Steely Dan - The Boston Rag (REACTION)
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Check out Sight After Dark reacting to "The Boston Rag" by Steely Dan!
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I swear, this song sounds better every time I listen to it. And I've listened to it a lot! For decades!!
Thats how you know its good!
Totally agree!
I agree. SD has some songs that I did NOT like at all when I first heard them. Now.. I love them. Some of that has to do with my changing taste in music. I used to hate jazz.... now I love it.
@@raycewilliams3300 Wow, I keep thinking of the same thing--now I love songs that I thought were meh. ;)
'The Boston Rag' is slang for LSD. Boston and Harvard university are the city and place where 1960s LSD guru Timothy Leary first conducted the then-legal psychedelics experiments. Meaning 'the suff from Boston' was reputed to be quality, pure Lysergic Acid Dyethylamide 25. Fagen's very first trip was in the summer of 1965, at the tender age of 17 at the home of a neighbour friend in his native NJ . The 'tab' was procured from an older acquaintance who was already going to college in...you guessed...Boston. Fagen talks about it in his semi-autobiography 'Eminent Hipsters'. Both him and Walter experimented w/ psychedelics while at Bard College in the mid to late 1960s. 'Lonnie' is their Bard friend, deceased artist Lonnie Youngue, himself the ' king pin hipster' of their dorm building on campus, a guy who experimented heavily w/ drugs and drank to excess. You'll encounter another 'Boston reference', meaning essentially the same thing, when you get to 'Gaucho' and the track 'Hey Nineteen'. 'Rag' is a 'dance'. When you ingest psychedelics, beyond a medium dose, everything you look at, including inanimate objects apears alive, moving...as if dancing.....
We’ll definitely remember this next time we’re in Boston ;)
Blotter acid on paper called microdot.
@@steverodgers8425 In my days blotter acid on paper was referred to merely as 'blotter. Microdot was the name of another one which was an actual black, bitter tasting liquid dot inside a little squared snapper plastic film, which you had to actually bite and chew into, because it didn't not dissolve, another one I had was referred to as 'graphite', this tiny black-is, graphite looking little barrel. And of course the best I ever had, Clear Light, Gelatine gel tabs, 'Window pane'.
@@steverodgers8425 I also remember the "Goofy" Disney character on the 4 way blotter acid .
Another killer Skunk Baxter guitar solo!
Hearing it again, that musical intro was KILLER!!
🤟🤟🤟
"Five to one." I'm surprised I never picked up on that since I'm a Doors fan. I usually do.
Its an easy one to miss considering the context is so different in this song! Thanks for watching John!
Always reminded me of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young harmonies, only dark and sinister.
Can definitely hear that
Walter Becker said the song is definitely not about Boston. I think the Boston Rag is a drug of some type, or the name of a standard street drug that the kingpin Lonnie had but his was the best so he named it.
I always thought it was about a cleaning rag from Boston. I also misheard "Tell all your buddies that it ain't no gag."
I didn’t care for this at first. But, now it’s a top 10 Steely Dan track for me! I just get so lost in the solos and chorus 🔥
I felt the same way, it’s weird. There were a couple other songs too that I slept on for years and now they are all in my Steely playlist.
Absolutely! Hard not to get lost!
Sander! En fælles dansk steely fan.
Rag was at one time a type of music. Like blues, many songs were referred to as a type of rag. I think it was a style of piano playing prevalent in the 20s. I'm thinking like, Scott Joplin.
Makes sense! Thanks for watching!
...and "rag," is short for rag-time, a descriptive label given to the syncopated rhythms of that music. Scott Joplin was the first to publish ragtime music.
You two do by FAR the best reaction videos I have seen. Obviously REALLY knowing music, figuring out lyrics of these guys in a single listen (no small feat with these guys!), an insightful appreciation of amazing music is just great to see! You also have to be one of the coolest couples EVER! (Yeah, it's front and center!) Thanks for loving the music I love!))) We gotta get about three (or four!) more zeroes added to your subscriber total! Check out "New York Rock and Soul Review" - Fagen and Becker with Boz Scaggs, Phoebe Snow, and many others doing mostly early bluesy standards stuff from around the 30's and 40's. Musical roots tributes...
A "must do" song I think you'd love as much as anything you've done so far suggestion... "Love, Reign O'er Me" by The Who. If you've never heard it, it's truly masterpiece stuff.
Thanks so much for the kind words John! We’re not concerned with the subscriber count. We’ve only been doing reactions since June, and can’t even believe we have as many people watching as we do! Thanks for the suggestions. We love The Who and have definitely heard that song before! Also, just to clarify, we’re not a couple in terms of dating. We’re just two bandmates with a shared love of music! If you haven’t heard any of our original music yet, you may enjoy it!
Exactly what I think!!
This has always been my favorite Steely Dan song not to well known though
El periódico se llamaba the Boston Globe. En formato de sabana o rag en inglés
Sweet. More sweet Steely. You guys will love the f*ck outta this album. Nice background change BTW
We do love the album! Thanks for watching Robert!
Dark, unsettling commentary + smooth, upbeat tunes = Steely Dan's wheelhouse
This whole album is just about as solid front to back as you'll find, and as a guitar fan I think probably my favorite of all theirs. So great for what, their second album? Not really a weak track on the whole lp
I don't care what it's about I just know I love it.
Same!
Instant subscribe. Keep reacting to the deep cuts, please.
Thanks for watching Andrew! We love reaction to whole albums, so deep cuts are just the name of the game :)
Reo que Boston rag significa El trapo bostoniano… pueda ser relacionado con el periódico más importante de Boston vendido en 1965 …. Y paulatinamente cambiamos del papel periódico a videos animados que capturan toda nuestra atención al grado de devorar todo a su paso … los autores quieren convencer al público que sigamos leyendo el trapo o periódico Cosa que nunca se logró y looney se encargo de acabar con el periodismo de the Boston Rag
Gracias por el informaciòn Ricardo!
Boston Rag is A newspaper
Haha ohhhh that makes sense
What does it mean? Sorry I've got nothing. But then I've only been listening to this song for forty years. It's like when you sing this song in your car really loud it makes total sense but if you try to figure it out it makes no sense at all. There's a concept in Zen called "mindless mindfulness". I think that means that with art you need to react to it consciously but with the analytical part of your brain turned off. Does that make any sense?
Yep!
Our Lady of Bayside was catholic church nun. Mary! So, his girl was solid virgin, nothing he could do.
So he went elsewhere. RAG can refer to Newspaper or magazine.
I think this song was trying to confuse to match the lyrics. There are obvious drug references and perhaps the music's tones and pacing are meant to replicate tripping. These guys were the hippest of the whole 70s music scene...they replaced the jazz musicians of the late 50s and early 60s down on 52nd Street as the cool ones.
And how the F do you only have 399 subscribers? 🧐
Haha gotta start somewhere! Thanks for the kind words friend!
What dd the Dan steal ?
Here the Tango. Other songs dances of other generations. Cha cha , Bossa Rumba , Jive.
Blotter LSD on paper. Some called it microdot.
Makes sense! Thanks for watching!
I assume Boston rag is a newspaper reference
Definitely seems like it!
Guys, I'm sorry but you brought absolutely nothing of value to this track with this reaction video. I won't be checking out your other reactions.
lol what are you sorry for? Stay well Geoffrey
Are these two supposed to know anything about music? GOOD GRIEF!!!!!!
Music? Never heard of it