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

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yeah "King Of The World" might be my favorite SD song of all time, if the next band I play in does any covers that will be one of them. I never really thought of it as being overlooked, since it's on Gold, but I guess it was never actually a single.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

all signs point to me seeing them twice this tour. Once in town and once in NY for a bachelor party.

me = thrilled

― will, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I never really thought of it as being overlooked, since it's on Gold, but I guess it was never actually a single.

Oh, I never had that one.

I had this one on cassette for the car:
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000005RVM.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

That's more weird-ass cover art. I have no idea what they are going for there. Kinda like Close Encounters in Sedona or something?

― William Selman, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I bought Steely Dan's Greatest Hits for $4.99 at a local drug store that had a small LP rack. I opened it up, and the discs were translucent yellow. Quite a conversation piece.

― Barringer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Ian Dury otm

"Jazz is a dangerous, double-edged thing. You mustn't do too much of it."

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

This is how the choir bounces off ma corpse "I'm a fool to do your durty wurk" and the reverberations dampen until soft melty flesh sucks it up.

I;m a fool to do your dirty work

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

three weeks pass...

Epilogue found on P'fork:

New Music: Blitzen Trapper : "Cool Love #1" [MP3]

Though its title suggests otherwise, "Cool Love #1" is actually not a long-lost Fagen/Becker 70s basement jam (sorry, Ilx!) but yup, a garage-pop track out of Portland

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Steely Dan saved my life this year.

― David R., Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

who the f is jessica suarez

― rps, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Why does the "title suggest otherwise"?

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

wellsteely dan was pretty cool

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

urgh, should've been "well, "

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

is cool, forever and always

― félix pié, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

i love this band, now and forever

― get bent, Thursday, 19 April 2007 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

playing aja just now

so smooth

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:00 (nineteen years ago)

pitchfork writers be from barrytown

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

I just got Steely Dan's first two albums. They're both embarrassing lite-jazz bullshit.

― jposnan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:06 (nineteen years ago)

The FIRST album?

― David R., Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, does nu-ILX not allow long thread titles? What's gonna happen to Sc0tt Sew4rd?

― aaron d.g., Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:55 (nineteen years ago)

Not too much jazz on the first album, is there?

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 07:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nor the second! Is "Bodhisattva" lite-jazz now?

― Beep, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:24 (nineteen years ago)

No, but jposnan be trolling.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:39 (nineteen years ago)

The second is maybe slightly more jazzy towards the end, but I'd stay they became considerably jazzier later.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

casual pitchfork readers be all wtf

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:58 (nineteen years ago)

Finally got "Royal Scam" - it's quickly becoming one of my favorite Dan albums.

― o. nate, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

pitchfork writers be from barrytown

Heh. Barrytown is four shacks and a no-longer-active train depot. No one is from Barrytown.

― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I just got Steely Dan's first two albums. They're both embarrassing lite-jazz bullshit.

-- jposnan

stfu

― félix pié, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Heh. Barrytown is four shacks and a no-longer-active train depot. No one is from Barrytown.

-- Bill in Chicago, Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:10 AM (1 hour ago)

huh! i didn't even know barrytown was a real place? where is it? is that the barrytown he's talking about...anyway i love that song and was never super sure about all the meaning of the lyrics...

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

barrytown is about a hippie dood i think.

― chaki, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

i thought it was the irish one

― thomp, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

i read some interview where they said "barrytown" was kinda their attempt to write a dylan song, i think it's trashing some mr jones-esque square?

― ghost rider, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Barrytown is in New York, it's home to the Unification Church's seminary. I think they wrote it about the townies around Bard College but I can't find a link.

― Brent, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

i love barrytown so fucking much

― and what, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

Brent is correct about Barrytown

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

dont forget Steely Dan was named after a dildo

― CaptainLorax, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone else think that david palmer was a great rock singer in the vein of steve winwood? obviously no one sings the dan material with the panache that fagen does, but palmer's style works well with that early dan stuff. (it wouldn't work at all on anything past the first album, so i'm glad don & walt tossed him overboard.)

― get bent, Friday, 20 April 2007 04:36 (nineteen years ago)

While Palmer wasn't hip, that definitely doesn't mean he was a bad vocalist. I don't quite see him as a contender to Winwood though. Maybe closer to early Peter Cetera or something?

― kingkongvsgodzilla, Friday, 20 April 2007 04:58 (nineteen years ago)

problem with palmer is yeah sure the songs he did the vox for were dope, but with fagen they'd have been even better.

― félix pié, Friday, 20 April 2007 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, for a glimpse of that, you can check out that L.A 1974 bootleg where Palmer, for some reason, sings a couple of 'Pretzel Logic' songs.

― baaderonixx, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:06 (nineteen years ago)

i have ONE SONG from some 74 show (not the record plant one i have that whole thing) and its any major dood with palmer and its absolutely heartbreaking. ill ysi.

― chaki, Friday, 20 April 2007 08:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Barrytown is one of the three villages next to Bard College. The other two being Red Hook and Tivoli. Barrytown though, isn't where the "townies" live--we never referred to them as such certainly--but rather students and former students (read: hippies) who never really went away. If there was a Steely Dan song about "townies," it would have been called "Red Hook." However, I hear that now "Red Hook" is fully of middle-aged people who split NYC in the early '00s.

End of nostalgia reverie...

― Bill in Chicago, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I just got Steely Dan's first two albums. They're both embarrassing lite-jazz bullshit.

-- jposnan, Thursday, April 19, 2007 12:06 AM (Yesterday)

Normally I avoid saying this, but you don't get it dude.

― Hurting 2, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I wish "Brooklyn Holds The Charmer" was sung by Fagen. (I also wish "New Age" was sung by Lou.)

― David R., Friday, 20 April 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Also: I've had Two Agaisnt Nature for over 4 months, but haven't listened to it yet.

― David R., Friday, 20 April 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I like the Palmer stuff on the first album fine, but he's kind of to SD as the guy who sang "Tempted" is to Squeeze

― Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 20 April 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ah, Pretzel Logic. Sooooo good.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 9 May 2007 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

I realized that part of what's so great about Steely Dan lyrics is that I can live a wild lifestyle vicariously through them AND feel deeply melancholy about it.

― Hurting 2, Tuesday, 12 June 2007 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

I left my copy of Gaucho at home :(

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Monday, 18 June 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I know by Gaucho they were sick of doing their thing, but it's kind of amazing that they kept *their thing* up as long as they did - I mean I think it would be a huge energy drain to put so much musical effort into making such sophisticated cynical jokes.

― Hurting 2, Monday, 18 June 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

hehe, I'm trying to get my non-music fan mate into this band. he generally likes slightly naff jazz-funk so i thought i'd play him some. "You thought I'd like THIS?" he asked when I played him it. By the time we'd got to Deacon Blues though I think he'd converted slightly.

― the next grozart, Monday, 18 June 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

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