Steely Dan- Midnite Cruiser (REACTION//DISCUSSION)

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  • Опубліковано 23 гру 2024

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  • @realbser1956
    @realbser1956 2 роки тому +1

    That was just Steely Dandy! Thanks JP.

  • @ssia6938
    @ssia6938 2 роки тому

    Great song to drive through LA late night. I interpreted the lyrics as someone bemoaning the transition from the 1960s into the 70s.

  • @grega8586
    @grega8586 2 роки тому +1

    1:00 reminds me of California Dreamin' :-)

  • @lewismaddox4132
    @lewismaddox4132 2 роки тому +1

    "The world that we used to know, people tell me it don't turn no more.
    The places we used to go, familiar places that ain't smilin like before.
    The time of our time has come and gone, I fear we been waiting too long."
    A truly mournful lament! It's not only the disappearance of that place which is so permanently inside you, but the fact
    that the you that dwelled there no longer exists. I can't hear this without mourning my own demise.
    It's not just their music which was so fully developed and realized, but the lyrics that were never cliche in a business which was
    nearly always old and tired.

  • @rocknrallsoul94rockero4
    @rocknrallsoul94rockero4 2 роки тому +1

    Love this one man

  • @WTFungus
    @WTFungus 2 роки тому +1

    Can't Buy a Thrill was my introduction to Steely Dan sooooooo many years ago.

  • @jeremyb5640
    @jeremyb5640 2 роки тому +7

    One of my favourite Steely Dan songs. I love that hooky, soaring chorus. Reminds me a lot of Crosby Stills and Nash.

  • @kuhnhan
    @kuhnhan 2 роки тому +2

    Another song from this album you might enjoy is "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again". "King of the World" from Countdown to Ecstasy is another one. I like the instrumental at the end of "King of the World", jazzy, but almost sounding like the theme from an early 1970s game show, but in a cool way.

    • @jerrypetrillo2903
      @jerrypetrillo2903 2 роки тому +1

      King of the World : long overdue to react to that track

  • @mjm5081
    @mjm5081 2 роки тому +9

    Right out of the gate the writing and playing had a maturity that belied its debut status.

  • @georgedavis-stewart4225
    @georgedavis-stewart4225 2 роки тому

    Polished, always inventive and engaging.

  • @trondsatre8615
    @trondsatre8615 2 роки тому +9

    Apparently, Donald Fagen *did* mean to refer to Thelonius Monk, one of his jazz favorites, but one who had just begun to fade into obscurity when this album was recorded (source: "Steely Dan on track" by Jez Rowden). So it's a play on words.

    • @daveking9393
      @daveking9393 2 роки тому +2

      I really appreciate you confirming that because it's what I had heard so when Justin hadn't mentioned it in his reaction I thought wow I was wrong all these years...

    • @mgwatson26
      @mgwatson26 2 роки тому +2

      I think the 'Round Midnight vs Midnight Cruiser similarity, confirms that it was Monk.

    • @jayburdification
      @jayburdification 2 роки тому +1

      Definitely an oblique Monk reference.

  • @johngardner4096
    @johngardner4096 2 роки тому

    This song had a melancholy sound - a couple of older people going out to cruise the streets like they used to... to find that the streets aren't the same any more. It happens as we get older, I think.
    You might find it interesting to compare it to "The Golden Age of Leather" by Blue Oyster Cult... the same feeling of "nothing's the same any more".

  • @TheCornishCockney
    @TheCornishCockney 2 роки тому +2

    WHAT a debut.
    I was 17when this dropped,rushed out and bought on the strength of hearing and loving Reelin….and memorised every word,every track.
    Been a Danhead ever since.

  • @jayburdification
    @jayburdification 2 роки тому +2

    Excellent deep cut. Every track a classic.

  • @gammaanteria
    @gammaanteria 2 роки тому +2

    This is one of my favorite Steely Dan songs. Love to sing along with the chorus. :)

  • @IllumeEltanin
    @IllumeEltanin 2 роки тому

    Ah...
    I never would have guessed this from the emoji puzzle on Twitter!

  • @cat-o-matic
    @cat-o-matic 2 роки тому

    The guitar parts are so tasty! Kinda like key lime pie. This album was out about a year before I had the extra scratch to go out and buy it. Money was tight in those days. Anyway, when I finally got it, I played the hell out of it. Couldn't get enough.

  • @sgtBelson
    @sgtBelson 2 роки тому +7

    Love this song in the car, windows down and an uninterrupted stretch of lonely country road.

  • @hrblsh
    @hrblsh 2 роки тому

    One of those Steely Dan tracks I knew before I got into them. Seems a lot of those are from this album. Great album and song!

  • @reneelyons6836
    @reneelyons6836 2 роки тому +1

    Yes can't go wrong. That was just beautiful.

  • @ricobonifacio1095
    @ricobonifacio1095 2 роки тому +2

    One of my favorites from the album

  • @keithjones6023
    @keithjones6023 2 роки тому +14

    There might be somebody who doesn't like Steely Dan, but only a fool would say that! 😏

  • @Hartlor_Tayley
    @Hartlor_Tayley 2 роки тому +1

    Great choice JP. Steely Dan was on their game from the get go. Great reaction

  • @markfilla9305
    @markfilla9305 2 роки тому +1

    Wow, I had completely forgotten about this early SD track! Thanks for helping me re-discover it Justin. Always weird to not hear Donald Fagen on the lead vocal, and yet it's so obviously a song by them.

  • @mikeloomis687
    @mikeloomis687 2 роки тому +1

    Thanks JP...great debut album by Steely Dan. This song continues the groove. I love every track....yeah I'll admit on every SD album up to Gaucho. I get the vision of traveling with your friends some night in the Summer in your "hood" and just seeing what transpires.

  • @shawnward361
    @shawnward361 2 роки тому

    Hi Justin, Check out Razor Boy since you like the guitar on Midnight Cruiser.

  • @EclecticInstinct
    @EclecticInstinct 2 роки тому +1

    Great debut album, with hints of even better to come. Wonderful lyricists and total perfectionists. I was 18 when I bought this album on it's release.

  • @gp8209
    @gp8209 2 роки тому +6

    NICE - one of the more underrated tracks. For me this is the beginning of the 'Gentleman Loser' trilogy, alongside Deacon Blues and Babylon Sisters. He's in the cab heading to his gig.

  • @daveking9393
    @daveking9393 2 роки тому +4

    I needed this I was just watching something that I really could care less about so I'm glad something interesting came across my way via a favorite channel

  • @georgetaxi8179
    @georgetaxi8179 2 роки тому +10

    Speaking of driving.. You have to hit some of Donald Fagan's solo record. It's probably the best driving at night record. Not a bad song on the record. The title track "Nightfly" is one of my all time favorite Dan or Fagan tracks.

  • @cintfromtexas8196
    @cintfromtexas8196 2 роки тому

    Excellent choice for a review, one of the great Steely Dan songs from a great album, May want to check out Brooklyn, from other Here at the Western World, Show Biz Kids for some foundational tunes to add to your Steely Dan repertoire. JP reviews a great variety of songs. Definitely should check out Peter Murphy, the DEEP ALBUM, you could pick any song on this one it would be excellent, start with Strange Kind of Love, CUTS YOU UP, Crystal Wrist.
    Also more Bowie from Man Who Sold the World, Alladin Sane.
    More Roxy Music ( Avalon) Brian Ferry reviewing Boys and Girls, Bete Noire or Avonmore.
    Keep up the variety. A channel to see reactions to a variety of artists.

  • @frugalseverin2282
    @frugalseverin2282 2 роки тому +2

    An amazing band, they only have 1 song I don't like and another I don't care for but won't skip it. Most of their albums are just incredible.

  • @markdrechsler5660
    @markdrechsler5660 2 роки тому +3

    I’ve always considered this one of my favorite songs from the debut album. I just like the vibe of the song, and the catchy chorus. And I like the drummer’s voice. Apparently Donald Fagan was quite self conscious about his self-perceived limitations as a singer early on, and they were experimenting with other singers in the band

  • @-davidolivares
    @-davidolivares 2 роки тому +7

    Indeed, the old stomping grounds are way different these days, hardly want to go near them. Where there were lonely highways and long country roads are now stacked houses and businesses, suburban nightmares pitted with stop signs and speed bumps.
    Clubs and discos are now college bookstores and pawnshop storefronts.
    That’s where my friend rolled his friend’s borrowed car and almost died because the road ended. Now, there is a road, into a nice neat little community. He might have slammed into that community’s brick signage if it were a different year, luckily it was just a field at the time. Drunk as they were, they walked home and said nothing.
    I’m just glad I wasn’t with them.
    Midnight roller.
    Peace and 2:30 am Music

  • @andyshan
    @andyshan 2 роки тому

    This is a great debut album. However, they really find their voice and consolidate their talent on the followup, Countdown to Ecstasy.

  • @stpnwlf9
    @stpnwlf9 2 роки тому +9

    One of those rare albums that had no bad tracks. Every song was oustanding, the production was sparkling, and you could leave it in your car's tape deck forever.

    • @ricobonifacio1095
      @ricobonifacio1095 2 роки тому +1

      They left the bad to the cover haha

    • @scifimonkey3
      @scifimonkey3 2 роки тому

      It’s something that you could say about most SD albums. They were just so consistent.

  • @beatledad
    @beatledad 2 роки тому +1

    jeff SKUNK baxter the lead guitar player was this record then did a stint with the doobie brothers......look up bio....one of the more interesting life stories...you'll be very surprised

  • @AriadneJC
    @AriadneJC 2 роки тому +5

    Too smooth, too slick, I found my attention sliding away to something else after a few minutes because nothing made it stick.

    • @hansvandermeulen5515
      @hansvandermeulen5515 2 роки тому +2

      Then their albums from Two Against Nature (or Donald Fagen's Kamakiriad) onwards are sure to put you to sleep.

    • @a.k.1740
      @a.k.1740 2 роки тому

      @@hansvandermeulen5515 Even Gaucho puts me to sleep ! It shows the damage done afterwards....

    • @pentagrammaton6793
      @pentagrammaton6793 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah, Steely Dan are too easily digestible. Jazz lite.

  • @yournamehere6002
    @yournamehere6002 2 роки тому

    You should listen to Fagen's The Nightfly or Morph the Cat

  • @kevtruth
    @kevtruth 2 роки тому +4

    I love Steely Dan's early albums - I prefer the more pop constructions. For my $ its all about Can't Buy A Thrill thru Katy Lied

  • @robertjewell9727
    @robertjewell9727 2 роки тому +9

    Good track although not my fave, but what is subtly excellent about it is how they take a pop formula and augment it with a more complex shift in chord structure. Rather than just go to the tonic they go to an augmented tonic with a minor third bass harmony for insyance, which gives the nostalgic longing of the song real character.

  • @mikeloomis687
    @mikeloomis687 2 роки тому +1

    Hey JP....see the new movie with Ben Affleck "The Tender Bar" and they use the song "Do It Again" by the Dan at the end of the movie....pretty much the entire song. Lot's of great songs from the 70"s on the soundtrack. Enjoy!!

  • @a.k.1740
    @a.k.1740 2 роки тому +9

    I love it when Steely Dan has that pop-rock sound on the early albums. the playing of the musicians is neat but not quite polished as on Aja and Gaucho. This song almost sounds like an early Eagles track (it might even have ended up on their On the Border album !).

  • @stephenpesta1550
    @stephenpesta1550 2 роки тому +2

    I’m on the Steely Dan deep dive after seeing them last November and love this album and song. Royal Scam turns out to be my number 2 after Aja though and The Caves Of Altimara is just so tight and hip.

  • @randywheeler8260
    @randywheeler8260 2 роки тому +1

    I always enjoyed this song, thanks for reviewing and reacting. Fire in the Hole , from the same album, is a very stark and interesting number from Donald Fagen that you might like. Cheers !

  • @stevemd6488
    @stevemd6488 2 роки тому +6

    Sooooooo glad you got to this one. One of my favorite SD songs. Dunno why but the way Hodder sings it, and the lyrics, just really get to me. "The world that we used to know, people tell me it don't turn no more". Beautiful.

  • @cjdesign5700
    @cjdesign5700 2 роки тому

    Dan is always good...no dogs.

  • @jfergs.3302
    @jfergs.3302 2 роки тому +3

    It's nice enough, but nothing special. But hey, it was early days, an embryonic ''Dan' finding their feet, perhaps. And of course not having DF on vocals does make a big diff.

    • @a.k.1740
      @a.k.1740 2 роки тому +1

      The embryonic ''Dan'' is a plus for me ! It had that band sound unlike what will follow from Katy Lied through Aja to Everything Must Go. Their first three albums are a must for me. The rest, much less (although I still like Katy Lied and The Royal Scam and Aja to a lesser degree).

    • @jfergs.3302
      @jfergs.3302 2 роки тому

      @@a.k.1740 Oh aye, there's nothing wrong with 'embryonic Dan', I didn't mean it to sound derogatory. I just don't think this's one of the stronger tracks on the album. And for a debut to have a couple of timeless classics like, 'Do it Again,' and 'Reelin', definitely not too shabby. They've a great canon, lots better than this. But JFTR, 'The Royal Scam' has long been my fave.

  • @baileyride
    @baileyride 2 роки тому +1

    Is this the only one not sung by DF?

    • @gammaanteria
      @gammaanteria 2 роки тому

      On the first studio album David Palmer sung lead for a few songs (he only lasted that album). On the last studio album, Walter Becker sung lead on one of the tracks. I think there was one other song (unreleased or a b-side) with lead vocals by Jim Hodder.

  • @sicko_the_ew
    @sicko_the_ew 2 роки тому +2

    Easy listening (in Steely Dan terms) is a fair description. This is one of theirs I've never heard before. I like it (and think I'll like it better next time, and so on) but you've probably got even better songs to look forward on that album. Great to see they're not blocking everyone any more, too.
    Your Uncle Bob has also released another song (part of the next album - he's relentless!) that also might take a spin or two to fully appreciate. ua-cam.com/video/AdsfNOj0LEI/v-deo.html ( *GBV - Never Mind the List* ) I like it, but I think I'm going to like it more next time.

    • @sicko_the_ew
      @sicko_the_ew 2 роки тому

      More *Voivod! - Paranormalium* ua-cam.com/video/sIgY8LNK8H4/v-deo.html
      Lyrics video this time. One has animations based on "Away"'s art work that is worth watching even for people who have to mute the sound, because of their misaligned preferences. Must go find it just in case I didn't suggest it ... yesterday? I think.

    • @sicko_the_ew
      @sicko_the_ew 2 роки тому

      *Planet Eaters* ua-cam.com/video/lvHjNcjMqvU/v-deo.html
      (The one with the animations. If that doesn't ring a bell, you haven't seen it.)

    • @sicko_the_ew
      @sicko_the_ew 2 роки тому

      Aaarh. And now I've found something.
      First you need the "reverse context" (just context, really). If you haven't listened to *It's Love Jim - by The Darkness* you won't know why the thing in the next "reply" matters. (A wee bit.) All you need here is the title and a minute of the video, if you're down to sticking to essentials today. ua-cam.com/video/qYfQdl1cFE8/v-deo.html
      (Also if there were once some cows in your life, the video will bring back all kinds of sweet memories of their little quirks. So there. I've found even more reasons why you should waste your time on this.)

    • @sicko_the_ew
      @sicko_the_ew 2 роки тому

      Now that you have It's Love Jim sorted (something Justin Hawkins quotes often on his channel), you're ready to discover where the phrase came from. (This one takes some time to develop. It doesn't remain in the same style all the way through. If you've "heard enough" after 30 seconds, no you haven't, you're just being impatient.)
      *The Firm - Star Trekkin* (trust me, I'm almost a doctor) ua-cam.com/video/FCARADb9asE/v-deo.html
      You won't need to hear the whole thing if you're in a hurry, but it takes some time for the reason I've posted it here to become clear.

  • @bryanhale5254
    @bryanhale5254 2 роки тому +2

    Such great song structure even the guitar licks her totally composed except right at the very end work I mean they're doing harmonics when they extended the solo but then skunk Baxter takes over and does a little country little lick you know a little bit of Chicken Pickin at the end there yeah this is one of those impeccable albums kind of like Jethro Tull's Aqualung this is not a bad song on the whole album

  • @franckbizouard3357
    @franckbizouard3357 2 роки тому +3

    Steely Dan never missed ;-) Kings of cool soft jazz pop rock, feels like a little of The Eagles in the way they sing it.

  • @palantir135
    @palantir135 2 роки тому +1

    You can’t go wrong with Steely Dan.

  • @maruad7577
    @maruad7577 2 роки тому +4

    Argh... I didn't even think of Steely Dan for clue #1. The amazing thing about Steely Dan is even their weakest tracks are really good though I probably should give the entire album a listen before I declare it a weak track. Too bad this wasn't yesterday. Then I could have listened to it during the blizzard. Yesterday I learned the technical definition of a blizzard. The only part of that I can remember is the snow and blowing snow reduce visibility below 400m and winds have to be above 56 kph. We will all be taking turns shoveling today though we are running out of space to put it all in the front. I really do not want to have to figure out a way to haul it to the back.
    p.s. A snow day yesterday would have been spent indoors. Today I expect things will mostly be back to normal.

    • @IllumeEltanin
      @IllumeEltanin 2 роки тому +1

      : ayeup :
      I pretty much said the exact same thing regarding emoji clue #1 over on Twitter.

    • @maruad7577
      @maruad7577 2 роки тому

      @@IllumeEltanin I haven't an idea on clue #2 either. I found a couple of extremely obscure things but there are just too many bands to choose from.

  • @cometogether999
    @cometogether999 2 роки тому +1

    I highly recommend that you check out "Death on Two Legs" by Queen off of the "Night at the Opera" album. One of the first diss tracks. In my book there are no bad Steely Dan tracks. In the early days Donald hadn't found his voice so to speak. David Palmer also sings on this album.

  • @jamespaivapaiva4460
    @jamespaivapaiva4460 2 роки тому

    Yes, they do, do it again! You can't go home again, can you? Peace from a fossil field.

  • @richardfurness7556
    @richardfurness7556 2 роки тому +1

    As close to perfection as the band ever came. And eerily prophetic, considering what's happened to the world during the last couple of years.

  • @kb9788
    @kb9788 Місяць тому

    I find your reaction video to Midnight Cruiser very inauthentic. There isn't a template for the wide diverse styles SD has covered. Also its quite obvious you didn't do your homework on this song. The Steely Dan that recorded Midnight Cruiser was for the most part a much different band that later recorded their well-known pop-jazz catalog. Most of the band heard on this record had left Steely Dan by 1975, leaving only the founders, and thus a different sound. It's a classic yet you treated the song as if it was merely passable.. Fact is, Donald Fagen wasn't able to sing this song or Dirty Work, for that matter. There is no signature style that you refer to. That's why Jim Hodder was utilized on this track with his exceptional vocals. One more item: the Thelonious referred to in the song is Thelonious Monk. Next time, stick to what you know.

  • @summertime_blooz
    @summertime_blooz 2 роки тому

    This is one of the weaker tracks that they ever released. Why was it chosen for a reaction?

    • @JustJP
      @JustJP  2 роки тому

      Going in order on the album :)

  • @HippoYnYGlaw
    @HippoYnYGlaw 2 роки тому

    George Michael did it just as good jp. This is the Sprout’s Hallelluah’s big bullish sister and i for one like it as much their previous massive personal hit that was Barrytown. I like the rawer SD as i prefer the rawer Sprouts. Raw organic artistic stone polishing at it’s best.
    Your interpretive commenting skills yesterday and today were perceptive and concise Justin.
    Gershwin & Monk say hi though. Here’s to life long learning Ent. 🤙🧢🧶🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿diolch