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Donald Fagen-Sunken Condos

Just got done listening twice to the new Donald Fagen CD "Sunken Condos". It's EXCELLENT!

Typical Fagen/Steely Dan affair, but a little more funky. Actually, it could have been a new Steely Dan album.

Yes, I am biased because Steely Dan is my favorite band, so they could probably sing the phone book and I would like it, but this really is a very good new album.

I favorite tracks are: "Good Stuff", "I'm Not The Same Without You" and "Out Of The Ghetto".

I'm still shacking my "groove thang" and the the CD has been over for awhile. This album seems to stay with you...
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audiotomb
1,112 posts
 
Fagen's bar is set incredibly high

he lowered it a little with the way over emphasized bass on the Morph the Cat vinyl

Condos is stellar in the cd, and especially on the white translucent vinyl
rfprice
150 posts
 
Well, I don't expect my system to levitate, I just expect it to sound as good as Morph or the newer Steely Dan's and remasters, and it doesn't. I assumed these problems happen during the manufacturing process, but I guess I don't know much about it. Rebbi, maybe you and I just got duds.
rebbi
1,326 posts
 
Rfprice: Yeah, I don't think this album would've made it past Roger Nichols (rest in peace). Where's the awesome clarity he brought to Two Against Nature or Everything Must Go? In the midrange that album sounds to me all airless and congealed. Or maybe my standards for SD/WB/DF albums are just unrealistic. By the way, I don't expect my system to levitate: too much danger of breaking a tube on my amps! :-P
wolf_garcia
6,726 posts
 
Morph the Cat makes me run to turn down my subwoofer level control every time...not sure if that was intentional or a mastering error or what...but I bet there's more than one blown woofer in the wake of that album.
rebbi
1,326 posts
 
Wolf-garcia,
I think it's deliberate. Somewhere on the 'Gon there is a thread about Morph when it first came out. Somebody posted that they took that CD to dealers to evaluate the low end performance of speakers, and somebody else in the thread jumped all over them saying that the bass on that album is bloated and exaggerated and should never be used to evaluate anything. I also have the vinyl and if anything, the bass on that version is MORE pronounced!
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