In a message dated 3/10/2000 10:25:53 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << one last thing. . .anyone else on this list like steely dan? i mean, really like them, not in a hah-hah they're funny my parents used to listen to them way. i'm happy that a) they've put out a new album (though i've not yet heard it) >> Heard the album, saw them perform on Letterman and a PBS special. It's interesting merely for being the Dan, with the oddball lyrics you can't quite figure out, etc., but it sounds too lite-jazz-smooth, none of the rough edges or Skunk Baxter-style guitar of early albums (hell, it's 20 years since "Gaucho", they're old farts). And, as a reviewer pointed out already, some of the new lyrics are just, well, creepy, in a your-weird-uncle-wants-to-screw-you kind of way. Also, in re the comments about selling out to commercials (the latest insult was seeing Henry Rollins do Nortel Networks magazine ads), there's a counter-argument that can be made that merely by being born on this planet you become corrupt to the ways of the Spectacle to a certain extent, but I guess I figure that if you're blatantly selling song rights to anyone from Ford to Nortel, you're pretty much whoring around with a sign on the door. Loring Wirbel Monument, Colo. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
