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Alan Parsons Project vs Steely Dan
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Poll Question: Which band do you prefer?
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Both high-class patinated music, near to easy listening.

More form than substance. APP worked more on musical composition.

But I prefer Steely Dan, they have done music author.
The first Steely Dan are the most spontaneous ones.
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Steely Dan.

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Critical acclaim, commercial success, and the respect of musicians have nothing to do with it. Steely Dan have just got it goin on. 
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Uhhh . . . Steely Dan.



Uh indeed. Strikes me as a very odd comparison. Yeah, Dan.

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like zero contest or actually.. much of any comparison.  APP is nice. and I enjoy their albums.  S.D was the total package however A decade of classic and critically acclaimed, commerically successful albums.. as well as being one of hte most respected groups by muso's for they were among the best.. if not THE best collections of musical talent ever put to vinyl..and the cherry on top.  Next to Lennon-McCartney.. perhaps the greatest songwriting duo popular music has ever seen.. or will see.
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The Dan for sure......
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Steely Dan had less commercial music than APP, and that wins it for me.  While it's true that SD's later music after the masterwork Aja started to sound too much the same, they had some great albums that came out before that, more than APP.  Now, it is true that Alan Parsons has had an enormous impact on progressive music, mostly in the production and engineering areas, his Project was mostly just too commercial, though that music is nearly flawless.  Kudos to APP for Tales of Mystery and Imagination, I Robot, Pyramid and Turn of a Friendly Card, even these albums, except the first, leaned to the progressive-lite side, where Steely Dan were much more progressive, leaning more on jazz than on pop.
 
Steely Dan gets the vote!

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Prefer listening to APP but have to give the musicianship medal to SD.
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Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Wow, I just come back to look at this now and APP is getting stomped on. Wow. 
I called it even before any votes came in. Dan is way more beloved.

You and I were both surprised then.
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Originally posted by AFlowerKingCrimson AFlowerKingCrimson wrote:

Wow, I just come back to look at this now and APP is getting stomped on. Wow. 
I called it even before any votes came in. Dan is way more beloved.
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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Uhhh . . . Steely Dan.



Uh indeed. Strikes me as a very odd comparison. Yeah, Dan.

I explained in the first page the similarities. I don't need to re-post that do I?
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Wow, I just come back to look at this now and APP is getting stomped on. Wow. 
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

Uhhh . . . Steely Dan.



Uh indeed. Strikes me as a very odd comparison. Yeah, Dan.
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Love both, but Steely Dan has the much better track record. 
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With all due respect to Alan Parson, Steely Dan gets my vote.
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Easily Steely Dan. Each of their first seven albums is pure gold...
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I am in a particular way fond of Donald Fagens singing voice and how he sings storyy, were he emphesizes certain phraces, were he lays irony, satire, pulp, it is sort of steam punk lyrics with beat poet sting. Like a cross between crtique on 'culture industrie' Horcheimer-Adorno esque.

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I still can't vote yet - not enough points - but I do want to put in my two cents...

...and those two cents are on Steely Dan.

Aja is an absolute masterpiece.
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APP.
Still not a fan of Don Fagen's voice.
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Steely Dan all day every day.
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