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Poll Question: Who is your favourite progressive pop/jazz/rock act
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I feel bad for Sparks as they have some really excellent stuff and they are getting killed here.

Then again, they are going up against one of the greatest musical and lyrical teams of all time, Messrs. Becker and Fagen. A total mismatch.

SD, of course.
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Points: 2601 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2018 at 02:18
Not heard Sparks before the video posted earlier. Not exactly how I'd consider it along with 10CC, Dan and all but there we go.

Donald Fagen's ear for a jazz melody (Any Major Dude) and their laid back but killer grooves (The Fez) and the lyrical matter, murder, drug dealers all sorts of interesting stuff makes any contender against Steely Dan require some serious chops.

Guess where my vote goes...


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Definitely Sparks, I have found Steely Dan really boring.
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Points: 4095 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 21:33
easily Steely Dan---an important band---Aja a great record----they went to an very good arty private school upstate near me---and made some good smart songs
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Points: 13481 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 21:22
Originally posted by Squonk19 Squonk19 wrote:

Steely Dan - on a different level.
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So easy, Steely Dan is pure genius. Aja is easily a top 10 record of all time for me. Too bad for Sparks, they're pretty cool.
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Oh ok, very 80's. And I recognize a member of the Go-Go's with them here as well.
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Based on the 70's...Steely Dan hands down

  Since 2000, Sparks by a long shot
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Points: 898 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 18:21
Originally posted by YESESIS YESESIS wrote:

Can't vote yet because I know nothing of this 'Sparks' deal, but to me Steely Dan is great to say the very least. I've said it before on here but I'd put the first 7 Dan albums up against the first 7 from ANY music artist and like my chances. If Sparks is like them at all then I'm a fan already. 

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Steely Dan.

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Points: 15094 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 17:31
There are a handfull of Sparks songs that I really like (including most of their 2017 album) and quite a few that I really don't like. Whatever I heard of Steely Dan was nice but didn't move me much, so more feelings (though not all positive) and therefore the vote for Sparks.
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Points: 15926 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 17:29
Thanks !! It’s pretty ‘smooth’, not my idea of Prog. Dodgy subject matter.
Better than any Sparks I’ve heard. Their androgynous image is rather unsettling to me.
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Points: 2215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 17:14
Here's a track from it that might make you think of one of our members here lol.



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Points: 15926 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 17:07
I’ve often looked over their albums, and Katy Lied always looked interesting (with the Katy Did ha ha) on the cover.
I will try in good time. There’s just so much stuff I’m hung-up on, it’s a bit hard to get around to everything.
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Points: 2215 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 17:01
Originally posted by Icarium Icarium wrote:

Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Oh, I tried the Mael brothers - some early gig where Ron (?) is at an RMI Electra-Piano and the singer was *really* OTT, operatic even. Didn’t like it - AT ALL !!   And, at least in a recent interview with them, they look kinda ‘scary’ to me. I remember a song from when I was about 8 years old, with a ventriloquist dummy singing ??
Never got into SD, but I don’t mind their songs when I hear them.
I Would recomend Steely Dans debute, more raw, genuine and rock. Some realy amazing preformances and they play as a unit.

Or Katy Lied maybe for someone who hasn't heard one of their full albums before. It's pretty accessible imo. 
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Points: 34076 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 08 2018 at 16:58
Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Oh, I tried the Mael brothers - some early gig where Ron (?) is at an RMI Electra-Piano and the singer was *really* OTT, operatic even. Didn’t like it - AT ALL !!   And, at least in a recent interview with them, they look kinda ‘scary’ to me. I remember a song from when I was about 8 years old, with a ventriloquist dummy singing ??
Never got into SD, but I don’t mind their songs when I hear them.
I Would recomend Steely Dans debute, more raw, genuine and rock. Some realy amazing preformances and they play as a unit.
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