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

...and died so our generation could listen to something better. Okay, so they died of overdoses and car crashes. They still had soul. Keep up the good fight. Put down this sports-utility vehicle of a record. As with the urban yuppie driver, the four-wheel drive is never activated.

Rashida Jones stars in the new film Celeste and Jesse Forever. She's also the daughter of superstar music producer Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton. Jones says her father is a "record collection all unto himself," but she had something else in mind when NPR's Audie Cornish asked her about the song she most remembers from when she was growing up.

"My mom, I remember as a kid, came home with Steely Dan, and "Hey Nineteen" was her favorite song," Jones says. "We had a lot of jazz growing up, and soul, R&B, classical ... ['Hey Nineteen'] was the first time I had heard something that was like this '70s bluesy rock, that was really lyrical.

"It kind of opened me up to being a music nerd," Jones says. "Those guys are music nerds, and that's what's so great about them. They like complex rhythms, and they're interested in the mathematics of music."

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New Donald Fagen solo album due in October!!!

Donald Fagen's fourth solo album for Reprise Records, Sunken Condos, will be released on Tuesday, October 16 2012. His first three solo albums, The Nightfly, Kamakiriad and Morph the Cat comprised the project known as the Nightfly Trilogy. Sunken Condos begins a new chapter in the creative evolution of this innovative artist, whose career is still going strong after forty years.

The nine tracks on Sunken Condos were co-produced by Michael Leonhart and Donald. All but one track, an Ashkenazi recasting of Isaac Hayes' Out of the Ghetto, are new Fagen originals. Some familiar names from the Steely Dan family of players are on hand (Jon Herington, the Steely Dan horns, Freddie Washington) plus some new faces. The word is that, from now on, everything Donald does has got to be funky.

hmmm - tbh Morph was such a bore that i'll approach this very tentatively

i was just listening to Kamakiriad the other day, good album

Morph may have had the best bass of any album I've ever heard.

hmmm - tbh Morph was such a bore that i'll approach this very tentatively

― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, August 24, 2012

I agree but I'm still curious.

yeah i love to hear what these crusty old geniuses can do in their later years. Becker's last album was great imo.

Yeah I love that Becker album. "Darkling Down"!

Fagen describes on his website as "an Ashkenazi recasting of Isaac Hayes' Out Of The Ghetto".

klezmer?

Morph is funny because I have once or twice felt like I could get into it but for the most part it just lacked the bite & zip. High hopes for this - the other two Fagen solo albums are A+ imo

i love morph the cat! not that i could tell you why or anything about the songs, really. just enjoy the floating, drifting nature of it, plus it just sounds pretty as hell.

anyway looking forward to this, love the title, feels like an abstract of the greater fagen/becker lyrical project

also:

https://twitter.com/CrankyFagan/status/239062716680130563

The Nightfly is one of the few albums I look forward to hearing again when it stops playing.

love the Putney Swope reference at the end of that press release!

Fagen's actual twitter acct got hacked a month or so ago, I started getting 'this woman made 7K/month working from home!' tweets from it

Isn't Putney "Got to have soul" not "got to be funky"?

"got to be funky" is a Lee Dorsey reference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e8t908XhVI

objectively the best

oh yeah, right. The Bormann girl is got to have soul. My bad.

xxpost not a JB/"Make It Funky" reference?

Make it Funky is post-Lee Dorsey. also the full lyric in the dorsey song is "every single thing I do gonh be funky FROM NOW ON" which matches up to Fagen's "from now on, everything Donald does has got to be funky"

c'mon guys

listening to morph the cat right now and this is a goddamn chorus:

Its kind of like an arctic mindbath
Cool and sweet and slightly rough
Liquid light on New York City
Like Christmas without the chintzy stuff

I just couldn't penetrate the carapace of the expert Luv 94 love jazz, and Fagen himself doesn't do much to make those (good) lyrics signify.

i liked morph well enough.

Get off the stage, son
Unless you're ready for a kickfight!

'H Gang' was huge for me when it came out. Always look forward to new Donald music.

@steelydanlyrics is over 400 followers on twitter

When Black Friday comes
I'm gonna stake my claim
I'll guess I'll change my name

I didn't even know he'd made an album after Kamakiriad. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

I think Bourdain and Marc Maron talked shit about the Dan on WTF. i almost had to stop listening to that podcast

i like both these dudes but every time either one talks about music i'm all *sigh*

I added Kamakiriad and Morph the Cat to my spotify list. Don't think I've heard Kamakiriad since it came out, but I recall liking it well enough. Haven't ever heard Morph the Cat.

How are the two post-reunion Steely Dan studio albums?

I'm not at all fan of TAN but fellow skeptics were persuaded by EMG.

last 2 albums are not great but "Jack of Speed" and "Pixeleen" are in my personal pantheon of classic SD tracks

feels silly to get hyped about a tribute band, especially since i saw the real thing live last year, but apparently one of the guys from Crack The Sky has a 10-piece SD cover band called Technicolor Motor Home that plays around Baltimore, kinda really wanna check them out

I just got EMG. It's good! Looser than TAN. Those two are keepers, as are "Slang of Ages," the title track, and "Godwhacker."

"GodWhacker" was fun at the show i saw last summer

https://twitter.com/iamrashidajones/status/242784475107454977/photo/1

Rob lowe's version would be "hey fifteen"

hey-ooooo

too soon?

http://www.dostandupcomedy.com/images/male.jpg?1287959172

too soon?

― omar little, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 8:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

if there's grass on the field

new song is awesome

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/song-premiere-donald-fagen-im-not-the-same-without-you-20120917

ha – I just revived a Fagen thread

good plan, i was just trying to remember where we were discussing morph the cat recently

Day Glow Freaks is a collection of 12 original songs created entirely from the sampled works of Steely Dan. This homage, built from hundreds of samples of the band’s 82 studio tracks, is the result of a yearlong personal endeavor and is an expression of gratitude for a career of captivating music.

In May 2012, two additional songs from the Day Glow Freaks sessions were shared. The pair, called Low Rent Friends, can be download for free here.

http://www.gabeisthedevil.com/

this is pretty awful.