There you go, ruining what was a nice thread where members of all political stripes could come together and trash a moron. For shame, you divisive person. :mad:
(signed) dropzone, who actually paid money for his Steely Dan collection. Well, most of it.
Heck, there were the Revisionists led by Bernstein while Marx was still alive, who pointed out that Marx’s confident predictions weren’t coming true.
The joke goes that Marx was so far-sighted that nothing he predicted has happened yet!
Not that much talent, or he would have noticed that he’d never make it in the troupe unless he changed his name to Karlo.
I really like their work and have spent bucks and time to see them in concert twice. Any bunch of guys that fire Chevy Chase as their drummer can’t be all bad.
Hey, Steely Dan Fan…
When even Kanicbird is saner than you are, it’s time to reexamine your life.
Burn!
Can’t Buy A Thrill
Katy Lied
Aja
Goucho
all great albums. If you think otherwise, then you simply don’t know what you are talking about. And now, I will listen to Aja. Good Day Sir! I said Good Day!
That’s Gaucho. And “Hey Nineteen” is the most depressing song in the history of anything.
Especially when its 30 years later and they sing it “Hey Forty-Nine”. Actually, Wharf Rat is substantially more depressing. By the Grateful Dead about a wino having a reverie on the wharf while dying of alcoholism.
At least you could have linked them. Here. I’ll do it for you:
Can’t Buy A Thrill
Katy Lied
Aja
Gaucho (you misspelled it, as pointed out, above…)
I kept waiting for the mechanism of the Record Company to wither away and leave the proletariat to enjoy the fruits of his labor without interference from the vampire class.
But Steely Dan are really boring. Not bad, just uninteresting. Like elevator music with words.
Evangelical Marxist :: Evangelical Objectivist. Both are romantic idealists without a foot in the real world. Both tend to be assholes.
-andros, socialist-
I love that this thread invokes both Groucho and Gaucho.
Sigh. I’m old enough to remember that from the day it hit the papers. And idiotic enough to still smile.
I liked “Deacon Blues”, though. If it’s depressing, don’t tell me.
Never been a Steely Dan Fan. Not the band, not the poster.
So you’re not a Steely Dan Fan fan?
It’s still not a foolproof argument, since all people trying to deviate from Leninism/Stalinism were stamped out pretty hard. So it could be argued that the wrong interpretation of Marxism prevented any attempt at implementing the correct one.
But isn’t this in itself a flaw in true Marxism? If it’s so easily subverted by false forms of itself how can it function? Marx said that the triumph of his system was inevitable but we see that it didn’t even triumph in a supposedly friendly environment.