Steely Dan C or D?

tom

er, otm

I mean yeah it's basically Palmer. thinking of other overtly musically sentimental SD songs that are similar... Any World, Dirty Work, Deacon Blues obv...

Palmer only sings lead on two songs, and you can hear why - as Christgau noted, he "fit in like a cheerleader at a crap game." Even on those tracks - and the one Jim Hodder sings - you can hear the way Donald would have sung them. And I wouldn't call Dirty Work or Brooklyn "sentimental."

Oh I guess you qualified that as "musically sentimental," though I'm not really sure what that means.

there's a nostalgic quality to the choruses of those songs especially

Katy Lied is the best imo

Brooklyn Owes the Charmer is p sentimental - it's about how sweet his cranky old school NY neighbors are!

re: Hodder singing lead - wtf I never even knew this "Dallas" single existed

Palmer only sings lead on two songs, and you can hear why

Yeah. I mean could you imagine him on 'Showbiz Kids' or 'Everyone's Gone to the Movies'!?

I should probably reread the lyrics before arguing these points in the future. SD's lyrics are so much fun to read, too.

xxp

I've spun Dallas a few times, catchy tune

Like a Sunday in T.J.
That it's cheap but it's not free
That I'm not what I used to be
And that love's not a game for three

xpost

Palmer singing lead adds to the creepiness!

with Fagen there's never any question that he's in on the joke

That "It's cheap but it's not free" is just such a fucking brilliant line.

Collective ILX lost weekends in Tijuana bear this out as undeniable truth.

That bit on the Aja documentary during the 'Black Cow' segment where Fagen suddenly starts rapping "uptown baby, uptown baby" cracks me up every time.

Also that yes, it's absolutely great.

he seems to do that regularly, he did it in that clip of them driving around Vegas in a cab too

Babylon Sisters strikes me as sentimental and cynical but I attribute that more to the protagonist than SD.

"If john go and writes another book, why must I trudge through it? Let George do it."

With words that just won't quit!

DUD!

"Easy" by Jesse Green, from the expanded edition of Nice and Slow sounds a lot like the Dan, but i like it much better than anything Fagen and Becker put out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zjp3cpC_woQ

Seeing them in a few weeks. Looked at setlists, saw they’re doing some Walter solo songs. Excited for the show, but I know it’s going to be sad. Saw them at the same venue 3 years ago.

Damn... I had tickets so see him at a jazz festival a few weeks ago and he cancelled it citing fatigue. Granted it was halfway across the world but still. Is this current "Steely Dan" band the same as "The Nightfliers"?

running the world's best unofficial steely dan lyrics twitter account
@steelydanlyrics

i get some real interesting ats and replies

wkiw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FpOETPa458&app=desktop

Guitar nerds should know that the estate of Steely Dan’s Walter Becker is auctioning off his entire collection of instruments. Here’s a teaser from the preview. pic.twitter.com/izpkqfbZBW

— Randall FAIR CONTRACT NOW Roberts 🦅 (@LilEdit) October 14, 2019

I interviewed Becker and Fagen about 20 years ago. Becker was one of the nicest musicians I've ever encountered, contrary to his slightly sour reputation, and even told the record company woman to go away for a while when she came in to say my allotted time was up. (Fagen was polite but slightly phoning it in, and left well before Becker did.)

Lol at the guy at the top of this thread 16 years ago claiming the Dan were one of the whitest bands ever. Their music is JAZZ-rock, ffs!