Donald Fagen and Walter Becker are the writing geniuses behind all the Steely Dan songs. With their first couple of albums, they had a fairly regular lineup but after that, they brought in different stellar musicians for each track to help them bring these masterpieces to life.
Such a great critique by you. The song is about The caves in Altamira Spain where there are painting done by early man around 36,000 years old. It is indeed a musical masterpiece with beautiful lyrics. Cheers from Australia,
I love this song,. One of favourites from the excellent Royal Scam album 1976. Glad that you enjoyed and I am looking forward to your future Steely Dan reactions. The Steely Dan rabbit hole is deep and wide:-). Starting digging anywhere in their discography and I believe that you will not be disappointed! Thank you for reacting to a great song from one of my all time favourite bands! All the best
Bernard "Pretty" Purdy on drums. If a person wanted a shortcut to great music they could do worse than wiki-ing him and listening to everything he ever played on...he pretty fo sho....
You are listening to 2nd Tier greatness......JMHO...there are the Big Boys ( Beatles, Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin , add and substract whatever) But The Dan are possibly at the top of the NEXT list ...Peace and love
Steely Dan is Top Tier, those other bands you named are simply more well known. Appeal to a large audience is not always the primary indicator of greatness or quality.
