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They call [[UsefulNotes/PowerFiveConferences Alabama the Crimson Tide]]\\

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They call [[UsefulNotes/PowerFiveConferences [[UsefulNotes/SoutheasternConferenceFootballPrograms Alabama the Crimson Tide]]\\
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* {{Foil}}: "Deacon Blues" uses UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball to juxtapose the narrator's sensbilities.
-->"They got a name for the winners in the world\\
I, I want a name when I lose\\
They call [[UsefulNotes/PowerFiveConferences Alabama the Crimson Tide]]\\
Call me Deacon Blues"
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Released in 1977, ''Aja'' is Music/SteelyDan's sixth album.

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Released in 1977, ''Aja'' is Music/SteelyDan's the sixth album.
album by American JazzFusion group Music/SteelyDan, released in 1977 through Creator/ABCRecords.

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# "Black Cow"
# "Aja"
# "Deacon Blues"
# "Peg"
# "Home At Last"
# "I Got The News"
# "Josie"

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[[AC: Side One]]
# "Black Cow"
Cow" (5:10)
# "Aja"
"Aja" (8:00)
# "Deacon Blues"
Blues" (7:37)
[[AC: Side Two]]
# "Peg"
"Peg" (3:57)
# "Home At Last"
Last" (5:36)
# "I Got The News"
News" (5:07)
# "Josie"
"Josie" (4:31)



* EpicRocking: "Aja" runs 8:00, "Deacon Blues" runs 7:36, and most of the songs are over five minutes. "Josie" is the shortest at 4:30.

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* EpicRocking: "Aja" runs 8:00, "Deacon Blues" runs 7:36, 7:37, and most of the songs are over five minutes. minutes, with only "Peg" (3:57) and "Josie" is the shortest at 4:30.(4:31) running shorter.

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-->''"Well the danger on the rocks is surely past\\

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[[caption-width-right:350:It's your favorite foreign movie]]


-->''"Well
[[caption-width-right:350:''Aja\\
When all my dime dancing is through\\
I run to you'']]

->''"Well
the danger on the rocks is surely past\\













* MinimalisticCoverArt: Almost totally black, with model Sayoko Yamaguchi shown in profile.

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* MinimalisticCoverArt: Almost totally black, with model Sayoko Yamaguchi shown in profile. profile; her dark hair and clothing cover nearly everything except a small part of her face and a striped scarf.

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* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: The narrator of "Deacon Blues" feels alienated from the rest of society and tries to find meaning in this romanticized bohemian lifestyle that he acknowledges is probably going to kill him eventually.



* LoserProtagonist: A Steely Dan standard, every song features one. "Deacon Blues" has probably the most self-conscious example, with the narrator having given up on trying to lead a successful, fulfilling life and instead throwing himself into the fantasy of being a romantic loser, fully aware that he's going to die young.



* MinimalisticCoverArt: As shown above.

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* MinimalisticCoverArt: As Almost totally black, with model Sayoko Yamaguchi shown above.in profile.
* MythicalMotifs: "Home at Last" is a riff on ''Literature/TheOdyssey'', with the narrator being a vagabond who compares himself to Odysseus in the chorus.



* OdeToIntoxication: "Black Cow"

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* OdeToIntoxication: "Black Cow"Cow" is addressed to a friend or lover of the narrator's who is an incorrigible alcoholic.
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* RefrainFromAssuming: The song is "Peg," not "Your Favorite Foreign Movie."
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[[caption-width-right:350:It's your favorite foreign movie]]


-->''"Well the danger on the rocks is surely past\\
Still I remain tied to the mast\\
Could it be that I have found my home at last\\
Home at last"''



Released in 1977, ''Aja'' is Music/SteelyDan's sixth album.


!! Tracklist:
# "Black Cow"
# "Aja"
# "Deacon Blues"
# "Peg"
# "Home At Last"
# "I Got The News"
# "Josie"

!! Personnel:
* Donald Fagen, keyboards/vocals
* Walter Becker, guitar


!! "I Got The Tropes":
* BookEnds: "Black Cow" and "Josie" both mention a place called "Rudy's".
* DrunkDriver: "Deacon Blues"
-->"Drink scotch whiskey all night long\\
And die behind the wheel"
* EpicRocking: "Aja" runs 8:00, "Deacon Blues" runs 7:36, and most of the songs are over five minutes. "Josie" is the shortest at 4:30.
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: "Josie"
* MinimalisticCoverArt: As shown above.
* NewSoundAlbum: Much jazzier, longer songs, much less pop.
* OdeToIntoxication: "Black Cow"
* OneWomanSong: "Aja," "Peg," "Josie"
* RecordProducer: Gary Katz, as usual.
* RefrainFromAssuming: The song is "Peg," not "Your Favorite Foreign Movie."
* SomethingBlues: "Deacon Blues"
* TakeThat: "Deacon Blues," to everyone who doesn't like their music.
-->"I'll learn to work the saxophone\\
I'll play just what I feel"
* UncommonTime: The title track, as described by The Other Wiki:
-->The first part goes on for 17 bars, one in 2/4, as the other musicians vamp on staccato chords beneath. The interlude chords briefly return, and Gadd resumes keep the beat, with a few more flourishes, while Shorter's solo continues. Then the vamp and drum solo resume for another 17-bar section, this one including one bar in 3/4, that ends with a descending chord progression that takes us back into the intro.
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