Steely Dan ‎- Gaucho side-B vinyl

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

Hearing this brings back some very fond memories . Thank You Donald & Walter .

[@The_Real_Rasha]

Steely Dan (and Fagen's further works) are a sound unlike any others. They knew how to engineer the instruments to get the feels across. This is art.

[@johnwilkerson2195]

I grew up listening to Steely Dan but I enjoy more now that I'm almost 53

[@la7dfa]

Music like this can make a grown man cry. Memories from our youth and some of the finest music that has been made.

[@joycemooney1690]

A kid

[@derdebeenkaas]

I'm 23 at the moment and I'm sure I will still enjoy Steely Dan when I'm your age! I'm so glad my dad introduced me to this music.

[@gerader7409]

At 78 and have been enjoying SD since Rikki don't loose that number...

[@hassanibrahim7372]

youre so real for that Mr. John Wilkerson

[@jbrown7403]

When I was a kid in the late 70s, early 80s, I loved Steely Dan! Drove around in my RX-7 with my Concord stereo blaring! Now I’m 58 and I love them even more! They hold up sooooooo well! In Time Out Of Mind, I just love when he says “perfection and grace” ! Such emphasis! 😊

[@robert9765]

They layed the blueprint" may the next generation take us to the next level

[@ImproperBostonian]

This so cool. I could watch that turntable all night. Cuervo Gold, and the fine Columbian, as these guys say.

[@scottclute7443]

Make tonight a wonderful thing.

[@tandyedwarddix3668]

I learned this album on disc. Neat to see it on LP.

[@michaelbscales2595]

Steely Dan and good Redbud with a cold Michelob. Great times then

[@teresataylor4671]

Presidents home health agency

[@SamBoring-h5r]

The silver will turn to gold... time out of mind!

[@G8GT364CI]

I was 27 when this one first came out, Steely Dan were with me all throughout the 70's when the best musicians were putting together this great type of music, but Steely Dan were the creme de la creme of this type of music. There's been no one playing or writing on this level since. I've had all their stuff since their first album came out and I still have copies on both LP and CD and the LP versions blow away the CD versions. Gaucho, (the song and the whole album), is a timeless masterpiece.

[@robert9765]

My favorite Rocker's the greatest song writing duo" second to none..

[@haroldcarson1422]

Rock and& Roll Hall of Fame these guys belong!!!

[@musicaconsentimientodjvade9613]

Chills down the spine

[@Stewbie63]

Geeez...Steely Dan was such an amazing band. They perfected sound in all it's forms!

[@dugjay]

My first SD purchase was Can't Buy a Thrill on 8 track tape. After that, it was all albums for me. I bought a Pioneer SX-880 receiver and a JVC direct drive turntable and spent many hours listening to SD late at nights and weekend mornings. It was a nice way to wake up :)

[@gordonspond]

Pioneer and JVC equipment... couldn't afford it when I was a teenager. Those good old days when we didn't have any money...

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

Great memory !

[@debmccarey4621]

Can't buy a thrill was my first CD

[@wagggle]

Perfection and grace.

[@photo161]

What a gift to Steely Dan lovers...can't thank you enough...This is how I first learned the album, on LP...Still think the LP sound is best...

[@rjonzun5828]

The album was originally mastered by Robert (Bob) Ludwig, one of the best mastering engineers of all time.

[@markphilpot8734]

LP rules, especially with a system which resolves and is transparent. This cuts the bad albums out. I sure wish they didn’t compress the music as they do on this platform. There are details that get squashed by this process. It is disrespectful and just plain wrong and rude! 🙄

[@giovanna722]

​@@markphilpot8734 What do you mean by "resolves and is transparent" ? Genuinely curious.

[@markphilpot8734]

If a system is resolving and transparent it allows you to hear all the details, even the studio space or hall in which it is recorded. Of course, if you don’t have a system that reveals these details or your hearing is incapable of hearing. That is a tragedy in itself.

[@shc7988]

Listening to "Third World Man" reminds me that Joni Mitchell included this on an album of her personal favorites. I chiefly credit that inclusion for leading me to listen more to Steely Dan.

[@johno2979]

Thank you! This is my first exposure to Gaucho! Love it!

[@enyjuan]

1st time i listened to this since walter moved on LOVE THAT POPCORN SOUND in between songs

[@CmonstoleCmonstole]

Walter "passed" on......and it's "bacon & eggs"...

[@erictrask7837]

There’s something about Michael McDonald singing background vocals in a SD song that adds perfection and grace!

[@giovanna722]

Yes, he has a soulful, warm voice that feels so good.

[@musictheoryforeveryone7938]

If you can listen to the Steely Dan Aja documentary, Michael MacDonald actually describes the difficulties he encountered in singing his vocal lines, such as singing very close intervals in his over dubbed tracks, and getting the pronunciation of syllables absolutely perfect to SD standards. I found MM confessions to be a valuable lesson as a fellow musician. Definitely a valuable lesson to any musician who is honest with their learning process.

[@kind2311]

puts a smile on my face

[@kind2311]

@@musictheoryforeveryone7938 ever heard what Mark Knopfler had to say about working with SD? Hated it. Says they were coked-out perfectionists that drove him nuts. Never again.

[@newellbate]

Top shelf singer

[@dmlong56]

It’s perfection and grace, it’s the smile on your face….. been awhile since I spent time out of mind 😵

[@stringbender11672]

High In The Custerdome🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🚬🏁🏁🏁🏁🏁

[@ldelcarmen]

Gaucho in my opinion is the most perfectly engineered and produced album of all time. Also the Fender Rhodes became synonymous with the Dan sound and was sorely missing from their comeback recordings (and Fagen’s solo stuff after The Nightfly)

[@fcamiola]

So true!

[@giovanna722]

It's a gorgeous, fat sound, and of course it's never been better produced.

[@dgourdine50]

I think Gaucho is excellent, But I’m very partial to Aja

[@joycemooney1690]

I like you Louie

[@sCulturefan]

The one thing I missed on Gaucho (and Fagen/SD’s later work) was the acoustic piano; especially after Katy Lied and Aja utilized so much of it

[@haydenwalton2766]

'johny's playroom is a bunker filled with sand, he's become a third world man' ahh, some vicarious vinyl! very cool :-)

[@reviveramesh]

Thanks for this treat. amazing album. Steely Dan is really an extraordinary band.

[@alexandrezanol]

Sounds good

[@SamBoring-h5r]

That little "Birdland" type break in the middle of "Time Out of Mind" never fails to get me.

[@joycemooney1690]

🥺 beautiful

[@photo161]

The mix...the mix...it's so beautifully blended like a seamless silk road to the land of all beauty.

[@joycemooney1690]

You sound like you're high but you're absolutely right

[@giovanna722]

​@@joycemooney1690 The work involved must have been astounding.

[@rustykuntz94]

I’ve come to enjoy Side 2 over the years now more than the more popular A side. Third World Man is such a great album closer song.

[@williamdillard4291]

Definitely

[@theuntold100]

No band ever did a closing track like the Dan

[@giovanna722]

What a haunting song. So soulful. Joni Mitchell said it was her favourite SD track, and that's what brought me here.

[@juanadrianarquinegogomez3610]

to think it could've been even better with The Second Arrangement on it

[@sergioveneziano3320]

Great !! S D out of mainstream until today . Thanks for the music !!! I 'm from São Paulo, Brasil. Tchau !!!

[@eduardorogeliorodriguez7012]

Esos coros femeninos son una caricia

[@warrenmateychak4207]

Third World Man best last song in the history of last ever songs

[@Zeitgeist997]

That's an excellent sound system

[@sebastiansaracho1487]

steely dan for ever¡¡¡

[@469buck]

Such a tremendous CD. I think, the finest SD ever. But I've been wrong before...

[@edgreen8140]

Excellent!!!

[@reinhardahrens9664]

nice video and great music...bravo

[@eirikrdberg1161]

I have this Same issue of gaucho. The original. I will play it later today and see how it compares to listening to this on these Sony headphones. Lots of hash in the 80s and early 90s before I could never smoke again due to tinnitus.

[@arlieferguson3990]

The best album

[@bastonor]

As always, I'm at a loss of words..

[@nothinghere6227]

6:57 In streaming services there is a slight drop in the drum sound 1:21 minutes into “Time Out Of Mind.” after Fagen sings “…far from the world we know.” Possibly a glitch, but sounds perfectly fine here, though.

[@gregoryreid9279]

🎉

[@howardrobinson4938]

"What should we throw on the turntable, sir, for you to A/B these speakers?" The response millions of times to this question - Steely Dan, of course.

[@reinhardahrens9664]

third world man ...my favourite SD title ...same album

[@Pawstamp101]

I love this so much ❤

[@fotocopiastec2314]

DISCAZOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheLifeEvents]

Got My Marshall Major III's on. Sounds good.

[@markrothkopf5598]

This is great, modern technology , ugh!!; had about 1000 vinyl, 500 cds, now you can't even get a cd player in a car; when I want to REALLY Llisten I go to my Bose 901's. Oh by the way, amazing band, one of my top 5, and the song Gaucho as good as it gets; I got the Bose , because way back when Reelin in the years was new I heard it on Bose in a great bar and was blown away

[@chrissimons9733]

Yess my Friend

[@sophieducq]

Merci ❤❤❤

[@billhayes4253]

Well done

[@delythhughes9850]

wow.....

[@cabbuccino5558]

The Dan...

[@CmonstoleCmonstole]

I hope to be listening to this as I contaplate jumping off the Chesapeake Bay Bridge .

[@casparuskruger4807]

The very first CD I ever bought. And I never once listened to the vinyl again.

[@joethornell1126]

Would you care to explain?...

[@williamdillard4291]

I got this the day it came out for my birthday the first song is an overlooked gem not sure what it means and does it matter? The vinyl sounds wonderful

[@robertwoodward9231]

You must have some serious gear bro. cause I'm getting very good hi fidelity from my phone and 3.95 earphones..Thanks mucho grande!

[@bajaborracho9139]

Its weird how people are drawn to the lp as opposed to other more sophisticated recording methods. Count me in!

[@la7dfa]

I get why, but it is still a inferior distorted medium. Its like when people pays a buttload for a tube amplifier with a "warm sound". They are basically paying extra for an equalizer :) It's not the taste, it's the feeling :)

[@sandyshoremann7524]

@@la7dfa The overwhelming choice of top producers for the sound closest to the mixing board feed in the 80's was ... Direct to Disc. CD was not well baked or spec'd and a bit to early for good technical implementation. I don't have an issue with 24bit 48khz digital tape. CD just doesn't work. Warm sound? that's the transformers - not the tubes. Tubes are elemental high voltage FET like devices. I guess some guys prefer their sound going through tiny chunks of doped, compressed dirt ... uh transistors.

[@sandyshoremann7524]

This was recorded on 24 track tape applying DOLBY A nr and mixed analog also. Fagen's The Nightfly was digital. - Sandy the Aging Boston Audiophile

[@RT-zq6fc]

I think I have lived to see three major technology scams in my lifetime - cd, digital cameras, electric cars. What they all have in common is marketing men persuading people to give up high-quality equipment for inferior technology at three times the price. I jump between Gaucho and The Royal Scam as my favourite albums. Could never get into Aja for some reason.

[@JamesAllenJr]

Mabe I'm missing something, but, Third World Man was their last song as far as I'm concerned.

[@Maxel.F]

i see you also play 4 channel records

[@TheLifeEvents]

Few Crackles. Where are they from? But good. What cartridge are you using? True Hi Fi Buffs I like. No LPs from the Booty, they'll be rubbish and scorched. I still have my NAD AMP from the 80s. Works well with my latest Mission Speakers. :)

[@debmccarey4621]

Didn't know Tonight when i chase the dragon was a heroin reference

[@dennismurry4432]

Not certain of this but I think the expression came out of the San Francisco Chinatown opium dens. This might only be a romanticized urban myth.

[@jamesmcelhinney9337]

Punchy

[@GlennPerkins-c2e]

Trump will end social security

[@kind2311]

third world man is always the skipped song on this one. Boring in comparison to the rest of the album

[@Paddysibaccy]

Thank you