Severe Weather, Steely Dan & The Beach Boys!

Weird comparison huh? LOL! Let me explain the story behind of this one:

I’m a storm spotter and I love severe weather but it wasn’t always
like this. My career of “stormchasing” began when I was young meaning
storms would chase me back into the house or some place for cover if I wasn’t
near home! LOL! Like most people who become interested in severe weather later
on in life, it started by watching “The Wizard Of Oz” and the tornado
scene in the movie. I also became fascinated by the wind at a very early age.
When we moved into the house on Wagon Wheel Trail in Saratoga Springs, NY, my
room was at the very top level of the house. I used to be frightened if there
was a bad storm and I was in the room especially late at night. I used to cower
in my bed worried that I would be carried away to the “Land of Oz”
like Dorothy in the movie! LOL! Radar technology was not as advanced in the
1970’s as it is today and storms could hit unexpectedly with very little
warning. My mom was absolutely terrified of severe storms and passed that fear
onto all of us! Anytime severe weather watches were issued, I would get real
nervous especially if it was a tornado watch. Anyway, music used to relax me
and when watches were issued, I listened to plenty of it! LOL! For some strange
reason when severe weather watches were issued, the radio station that I listened
to would always play “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” by Steely
Dan and some other tunes that I can’t recall the names of or as I like
to call it: “bend over and kiss your ass good-bye” music! LOL! For
those of you that watch The Weather Channel, you know what I’m talking
about! Also when I lived in California many years later, the radio stations
there used to always play “Babylon Sisters” whenever the Santa Ana
winds kicked up! LOL! I’ve enjoyed Steely Dan’s music over the years
and thought you might as well.

One of the first record albums that I bought was an album by Steppenwolf and
a double album set by The Beach Boys titled “High Water”. I paid
about a buck for the Steppenwolf album and $2.00 for The Beach Boys album. I
really loved The Beach Boys album and wore the grooves out in the record playing
it constantly. I use to listen to it when severe weather watches were issued
because the music was relaxing and made me feel better so there you have the
comparison. One of my favorite tunes on the album was “Darlin’”.
Unfortunately, I’ve never been able to find a copy of that album again.
I don’t even remember what happened to the one I had but I did find another
album that has many of the other tunes that I listened to on “High Water”
including “Darlin’”! A couple of years later, I met the late
Dennis Wilson of the group at SPAC and got his autograph.

Steely Dan – Citizen (Box Set) (1993) – (320 kbps) – box
set has all the groups albums from 1972-1980 along with demos – excellent
sound!

Disc One: 1.) Do It Again 2.) Dirty Work 3.) Kings 4.) Midnite Cruiser 5.)
Only A Fool Would Say That 6.) Reelin’ In The Years 7.) Fire In The Hole
8.) Brooklyn (Owes The Charmer Under Me) 9.) Change Of The Guard 10.) Turn That
Heartbeat Over Again 11.) Bodhisattva 12.) Razor Boy 13.) The Boston Rag 14.)
Your Gold Teeth 15.) Show Biz Kids 16.) My Old School

Disc Two: 1.) King Of The World 2.) Pearl Of The Quarter 3.) Rikki Don’t
Lose That Number 4.) Night By Night 5.) Any Major Dude Will Tell You 6.) Barrytown
7.) East St. Louis Toodle-Do 8.) Parker’s Band 9.) Through With Buzz 10.)
Pretzel Logic 11.) With A Gun 12.) Charlie Freak 13.) Monkey In Your Soul 14.)
Bodhisattva (Live) 15.) Black Friday 16.) Bad Sneakers 17.) Rose Darling 18.) Daddy Don’t Live In That New York City No More 19.) Doctor Wu 20.) Everyone’s
Gone To The Movies 21.) Chain Lightning

Disc Three: 1.) Your Gold Teeth II 2.) Any World (That I’m Welcome To)
3.) Throw Back The Little Ones 4.) Kid Charlemagne 5.) The Caves Of Altamira
6.) Don’t Take Me Alive 7.) Sign In Stranger 8.) The Fez 9.) Green Earrings
10.) Haitian Divorce 11.) Everything You Did 12.) The Royal Scam 13.) Here At
The Western World 14.) Black Cow 15.) Aja 16.) Peg

Disc Four: 1.) Deacon Blues 2.) Home At Last 3.) I Got The News 4.) Josie 5.)
FM 6.) Babylon Sisters 7.) Hey Nineteen 8.) Glamour Profession 9.) Gaucho 10.)
Time Out Of Mind 11.) My Rival 12.) Third World Man 13.) Everyone’s Gone
To The Movies (Demo)

The Beach Boys – Sounds Of Summer The Very Best Of The Beach Boys –
(Ripped at various rates but nothing below 200 kbps) – excellent sound!

1.) California Girls 2.) I Get Around 3.) Surfin’ Safari 4.) Surfin’
USA 5.) Fun, Fun, Fun 6.) Surfer Girl 7.) Don’t Worry Baby 8.) Little
Deuce Coupe 9.) Shut Down 10.) Help Me Rhonda 11.) Be True To Your School 12.)
When I Grow Up (To Be A Man) 13.) In My Room 14.) God Only Knows 15.) Sloop
John B 16.) Wouldn’t It Be Nice 17.) Getcha Back 18.) Come Go With Me
19.) Rock And Roll Music 20.) Dance, Dance, Dance 21.) Barbara Ann 22.) Do You
Wanna Dance 23.) Heroes & Villians 24.) Good Timin’ 25.) Kokomo 26.)
Do It Again 27.) Wild Honey 28.) Darlin’ 29.) I Can Hear Music 30.) Good
Vibrations

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