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Black Friday + Bad Sneakers + Doctor Wu = WIN

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Friday, 25 August 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, they're all good, but i think that the horace silver tune that starts rikki don't lose that number makes such a good beginning.

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Friday, 25 August 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

good enough to hear it first!

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Friday, 25 August 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

basically any of their first four records will be a good place to start, and if you like it, you should immediately go out and get the other three.

then get the rest of em.

― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Friday, 25 August 2006 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

countdown to ecstasy
pretzel logic
katy lied
aja
gaucho
the royal scam
can't buy a thrill

get those first

― gear (gear), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

Another fine SD thread:
Why do people rag on Steely Dan's "Gaucho" so much?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:27 (nineteen years ago)

As much as I love Pretzel Logic and think that "Barrytown" (lyrics, music, everything) is phenomenal, I swear that "I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown" could have been even better if Fagen had written carry ROUND. The description way upthread about how the lyrics match the music, etc. is perfect, which is why I think my suggestion would make "Barrytown" just a little bit better. Or maybe I'm an asshole. To avoid any wrath, I do think SD are one of the best bands, ever. And I didn't go see them in Hartford tonight. Grrr. Funny that Michael McDonald is now opening for them, no?

― Adam Harrison-Friday (AdamFriday), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

Gaucho was one of the two first albums I bought with my own money. The other one was Spyro Gyra Catching the Sun. I must have been about 12, and I was taking recomendations from my uncle, Mr. Smooth.

― always crashing in other people's cars (kenan), Friday, 25 August 2006 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

Black Friday + Bad Sneakers + Doctor Wu = WIN
-- Marmot (marmotwolo...), August 25th, 2006.

OTM (and "Any World That I'm Welcome To" is a great one too)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

In the new issue of WWE magazine, heavyweight champion King Booker admits to being a fan of the "Dan".

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 25 August 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

I swear that "I can see by what you carry that you come from Barrytown" could have been even better if Fagen had written carry ROUND.

that would totally fuck up the phrasing and how the words flow against the chord change, IMO....plus that's almost too much of a rapper-type rhyme, like Eminem would or something.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a big "Charley Freak" fan! it's almost gothic.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 25 August 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

In the new issue of WWE magazine, heavyweight champion King Booker admits to being a fan of the "Dan".

[Insert "The Royal Scam" joke here]

― nate p. (natepatrin), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

NO PLAN BUT THE DAN

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 25 August 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

countdown to ecstasy

is the best one

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

ps they are all good

― a little knowledge can go a long way (lfam2), Friday, 25 August 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

revive

― gear (gear), Saturday, 2 September 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

please dont.

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

I really like "Fire In the Hole."

― Sundar (sundar), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

We must know which Dan album Louis Jagger bought.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

NO WE MUST NOT

― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 2 September 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

WE MUST

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 2 September 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mymusic.com/covers/170p/100250/100252754.jpg

― gear (gear), Saturday, 2 September 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jeez. I think this thread is like a bastion of sanity sometimes.

― nate p. (natepatrin), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha!! oh man.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've often wondered if Danielle Steel's friends ever call her "Dan Steely"

I've also often wondered why EVERYONE IN MY GENERATION IS AN IDIOT JESUS FUCK PEOPLE GET ONE (1) SENSE OF HUMOR

(directed at the AV Club commmenters, obv)

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

We must know which Dan album Louis Jagger bought.

-- Marmot (marmotwolo...), September 2nd, 2006.

TO ANSWER UR QUESTION, I JUST BOUGHT 'PRETZEL LOGIC'

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

now go out and buy the rest!

― gear (gear), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

turn off your computer, take a leisurely stroll to the record store, spend a day listening to them with no distractions. no computer, no phone, nothing. just music.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

record store is closed, funds are limited, and dinner-time is nigh. Shall bear your advice in mind, however.

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

pretzel logic is good!

barrytown and any major dude will tell you are some of my fav Dan jamz.

also big props to Charlie Freak...that's a sleeper.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

lol w/ gear

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

yah barrytown is tops

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

parker's band is good too

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

serious, i highly recommend the "buy up the discography, focus on it for a week" approach. when i picked up SD's stuff, i didn't go on my computer for a month. try it!

― gear (gear), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

i grew up with the dan. we had an awesome dan klos sticker on the family car.

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Shit dude, I would love a KLOS Dan sticker.

― mucho (mucho), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

it was this one:
http://i13.ebayimg.com/04/i/08/bf/46/f1_1.JPG
it became really bleached by the sun though :(

― chaki (chaki), Thursday, 26 October 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

wait when did the jagger reemerge? or do i just not come on ilm enough?

― trees (treesessplode), Friday, 27 October 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it sucks; I'm gonna have to change my handle or something!

― lookin' in my mirror, not a Jagger in sight (sixteen sergeants), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

"Veronica Mars" recently had a character named Donald Fagen.

― ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

that's a sweet sticker.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 27 October 2006 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

serious, i highly recommend the "buy up the discography, focus on it for a week" approach. when i picked up SD's stuff, i didn't go on my computer for a month. try it!
-- gear (speed.to.roa...), October 27th, 2006.

amen.

― kevinod (odtron5000), Friday, 27 October 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

"Veronica Mars" recently had a character named Donald Fagen.
I saw this and was AMAZED!

My copy of Katy Lied is currently MIA. I think my roommate has it though she claims otherwise. I've been substituting higher doses of Can't Buy A Thrill.

― disappointing goth fest line-up (orion), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

My copy of Katy Lied is currently MIA

I would then have taken it to the store, complaining that you have gotten a MIA CD rather than a Steely Dan one.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

geir's soh goes missing in action

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

"here at the western world" is really fantastic. was it recorded during the aja sessions? why was it left off? what's the story?

i also listened to "any major dude" three times last night.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Sweet baby jesus - Steely Dan is touring Europe this summer!!!!!!!!

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

half the title has been sliced off, poor brent dicrescenzo ;_;

― unfished business, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

louis, if you don't own the first 7 dan albums by now drink your big black cow and get outta here

― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

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