Excellent! 👍

Love this album!

One of the best ever

Aja - beautiful!

Good choice.

Classic!

I watched a video claiming that the best rock drum solo of all time is Steve Gadd on Aja. I had never really thought of that before but I have to say it’s a strong point.

The best.

THE BEST!!

Great CD. I still have my original vinyl

Excellent choice !!

Nice!

A FABULOUS ALBUM. EXCELLENT CHOICE.

Many fine tune their stereos to it

One of the best albums ever recorded.

👍

One of the best albums, just seven songs if I remember correctly

Had the LP.

Deacon Blues. The best.

One of those albums that prove CD is superior to vinyl.

It may be superior technically, but the very slight imperfections of vinyl make it a far better listening experience in my honest opinion

Takes me back cool Cambridge classic system

Im got new tech but I still love vinyl on my 30 years old turntable form Oracle

🔥🔥

Great album. "By your keys Was a book of numbers And your remedies One of these Surely will screen out the sorrow But where are you tomorrow?"

I love watching 30-somethings get blown away reacting to this. 🥰

Perfect.

Wow! Out of the blue yesterday I started humming this in my head and then had to listen to the whole album! Thought that might quiet the ear worm, but nope.

I had the vinyl. Wonder whatever happened to that...

I'm just like don't them. Am I broken? I gratefully watched that excellent Yacht Rock documentary so now it's easy to say exactly what I dislike from that era. 🛥️🪨

It OK not to like them. Not all music is for all people. I myself believe their only good albums are this one and Gaucho. The others just have a few good songs. What is wrong is when some people say they lack talent or songcraft, which is simply not true.

You may need to listen to “can’t buy a thrill “ again , it honestly is like a fine wine , and gets better with time

Trust me, I've listened to it enough in my life. Decent album, some real gems, just not like their top two.

I listened to part of it and of course they are brilliant artists but I have no emotional connection to them at all- except maybe annoyance like they're being played over the PA in a dept store and I'm trying on clothes and nothing fits 🫤

Suddenly, in my head, I'm hearing Fagen singing, "We can't dance together ... nothing fits at all!" 😇

😂🤣😭 Solved why I feel dead inside whenever Steely Dan is on the radio 👕👖💔😭

Finding the root causes of our fears and distresses is always such an enlightening moment!

😂🤣 With years of therapy I too can be a groovy Steely Dan fan! But bc my mother shamed me I have to listen to that stupid Eminem. 😆

And we all know Eminem had such a healthy relationship with HIS mom! 😬

I sure don't have his talent but my life wasn't near that difficult, thankfully. His mom and mine are somewhat similar but mine to a smaller magnitude than was his, apparently. Which goes your comment on why music resonates with a person - personal psychology + broader sociopolitical influences.

Hold on...

The Yacht Rock doc spent a lot of time on this very album. I think this is the one said to be so perfectly recorded & engineered that is still used to sell/showcase speaker systems. I do respect the musicianship and respect garnered by others, just not my taste.

That sounds about right. I think I need to watch that documentary. and for my part, I cpuld never get into Radiohead, even though I can respect their musicianship and songcraft. But they just do nothing for me

Blocking you 🤣😂 Documentary was so good - how these same artists and studio musicians thread thru all these 70's & 80's smooth rock music, you know those Toto musicians ended up on Michael Jackson's Thriller album 💿 of all places. I think we can all agree that was a masterpiece - that we enjoy.

Exactly!! Thriller is another album that I will always say was possibly THE best album of the 80s, even though personally I only like a few songs ... but damn was that a monster of production, performance, brilliance and splendor. Great musicianship, no doubt.

Truth! Is this the documentary of which you spoke?

Looks like it. On AppleTV, HBOMax, Released 2024. Says it's a Dockumentary d-o-c-k, nominated for an Emmy. Again not my music taste, esp the Doobie Brothers 🤮 but they interviewed Michael McDonald, 😎 guy, Christopher Cross-I had that 💿- Kenny Loggins who was 🛥️ before soundtrack guy, was VERY good

Sweet! Not a big Yacht Rock fan myself, but I always love checking out music documentaries, because they are always connected with the overall social movements going on at the time, and it's always cool to see how music both reflects and influences history.

I learned a lot but am pretty illiterate on that topic. Michael Mcdonald = almost all that music or else Toto. I had no idea. I think of Toto as a 2 hit wonder of the 80's. 😱

One of my "trapped on a desert island" selections.

Fun fact: Phil Hartman designed the cover art. Yes, THAT Phil Hartman.

Saw Steely Dan play this entire album - track by track. It was a great show.

Wow …. I’m so envious , my favourite album of all time , saw them in London a few years ago, with Steve Winwood supporting

Using the #Pandora #musicapp, I am listening to Steely Dan's Black Cow! Tia!

A tremendous record

Heh! I have the LP -- DJ copy.

One of the best pieces of work of all time.