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

lol

woah rare da croupier post

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

our boy is out of practice, we miss u

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

this doesn't seem to be confirmed by data

https://www.drugabuse.gov/drug-topics/trends-statistics/monitoring-future/monitoring-future-study-trends-in-prevalence-various-drugs

zoomers aren't doing enough coke

steely Dan is weed music, tho

to listen to or to perform?

nevermind, no it’s not

"Glamour Profession" is 100% a coke song

"Kid Charlemagne" is more of an acid song

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

makes tonight a wonderful thing, iirc

croup!!!

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.

The Cuervo Gold

The fine Colombian

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

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

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

*croup

posting hard will take its toll

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.

I don't believe it

he's talking about coffee

a Jute Gyte-and-The-1975 message board

lmao

the fine Columbian pour over

drugs is drugs and Becker should know

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

in 1980 Colombian meant pot, cocaine was Peru

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

I thought Bolivia was cocaine.

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

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

Man I would puke on tequila and weed.

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"

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

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

must have been a hard drinking elementary school

Which Steely Dan tune has that lyric

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

so much meta

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.

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.

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

Are you dumplin' in the years?

Tel.: 718-736-3065

"Don't lose THAT numbah!"

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

― BrianB, Thursday, July 22, 2021 1:31 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

fine has another meaning you know

Dough it Again

Get along, Kid Char Siu main

Who's got the fine bud?

Drink your big black cow and get outta here!