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Fri, 28 September 2007 19:53

Nei
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Registered: November 2006

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...is the fuckin' best recording EVER! OK, well, let's back off
a bit & say it could POSSIBLY be the best fucking recording
EVER. At the very least, it's definitely a candidate, yes? I'm
not talking about the whole album (although the whole
album is great, really, as everyone knows), I'm talking about
the seven-minute-and-fifty-five-second title cut that was
nailed on the 2nd take with no edits on the basic tracks.

Man, I'm sitting here listening to it, and I think that if
there was a way you could compare the best possible recordings
of all time from ANY genre and digest them down to some kind of
quantifiable "best sound/best playing/best execution/best
mix/best mastering" kind of combination and vote on it, "Aja"
just might win.

Freakin' GREAT sounds on every single instrument in there, as
pertains to the genre being recorded, NOTHING comes across as
abrasive, yet it's not so homogenized as to not grab your
attention, either (we've all heard mixes like that, right?).

Although, I must say "My Old School" rocks almost as hot in
that same voting contest. :D

(Yes, I'm currently in a Steely Dan mode - gotta get some
breathing space from the numetal stuff i've been spending so
much time on lately! lol)

Roger Nichols gets most of the credit for all the Steely Dan
stuff, but as I understand it, Elliot Scheiner really did most
of the basic tracks recording & also the mixdowns, so maybe
he's really the unsung hero here. Not sure if this applies to
Aja, as well, but nonetheless...

....GO LISTEN TO "AJA"!!!!

Neil

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		Aja... By: Nei on Fri, 28 September 2007 19:53
		Re: Aja... By: Chris Latham on Fri, 28 September 2007 23:35
		Re: Aja... By: dc[3] on Fri, 28 September 2007 23:42
		Re: Aja... By: John [1] on Sat, 29 September 2007 02:19
		Re: Aja... By: Bill L on Sat, 29 September 2007 08:26
		Re: Aja... By: D-unit on Tue, 02 October 2007 07:18
		Re: Aja... By: John [1] on Tue, 02 October 2007 07:55
		Re: Aja... By: D-unit on Tue, 02 October 2007 09:02
		Re: Aja... By: John [1] on Tue, 02 October 2007 09:30
		Re: Aja... By: D-unit on Tue, 02 October 2007 11:01
		Re: Aja... By: Neil on Tue, 02 October 2007 10:04
		Re: Aja... By: John [1] on Tue, 02 October 2007 11:03
		Re: Aja... By: Paul Braun on Tue, 02 October 2007 17:29
		Re: Aja... By: audioguy_editout_ on Tue, 02 October 2007 17:36
		Re: Aja... By: DJ on Tue, 02 October 2007 21:35
		Re: Aja... By: neil[1] on Wed, 03 October 2007 07:29
		Re: Aja... By: Ted Gerber on Sat, 29 September 2007 09:21
		Re: Aja... By: audioguy_editout_ on Sat, 29 September 2007 11:18
		Re: Aja... By: Rod Lincoln on Sat, 29 September 2007 11:34
		Re: Aja... By: xpam_mark on Sat, 29 September 2007 20:19
		Re: Aja... By: laMont [1] on Sat, 29 September 2007 13:03
		Re: Aja... By: steve the artguy on Sat, 29 September 2007 17:28
		Re: Aja... By: Tom Bruhl on Sat, 29 September 2007 18:01
		Re: Aja... By: DJ on Tue, 02 October 2007 10:02
		Re: Aja Trivia 4 U By: D-unit on Mon, 01 October 2007 14:10
		Re: Aja Trivia 4 U By: steve the artguy on Mon, 01 October 2007 15:58

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