BOWIE VS STEELY

Far and away, DB.

Psssh.

I should grab the popcorn now.

yeah tombot wants ILX's head to blow clean the fuck off

the sex toys win

or the sex toy wins?

Fun idea.

Steely Dan can turn "Station to Station" into something every bit as imperious as (and maybe nastier than) Bowie's. I can also hear Bowie singing "Third World Man." But he's utterly incapable of "Peg" – it would sound like "Blue Jean."

undoable

yeah tough, but I can say that SD hasn't ever done anything that outright sucked, so... there is that.

impossible

steely dan wins on consistency i guess but bowie has as many good albums as there are steely dan albums

I haven't even started reading the No Age thread. I hope this takes a day or two to start clusterfucking.

Fleetwood Mac in a heartbeat.

roxy music vs doobie bros.

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Roxy's bros v. doobie music?

david bowie ---> real name david jones -->changed because of davy jones of the monkees-->was in the musical Oliver! as a boy -->musical has a character by the name of Fagin -->donald fagen

Steely Dan = always boring
David Bowie = only sometimes boring

uh I don't think anyone can rep for that Tin Machine nonsense so I'm saying: THE DAN

David Bowie has more flavors, and more songs that still surprise me, so Bowie.

Steely Dan = always boring
David Bowie = only sometimes boring

Is Fake Tuomas branching out into crustier realms of RONGness?

Steely Dan have always been awful, wine-bar, patches-on-the-elbows-of-your-corduroy-blazer CRAP. Bowie's had his rough moments, but he's capable of a brilliance that "the Dan" could never hope to attain in a thousand years.

OH MAN BUT WHEN THEY GET HOME FROM THE WINE BAR

Steely Dan, easy.

That scathing scare-quotation of "the Dan" is the moneyshot up there.

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No patches, but...

i've seen your picture...

(I always thought Alex tolerated - maybe even begrudgingly respected - "the Dan")

I begrudgingly respect the dan and even agree that CBAT is a pretty can't-miss album but up against the bowie they are some watered-down chardonnay

If Alex had ever been to a wine bar, he'd know that a jacket with elbow patches is the LAST thing you'd wear.

Knew that picture would come back to haunt me. Just out of shot, of course, it my BEER (I don't do wine well).

I respect the Dan, but that doesn't mean I have to like nor listen to them. And compared to Bowie? Give me a break. That don't stand a chance.

And that jacket's not corduroy, btw.

Seriously, though, Steely Dan never rocked. Never shocked. Never pushed the envelope. Never challenged. They just make jazzy muso sophisto-pop. Yawn.

you're drinking HEINEKEN in that picture though is the thing

All in fun, Alex. Just that your original comment gave me some deja vu.

TAKING SIDES: Steely Dan vs. The Circle Jerks

It was the only beer on offer (high school reunion held at restaurant of former classmate's father. Open bar. Wine or Heineken. I chose Heineken. And would again).

your original comment gave me some deja vu.

Clearly, I'm running out of tricks.

i was just kidding too. and i feel like i've made fun of that heineken before

I begrudgingly respect the danBowie and even agree that CBATChangesbowie is a pretty can't-miss album but up against the bowieSteely Dan they are some watered-down chardonnayhe is a soulless robot.

ok if you think david bowie is a soulless robot compared to Dan I'm really not sure how you listen to music
aja sounds like it was made with fucking pro tools, in a bad way

jazzy muso sophisto-pop

I feel like I'm repeating myself, too, but this sounds awesome.

aja sounds like it was made with fucking pro tools, in a bad way

slick =/= emotionless

actually in terms of sound quality it is very slick, but totally and analog album, not thin or grating sounding like bad pro tools stuff.

Bowie "pushed the boundaries"?

funny, they both look worse compared to the other, to me. against steely dan, bowie's working class intellectual theatre bs looks sort of grasping and desperate. against bowie, steely dan's perfectionism looks really paranoid and fearful. they're both... thin skinned? in a way.

tom i think the production technology SD used in the studio was just a small mountain of cocaine

i love steely dan to death. i unreservedly love every album they made in their original go-round. and i think "the rise and fall of ziggy..." and "low," to name just two, completely blow away anything they ever did. so. bowie.

It's a close tie these days. At their best Bowie and SD are absolute triumphs of persona, sound, and vision (har har). For me both Low and Gaucho delineate a kind of urban malaise; the latter just happens to be the West Coast kind.

David Bowie has never made an album I could listen to all the way through. On the other hand, there are times when spending my whole life listening to Gaucho on a loop seems very appealing indeed.

this is easy because Bowie made plenty of genuinely shitty records, which SD never did

They both have clear strengths: Bowie has better hair than Becker or Fagen. But the Dan has Michael McDonald singing backup, and he's got better hair than Bowie, plus a beard.

he's got better hair than Bowie, plus a beard

you are insane

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I have about five dan tracks on my ipod and they all sound the same. i have about five bowie albums and they all sound different (and great). so, bowie.

(just joining in with the general fanboy/clueless theme of thread)

Every time I've heard any SD they've slid straight off my ears. Bowie X1,000,000.

i mean, i love the dan, but ppl are starting to talk shit about bowie's HAIR? that ain't right. that mane is top 10 of all time.

I have about five dan tracks on my ipod and they all sound the same. i have about five bowie albums and they all sound different (and great). so, bowie.

-- ledge, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:33 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

This is not a bad thing

that mane is top 10 of all time.

His hair can't hold a candle to Michael McDonald's!

omg KEEP MICHAEL MCDONALD'S HAIR AWAY FROM OPEN FLAME

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michael mcD has a sweet silver session dude mullet, i ain't gonna lie, but c'mon bowie's hair can do it all...glam shag, proto-new wave slick, 80s big....bowie's hair is a complete player, can hit the outside shot, good post moves, rebounding, good passing and can run the offense...those locks go off for a triple double every night....

There's only one way to settle this, once and for all............

yeah that's why I made a poll on ILM about it

Top four American Idolers did "Reelin' in the Years" tonight in their typical Up With People style.

Um, and it was "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" week (the 500 songs courtesy of The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame). Where they usually medley The Beatles or whoever, "Reelin'" was the only song they performed which means it stood in for ALL 500 SONGS!

ergo bowie wins

too bad it wasn't "showbiz kids".

? bowie vs anyone --> bowie

steely dan: loved by chaki, bozelka, gabbneb and that fuck from the mountain goats.

enjoy your tofu, douche parade

-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, May 7, 2008 12:44 AM (22 hours ago) Bookmark Link

me and john d vs

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sorry but bowie easy

Bowie has had some truly crap low points, but the high points of his career have been great. You can't say he's had a boring career.

Whereas everything about Steely Dan is boring.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

you guys are going to be so aggravatingly ILM about this shit aren't you

And only you can divert the ILM Space Ark from its collision course with the asteroid.

ILM is so fuckin ILM sometimes

steely dan: loved by chaki, bozelka, gabbneb and that fuck from the mountain goats.

i agree with gabbneb on ILE somewhat frequently.

enjoy your tofu, douche parade
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somebody's got to pick up the slack

I was gonna refuse to vote on this cos it's impossible but instead I've reacted against the terrible negative campaigning on this thread.

niles is otm. It's like when you turn on MTV and you say "yup, that's exactly what I expected to see.." This thread made me say that.

I don't think there is a single artist or band that I would choose over Steely Dan.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

McCain vs Obama.

whatevs, amigos.

wow!!!

lurkertronics

haha wow, indeed. I'm pretty sure I didn't even vote.

http://i32.tinypic.com/11w9b48.gif

an example of the Politics of the Old.

you guys, people can vote once a day.

Hey, chaki's right! I never knew that before.

you guys, people can vote once a day.

Ah, that would explain why The Dan got as many votes.

There's no one who can hold a candle to the Dan. Pretzel Logic - what a masterpiece.

Wasn't there a "holding a candle to the Dan" scene in Naked Lunch? Come to think of it, wouldn't Burroughs be the pivot man in this whole circle jerk?

you guys, people can vote once a day.

-- chaki, Monday, May 12, 2008 7:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I haven't been able to do this lately. Not that I ever did in a serious poll such as this. I figured maybe they fixed then glitch

fuck!
"the glitch"

then is the new teh

Let's put it this way: Steely Dan did the smart thing by sitting out the eighties.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, May 6, 2008 9:27 PM (1 year ago)

That quote is beyond priceless.