Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Steely Dan's "Aja" Selected for the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress

"I was listening to The Royal Scam at work today, completely coincidentally, which is MY pick for the top Dan album. Not that I can really quibble with any of their '70s records (I have to confess I've never made it through Gaucho and the two most recent albums.) I was lucky enough to catch them performing that album in full in Chicago last fall, probably one of the few twenty-somethings in the audience. At one point, Donald Fagen mysteriously left the stage, only to saunter back a few minutes later, melodica in hand. My words cannot convey how beautiful it actually was. That saunter."


--reader comment from a blog entry elsewhere announcing the event providing this blog entry with its title; I will now return to my regularly-scheduled snorting of cocaine off a copy of Remembrance of Things Past




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