I can't Stop Playing Katy Lied

hahaha

I listened to nothing else but four Steely Dan albums in my car for more than three months when my Dan fixation first kicked in.

A Steely Dan phase is to be celebrated.

why

serious answer - a lot happening, not all of it nice, and I'm not sure if I want such a great record to become associated with particular events

listen to Boys Like Girls or something then.

The Nightfly.

yeah but why ruin the nightfly? disposable pop seems the way to go.

serious answer - a lot happening, not all of it nice, and I'm not sure if I want such a great record to become associated with particular events

Silly answer on a few minutes reflection - if it's the only thing that doesn't seem dumb or shallow at the moment then I should just go with it

"EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOVIES, NOW WE'RE ALONE AT LAAAAST!!!"

creepiest album ever?

apart from that song, which yeah is pretty impressively creepy, i don't really think it's a creepy album. i find it sad more than anything, much sadder than any other SD i've heard. i guess Daddy Don't Live and Black Friday are pretty sleazy but most of the other songs just drip sadness and pain. Dr Wu, YGT2 and Any World are heartbreaking.

I think I've said this elsewhere, but I love how every note is perfect, and perfectly placed. The piano on this album . . . !

the way the album ends, the last few notes..

YES.

This album sounds so much tougher on vinyl, no joke. The drums hit way harder

so true, see you on ILV

:)

bought my tix to see the 'Dan on Tuesday night at Merriweather Post Pavilion

stoked for the magic

awww man sounds awesome, i miss MPP

Driving like a fool out to Hackensack
Drinking his dinner from a paper sack
He says I got to see a joker and I'll be right back

Still my favorite Dan album, a year or so out from my first all-consuming rush of listening to them.

I’ve only ever heard Katy Lied in digital form, and there at least it’s mixed thinner than any of the others in their original run. But it still is and will probably always be my favorite - there’s a pathos, especially on the first half, that doesn’t really have a parallel in the rest of their work. “Third World Man,” maybe. But I’ve always found Fagen’s vocal on that a little overwrought, and “Dr. Wu” and “Bad Sneakers” have juicier chord changes to boot.

Their most “New York” album

Disagree. Bery So Cal. Esp Bad Sneakers.
"I can see the ladies talking
How the times are getting hard
And that fearsome excavation
On Magnolia Boulevard"

Ok, I’ll see your one reference and raise you:

- Black Friday - references Wall st crashing
- Bad Sneakers - stomping on the Avenue (6th) by Radio City
- Daddy Don’t Live in that ...

Aja might be the second most NY album due to:
- Rudy’s
- Home at Last

And Pretzel Logic has :
- the cover photo in front of Central Park
- 52nd street’s the junction

What else ...

Royal Scam:
- cover references the Chrysler building

Can’t Buy:
- Brooklyn...

Plenty more here!

http://steelydandictionary.com/

Aja might be the second most NYLA album due to:

-Peg
-dude ranch above the sea

Or you know...could be both.

I Can't Stop Reading The Title of "Katy Lied" In German

so is “chain lightning” about nazi Germany? or walt and don smokin a doob reflection on their success?

haha it's definitely about a Hitler youth rally

The first verse is about a rally, the second about returning to the same place years later. This was the least voted-for song on their first seven albums in the ILX Steely Dan poll, I believe.

WB: No one will ever come close to “Chain Lightning.” No one will ever touch “Chain Lightning.”

DF: Even the clue wouldn’t have helped. I’ll tell you what the clue was. In the guitar break just before the second verse I was going to say “40 years later,” but we decided it wasn’t a good musical idea.

And then, several years later, Mr. Fagen finally admitted that "Chain Lightning" in their minds described a 'visit by two guys to a fascist rally.' Given Fagen's supposed fascination with Hitler, it came as no surprise, and they had talked flippantly several times about composing a song about his beer-hall putsch in Munich in November of 1923.

So as you listen to the picture unfold, you can see the two characters exulting in a huge turnout at a rally ("a hundred grand"), trying to keep their cool as they approach their hero, and in their blind zeal admonishing each other not to "bother to understand" or to "question the little man," who could certainly be Hitler or any of a number of short famous fascists. "Be part of the brotherhood" could refer to Hitler's Aryan Brotherhood. After the guitar break, the pair have returned to the site of their erstwhile glory, to stand "just where he stood," in a later era when fascists are no longer in their heyday. This time they have to be careful not to draw attention to themselves. What's even better about these lyrics, despite the hints that Messrs. Fagen and Becker eventually gave, is their timelessness and the associations listeners derive. They take a sharp dig at any political movement which strives to turn its followers into sheep.