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

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 70s.

The Brutal Language’s own Julian Gutman is the author of the outstanding graphic novel Stripes At The Breakfast Table, with Michael Workman. (And no, that’s not a typo in the title. His mother was born in 1948.) Julian is a die-hard fan of the Steely Dan legacy, from their unlikely reunion in 1997, through to the final, bloated farewell tour of 2007.

He’s teamed up with the all-star illustrator Giuseppe Camuncoli for a new comic strip collaboration called Steely Dan Adventure.

she don't remember the queen of soul

― burnt hombre (stevie), Wednesday, May 19, 2021 1:20 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

lol a 19 year old not knowing about Aretha in 1980 is like a 19 year old today not knowing about Rihanna

I feel like culture moved a lot faster then though

Tim F's fine Spotify playlist has a cool "Time out of Mind" cover at # 39.

I feel like culture moved a lot faster then though

Definitely there was a shorter memory for pop music. If it wasn't in the charts, it was pretty invisible.

yep pre internet, hearing about and actually hearing stuff from 15-20 years ago took some effort

Yeah, but Aretha Franklin?

I think artists had more staying power, since you only heard about them on the radio, one of the three TV channels or certain places like your local jukebox or record store. I mean, the Beatles were still huge throughout the 70s. "Dark Side of the Moon" stayed on the album charts for 14 years. Outside of Diana Ross, there wasn't a more famous "R&B/Soul" singer than Aretha. If you knew who Donna Summer was, you knew Aretha too.

I guess if you were in the top 1% of back catalog artists like the Beatles, then people still knew about you. But even with the Beatles, unless you were spending your own hard-earned money on buying their records, you only heard the songs that played on oldies stations for the most part. I mean I never heard "Sgt Peppers" until I could afford to buy it, in high school. It was a revelation, when I mostly knew them for "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and the like. For kids who didn't spend their money on records, I can easily believe they had little knowledge of those back catalog stars.

Outside of Diana Ross, there wasn't a more famous "R&B/Soul" singer than Aretha.

And inside of Diana Ross, there simply wasn't room for any additional singers.

the nineteen-year-old in the song might also be playing dumb to humor the coked-out older gentleman she's chatting with

I mean, she was in the Blues Brothers that year!

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi

Aretha's career was in a downturn before Blues Brothers and Hey Nineteen was probably written before the movie came out.

yeah Aretha was a crossover non-entity between "Until You Come Back to Me" and "Jump to It," and even that's generous. "Freedom of Love" was the first time the hey-nineteen would've heard her.

I can't speak for the nineteenager in the Dan song. But I could sort of understand a youngster not making an instant connection between the singer of "Ain't No Way" (1968) and the singer of "Who's Zoomin' Who" (1985).

In the early 80s there were loads of young white people who didn't really have much familiarity with Motown / vintage soul / R&B prior to seeing Blues Brothers, Big Chill, and St. Elmo's Fire.

I don't know. I remember a lot of hit singles that came out when I was 12, the age the 19yo would have been in 1973 when "Until You Come Back to Me" went to #3.

I was 12 when “Hey Nineteen” came out and I still remember it

Lotta folks in this thread confusing ILM posters with normal humans w/r/t relationships to pop culture...

This thread led me to uncover an amusing anecdote.

Aretha Franklin wanted to sue Steely Dan over "Hey Nineteen" https://t.co/kOidYDvyGC pic.twitter.com/gtQXJ6BXBt

— John M. Cunningham (@jmcunning) May 20, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E28O91oXIAE8r7P?format=jpg&name=medium

i mean i know pixels but still lol

is there dog in the car?
yes there's dog in the car

i think the squirrels down the hall know who you are

Dog, we will come back to you

Or perhaps

Pet, we will come back to you

Who is the bowcho

It seems like only yesterday
I gazed through the glass

Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home

Are you sitting in the car
Stowing away the time
While I'm drinking in the bar
Fido will be fine

it a dog
it a dog, in car remain
it a dog, in car remain

I cried when I wrote this sign

Chewed-Up Sneakers

I can't bark anymore
While you run around

Everyones gone to the movies

bodacious canines, such as your friend, will never be welcome here

Something about "the man who stole your water"

Something about "die behind the wheel"

Babylon Doggies
Shake it

Avalon Doggies
Shake it

East St. Louis Poodle-Oo

Fagen / Barker

My Obedience School

Dog, we will come back to you

― portmanteaujam (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, June 3, 2021 11:00 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Or perhaps

Pet, we will come back to you

― portmanteaujam (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, June 3, 2021 11:04 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

pug! it will come back to me.

https://i.imgur.com/SgQ5bB7.jpg

Light another

https://www.theringer.com/music/2021/7/21/22586128/steely-dan-popular-cult-favorite-millennials

interesting, but so badly written I had to give up

lmao that piece def deserves to be in the bad music writing thread, can't believe it even includes "dancing about architecture"

tho some ppl i like are quoted in it

steely dan bootleg shirt designs have gone too far and must be abolished. it started with the dumb sonic youth mash up and now it's bonkers. no record nerd needs 9
'dan designs from etsy.

hahahahaha this thread revival prompted me to get a Steely Goo tee