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

I recall either Becker or Fagen being somewhat dismissive of this record in an interview, saying something like "she had written three songs: one about her boyfriend, one about her mother and one about autumn leaves".

LINDA HOOVER: "Big deal. The Gaucho album is a song about a girlfriend, another song about another guy fucking said girlfriend, and a buncha songs about the Coke Dealer who's fucking both of them."

DON: "Well, yeah."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DULtC-_dDu4

STEELY CRUE

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/steely-dans-classic-abc--mca-records-catalog-to-be-remastered-from-original-tapes-and-reissued-on-180-gram-black-vinyl-via-ume-and-uhqr-and-sacd-via-analogue-productionsquality-record-pressings-301625901.html

$30 for that sweet analogue dirty work

thirty bucks would be a steal! those puppies are $150. https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/171031/Steely_Dan-Cant_Buy_A_Thrill-UHQR_Vinyl_Record

Oh

Finally we can be rid of the lovely light and dark patterns that can be seen on the surface of the pressing of Katy Lied!

Stomping $150 copies of Can’t Buy a Thrill on the avenue by Radio City

$30 for that sweet analogue dirty work

Yeah absolutely worth it

wow pic.twitter.com/KsmOqCxPf3

— ｂｏｏｓ (@bosscrood) October 6, 2022

Perhaps the nerdiest SD thread on SD Nerd Twitter: a deep dive on fonts!

I can’t reply to your tweet so I’m starting a thread of Steely Dan fonts.

Can’t Buy A Thrill (1972): The squiggly band type was obviously custom-drawn, but the album title uses Mistral. https://t.co/Gc9NChwy8k pic.twitter.com/sH2u8UM24u

— James Campbell Taylor (@jamestaylor) October 18, 2022

Listening to 'Pretzel Logic' today, I had a thought to wonder if that record was a bit of a cleaning the books of all their good stuff they had starting from when they were staff writing at ABC. The reason I kinda say that was that it was both the end of the live band and all the tunes are really tight for the most part at or under 3 minutes a tune - kinda classic AM radio kinda stuff. Really after that, they started going much more jazz with 'Katy Lied' playing down the guitars and bringing in more horns.

Yes, a lot of those songs are pre-Steely Dan or pre first album.

tired: owning Aja on vinyl
wired: owning Classic Albums: Aja on VHS pic.twitter.com/iNDiZWkxm2

— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) January 4, 2023

75!

when it's your special day pic.twitter.com/AOL6u1PGVj

— Good Steely Dan Takes (@baddantakes) January 10, 2023

top 4 Dons:

1. salt & pepper sunglasses at night Don (~2000)
2. late-era melodica and track jacket Don (~2017)
3. business casual Don (~1991)
4. adjunct professor at an undergrad party Don (~1982) pic.twitter.com/ukKqgpJ7Uq

— Jokermen (@JokermenPodcast) January 10, 2023

Back cover of Countdown Don

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3kxID00jios/YC1FkS3km_I/AAAAAAAAQAQ/en-YGWBn9GIpRZ40Hnfm040WID34wRxXgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Steely%2BDan%2B-%2BCountdown%2Bto%2BEcstasy%2B%25281973%2529%2Bfront%2Bback%2Balbum%2Bcovers.jpg

"My Old School" on American Bandstand Don:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1JxEOqSMouU/maxresdefault.jpg

Listening to Can't Buy A Thrill while I play RISK so I can feel what it's like to be Skunk Baxter

— Jonathan Weier (Contemporary Performing Artist) (@classicweier) January 14, 2023

Search for that Musicians Hall of Fame interview with Skunk Baxter off the ye' olde Youtube. That dude is a bit of a musical Forrest Gump as you get. I really dig the story in there about Segovia.

singing 🎶 they got the spy balloon from china 🎶 in a donald fagen voice

— boss crude (@bosscrood) February 3, 2023

totally

I will always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan

— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) February 6, 2023

would pay to see

the one stunt GG Allin never dared

Donald Fagen's shoes cost more than GG's guarantee.

Donald Fagen's shits cost more...

can't believe people are still complaining about this and this thread and the article it referenced are almost 20 years old at this point

it's all in the game! and so are you...

Akm, we go back

Jack

Do it again

Thread churning round and round

(googles "steely dan lyrics about poop")

just once i wanna hear donald fagen sing the word "poop"

They got a name for the winners in the world
I want a name when I poop

Poop, it will come back to you

What a beautiful world this could boop
What a glorious time to go poop

Poopy don't lost that numba

*lose

Arg

I'm never going back to my old poop

Why is he standing in your spangled leather poncho
and your elevator poops?

6:05 p.m., outside the stadium
Special delivery for Poops McCann

Winner ^

Steely Dan is trending pic.twitter.com/1pUxvsO0mR

— Sopranos Memes (@timeimmemorial_) February 6, 2023

Dirty work indeed

pic.twitter.com/Rib0R5N2UO

— People dancing to Steely Dan (@steelydance) April 3, 2020

(D)Anarchy In The UK: https://www.timeout.com/london/music/why-is-everyone-in-london-obsessed-with-steely-dan-right-now?

Rule, BritDannia

BritDannia rule the waves

Britons never never never shall lose that numba

"The Dan"

But
The Dan
Is way above shits

'My theory is that we've now reached a point in time and cultural history where anything that is of quality, or acclaimed in its time - and this goes for fashion as well - as long as you wear it or live it authentically and convincingly and cohesively, people don't look down their nose at you anymore'.

Gomori cites the popularity of a recent Pitchblack Playback session he hosted for 1996's 'Travelling Without Moving' by Jamiroquai - a band who have had their fair share of flak for being the antithesis of cool.

I was with him up to point he brought up Jamiroquai.

I was recently thinking about Jamiroquai as a band who would fit in fine with a lot of the now-celebrated 90s music—if you were too young to remember their videos or place in culture

jamiroquai rules, pretty sure a couple of my fave ILXors would agree w/me on that

In a few years, I suppose it will be Matisyahu's term to be reclaimed.