Sunday, December 23, 2007

Creative Accounting #1




Doobie Brothers = Steely Dan + Earth Wind and Fire


This first Creative Accounting inspired by hearing What a Fool Believes on Victoria Woods' Desert Island Discs

picture courtesy of Super Seventies
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3 comments:

Douglas Miller said...

I have got to take you up on that! SD and EWF were both in a different league to the Doobie Brothers. Sure MM had one of the great blue-eyed soul voices but I don't think their legacy is anywhere near the other two.

The formula implies they were better. Subjective I know but surely not? Were you suggesting this?

But I must admit I love the 'Taking it to the Streets' album.

EWF's 'All n' All' album was one of my earliest jazz oriented discoveries and connected me to jazz-funk. And did SD ever make a bad album? And of course MM never did an album that touched Donald Fagen's "Nightfly' - a high point in the '80's in admittedly the worst decade for music since the 1940's.

I listened to VW DID's today. The Arvo Part piece is a gem - Gidon Kremer on violin but few know that Keith Jarrett plays the piano on the album.

December 23, 2007 6:39 pm
Douglas Miller said...

I have got to take you up on that! SD and EWF were both in a different league to the Doobie Brothers. Sure MM had one of the great blue-eyed soul voices but I don't think their legacy is anywhere near the other two.

The formula implies they were better. Subjective I know but surely not? Were you suggesting this?

But I must admit I love the 'Taking it to the Streets' album.

EWF's 'All n' All' album was one of my earliest jazz oriented discoveries and connected me to jazz-funk. And did SD ever make a bad album? And of course MM never did an album that touched Donald Fagen's "Nightfly' - a high point in the '80's in admittedly the worst decade for music since the 1940's.

I listened to VW DID's today. The Arvo Part piece is a gem - Gidon Kremer on violin but few know that Keith Jarrett plays the piano on the album.

December 23, 2007 6:39 pm
ArkAngel said...

The formula is just intended to imply a combination - nothing quantitative or ranking.

I agree about Nightfly - it took you some place else with some romance and fantasy in a dark decade.

December 25, 2007 7:53 pm

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