Steely Dan: "Steely Dan's name has been popping up as a hip musical crush. Remember, this glossy bop-pop was the indifferent aristocracy to punk rock's stone-throwing in the late 70's. People fought

sounds like grocery stores rule down under

the Nick Cave quote is: "I'm forever near a stereo saying, 'What the fuck is this GARBAGE?' And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers."

Nick Cave was clearly pining for the days when he could just groove out to The Royal Scam.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/countdown_to_ecstasy_an_interview_with_the_creator_of_the_forthcoming

:(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dimyNC1BytY

"Not a real one, a fictional one."

i have no use for the band but the gallagher bros. antics and shit-talking has always been 100% awesome to me, they are so incredibly dumb though, which i guess is part of the charm

― adrian "stanky" legg (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, July 18, 2013 6:27 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great post

bump.

http://rymimg.com/lk/f/l/cc9a06052f337adc5c5996368e4cd8c8/1676824.jpg

Best band ever

rikki don't wear that native american headgear

Apparently Janet booked us at something called "Coachella." The last time we spent that much time in the desert was when Walter and I hired a Cahuilla shaman to help us work through our differences in opinion re: 8-10k Hz crash presence on "Gaucho." I can't recall if we got over it, but we both ate so much of some sort of off-brand peyote derivative that Walt engaged in some extended metaphysical riffing with a Centruroides exilicauda and I was pretty convinced that I was Gene Vincent's shoes.

Net, I don't see this ending particularly well.

- fagen

oh which was almost certain fake, sorry bros

^can confirm that ;)

hilarious though

aw fake? good fake tho.

Yeah their booking agent is named Bev

even better than janet

I don't know what it says about me, and music, and music in 2015, and me and music in 2015, that Steely Dan and ac/dc are the two acts at Coachella that jump out as the ones I would want to see the most.

I have never knowingly heard Steely Dan but 2015 is the year where that finally changes. I was going through my late grandpa's record collection at Xmas for the final time before my grandma gets rid of them and he had Can't Buy A Thrill, Katy Lied & Aja so I snuck them in our keep pile. I will have to wait til I'm home alone to listen to them though cos my wife claims to hate them.

http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2015/01/06/why-steely-dan-belongs-at-coachella
http://www.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2012/01/20/steely-dan-fans-are-assholes

ha ha, love this...they should get the touring band from the first two records back together--Michael McDonald, Skunk Baxter, Denny Dias, and Royce Jones--and just play from the first four records. That band was unbelievably sick from the few bootlegs out there

Steely Dan is a band I used to hate but now like though I kind of envy people who legit hate them

Like I wish I could resist their self-impressed cynicism and tasteful licks

ive never in my life had the desire to attend coachella until now

Wow, both those LAW articles kind of suck. As for the latter, I know there are some assholes who like Steely Dan, and a few that are in Steely Dan, but the times I have seen them they've attracted an overwhelming just-here-for-a-good-time crowd of middle aged pot smokers and suburban couples. A la, dunno, Jimmy Buffett. Because I am an asshole, I've often wondered, do these people even listen to the lyrics? Do they know anything about the musicianship? Or are they just there to boogie.

i've been ambivalent about steely dan for a while but getting really into those joni records from court and spark through don juan i feel like i am really opening up to them. those joni albums were the gateway for me, they've brought me into a lot of different 70s stuff

quaaludes

I've often wondered, do these people even listen to the lyrics?

short answer is no

recalling the moment I explained to my prog-musician weed dealer that Everyone's Gone to the Movies was about pedophilia

I just heard Two Against Nature for the first time last week. It's terrible! I'll stan for 70s-era Dan all the way, but man. There's like two good songs: "Gaslighting Abbie" and "Cousin Dupree" but the rest was boring as fuck. Where's the jaw-dropping Denny Dias solos? Where's the hip-hoppin' future-sample drumbeats? Where's the soothing Michael McD background vocals? And why is the production so goddamn LIFELESS?!?! Should I even bother with Everything Must Go?

yeah Everything Must Go is much better – trust me.

EMG is way worth it

There's like two good songs: "Gaslighting Abbie" and "Cousin Dupree" but the rest was boring as fuck.

"jack of speed" or gtfo

Everyone's Gone to the Movies was about pedophilia

It's sort of disturbing how many SD songs are about jailbait girls and perverts. Everyone's Gone to the Movies, Janie Runaway, Hey Nineteen, Cousin Dupree ...

But yeah, Everything Must Go is great. It's impossible to find online, last I checked, but there is an EPK of them riding around in the back of a cab in Vegas while the taxi cab confessions driver interviews them about the album.

^^Uh, look upthread at the posts of August 2nd, 2014.

Oh shit! Last time I looked it was IMPOSSIBLE! Day made, thanks.

holy shit that is the best video ever

I don't like either of the reunion SD albums. I do love all of Fagen's solo albums except for Kamakiriad, though. Sunken Condos is great.

Everyone's Gone to the Movies was about pedophilia
It's sort of disturbing how many SD songs are about jailbait girls and perverts. Everyone's Gone to the Movies, Janie Runaway, Hey Nineteen, Cousin Dupree ...

But yeah, Everything Must Go is great. It's impossible to find online, last I checked, but there is an EPK of them riding around in the back of a cab in Vegas while the taxi cab confessions driver interviews them about the album.

― Josh in Chicago

You should read Thomas Pynchon, similar thing

I've often wondered, do these people even listen to the lyrics? Do they know anything about the musicianship? Or are they just there to boogie.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 9:25 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

to be fair, if steely dan weren't boogie-able then they wouldn't be half the band they are.

i mean, if they were just potheads with jazz chops and a taste for obscurantist lyrics...

for real. what i love about SD is that they function fine as a pop band with a ton of great singles if that's what you want from them, i think playing up the darkness/satire sometimes does a disservice to the entirety of their virtues.

you know when you think about it, lyrically their sensibility might be closest to someone like el-p.

Wow, both those LAW articles kind of suck.

ftfy

did LAW ever not suck? i don't remember. i feel like back in 2000 it wasn't terrible. it's just shit now though.

is the narrator in Hey Nineteen really a "pervert"?

a thirty year old going out with a nineteen year old! (grabs smelling salts).

he isnt even going out with them tho iirc

calling that "perverted" demonstrates a really straitened sense of morality or just normalcy