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Donald Fagen-Sunken Condos

Just got done listening twice to the new Donald Fagen CD "Sunken Condos". It's EXCELLENT!

Typical Fagen/Steely Dan affair, but a little more funky. Actually, it could have been a new Steely Dan album.

Yes, I am biased because Steely Dan is my favorite band, so they could probably sing the phone book and I would like it, but this really is a very good new album.

I favorite tracks are: "Good Stuff", "I'm Not The Same Without You" and "Out Of The Ghetto".

I'm still shacking my "groove thang" and the the CD has been over for awhile. This album seems to stay with you...
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chazro
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I think Fagen's guilty of setting the bar too high. 'Sunken Condos' is a good record, not great, and certainly not his best.

Rebbi, I'm left wondering why anyone would buy something THREE times and than profess to HATE the record?! Did you expect a different format to change your feelings about the music?
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chazro
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I don't know, saying Donald Fagen released a bad sounding recording borders on blasphemy! Not to mention practically an impossibility based on his well documented obsession with superior sound quality! I think what I said earlier about the music also pertains to the sound quality. Fagen's set the bar so high some people expect their systems to levitate or something!;)
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chazro
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Ya gotta love this quote; "...it's not so much about equipment as knowing the difference between what sounds good, and what only sounds good for a minute. You have to know what's going to sound good next week." He's referring to the studio but tell me it doesn't fit perfectly within this hobby.
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