Steely Dan — Home at Last
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I know this super highway
This bright familiar sun
I guess that I'm the lucky one
Who wrote that tired sea song
Set on this peaceful shore
You think you've heard this one before
Well the danger on the rocks is surely past
Still I remain tied to the mast
Could it be that I have found my home at last
Home at last
She serves the smooth retsina
She keeps me safe and warm
It's just the calm before the storm
Call in my reservation
So long hey thanks my friend
I guess I'll try my luck again
Well the danger on the rocks is surely past
Still I remain tied to the mast
Could it be that I have found my home at last
Home at last
This bright familiar sun
I guess that I'm the lucky one
Who wrote that tired sea song
Set on this peaceful shore
You think you've heard this one before
Well the danger on the rocks is surely past
Still I remain tied to the mast
Could it be that I have found my home at last
Home at last
She serves the smooth retsina
She keeps me safe and warm
It's just the calm before the storm
Call in my reservation
So long hey thanks my friend
I guess I'll try my luck again
Well the danger on the rocks is surely past
Still I remain tied to the mast
Could it be that I have found my home at last
Home at last
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A true classic!
I so love this. The whole album is great. It takes me back to a time before "being red-pilled" was a thing (at least to me)
It was a time of innocence, adventure and wonder.
To quote the great Bob Seger:
“I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”
LLRP
It was a time of innocence, adventure and wonder.
To quote the great Bob Seger:
“I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”
LLRP
It's easy for this song to get subsumed by their bigger hits but, for me it is one of the top 3 songs they ever wrote.
such a great vibe comes from this track.
Time for a fat one ☝️
Time for a fat one ☝️
Great classic. Lucky to have heard it again as a part of another fine RP segue.
I haven't heard this in a long, long time. I probably slipped past this on the FM dial when it first came out: Steely Dan was not your typical rock band. But their stuff lasts over time...
Since I have/had every one of their first eight albums and practically know every song, and consider them to be in the pantheon including Dylan, Mitchell, Van, and the Beatles...I am using this 2023 Christmas to beg family members for the Quantum Criminals book as a Christmas gift. No egg nogg or fruit cake for me.
Just love Steely Dan, man 
Edweirdo wrote:
Except Dirty Work. That's a 4 for me.
I'd like to try to settle the argument regarding which Steely Dan album is the best.
It's all of them. Every song on every album is an automatic 10.
Except Dirty Work. That's a 4 for me.
The great Bernard Purdie on drums. Jeff Porcaro acknowledged his debt to him and John Bonham in Fool in the rain to create Rosanna's shuffle
This is probably the cartoon that William mentioned just now:
Found on: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steel...
Found on: https://www.reddit.com/r/Steel...
I'd like to try to settle the argument regarding which Steely Dan album is the best.
It's all of them. Every song on every album is an automatic 10.
It's all of them. Every song on every album is an automatic 10.
Steve_G wrote:
I Agree!! Along with stellar musicians & great recording!
Those lyrics!
I Agree!! Along with stellar musicians & great recording!
Those lyrics!
I do LOVE Steely Dan. 2 of the best concerts I've ever seen. So much for folks saying their a "studio band" - their live work is KILLER (at least what I've seen).
Hippostar wrote:
"I'm 'onna 'splain to ya what the Purdie shuffle is all about."
It takes a fair bit of 'splaining....and it is still difficult to do well. Bernard has got 'feel'.
"I'm 'onna 'splain to ya what the Purdie shuffle is all about."
It takes a fair bit of 'splaining....and it is still difficult to do well. Bernard has got 'feel'.
One of their best albums, timeless!
John25 wrote:
Aja is awesome, but it's really hard to beat Countdown to Ecstasy
aja, their best album? Probably.
Aja is awesome, but it's really hard to beat Countdown to Ecstasy
John25 wrote:
I'd go for "Can't Buy a Thrill" but the two are so different that they really don't belong in the same scale. "Aja" has some awesome tracks and some really great session players.
aja, their best album? Probably.
I'd go for "Can't Buy a Thrill" but the two are so different that they really don't belong in the same scale. "Aja" has some awesome tracks and some really great session players.
Gotta bump it from a 9 to a 10.
brajan wrote:
Better think Greek mythology where Odysseus had himself tied to the ship's mast to avoid the lure of the Sirens on shore. The rest of the crew kept their ears plugged with wax so they could not hear the Sirens and cast themselves into the ocean.
One of my all time fav bands... the lyrics are a little hard to figure out tho
Better think Greek mythology where Odysseus had himself tied to the ship's mast to avoid the lure of the Sirens on shore. The rest of the crew kept their ears plugged with wax so they could not hear the Sirens and cast themselves into the ocean.
One of my all time fav bands... the lyrics are a little hard to figure out tho
I discovered Steely Dan thanks to RP. Now I have a 1977, printed in USA, LP copy of Aja which sounds incredibly good!
In spite of what I would consider to be a fairly broad appreciation of music as a whole, Steely Dan always managed to fly under the radar for me. Yeah, I'd here them on terrestial radio and sort of hum along but I never really noticed them. Like took an active interest. That changed a few years ago...it might be Bill's fault for all I know. But holy moley...the crispness of the production and recordings is mind blowing. Sorry for dismissing them as AOR FM filler all those years.
John25 wrote:
I'd rate their first two - Can't Buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy higher, but it's a solid effort.
aja, their best album? Probably.
I'd rate their first two - Can't Buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy higher, but it's a solid effort.
Got married in 2016 (second marriage for both of us). This was our "first dance" song. Needless to say we love this song and we are boaters :)))
Nowhere near my favorite SD song, but incredible nonetheless ...
One of the tightest and best produced albums....
EVER...
Not a Steeley Dan tune that doesn't belong on RP,
at least for me
at least for me
aja, their best album? Probably.
A true classic!
YES!!