Complete your Donald Fagen / Don Felder collection. Donald Fagen. All Rights Reserved. So I tried to give it both…’. 'An infrequent conversation between fans of music, some of it long-lost’, Seeking understanding through a Jazz state of mind, A monthly event... LAFeedbackFilmFestival.com. Thanks for stopping by. Young men dream of fire and starshine Most Steely Dan compilations CDs since then feature this version of "FM", however, Gold (Expanded Edition) is the only place to find this version on vinyl, as it was the last Steely Dan compilation released on the format. Thanks Bruce. I remember hearing it only a couple of times on the local album rock station and like everyone else who heard it at the time, thought that this was a new Steely Dan song and got pretty stoked at the assumption that a new album was coming (I didn’t hear of the news about the breakup). Contact Something Else! It just tickles me that he shares the album with Sammy Hagar, Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Journey, Cheap Trick and Nazareth! Of the album tracks, there are two songs from both Aja and Gaucho, and one track apiece from Countdown to Ecstasy, Katy Lied and The Royal Scam. Steely Dan Sunday, “True Companion” (1981), Matthew Shipp and Rob Brown – ‘Then Now’ (2020), OM [Urs Leimgruber, Christy Doran, Bobby Burri + Fredy Studer] – ‘It’s About Time’ (2020), How Black Country Communion’s Debut Brought Back ’70s-Style Hard Rock, Norah Jones – ‘Pick Me Up Off the Floor’; Puss N Boots – ‘Sister’ (2020), How Neil Young’s ‘Le Noise’ Found Light in a World of Darkness, Refuge Is Taking Advantage of Pandemic Downtime to Evolve: Something Else! Thanks for stopping by. https://www.robertchristgau.com/get_album.php?id=8438, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz with Steely Dan, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gold_(Steely_Dan_album)&oldid=963902494, Short description is different from Wikidata, Album articles lacking alt text for covers, Articles with album ratings that need to be turned into prose, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 22 June 2020, at 13:11. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Sorry about the condition your Cassette is in. Yes, I love that track and ‘That’s The Way I Feel Now’. The 2017 death of Steely Dan's co-founder Walter Becker left Fagen as the only remaining original member. It was certified platinum for sales of over a million copies in the U.S. and reached 11 on the Billboard Top 200 albums list. ( Log Out / Hi Dan, thanks and know where you’re coming from. He has also expressed admiration for the Boswell Sisters, Henry Mancini, and Ray Charles.[7]. And wonderful to read Steve Khan’s recollections. Far across the reach of space time. [23] The two have since reconciled. Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. And no, that promo 7″ isn’t mine but I wish it was! True Companion Donald Fagen. The five minute version is an instrumental for the first three and a half minutes and Fagen sings only as a layered harmony on the last ninety seconds. Discover releases, reviews, track listings, recommendations, and more about Donald Fagen / Don Felder - True Companion / All Of You at Discogs. But instead of slagging the song for being a little directionless, I think that’s the main charm of it. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Fagen's fourth album, Sunken Condos, was released in 2012. In October 2013 Fagen published an autobiography titled Eminent Hipsters. Kind Sir: Amazon lists several of the CD version. Fagen used the song as an excuse to get back into the studio after a few years off. It was followed by the multiple Grammy Award winning Two Against Nature in 2000, and Steely Dan’s most recent album Everything Must Go in 2003. Sneak Peek, Kit O'Toole: Music and Popular Culture Writer. [10] Fagen described his college bands as sounding like "the Kingsmen performing Frank Zappa material". It reached 12 on the Billboard Top 200 albums list. On his solo albums, when he played or programmed a synthesizer part to replicate a real instrument (bass, vibraphone, horns) he credited one of his aliases: Illinois Elohainu, Phonus Quaver, or Harlan Post. The only archive reviewing every ECM album in existence. Crewmen of the true companion I can see you're tired of action With the Les Paul, I know that I was playing REALLY loud in the room, but I did that because I felt that this was the underlying attitude of the song. The 2017 death of Steely Dan's co-founder Walter Becker left Fagen as the only remaining original member. It is kind of funny Donald would be on an album called “Heavy Metal”, but at the same time it makes sense because it was (supposedly) coined by William Burroughs and there’s a fair amount of sci-fi in Steely Dan and Donald’s back catalog. The first record he bought was "Reelin' and Rockin'" by Chuck Berry. Had no idea Dan played ‘True Companion’ on some dates of that tour (I saw them in Frankfurt in 1996). Becker produced Fagen's second album, Kamakiriad (1993), which was nominated for the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and reached number 10 on the Top 200 albums chart. Lyrically, the song seemed to be a ‘Dark Star‘-esque meditation on the spiritually-bereft inhabitants of a spaceship, possibly narrated by God, or at least some kind of omniscient being…, Crewmen of the True Companion On the ‘Heavy Metal’ soundtrack album, ‘True Companion’ sat incongruously alongside tracks by Black Sabbath, Grand Funk Railroad, Journey, Sammy Hagar and Stevie Nicks, a state of affairs that no doubt tickled Fagen. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. The melody meanders until returning to the theme introduced at the beginning for the vocal part. Fagen also contributed "Century's End" to the soundtrack for the 1988 Michael J. One of the concerts was recorded at Lincoln Center in New York City and broadcast on PBS Great Performances in 2014.[20]. My OpinionPersonally, I consider this Donald Fagen's magnum opus.Everything about this recording glows, but what blew me away was the vocal arrangement. It mostly comprises hits both post-dating and not included on their 1978 Greatest Hits, essentially acting as "Volume 2"; it also features additional album tracks, offering a broad perspective on the band's career to that point. “True Companion” didn’t really do anything to tip Fagen’s hand as to what he had up his sleeve next, and it didn’t have Becker’s input on it, either. Had no idea Dan played ‘True Companion’ on some dates of that tour (I saw them in Frankfurt in 1996). At least you will have it when the erosion has completed. It reached 26 on Billboard Top 200 albums list. On January 4, 2016, Titus sustained injuries after Fagen allegedly shoved her against a marble window frame at their Upper East Side apartment.