These guys are worthy of your adoration. Incredible songwriters and they know a thing or two about how an album should sound sonically.

We 'Deely Stan'....
I had Royal Scam and Gaucho in the changer about 2weeks ago..

I love Steely Dan and swear by this LP

They (and Dan related issues) get props here periodically.
Think Fast Tour (current) - http://prince.org/msg/8/266234
Heavy Rollers Tour - http://www.prince.org/msg/8/221040
Concert Review - http://prince.org/msg/8/196088
Nightfly Trilogy - http://prince.org/msg/8/246824
Youtube Tribute - http://prince.org/msg/8/269826

I'll be seeing them here in L.A. on the 23rd.


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theAudience said:

me 2!

Aja

Katy Lied

Gaucho

Lately, I've been obsessed with "Bad Sneakers." I listen to it over and over.

bsk3601 said:

That's my daughter's name.

theAudience said:

I'll be seeing them on the 16th!!!!

I like some Steely Dan also. Stuff like "Hey Nineteen". Damn, I can't think of the others right now but they are similar to "Hey Nineteen" in their sound.

vainandy said:

Time Outta Mind reminds me of Hey Nineteen.

Rest assured, Linn, we know and we agree.

Seth Rogen aside, Steely Dan is my favorite rock band..

As a matter of fact, The Royal Scam is cranked in my car right now. Sometimes their songs tend to run together, but when you notice the subtleties in each one, they're jewels. Getting into "The Caves of Altamira" today.

Aja is their masterpiece. "Deacon Blues" is my all-time favorite, but "Peg" was my introduction to Steely Dan as a kid. Like Talking Book, it's virtually flawless from beginning to end.

And I'd like to put in a good word for some of their most recent work from Two Against Nature and Everything Must Go:

"What A Shame About Me"
"Jack Of Speed"
"Almost Gothic" (one of my favorite ballads this decade)
"Pixeleen"
"The Things I Miss The Most"

kudos, fellas,

from another victim of laughing chance,

One of my top four bands. I love Donald Fagen's solo stuff too, especially The Nightfly,

I think all their albums are great, but Aja is the best overall.

Anyone know if a new album is on the way ? I know Walter Becker has released a solo album recently, but they seem to have got the lust to record and tour again so I would hope that Everything Must Go is not their last album.

Steely Dan has got to be my favorite group of all time... I remember as a 11 year old kid going to Sam Goody's and picking up "Aja". I played it over and over again. Fagen has got to be the greatest story tellers of all time. "Do it again", is a masterpiece. All praises to Steely Dan!!

drink yo big black cow!!!
what is that song about? *hides*
and WHAT is going on, on that album cover?
I have the vinyl and would stare & stare & stare
I never understood the red & white stripes
and the face over yonder somewhere... LOL

I love "East St. Toodle Oo "
or whatever the hell the
name of that song is LOL
from Pretzel Logic
[Edited 7/11/08 18:40pm]

DirtyChris said:

Probably just another of their oddball relationship scenarios.
Maybe a few lines are based on actual occurrences but who knows.
They'll never tell, that's for sure.

East St Louis Toodle-oo...



...is a Duke Ellington tune.


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theAudience said:

wow... merci!
I thoroughly enjoyed this spin
I hummed along to every note perfectly (almost)
SD did a great version of it!

I wanna say I remember
reading Duke's name in the liner notes
for that vinyl (when I had it)
that was like the only song I played on there
[Edited 7/11/08 20:32pm]

DirtyChris said:

The album cover is supposed to represent Aja, an Asian girl who married a friend of Donald Fagen's and came over to the States to live with him. This in turn inspired Fagen to write about 'the serenity of a quiet relationship with a beautiful woman'.

Hence the Asian girl and the stars and stripes on the Aja cover.

This was revealed by Fagen on the Aja Classic Albums DVD.
[Edited 7/12/08 0:53am]

PIXELEEN

Now that's a tune!

What do you guys think of the allegedly racial[ist?] under tone of their songs? I read a post where someone had examined their songs and concluded there were some dodgy anti-black lyrics. Will try to find the link.

namepeace said:

Real music by real musicians!

I read someplace that their name " Steely Dan " was taken from an erection cream

I am not saying that is ture - I just read that someplace

I them


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[Edited 7/12/08 7:55am]

pjh1972 said:

merci beaucoup

*digs for Aja vinyl
to study album cover
once again*

I think I wanna hear
"Black Cow" and the
song that follows it
[Edited 7/12/08 8:03am]

Mach said:

It's actually the name of a dildo referred to in the William S. Burroughs book...



...Naked Lunch


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theAudience said:

Oohhhh very cool
TY so much for the info

The Dan is gonna be here in AZ I wanna go sooooo bad

Always dug Steely ever since I was a kid. Smart songwriting. Killer lyrics. "Reelin In The Years" has some of the greatest lyrics ever written. They always had great musicianship on their albums. Especially the guitar work. Great production.

Boo...all their setlists say they aren't doing "Do It Again." Favorite SD song. CBAT is the album of theirs I really love. Gotta spin Aja before the show I guess.

Either way, their live musicianship is so amazing, they could do a whole show of Liza Minnelli or Limp Bizkit or Justin Timberlake covers and it'd be worth the ticket.

It took several conversations, but I finally convinced my dad to purchase tickets for the intimate Wells Fargo Center for the Arts concert here in Santa Rosa, CA. He had to become a 'member' to get those seats, and they weren't cheap. I love SD as much (or maybe more) as he does, and I sacrificed my ticket for my stepmother. I sure hope she enjoys them even half as much as I would.

This is my third time 'missing' them live.