Help me identify Steely-Dan-a-like pop music please

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

"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.

Phoenix are sorta Steely Dan updated for the 00s, aren't they?

You're so foreign.

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!

I can't believe this thread has existed for so long without anyone mentioning The High Llamas.

"Howzat" by Sherbert

Super Furries had their SteelyDan side (and not just because of..)

High Llamas - Santa Barbara

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 23 May 2005 21:04 (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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the donna summer/dr buzzard/ian dury (and talking heads!) stuff is from here: http://www.granatino.com/sdresource/music1.htm

xpost and xpost: also Microdisney posted above is music by the High Llamas guy...

Sorry folks. I missed that.

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.

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.

Wasn't Rosie Vela's basically with SDan as backing band?

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.

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).

Becker's last solo album Circus Money is the best Steely Dan album of the last 30 years

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.

High Llamas are Steely Dan meets Beach Boys and Herb Alpert.

Steely Boys are Herb Dan meets Beach Llamas and High Alpert

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.

Seriously, you guys, this Mayer Hawthorne album...

The Stepkids

The Stars Are Ours is basically an Aja/Gaucho version of Reelin In The Years

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

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