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

also, one thing that struck me about reading This Band Could Be Your LIfe was how the whole punk/70s rock "war" was largely bullshit anyway (at least for the bands in that book)...I mean all those kids like 70s/60s/classic rock...Ian MacKaye and Rollins worshipped Nugent, the Minutemen CCR, and Gregg Ginn (and I think one of the Sonic Youth folks too) loved The Grateful Dead.

USA Punx were into Blue Oyster Cult and y'all's know it

"Steely Dan's career started self-indulgently in the 70s, and they outdid themselves in the pretension department with each subsequent album. Do It Again, Reeling In The Years, and Rikki Don't Lose That Number may just be the reason punk was born. Twenty years later, their Two Against Nature reunion won four Grammys, including album of the year, largely because fans were stoked to hear some new Steely, and because the boys delivered an album full of the jazzy, catchy songs they were famous for. On their new Everything Must Go, they sound bored and out of ideas. Fagen hasn't much to say lyrically, and Becker has nothing engaging to play. Where are the funky rhythms and contagious solos that made Steely Dan FM radio staples? Save the $18 and head to the nearest elevator."

Also, I refuse to believe that punk "saved" us from anything other than limited high-$$$ majors-only access to the production, promotion and release of music.

FAGEN: Sometimes it frightens me when we get some weird stoned Moonie with these weird ideations about these songs, and he starts talking about taking some kind of ACTION against who knows what.

BECKER: There was a guy living in Las Vegas when our first album came out who thought - his girlfriend had left him I guess - all of the songs were stories his girlfriend had told us. He wasn't asking any questions; he just wanted his girlfriend back. And we didn't know anything about the girl. But he thought every one of those stories was about him.

FAGEN: It's your basic Arthur Bremmer syndrome. We get a lot of letters that are written in very small printing with little pictures in the corner.

MUSICIAN: Well, you're talking about the perverse fringe of "active" listeners.

BECKER: No, this is the heart and soul of our audience, I've got news for you. Those weird people on the street - every hundredth weirdest one has a Steely Dan record at home.

MUSICIAN: People that are essentially out-takes.

BECKER: Right, or just flipped-out. Like that guy who hi-jacked that bus today [a friend of theirs had been hijacked in midtown Manhattan] probably has forty-seven copies of The Royal Scam at home.

haha beautiful.

xpost: I respect the first two records and love the new one, though I know lots of folks who, like Jody, feel the opposite.

xpost Jody is SO FUCKING OTM.

Bingo.

new genre: dragtime

otherwise wtf

Ahhh wait the new Fagen is Joe Pernice! think about it. musically, maybe Sea and Cake (in some ways, they're a lot like Gaucho)

xpost no shit there's no new anything, I just thought I'd go fishing and piss you all off in the process, which I've done yay!

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Donald: Aren't they in the "slow" class?

Walter: They're in the LOW class.

Moderator: Don't you mean No Class...