@Declan: Ich meinte „Gaucho“ den Song, dessen Lyrics ich übrigens nicht so wirklich toll finde (sorry BoCo) Abgesehen von Hey Nineteen und Babylon Sisters eigentlich nichts. Glamour Profession ist auch noch gut, aber zu lang. Gaucho (der Song) ist schon gut, aber wie gesagt verdienen sie dafür keine Meriten.
@BoCo: Schöne Kritik, leider über das falsche Album. 
Gegenmeinungen:
With one notable exception [Hey Nineteen], the blandly competent performances and sketchy compositons on Gaucho barely register.
(Rolling Stone Album Guide 3. Auflage)
**1/2/*****
Despite a couple of fine songs (Hey Nineteen, Time Out Of Mind [???]) the stiff and tired Gaucho shows why Backer and Fagen brought the curtain down on Steely Dan after this album.
(Music Hound – The Essential Album Guide)
*(!)/*****
Aja was cool, relaxed, and controlled; it sounded deceptively easy. Its follow-up, Gaucho, while sonically similar, is its polar opposite: a precise and studied record, where all of the seams show. Gaucho essentially replicates the smooth jazz-pop of Aja, but with none of that record’s dark, seductive romance or elegant aura. Instead, it’s meticulous and exacting; each performance has been rehearsed so many times that it no longer has any emotional resonance. Furthermore, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen’s songs are generally labored, only occasionally reaching their past heights, like on the suave „Babylon Sisters,“ „Time Out of Mind,“ and „Hey Nineteen.“ Still, those three songs are barely enough to make the remainder of the album’s glossy, meandering fusion worthwhile.
(All Music Guide)
****/*****
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:f9frxqu5ldte
With Walter Becker down to composer credits and very occasional bass, Donald Fagen progresses toward the intellectual cocktail rock he’s sought for almost a decade–followed, of course, by a cadre of top-drawer El Lay studio hacks, the only musicians in the world smart enough to play his shit. Even the song with Aretha in it lends credence to rumors that the LP was originally entitled Countdown to Lethargy. After half a dozen hearings, the most arcane harmonies and unlikely hooks sound comforting, like one of those electromassagers that relax the muscles with a low-voltage shock. Craftsmen this obsessive don’t want to rule the world–they just want to make sure it doesn’t get them.
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(Robert Christgau)
http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=steely+dan
pink-niceAch was…die haben was richtig geiles daraus entstehen lassen…das zählt.
…finde diesen Fall jetzt auch nicht sooo eklatant(wie zB He´s si fine)…hab jetzt auch nicht gehört das Jerrett dafür Geld kassieren würde.
Another lawsuit dogged the band, this time regarding the title track for the album. Jazz composer Keith Jarrett claimed that the song had been based on one of his own compositions, entitled „Long As You Know You’re Living Yours“. Fagen later admitted he’d loved the song and was strongly influenced by it.[29] Jarrett sued for copyright infringement and eventually settled for a sum of approximately one million dollars, the deal stipulating that Becker and Fagen keep the songwriting credit. Fagen later told the press that maintaining their reputations as songwriters was an important factor in the decision to settle for such a substantial sum. Gaucho was finally released in November 1980 and, despite the problems that had gone into recording the album, it was another major success.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steely_Dan
Außerdem wird Jarrett inzwischen als Co-Komponist genannt.
MUSICIAN: Are you familiar with a Keith Jarrett record Belonging, particularly a tune called „Long as you know you’re living yours“?
BECKER: Yes.
MUSICIAN: Have you ever listened to that up against „Gaucho“?
BECKER: No.
MUSICIAN: I’m not casting any aspersions now, but in terms of the tempo and the bass line and the saxophone melody it’s pretty interesting.
BECKER: Parenthetically it is, yeah [uneasy laughter]
MUSICIAN: At this point the reporter traditionally asks the cornered politican or athlete to „go off the record.“
FAGEN: Off the record, we were heavily influenced by that particular piece of music.
BECKER: I love it.
[Becker and Fagen later approved their „off the record“ responses for publication.]
http://www.granatino.com/sdresource/music1.htm
Sorry für die Länge des Postes. Um das nochmal klarzustellen: Ich mag Gaucho durchaus. ***1/2 bekommt es von mir, aber eben keine *****.
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