
You’re the second person today who I’ve seen called SD “a vibe.” I think that’s right. It’s something I hear a lot from Pink Floyd reactions too. And it strikes me that vibe comes from having the total package, putting an entire sound together that creates a mood. It takes holistic thinking to take a song idea and create a vibe. And a ton of skill and patience. This is truly one of the vibe pacesetters.
I saw Larry Carlton around '84 or '85, and he performed what was basically just a medley of his Steely Dan solos. They'd slip from one song into the next and the whole crowd knew every lick.
Donald Fagen's keyboards Walter Becker's Guitar and a rotating cast of Studio musicians and Singers and a 150K Custom Drum Machine what a cast marvelous!
Despite the hilarious lyrics in Gaucho, I always, always tear up at the beauty of the music. Would you care to explain? Sure, it's just the tricksy genius of Steely Dan.
Watching your supertramp videos it's obvious that you love Saxophone as I do. Try Dire Straits, ELO, Alan Parsons Project. I also love jazz funk so Shakatak are great.
I think this is Tom Scott on saxophone, although David Sanborn(RIP) is also on this album, but I’m familiar with his sound and phrasing. And, I’m pretty sure that was Rick Marotta on drums The last song was definitely Steve Gadd on drums (his snare drum sound its always familiar 👌🏼)
I'm really glad I stumbled onto your reaction channel. A gorgeous woman who understands how painstaking the work was to produce an album of this quality. Steely Dan was at this time one of only two bands who were this successful without touring. The other was The Beatles. They spent a year or more on their albums and were not satisfied until the fidelity of their original conception matched the vinyl. No band has ever been so demanding of themselves and their fellow musicians. It shows, doesn't it?
Verdy, I watch your reactions to the "Aja" album often. It's such a pleasure to see you enjoy one of my favorite albums ever. Same with these "Gaucho" reactions. PLEASE listen to Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" album too! It is perfect!
Becker and Fagen spent hours in the studio with session musicians perfecting their records, typically going way over their recording budget. But the results speak for themselves. Unfortunately, by the time this record was made the stresses on the band, both personal and professional, were massive so it's not a surprise that it would be twenty years before another Steely Dan record was made (2000's "Two Against Nature"). Typically, there's an expiration date for one's creative talents, but the Dan's latter-day efforts, while not as great as their 70's heyday, were certainly above average. For my money, there are few album hat tricks as memorable as Dan's 2-year run of "Countdown to Ecstasy" (my personal favorite), "Pretzel Logic" and "Katy Lied".
Yes Verdy, for me the top three are the Beatles, The Allman Brothers Band, and Steely Dan in no order other than the Beatles are numero uno. On Aja we have Deacon Blues(which I know you reviewed already and both Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour from GRP productions(Grusin/Rosin productions) on guitars. Only the ABBs and Beatles and Steely Dan. Donald Fagan "the Night Fly" disc is good.
If you like great horns, especially great saxophone, you have to listen to Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run album. There are some great horns on the songs "Meeting Across The River" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Jungleland" has probably the greatest saxophone solo of all time.
This album never got me like Aja did, but still better than much of what came out that year. There are Gaucho outtakes, songs that never made the album, that are really good. “The Bear” is on UA-cam.
This album as great as it was was the end of Steely Dan due mostly to Walter Becker's drug problems... Their next album release was 20 years later Two Against Nature which won a Grammy for Album of The Year....
Learn to play the Saxophone 🎷 I want a name when I lose. Alabamas the Crimson Tide. Call me Deacon Blue. Smooth Jazz Pop is how I’d best describe their music. Enjoy! Time Out of Mind is my favorite song on this side!
It's Spanish, so more like "GOW cho". TIME OUT OF MIND is just a Perfect execution of being on Top of your Game while painting the town a myriad of colors Chasing the Dragon, and nothing can go wrong - yeah, Baby! Mark Knopfler provides that guitar solo. Like every Dragon Hunt, it just ends too soon.
In English Gaucho is pronounced Gow-(like Cow)-cho. It comes from South America and is derived from Spanish so i'm not sure if the american english pronounciation is correct either. I have an eclectic list of UA-cam subsciptions and don't see all of your (or anyone's) videos, but i'm always impressed by how refined your 'ear' is. Do you play a musical instrument? If you learn to play the saxophone i'm gonna' buy all of your albums.
The song "Gaucho" is one of the most beautiful slow ballads in pop music - but the lyrics are cheeky as hell - typical Fagan and Becker. I think it is sung from the point of view of a gay guy whose young lover got the hots for a cowboy ("gaucho") from Argentina.
I think that’s exactly right. He’s trying to make inroads with the people in “the Custerdome,” which Fagen and Becker used to joke about as the secret place where the power brokers of the world partied. And here’s this guy who’s clearly his lover “wearing your spangled leather poncho, with the studs that match your eyes.” It’s not that his lover has a lover, it’s that he’s just so inappropriate in context for the closeted man’s code switching with the powerful. Such a delicious story.
It's a shame that the theme of Gaucho is an almost exact copy of a piece by Keith Jarrett ('Long as you know you're living yours, on the album 'Belonging'). After some legal disputes, Steely Dan finally had to admit the plagiarism, and indicate Keith Jarrett as co-author.
Many years ago on a Christmas Eve I put this album on and my girl said "why are you smiling so much today" ? Then I got on one knee and asked her to marry me. Memories. Great reaction Verdy...
Wow! Fantastic!, Congrats! Your/our tastes are Very High!
I’m glad that I found you, for yours among the most genuine reactions of any that I’ve come upon
I agree. What makes her different from other channel reactors is the fact that she is reacting to entire albums not just the hits! Also her album selections are among the best albums ever.
The chord progressions. The intellectual creativity. A combination of theory and feel. Just amazing, this group.
Time Out of Mind is one of my favorite Steely Dan songs!
A masterpiece
Awesome song
a tremendous exposition of Chasing The Dragon.
That's my favorite bridge of any song for sure.
"That part of the bass was nasty." So spot on.
Verdy, the word you're looking for when you share your thoughts and feelings is "articulate." A new word to add to your English vocabulary!❤
Great reaction video to a great album!
Now it would be great to see your reaction to Donald Fagans
The Nightfly. Well done!
Stylistically, the albums are very similar, which is not surprising given that Fagen had to handle so much of the production and mastering on Gaucho due to Becker's accident and addiction problems. But personally I kind of prefer Nightfly. It's such an amazingly polished work and I really appreciate the intentional thematic coherence it has.
I love the whole Steely Dan discography and Gaucho is one of my favorites and the sound they create through the whole album was so elegant and shinny that it's like the music were dressed in Prada. Absolutely delicious.
Love that you're doing the whole album! While I love most everything SD did, Gaucho, as a whole, is my favorite album. I can't listen to just one tune; has to be the whole album, start to finish. Always the best traveling music. :)
Love your show and your good taste in music. I have loved Steely Dan for many years. It's wonderful to see you enjoying them.
Verdy, I like the way you physically get into the music.... You got soul sister!
Hope, what I feel whenever i see younger generation discover Steely Dan. Love your reactions. Lucky to see them 3 time in San Diego. Their musicians on tour still play the jazz bars in NYC, stumble into one and talk SD with them, amazing!
Time Out Of Mind. The bass is wonderful. And oh, yeah... was that Michael McDonald on backup vocals? Yes. Yes, I believe it was.
Lovely reaction! "Time Out Of Mind" is one of the coolest recordings they ever did, so tight and graceful and with that great, glowing, sonorous bras floating over the keyboards. It really feels like a song about being in the prime of life, it sonically captures this effortless sense of youth: "it's perfection and grace - the smile on my face". There's a Beach Boys quality to the tune and the bouncy, bopping swing, one could imagine it as a Brian Wilson song (though the lyrics have some different meanings that he would not have touched upon, I think...) - I would actually have loved to see him commenting on the track, but never mind... :) The track just feels like it's bathing in sunshine. ☀☀
One thing I guess you noticed is, there are two different rhythmic layers to the song, one carried by that forward-leaning drum beat and the other by the keyboards and brass. Donald is mostly following the keyboards' rhythm scheme, but also connecting with the drums sometimes. :)
and a little mark knopfler doodling on the guitar
I hate to harsh your mellow, but you do realize the song is about heroine addiction, don't you? But I agree completely it's so smooth and graceful and I love the vibe.
@@submandave1125 I know the lyrics are about being introduced to dope, yes, but I didn't want to throw that openly into her face when I was mostly talking about the sound and groove of the song. I did hint that some of it is about stuff that Brian Wilson wouldn't have wanted to write lyrics about.... :)
My favorite Steely Dan album love you love it
YAY! SO happy you listened to Gaucho. Probably one of their underrated albums.
Hey Ms A!...thank you for being my long distance friend, listening to the best albums, for over a year or so. Always wishing you the Best!
❤ From Oklahoma , The States.
Dire Straits' Mark Knopfler did the cool guitar leads on "Time out of Mind". Subtle yet distinctive, it's one of the highlights of the album, to me.
It's the long Oww sound like in COW or the word OUCH. GOW- CHO. Gaucho
"Time Out of Mind" has Mark Knopfler on lead guitar from Dire Straights.
I saw them in early 1990s when they announced a rare tour.
For Deacon Blues the entire SunCoast Dome sang as loud as we could, knew every word, and we were all in key. Many thousands in the crowd.
I saw Bowie there too. And Guns and Roses there too.
But yhere was no better place for concerts on the west coast of Florida than the old St Pete Bayfront Center. Wow, the performances I have seen there.
Steely used the Becker brothers on horns.
New to the channel, instant follow I'm only 3 minutes in. You can't do nothing with them boys man, Steely D are Cold. Blooded.
13:50 Day = Made
Gaucho, title track-my favorite Dan, again highlighting the clash between classy and sleazy. As near as I can tell, this is about a successful closeted gay man hosting a party for all his rich friends, and his secret lover shows up with HIS side piece, and that dude is a FREAK. He’s telling his lover (like, in the foyer of the house while his guests all party), “what are you doing with this dude, how could you bring him here? You’re going to mess up my gig and that will mess up YOUR gig.” That’s a pretty sophisticated and tawdry story for Fm radio lol. But it works so well.
I think it’s actually about Walter Becker having his heroin dealer around all the time.
Based on what?
You’re the second person today who I’ve seen called SD “a vibe.” I think that’s right. It’s something I hear a lot from Pink Floyd reactions too. And it strikes me that vibe comes from having the total package, putting an entire sound together that creates a mood. It takes holistic thinking to take a song idea and create a vibe. And a ton of skill and patience. This is truly one of the vibe pacesetters.
great reaction, as usual. you might be interested in Donald Fagen’s album, Nightfly, one of my all-tme favorites.
and this is why this is my favorite steely dan album!
but just imagine being able to put out Aja and Gaucho ,back to back ....YIKES ! :)
Hardly many songs get past The Genius, Perfectionist Donald Fagen Master of Quality Control. Every song a masterpiece in their own way! Thanks!
I'm glad you came back to the Dan! ✌
Legendary Larry Carlton played the guitar solos on Third World Man
I saw Larry Carlton around '84 or '85, and he performed what was basically just a medley of his Steely Dan solos. They'd slip from one song into the next and the whole crowd knew every lick.
Katie Lied and Pretzel Lodgic are two other Steely Dan Albums I think you would enjoy also.
Verdy love the Dan. You're the coolest. Merch idea, "Come on!" T-shirts
My wife and I fell in love with the album "AJA" as our soundtrack. Wonderful memories.
Donald Fagen's keyboards Walter Becker's Guitar and a rotating cast of Studio musicians and Singers and a 150K Custom Drum Machine what a cast marvelous!
No drum machine on A1 and B1
"My Rival" should have been on Donald's "Nightfly" album....maybe he was thinking of that as he wrote it...it is definately a Donald song.....
Beautiful record one of my favourite Steely Dan albums
I have this album in a 5.1 channel format what a difference that makes
any day is a Steely day , thanks
Love your album review/reactions. Hopefully do a Duran Duran "Rio" or another Fleetwood Mac/Bon Jovi album when you have time 😎🎶🎶🖤
Despite the hilarious lyrics in Gaucho, I always, always tear up at the beauty of the music. Would you care to explain? Sure, it's just the tricksy genius of Steely Dan.
One of the best
Noooooo!! I can’t call you Jaws now.
Watching your supertramp videos it's obvious that you love Saxophone as I do.
Try Dire Straits, ELO, Alan Parsons Project. I also love jazz funk so Shakatak are great.
I think this is Tom Scott on saxophone, although David Sanborn(RIP) is also on this album, but I’m familiar with his sound and phrasing. And, I’m pretty sure that was Rick Marotta on drums
The last song was definitely Steve Gadd on drums (his snare drum sound its always familiar 👌🏼)
It's Bernard Purdie with his 1/2 time Shuffle, on "Babylon Sisters" and Jeff Porcaro on "Gaucho".
Gaucho seemed a perfect segue to The Nightfly
Verdy plus Steely Dan! What could be a better combination?!?!
I think this is probably the jazziest SD album and especially this song. It's one of my favorite SD songs (until I hear another SD song). 😅
Yes. The guitar solo on Third World Man is just lovely. El ere del terzo mondo.
Well, it's Larry Carlton...so you kind of expect it to be great.
I'm really glad I stumbled onto your reaction channel. A gorgeous woman who understands how painstaking the work was to produce an album of this quality. Steely Dan was at this time one of only two bands who were this successful without touring. The other was The Beatles. They spent a year or more on their albums and were not satisfied until the fidelity of their original conception matched the vinyl. No band has ever been so demanding of themselves and their fellow musicians. It shows, doesn't it?
I have every album they ever produced, nearly all Allman Bs, and Beatles.
For fun there are combos like Spyro Gyra, Jay Beckenstein is really good.
Verdy, I watch your reactions to the "Aja" album often. It's such a pleasure to see you enjoy one of my favorite albums ever. Same with these "Gaucho" reactions. PLEASE listen to Donald Fagen's "The Nightfly" album too! It is perfect!
Steely Dan, can melt the Antiartic.❤..I'm there., How about you.? ✌️
Ms Verdy by our side.
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delicious album, so relaxing!
Glamour Profession was their take on disco. You'll love Katy Lied. NEXT!!!!!!!!!
I hope you do all of the Steely Dan catalog, 'Katy Lied' and Donald Fagan's first solo album 'The Nightfly' should not be missed.
Such a great album
Becker and Fagen spent hours in the studio with session musicians perfecting their records, typically going way over their recording budget. But the results speak for themselves. Unfortunately, by the time this record was made the stresses on the band, both personal and professional, were massive so it's not a surprise that it would be twenty years before another Steely Dan record was made (2000's "Two Against Nature"). Typically, there's an expiration date for one's creative talents, but the Dan's latter-day efforts, while not as great as their 70's heyday, were certainly above average.
For my money, there are few album hat tricks as memorable as Dan's 2-year run of "Countdown to Ecstasy" (my personal favorite), "Pretzel Logic" and "Katy Lied".
Yes Verdy, for me the top three are the Beatles, The Allman Brothers Band, and Steely Dan in no order other than the Beatles are numero uno.
On Aja we have Deacon Blues(which I know you reviewed already and both Larry Carlton and Lee Ritenour from GRP productions(Grusin/Rosin productions) on guitars. Only the ABBs and Beatles and Steely Dan.
Donald Fagan "the Night Fly" disc is good.
Perfection and Grace. ❤
Third world man is a song about a Desert Storm war veteran who lives with his memories and trauma!
I won't speculate what it is about, I've read various things, but Desert Storm was 10 years later.
If you like great horns, especially great saxophone, you have to listen to Bruce Springsteen's Born To Run album. There are some great horns on the songs "Meeting Across The River" and "Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out" and "Jungleland" has probably the greatest saxophone solo of all time.
This album never got me like Aja did, but still better than much of what came out that year. There are Gaucho outtakes, songs that never made the album, that are really good. “The Bear” is on UA-cam.
This album as great as it was was the end of Steely Dan due mostly to Walter Becker's drug problems... Their next album release was 20 years later Two Against Nature which won a Grammy for Album of The Year....
❤❤ gorgeous person and awesome album
Learn to play the Saxophone 🎷 I want a name when I lose. Alabamas the Crimson Tide. Call me Deacon Blue.
Smooth Jazz Pop is how I’d best describe their music. Enjoy!
Time Out of Mind is my favorite song on this side!
I agree. As a kid learning saxophone, Steely Dan was made mandatory by my sister and brother-in-law.
Nice. Had a feeling you would love this.
Gaucho. Would love to know what the story was behind this song. Like so many other SD songs! They're just so cryptic.
It's Spanish, so more like "GOW cho". TIME OUT OF MIND is just a Perfect execution of being on Top of your Game while painting the town a myriad of colors Chasing the Dragon, and nothing can go wrong - yeah, Baby! Mark Knopfler provides that guitar solo. Like every Dragon Hunt, it just ends too soon.
Your reacting during Gaucho says it all that needs to be said 🤓
I love that you love them like i do
Steely Dan ❤
Gaucho. South American cowboy.
In English Gaucho is pronounced Gow-(like Cow)-cho. It comes from South America and is derived from Spanish so i'm not sure if the american english pronounciation is correct either. I have an eclectic list of UA-cam subsciptions and don't see all of your (or anyone's) videos, but i'm always impressed by how refined your 'ear' is. Do you play a musical instrument? If you learn to play the saxophone i'm gonna' buy all of your albums.
I have to ask... is Verdy present or future? Just trying to get the proper translation. LOVE what you do, madameoiselle/madame!
Verdy are you going to do Robert Plant solo career with The Honeydrippers?.
Listening to The Dan is a religious experience.
I’d love to see you react to Ed Sheeran's 'BLOW' featuring Chris Stapleton and Bruno Mars. The official music video has so much energy!
It should be called the Sexophone, that and the harmonica are the most sexy instruments.
The song "Gaucho" is one of the most beautiful slow ballads in pop music - but the lyrics are cheeky as hell - typical Fagan and Becker. I think it is sung from the point of view of a gay guy whose young lover got the hots for a cowboy ("gaucho") from Argentina.
I think that’s exactly right. He’s trying to make inroads with the people in “the Custerdome,” which Fagen and Becker used to joke about as the secret place where the power brokers of the world partied. And here’s this guy who’s clearly his lover “wearing your spangled leather poncho, with the studs that match your eyes.” It’s not that his lover has a lover, it’s that he’s just so inappropriate in context for the closeted man’s code switching with the powerful. Such a delicious story.
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Thank you Verdy! You are so adorable and gorgeous.
I love the way Verdy listens to music. More like a man, if that makes sense
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The great Guitarist Larry Carlton on these tracks...... I appreciate your musical depth Verde.. Kiss you honey!! My kinda girl..
Never lose that birthmark on your left cheek. You have turned beautiful on us and I think sometimes you spout poetry.
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Tell your friends!
"Gaucho" is too beautiful to stop and talk about, eh? ;-)
It's a shame that the theme of Gaucho is an almost exact copy of a piece by Keith Jarrett ('Long as you know you're living yours, on the album 'Belonging').
After some legal disputes, Steely Dan finally had to admit the plagiarism, and indicate Keith Jarrett as co-author.
Can you react to the movie Harlem Nights next???
Q hermosa 😅
it's pronounced cow-cho and you get a listen to the doors album L.A. Women you won't be disappointed !
Pronounced “Gow-Cho”.
You got your braces off. Feels good right?
NEXT REACT MESSIAH A LIONEL MESSI
So much sounds the same on this album.
...a prettier girl i dont think i have ever seen...
Worst album. Flat energy. Great band, though.