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

Wish they had gone into Steely Dan solo projects as well, if only to nab the mango cooler from Morph the Cat.

If you wanted to see the killer "Show-Biz Kids" Midnight Special clip in its original context:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0PLCH0TYB0

BILLY PRESTON! BO DIDDLEY! NED DOHENY!

They play My Old school at the end too

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— Jerry Koenigsmark (@jkingsmoney) May 10, 2024

fagen completely otm on both whiplash and fred armisen

z_tbd otm

May Nineteen

"white people invented jazz" LOL

I haven't seen the Armisen sketch - if it's really that bad, I'm not surprised but massively disappointed if Carrie Brownstein approved (and I imagine she probably did only because it's her show too).

My favorite takedown of Chazelle's film came from Glenn Kenny, which he saw about the same time he caught Birdman (made by another director whose work he usually didn't like):

Birdman made its positive impression on me because it swept me up in the contrivances of its world. Damien Chazelle's Whiplash did not. On leaving the screening I attended, I thought, "It's not that the movie gets jazz wrong—although it does—it’s that it gets LIFE ON THE PLANET EARTH wrong." (The aforementioned Mr. Brody has written most trenchantly on how it gets jazz wrong.) There's a lot of dynamic filmmaking on display here, most of it in the service of utter horseshit.

I haven't seen the Armisen sketch - if it's really that bad, I'm not surprised but massively disappointed if Carrie Brownstein approved (and I imagine she probably did only because it's her show too).

It's not from Portlandia, it's a bit from an Armisen stand-up show.

Whiplash is like a dream where an annoying angry bigot yells at you and the music sucks

The tempo of the song “whiplash” must be played at 330+ bpm because any slower version of it would take even longer to listen to and would cross the line into the unendurable

Make it ring, make it bleed, make it really sore

Whiplash is like a dream where an annoying angry bigot yells at you and the music sucks

That's reality, and it's the Kanye listening party

Fred Armisen's bit on jazz sucks, because Fred Armisen sucks. But it also sucks because it's just a dumber version of Paul F. Tompkins' bit, which is actually good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CxTyWquofo

May the nineteen be with you!