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Would you take me by the hand
Bodhisattva
Would you take me by the hand
Can you show me
The shine of your Japan
The sparkle of your china
Can you show me
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
I'm gonna sell my house in town
Bodhisattva
I'm gonna sell my house in town
And I'll be there
To shine in your Japan
To sparkle in your China
Yes, I'll be there
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
Would you take me by the hand
Bodhisattva
Would you take me by the hand
Can you show me
The shine of your Japan
The sparkle of your china
Can you show me
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva
I'm gonna sell my house in town
Bodhisattva
I'm gonna sell my house in town
And I'll be there
To shine in your Japan
To sparkle in your China
Yes, I'll be there
Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva, Bodhisattva
Bodhisattva, look out
The guitar works just kills it. But that piano playing...I hear Monk and Tyner riffs.
Meanwhile...each time I hear this I fight myself until I'm bruised and battered.
Thanks! I'll never get that out of my head now...
LOL! Too Funny!
When I was ten years old and hearing this on the radio, I thought they were singing "What is happened? What is happened? What is happened?"
Thanks! I'll never get that out of my head now...
if you're still around, can you share a link or some links? i'd love to watch that stuff.
For some reason, I can't cut and paste links and embed into my comments.
But just Google search Steely Dan and musicians under the video tab. You'll see more and more musicians rave about them.
They are my favorite band of all time. Their first seven albums compare quite well with Beatles, Dylan, Joni, and Van.
Each album is a masterpiece.
Thank You for the info.
I've been watching videos with musicians explaining how and why each of their seven albums were so freakin great.
Becker and Fagen were just exceptional musicians and they attracted similar people.
if you're still around, can you share a link or some links? i'd love to watch that stuff.
This came out the summer before my HS senior year. It was a GREAT summer!!!
Here's a link to the Wikipedia article on Bodhisattva if anyone's interested.
edit, after reading other comments: Yeah, Mr Becker's bass line is ecstatic and Skunk Baxter's guitar work is just ... so GREAT!
underrated guitar on this song
that's an understatement
Bodhisattva
Becker and Fagen were just exceptional musicians and they attracted similar people.
Music is timeless
So is taste
Good on ya, RP
RIP Walter
oh my
Would love to hear the Toto version here too :)
1973 and it still holds up so well. Nothing like them. Nothing.
Agreed. This is one of those songs that never dates. My kids think it's cool. Fond memories of playing this loud in the car in the traffic jam on the way to work back in the day.
Saw them a couple of months ago in Vegas, three of their nine show residency. They played this one every night, I think. And it cranks like a mofo. Still.
The whole band is really great. Worth your time.
Being in 'high' school when Steely Dan hit the South Florida airwaves (WSHE), I will forever be immediately brought back to those glorious days anytime Steely Dan makes it into my ear buds or car stereo. Radio Paradise is unquestionably the greatest radio station I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. Listening to this last set reminded of that fact. Thank you, thank you, thank you, for always cueing up my slowly fading memories.
I'm not so sure about "underrated"; I guess it's a matter of perspective. Steely Dan has sold millions of records - many were Top 10 and several are certified Platinum. They have won a few Grammy awards and were nominated for several more over the years.
I think they're overhated.
It' s a work of art.
If you stare at while you listen to this song, you can....well you can......yeah.
Who? Foo Fighters? Arcade Fire? Ha ha ha.
No bad album. Not even a mediocre one.
That's why they are under-rated.
Steely Dan is ridiculously underrated, but I kind of get it. When your rock and roll head is on they complicate things, musically and lyrically. It's cool, but they will have a higher place in history than they did in rock's first take.
I'm not so sure about "underrated"; I guess it's a matter of perspective. Steely Dan has sold millions of records - many were Top 10 and several are certified Platinum. They have won a few Grammy awards and were nominated for several more over the years.
Wow, this is the only song from this album on RP? I mean it's great but there are so many more - the whole album is great - like "Show Biz Kids, Your Gold Teeth, King of the World, My Old School, The Boston Rag, and my favorite Pearl of the Quarter"
Might as well include the only other song "Razor Boy" It's pretty dang cool in its own way, too.
Edit: Just listened to "Razor Boy" Damn great tune. So yeah, the whole album is great!
I agree! Big time!
the good days: girls still a terrifying mystery... Boones' Farm wine in the bong.
I can't decide is it whom or who is that playing guitars on this tune?
I think I'd heard that it was Jeff Baxter that's wailing on guitar on this.
Might as well include the only other song "Razor Boy" It's pretty dang cool in its own way, too.
Edit: Just listened to "Razor Boy" Damn great tune. So yeah, the whole album is great!
Age means nothing. Music is timeless.
Mostly true; except in the case of disco...
SD on the other hand... Perfect for any occasion - or decade!!
Stranded on an Island...You have to pick 5 groups 4 Ever to listen 2. My pics & yours?
1) Beach Boys
2) Steely Dan
3) Beck
4) Rush
5) The Beatles
I'm with you on four out of five, but Rush?!!
They would be on my "trapped in Hell" list. ; )
bad song
wow...that guitar smokes
wow...that guitar smokes
I can't decide is it whom or who is that playing guitars on this tune?
the guitar work is magnificent
maybe their best album
“Dias the bebopper meets Baxter the skunk beneath the Bo tree in this altered blues.”
1) Beach Boys
2) Steely Dan
3) Beck
4) Rush
5) The Beatles
Can we go with associated artists too?
1 Nightwish (and Tuomas' side works. Auri, FLoor's and Marco's would be apreciated too)
2 Aryeon (okay, not associated artists as that is half the planet)
3 Steely Dan (and Fagen)
4 Dire Straights (Knopfler's sides too)
5 J.S. Bach
1) Beach Boys
2) Steely Dan
3) Beck
4) Rush
5) The Beatles
Exhilarating. Better than sex.
You had me right up until that last sentence.
"There are only two kinds of music - good and bad" - Duke Ellington.
This is why I listen to RP. It's the strongest collection of "good music" I've encountered on the web yet.
Age means nothing. Music is timeless.
If you've actually been listening to RP for 20 years then you'll have noticed that Bill not only keeps a pretty firm handle on the music he grew up with (that yes, is 40+ years old), but also manages to do a stellar job of keeping up with contemporary music across a fascinating array of genres. Maybe you're one of those folks that hits PSD each time something new comes on and you just don't notice how many decades are being offered?
My musical tastes were formed in the 70s onward, and sure, Bill covers decades fore and aft of that. I've only been an RP listener for 5 years now, but I am constantly being introduced to not only "new to me" but new, period, music here on RP - and it's one of the reasons I love it here. Keep it up, Bill - some of us think you're doing just fine.
Exhilarating. Better than sex.
Yea verily. Nothing worse than an unexplored riff, especially a hooky one.
If you are really a loving long-time listener of RP you would already know that great music is timeless. The old, older, new, and newest are all here for our enjoyment.
Exhilarating. Better than sex.
-ass
If I recall correctly, the cover artist submitted the proof to the suits at MCA, and the feedback she got was, "There's only three guys on the cover. There are five guys in the band." So she added the two "ghost" figures on the left. Bizarrely funny.
I try not to pay attention to many of the comments. I like what I like. This is excellent.
I don't think Steely Dan was quite as polarizing a band back in the 1970s; at least not as much as it seems in these song comments. An album like "Aja" proved that they had pretty universal appeal; some people may not have "loved" all of their output back then, but most people seemed to have at least liked some of their songs. It wasn't as much of a black-or-white, binary thing as it seems in the song comments here. After "Aja" they did progressively get more into an "easy listening" or "yacht rock" style which seemed to have less "edge", and may have soured some people - maybe that's where the animosity here comes from.
Pretty much wore out my cassette of The Royal Scam back then.
who's dancing with me?
ME!
My pick for best Dan album.
My pick for best Dan song.
My pick for best Dan album.
The whole album is superb
The whole band is really great. Worth your time.
I will say this....back in 1973 there were a ton of groups playing a variety of stuff in their singular fashion. And it was good stuff, too. But the Steely seemed to reside in a Universe all their own. And I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed them then; and still do today.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
I don't think Steely Dan was quite as polarizing a band back in the 1970s; at least not as much as it seems in these song comments. An album like "Aja" proved that they had pretty universal appeal; some people may not have "loved" all of their output back then, but most people seemed to have at least liked some of their songs. It wasn't as much of a black-or-white, binary thing as it seems in the song comments here. After "Aja" they did progressively get more into an "easy listening" or "yacht rock" style which seemed to have less "edge", and may have soured some people - maybe that's where the animosity here comes from.
Anyway, over time I've noticed SD has always been a polarizer. Love 'em, or can't stand 'em, there's seldom any in-between. Being a person who appreciates them I've always been puzzled by those who don't seem to get them. But there's all kinds of music appreciation out there isn't there? Everyone can always find something more to their tastes.
I will say this....back in 1973 there were a ton of groups playing a variety of stuff in their singular fashion. And it was good stuff, too. But the Steely seemed to reside in a Universe all their own. And I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed them then; and still do today.
Highlow
American Net'Zen
SD...it's in the jazz fusion rockin poppin intelligent eclectic blues thoughts of our minds
YES! (at least, I think I agree)
SD...it's in the jazz fusion rockin poppin intelligent eclectic blues thoughts of our minds
Just like RP
This whole album is freakin cool!
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Wicked tune indeed! (Tim sure carries a dynamite smile)
Now that I'm older and wiser, it still sucks but now it's real old too!
But Look at how fast I can play the guitar while that other guy sings gibberish!
OTOH, it's my favorite frantic blues song about unattachment and spiritual enlightenment.
You see what they did there, combining those two completely different ideas into a song?
Well said. I knew you'd be up to taking this h8r to task, Steely_D.
And their album covers were works of art.
Who else do this?
Now that I'm older and wiser, it still sucks but now it's real old too!
But Look at how fast I can play the guitar while that other guy sings gibberish!
OTOH, it's my favorite frantic blues song about unattachment and spiritual enlightenment.
You see what they did there, combining those two completely different ideas into a song?
Wow, just what I was thinking, as that just happened again today. Thanks Bill!! :)
1973 and it still holds up so well. Nothing like them. Nothing.
RIP Walter