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My copy of Katy Lied is currently MIA

I would then have taken it to the store, complaining that you have gotten a MIA CD rather than a Steely Dan one.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:21 (seventeen years ago) link

geir's soh goes missing in action

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:24 (seventeen years ago) link

"here at the western world" is really fantastic. was it recorded during the aja sessions? why was it left off? what's the story?

i also listened to "any major dude" three times last night.

― derrick (derrick), Friday, 27 October 2006 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

four months pass...

Sweet baby jesus - Steely Dan is touring Europe this summer!!!!!!!!

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:10 (seventeen years ago) link

half the title has been sliced off, poor brent dicrescenzo ;_;

― unfished business, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 15:11 (seventeen years ago) link

louis, if you don't own the first 7 dan albums by now drink your big black cow and get outta here

― marmotwolof, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to figure out whether I'm willing to travel all the way to either Philly or VA to see Steely Dan on tour in a couple months. How's their live show these days, what's the setlist selection like?

― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The Dissection of Deacon Blues

― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

"Western World" was cut during the Royal Scam sessions. Not enough room on the LP, I guess. It first came out on Greatest Hits in 1978.

― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, that making of "Aja" video is totally worth checking out, esp. the scene where they show the different tracks were mixed. Genius at work.

I love all their 70s output. Listening to the radio in the 80s, their music was the godsend on the classic rock radio station I had to listen to on the way to high school. I admit that I've always really liked "Countdown to Ecstasy" the best despite the freaky 70s watercolor cover art--almost as creepy weird as "Irrlicht" by Klaus Schulze. "King of the World" and "Your Gold Teeth" are fantastic songs that never get much love. The former sounds like their weird stab at prog gone right; it fails at that because Fagen lacks the inner douchebag required to perform Rick Wakeman-esque solos on an Arp.

― William Selman, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I need to decide whether to shell out upwards of 30 quid for a ticket :(

― Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I'm at a stage where I'd shell out anything to go see them. The only problem is that I'd probably have to go see them on my own and that doesn't sound like much fun.

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 21 March 2007 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link

This is my other prob. Anybody else want to see them in the UK?

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 22 March 2007 10:46 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't have that much of a problem seeing indie or electronic acts on my own, but somehow the mature smoothness of SD seems to beg for company.

― baaderonixx, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:30 (seventeen years ago) link

The former sounds like their weird stab at prog gone right; it fails at that because Fagen lacks the inner douchebag required to perform Rick Wakeman-esque solos on an Arp.

no follow-up comment, just wanted to pull-quote this cuz it's suitable for framing.

― get bent, Thursday, 22 March 2007 11:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The former sounds like their weird stab at prog gone right; it fails at that because Fagen lacks the inner douchebag required to perform Rick Wakeman-esque solos on an Arp

Ha. It is a weird song, one of my favorites. But there IS an odd synth solo towards the end, no?

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 22 March 2007 12:45 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah "King Of The World" might be my favorite SD song of all time, if the next band I play in does any covers that will be one of them. I never really thought of it as being overlooked, since it's on Gold, but I guess it was never actually a single.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 22 March 2007 13:01 (seventeen years ago) link

all signs point to me seeing them twice this tour. Once in town and once in NY for a bachelor party.

me = thrilled

― will, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:27 (seventeen years ago) link

I never really thought of it as being overlooked, since it's on Gold, but I guess it was never actually a single.

Oh, I never had that one.

I had this one on cassette for the car:
http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000005RVM.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

That's more weird-ass cover art. I have no idea what they are going for there. Kinda like Close Encounters in Sedona or something?

― William Selman, Thursday, 22 March 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I bought Steely Dan's Greatest Hits for $4.99 at a local drug store that had a small LP rack. I opened it up, and the discs were translucent yellow. Quite a conversation piece.

― Barringer, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Ian Dury otm

"Jazz is a dangerous, double-edged thing. You mustn't do too much of it."

― ghost rider, Thursday, 22 March 2007 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

This is how the choir bounces off ma corpse "I'm a fool to do your durty wurk" and the reverberations dampen until soft melty flesh sucks it up.

I;m a fool to do your dirty work

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 23 March 2007 00:57 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Epilogue found on P'fork:

New Music: Blitzen Trapper : "Cool Love #1" [MP3]

Though its title suggests otherwise, "Cool Love #1" is actually not a long-lost Fagen/Becker 70s basement jam (sorry, Ilx!) but yup, a garage-pop track out of Portland

― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Steely Dan saved my life this year.

― David R., Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:34 (seventeen years ago) link

who the f is jessica suarez

― rps, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Why does the "title suggest otherwise"?

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

wellsteely dan was pretty cool

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

urgh, should've been "well, "

― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

is cool, forever and always

― félix pié, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i love this band, now and forever

― get bent, Thursday, 19 April 2007 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

playing aja just now

so smooth

― Charlie Howard, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:00 (seventeen years ago) link

pitchfork writers be from barrytown

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 April 2007 03:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got Steely Dan's first two albums. They're both embarrassing lite-jazz bullshit.

― jposnan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link

The FIRST album?

― David R., Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait, does nu-ILX not allow long thread titles? What's gonna happen to Sc0tt Sew4rd?

― aaron d.g., Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Not too much jazz on the first album, is there?

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 07:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Nor the second! Is "Bodhisattva" lite-jazz now?

― Beep, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

No, but jposnan be trolling.

― Noodle Vague, Thursday, 19 April 2007 09:39 (seventeen years ago) link

The second is maybe slightly more jazzy towards the end, but I'd stay they became considerably jazzier later.

― Geir Hongro, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:30 (seventeen years ago) link

casual pitchfork readers be all wtf

― That one guy that quit, Thursday, 19 April 2007 10:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Finally got "Royal Scam" - it's quickly becoming one of my favorite Dan albums.

― o. nate, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

pitchfork writers be from barrytown

Heh. Barrytown is four shacks and a no-longer-active train depot. No one is from Barrytown.

― Bill in Chicago, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I just got Steely Dan's first two albums. They're both embarrassing lite-jazz bullshit.

-- jposnan

stfu

― félix pié, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Heh. Barrytown is four shacks and a no-longer-active train depot. No one is from Barrytown.

-- Bill in Chicago, Thursday, April 19, 2007 11:10 AM (1 hour ago)

huh! i didn't even know barrytown was a real place? where is it? is that the barrytown he's talking about...anyway i love that song and was never super sure about all the meaning of the lyrics...

― M@tt He1ges0n, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:29 (seventeen years ago) link

barrytown is about a hippie dood i think.

― chaki, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought it was the irish one

― thomp, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i read some interview where they said "barrytown" was kinda their attempt to write a dylan song, i think it's trashing some mr jones-esque square?

― ghost rider, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Barrytown is in New York, it's home to the Unification Church's seminary. I think they wrote it about the townies around Bard College but I can't find a link.

― Brent, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i love barrytown so fucking much

― and what, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Brent is correct about Barrytown

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

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