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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DUMPLINGS!!!

― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, July 21, 2021 3:58 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 05:35 (two years ago) link

nothing wrong with gargling balls either

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 05:35 (two years ago) link

the more neckbeard sector has co-opted both black metal and DJ Screw to the point where they're post about unironically enjoying dudes with names like Lil Sad Fam that we would have written off as minstrel shows or w/e

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/weve-only-begun-to-understand-xxxtentacions-musical-legacy-665891/

da croupier, Thursday, 22 July 2021 06:52 (two years ago) link

So close!

bruce spr!ngisH3r3 on broadway (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 July 2021 07:35 (two years ago) link

Can I just say how pleased I am that I never weighed into this thread?

Alex in NYC, Thursday, 22 July 2021 15:59 (two years ago) link

lol

Two Severins Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 22 July 2021 16:02 (two years ago) link

woah rare da croupier post

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 July 2021 16:46 (two years ago) link

Coming out of the woodwork to swing-and-miss at a zing

our boy is out of practice, we miss u

bruce spr!ngisH3r3 on broadway (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 July 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link

millennials are doing lots of coke tho

― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, July 21, 2021 6:40 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

What about zoomers?

― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, July 21, 2021 6:42 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

my anecdotal experience tells me: yes, them too

intern at pelican brief consulting (Simon H.), Thursday, 22 July 2021 17:16 (two years ago) link

zoomers aren't doing enough coke

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link

steely Dan is weed music, tho

brimstead, Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:21 (two years ago) link

to listen to or to perform?

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link

nevermind, no it’s not

brimstead, Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:22 (two years ago) link

"Glamour Profession" is 100% a coke song

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link

"Kid Charlemagne" is more of an acid song

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:23 (two years ago) link

cheering for the increase in psychedelics and weed, booing for for the opiates

Linda and Jodie Rocco (map), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:28 (two years ago) link

makes tonight a wonderful thing, iirc

bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:29 (two years ago) link

croup!!!

I honk along darkened Bobo-doors (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:34 (two years ago) link

It was indulgent to acknowledge - Whiney’s “I saw a hipster in the mirror, so I punched it!!” pathology is old hat, as is the deflection when it’s called out - but this post was brought to my attention and I was tickled how it related to the last article brought to my attention.

da croupier, Thursday, 22 July 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link

The Cuervo Gold

The fine Colombian

trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:11 (two years ago) link

I believe it was on this forum where I learned that “Colombian” would have meant weed not coke in 1980

brimstead, Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:18 (two years ago) link

glamour profession definitely a coke song yeah, the special delivery, “living hard will takes its toll” etc

brimstead, Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:20 (two years ago) link

xxpost 2 coup

No D-40, but A) XXX and his milieu have nothing to do with what I was talking about & probably actually serves as the best case *against* millennial vibe culture and B) I clearly replaced hipster schtick with cross-generational lulz, get on my level and C) Glad to know there's someone in your life so concerned with my posting on a Jute Gyte-and-The-1975 message board that they're bringing them to your attention

bruce spr!ngisH3r3 on broadway (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link

*croup

bruce spr!ngisH3r3 on broadway (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:26 (two years ago) link

posting hard will take its toll

bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link

I believe it was on this forum where I learned that “Colombian” would have meant weed not coke in 1980

― brimstead, Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:18 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is one of those things my brain won't accept even though it checks out. But I guess the vibe of the song is more weed than coke anyway.

longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link

I don't believe it

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link

he's talking about coffee

bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link

a Jute Gyte-and-The-1975 message board

lmao

STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:48 (two years ago) link

the fine Columbian pour over

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 22 July 2021 19:49 (two years ago) link

drugs is drugs and Becker should know

calstars, Thursday, 22 July 2021 20:08 (two years ago) link

fine = powder. If the lyrics were "dried columbian" maybe I'd buy that they were talking about grass.

BrianB, Thursday, 22 July 2021 20:31 (two years ago) link

in 1980 Colombian meant pot, cocaine was Peru

mark e. smith-moon (f. hazel), Thursday, 22 July 2021 20:35 (two years ago) link

seems like cocaine was often grown in Peru and then processed in Columbia in the late 70s/early 80s

Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Thursday, 22 July 2021 20:43 (two years ago) link

I thought Bolivia was cocaine.

But definitely weed in 1980. "Colombian" was practically synonymous with good weed.

nickn, Thursday, 22 July 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link

i don't know about the slang back then
but i feel like in the context of a skeevy guy trying to seduce a young woman the story, that weed makes more sense, trying to create a relaxing hey let your guard down mellow out type of vibe

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:21 (two years ago) link

Man I would puke on tequila and weed.

pplains, Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:30 (two years ago) link

lord knows i have

i haven't read that article about why the kids like steely dan, but i believe it can be summed up as "you learn to love steely dan after you barf and return to the party and continue drinking"

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link

i know what the kids do. they're barfing out there

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:41 (two years ago) link

when I was 12 I would listen to “bodhisattva” and “my old school” back to back as soon as I got home from school, I was not very cool

brimstead, Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:53 (two years ago) link

must have been a hard drinking elementary school

Z_TBD (Karl Malone), Thursday, 22 July 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link

Which Steely Dan tune has that lyric

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 22 July 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link

*teenager looking at ilx in the late 70s/early 80s & reading the posts about what columbia is* damn these guys are cool as hell...

xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 22 July 2021 23:34 (two years ago) link

so much meta

brimstead, Thursday, 22 July 2021 23:56 (two years ago) link

I believe it was on this forum where I learned that “Colombian” would have meant weed not coke in 1980

― brimstead, Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:18 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I can't wait to use this newfound nugget of trivia, but unfortunately I don't go to any millennial/zoomer parties.

enochroot, Friday, 23 July 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link

Yeah, Columbian = weed, not coke, at least then.

Also, not seeing Cuervo and coke as a "wonderful thing" - not saying it might not be a rocket ship to a good time, but wouldn't describe it as wonderful.

Carlos Santana & Mahavishnu Rob Thomas (PBKR), Friday, 23 July 2021 02:55 (two years ago) link

https://i.imgur.com/r5LyEPv.jpg

calstars, Tuesday, 3 August 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link

Are you dumplin' in the years?

trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 21:43 (two years ago) link

Tel.: 718-736-3065

"Don't lose THAT numbah!"

trial by wombat (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 3 August 2021 21:45 (two years ago) link


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