or play some hip hop that's sampled the dan:
Royal Scam: (ABC 1975)* "Green Earring" Zimbabwe Legit - "Legitimate Mix" Ice Cube - "Don't Trust 'Em" Organized Konfusion - "Walk into the Sun"* "The Fez" All Saints - "I Know Where it's At" Brothers Like Outlaw - "Trapped into Darkness"
Countdown to Ecstasy: (MCA 1973)* "Showbiz Kids" Super Furry Animals - "The Man Don't Give a Fuck"
Aja: (MCA 1977)* "Peg" De la Soul - "Eye Know" Goldie - "In the Land of Funk"* "Black Cow" MF Doom - "Gas Drawlz" Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz - "Deja Vu" Porn Theatre Ushers - "Me & Him" Tatyana Ali - "Daydreamin'"* "Home at Last" Big Shug - "Stripped and Pistol Whipped"
FM soundtrack: (MCA 1978)* "FM" 3rd Bass - "No Static at All" 3rd Bass - "Peg" De la Soul - "Eye Know"
― [that bastard] jaxon (jaxon), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 01:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― mikef (mfleming), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:15 (eighteen years ago) link
All over this stuff like now. More recs welcome. The Nightfly is so great!
― rrrobyn van pursuit (admrl), Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
There is some group that I heard five years or so ago. 21st century band, ~~maybe~~ from Chicago, with a one-word name like "Keys" or "Soup" or "Chords" or something really dumb and hard to search for.
They had that Dan sound to a tee and sounded pretty good out on the front porch. Have not been able to hear them since.
― pplains, Thursday, 16 February 2012 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
Who are they?
― used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue (admrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:49 (twelve years ago) link
Huh. If they were from Chicago, you'd think I'd know who it was.
Baby Teeth?
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
You WOULD think
― used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue (admrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
Right?
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
yes
Baby Soup?
― used to have a crush on Dawn from En Vogue (admrl), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:54 (twelve years ago) link
Prefab Sprout a little bit...weren't there other British sophistipop bands that were sort of Dan-esque?
― Iago Galdston, Friday, 24 February 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
JD Souther- Black Rose
― President Keyes, Friday, 24 February 2012 02:07 (twelve years ago) link
More in the Gaucho zone:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlMpULQQmKA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bxe17439IQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqIvnXI7fbY
(Two of the guys in the second clip formed Mr. Mister.)
(Third clip not really in the Gaucho zone, but wouldn't sound out of place before or after "Time Out of Mind" or whatever.)
― Andy K, Friday, 24 February 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
the brecker brothers - more like a funkified, fusionesque dan w/ plenty of horn vamps but really in the SD zone compositionally-wise
― cock chirea, Friday, 24 February 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
These are the guys who win best jazz solo at the Grammys every year?
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 02:54 (twelve years ago) link
china crisis are prob the more dan-esque of the bunch. 3rd record produced by WB, btw
― cock chirea, Friday, 24 February 2012 03:01 (twelve years ago) link
1st china crisis album is splendid mellow guitar pop but not v. Steely Dan-ish.
― lost dion/tomita collab (blank), Friday, 24 February 2012 05:38 (twelve years ago) link
(imo)
I'm just saying "highly recommended"
man i loved this album when i was 19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hte1dIz8Ox0
― buzza, Friday, 24 February 2012 06:19 (twelve years ago) link
Karate was who I was thinking of. They're from the Windy City of Boston.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opDlJZ5kfXk
Like if someone's favorite album was Double Nickels on the Dime, and their favorite song from that record was "Dr. Wu".
― pplains, Friday, 24 February 2012 14:38 (twelve years ago) link
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:54 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Also the guys who win best everything at music & life every year, bitch.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
For your consideration:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-s-5FUfFFrk
― everything, Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
Nice. Drums are too British tho.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:19 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, nobody mentioned this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnbbG4Pd-0U
― dlp9001, Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:20 (twelve years ago) link
Spymob are the closest thing to a contemporary rock band that gives me a Steely Dan vibe
― DNRIYHM NATION 1814 (some dude), Saturday, 25 February 2012 02:25 (twelve years ago) link
i see a big, big bob dylan influence in steely dan's music and sense of humor, so to me, whoever would be dan-ish would also have to be a little dylan-ish. who has that throughline? i hear the fugs in steely dan as much as i hear, say, some hot new whippersnapper with a lot of chords.
― rayanne graff generator (get bent), Saturday, 25 February 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
like, lcd soundsystem didn't sound anything like steely dan, but james murphy is a spiritual heir to the dan throne: dry sense of humor, jersey roots (like fagan), a consummate studio rat, great talent for writing melodies.
― rayanne graff generator (get bent), Saturday, 25 February 2012 03:41 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't actually heard this album, but felt it most likely belongs on here:
http://www.theawl.com/2012/03/ian-mcshane-made-an-album-in-1992-would-you-want-to-listen-to-it
― Moodles, Monday, 5 March 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
"Having the seductive Michael McDonaldisms of From Both Sides Now wash over you instead is an experience not unlike discovering Duke Silver and his extensive following of saucy moms. "
I finally got the China Crisis album last week.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 5 March 2012 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
Phoenix are sorta Steely Dan updated for the 00s, aren't they?
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 12:22 (twelve years ago) link
You're so foreign.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 12:50 (twelve years ago) link
ecker and/or Fagen = fans of Ian Dury, Donna Summer's "Turn Out the Lights" and (if I'm remembering correctly) Dr. Buzzard.
where is this coming from? the Dan-Dury-Summer-Buzzard connection needs to be scientifically proven once and for all. damn it, that's Mount Popmore right there!
― gospodin simmel, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
I can't believe this thread has existed for so long without anyone mentioning The High Llamas.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:23 (twelve years ago) link
"Howzat" by Sherbert
Super Furries had their SteelyDan side (and not just because of..)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
High Llamas - Santa Barbara
― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:04 (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
xp
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
the donna summer/dr buzzard/ian dury (and talking heads!) stuff is from here: http://www.granatino.com/sdresource/music1.htm
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
xpost and xpost: also Microdisney posted above is music by the High Llamas guy...
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry folks. I missed that.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbCmMaqG8_Q
Chris Rea doesn't get a lot of love, but there's a couple of his songs that totally nail it.
― Feebs K-Tel (NickB), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
Walter Becker also produced albums for Rosie Vela and Fra Lillo Lippi in the mid 80s, although I am a bit unsure if they really sounded much like Steely Dan. Same about the Gary Katz-produced debut album by Love and Money. All three had the same picture perfect sound and playing, but not quite the same level of musicianship in the songwriting and harmonies.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
Wasn't Rosie Vela's basically with SDan as backing band?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
I think so. They've been working together a lot after disbanding Steely Dan, so no wonder they regrouped for two new Dan albums around 10 years ago.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:06 (twelve years ago) link
I reckon, btw, that Fagen's solo albums have sounded more Dan-like than Becker's and the one that as not produced by Becker as probably the most Dan-sounding of all (probably should have worked more with Gary Katz).
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:08 (twelve years ago) link
Becker's last solo album Circus Money is the best Steely Dan album of the last 30 years
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
Following up on the High Llamas comment, I think "Checking In, Checking Out" from Gideon Gaye is by far their most Steely Dan-like song. It sounds like a long lost track from Pretzel Logic.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
High Llamas are Steely Dan meets Beach Boys and Herb Alpert.
― Hongroe (Geir Hongro), Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
Steely Boys are Herb Dan meets Beach Llamas and High Alpert
― jabba hands, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
There is something about The High Llamas which keeps drawing me back to them. They still make good albums. Never quite as good as Gideon Gaye, but certainly never bad albums. I will probably love all their albums when I really am on old git.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Wednesday, 7 March 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously, you guys, this Mayer Hawthorne album...
― jaymc, Friday, 20 December 2013 14:26 (ten years ago) link
The Stepkids
― signed, J.P. Morgan CEO (Hurting 2), Friday, 20 December 2013 14:59 (ten years ago) link
The Stars Are Ours is basically an Aja/Gaucho version of Reelin In The Years
― Master of Treacle, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:30 (ten years ago) link
I've said it before but some Tokyo Jihen have a somewhat Steely Dannish sound. They are generally in Japanese though, so you if you are looking for lyrical similarity, that could be a problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDzzW6sH1qI
Noudouteki Sanpunkan
Konya wa Karasawagi
― _Rudipherous_, Friday, 20 December 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link