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

Here, play with this shiny silver Nokia while I chat with somebody else..

"I know you've held silly suspicions, if just for a moment, that your ponytail was perhaps pulling back your hairline."

http://www.colum.edu/specialevents/cnfw/images/Brent_dicrescenzo_smt.jpg

haaaaaaaaaaaa

http://kidsaquariumsquotes.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/1-blobfish.jpg

^^^^ visual illustration for "Third World Man."

it's hilarious that that entire review is derived from him being just outraged that members of the Dismemberment Plan and Braid were into Steely Dan

haha waht is that just hypothesizing or some real inside dirt

Minutemen were also into Steely Dan iirc

haha waht is that just hypothesizing or some real inside dirt

― in my world of loose geirs (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, April 12, 2011 5:30 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

neither, Brent was just a big stan for the Dismemberment Plan and shortly before this review there was a post on their site about their shared enthusiasm for Steely Dan w/ some other bands, which i assume was the source of the "hip musical crush" thing.

Brent's love for Dismemberment Plan is itself a Hit Musical Crush.

http://twitter.com/DonaldFagen/status/56209367455891457

John Kyl lost his virginity to "11 Tracks of Whack"- last year.
High five, Senator! #notintendedtobeafactualstatement
6:58 AM Apr 13th via web

The Rudy's Bar and Grill website actually plays Black Cow:

http://www.rudysbarnyc.com/home.html

I think that's kind of funny

Found the quote this thread title always reminds me of:

Mark E. Smith (speaking to Luke Haines): "Your music's alright, but it's a bit Steely Dan. We fought wars to get rid of that stuff."

man people on ilm love to quote that dickhead

hahaha

good times

man people on ilm love to quote that dickhead

now that's what I call top-shelf bubble-bursting right there

XD

Hurting that is a great find. I will be paying Rudy's a visit soon.

Rudy's is a great bar. Free hot dogs!

I'm coming from a Microdisney direction, but am really happy w/the Steely Dan-isms of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWMauvNnI5s

Lately I'm really wanting more smart-pop-sheen stuff w/cynical et morbid lyrics...

the cheapest seats at tonight's steely dan show are $175?!

yeah, steely dan were always some anti-consumerist, diy, punks who ... oh wait a minute.

sadly that price is probably standard for a lot of big boomer-y acts?

Going to see them next week for $33. It's lawn seating at an amphitheater, though.

did the cheaper seats already sell out and only $175 ones remain? cheapest nyc tickets were around $75 with fees. which is a lot but not as crazy as $175!

oh, this is stubhub, so these are resale requests rather than official prices. still surprised that there's that kind of demand tho

i had lawn seats for the Dan's show on Tuesday -- my wife bought tickets for me as an anniversary gift, but the tickets say they were $35 dollars (well worth it, awesome show)

i enjoyed yr review, hopefully going to go see them at the mn state fair this year

Saw them last weekend at the MGM Grand at Foxwoods. Seats were $55, but we were pretty far back. Good show, tight horn section, but frankly don’t see the point in seeing them live again unless I’m down front. Pretty much sounded like carbon copies of the recordings. And Walter Becker’s soliloquies were pretty annoying.

The quickly established and towering consensus seen on this thread made me incredibly happy to read. My girlfriend got us tickets for my birthday to see Gaucho ("and other hits") performed in its entirety in a few weeks... I can't wait.

And Walter Becker’s soliloquies were pretty annoying.

I love these guys live but this is otm

To be fair most of the audience seemed to love his monologues (there was a long one during "Hey Nineteen"), but I found them fairly tedious.

what does he blather about? Fagan has always seemed like the more interesting one to me

When I saw them, Fagan hardly spoke, but Becker did give a long monologue - I think it was also during "Hey Nineteen" so maybe they had planned for that in the rehearsals. I can't remember what he talked about, but I remember it being somewhat droll and not that annoying.

he did a pervy monologue about wining, dining, and sexing your lady during "hey nineteen" when I saw them. it was pretty weird but not that big a deal.

but he also sang lead on "gaucho" which really did not sit well with me. one of my faves!

curious that you find him to be the more interesting of the two, shakey. care to expand on that? strictly as a personality? because on, say, the musical merits of their respective solo albums, I don't think it's even close!

Yes, that's the same story I heard. Definitely pre-written and rehearsed. I just didn't find it that amusing, but I rarely ever find long monologues interesting during concerts.

So reading through this I noticed I still hadn't come around to the Dan in 2004...not sure when it happened, probably a few years after that. Wondering how many other people arguing against them upthread have had similar changes of heart.

http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1007

Sick, sick San Diego '74 show. I only know two 1974 boots--Record Plant and Rainbow Theatre--this isn't necessarily the best of the three but it's great to hear a crowd so into it and it's got alot of energy!

yeah, i dig this one because it sounds like more of a rowdy bar scene.

Why so few threads on Steely Dan?

because they are terrible

damn these dudes are incredible

terriBLY GOOD!

http://thriftyvinyl.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/dsc04287.jpg

The best...

god look at Becker's waist

he's actually 3 ft closer to the camera than fagen

two steps closer to our hearts

try this weird old tip for a flat belly