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

Outside of Diana Ross, there wasn't a more famous "R&B/Soul" singer than Aretha.

And inside of Diana Ross, there simply wasn't room for any additional singers.

the nineteen-year-old in the song might also be playing dumb to humor the coked-out older gentleman she's chatting with

I mean, she was in the Blues Brothers that year!

heyy nineteen, that's john belushi

Aretha's career was in a downturn before Blues Brothers and Hey Nineteen was probably written before the movie came out.

yeah Aretha was a crossover non-entity between "Until You Come Back to Me" and "Jump to It," and even that's generous. "Freedom of Love" was the first time the hey-nineteen would've heard her.

I can't speak for the nineteenager in the Dan song. But I could sort of understand a youngster not making an instant connection between the singer of "Ain't No Way" (1968) and the singer of "Who's Zoomin' Who" (1985).

In the early 80s there were loads of young white people who didn't really have much familiarity with Motown / vintage soul / R&B prior to seeing Blues Brothers, Big Chill, and St. Elmo's Fire.

I don't know. I remember a lot of hit singles that came out when I was 12, the age the 19yo would have been in 1973 when "Until You Come Back to Me" went to #3.

I was 12 when “Hey Nineteen” came out and I still remember it

Lotta folks in this thread confusing ILM posters with normal humans w/r/t relationships to pop culture...

This thread led me to uncover an amusing anecdote.

Aretha Franklin wanted to sue Steely Dan over "Hey Nineteen" https://t.co/kOidYDvyGC pic.twitter.com/gtQXJ6BXBt

— John M. Cunningham (@jmcunning) May 20, 2021

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E28O91oXIAE8r7P?format=jpg&name=medium

i mean i know pixels but still lol

is there dog in the car?
yes there's dog in the car

i think the squirrels down the hall know who you are

Dog, we will come back to you

Or perhaps

Pet, we will come back to you

Who is the bowcho

It seems like only yesterday
I gazed through the glass

Everyone stopped to stare at your technicolor motor home

Are you sitting in the car
Stowing away the time
While I'm drinking in the bar
Fido will be fine

it a dog
it a dog, in car remain
it a dog, in car remain

I cried when I wrote this sign

Chewed-Up Sneakers

I can't bark anymore
While you run around

Everyones gone to the movies

bodacious canines, such as your friend, will never be welcome here

Something about "the man who stole your water"

Something about "die behind the wheel"

Babylon Doggies
Shake it

Avalon Doggies
Shake it

East St. Louis Poodle-Oo

Fagen / Barker

My Obedience School

Dog, we will come back to you

― portmanteaujam (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, June 3, 2021 11:00 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Or perhaps

Pet, we will come back to you

― portmanteaujam (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, June 3, 2021 11:04 AM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

pug! it will come back to me.

https://i.imgur.com/SgQ5bB7.jpg

Light another

https://www.theringer.com/music/2021/7/21/22586128/steely-dan-popular-cult-favorite-millennials

interesting, but so badly written I had to give up

lmao that piece def deserves to be in the bad music writing thread, can't believe it even includes "dancing about architecture"

tho some ppl i like are quoted in it

steely dan bootleg shirt designs have gone too far and must be abolished. it started with the dumb sonic youth mash up and now it's bonkers. no record nerd needs 9
'dan designs from etsy.

hahahahaha this thread revival prompted me to get a Steely Goo tee

green heather, i can't wait for it to arrive

i wear an authentic steely dan shirt, which has pit stains, tequila stains, and smells like 40+ years of cigarette butts

but no static at all when you remove it

My kid just came back from summer camp, and said one camper (around age 13-14) was *obsessed* with Steely Dan, and wore a different Dan t-shirt every day. And now my kid knows all the words to "Reelin in the Years" (yet somehow didn't know its title).

the article is worth reading just for the fagen quotes, imo

that rules so much, josh

I agree with Kurt that the bacon-ing/zombie-ing of the Dan has gotten a bit much.

^^Burns proposal for Deacon Blue Ribbon Bacon business.