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| Discussion: Steely Dan walter becker is my fathers 2nd cousin and i am doing a history proj. on my family. and since he is in my family i thought it would add a good touch to put him in my report >>By kelli becker WHat'ss up >>By Reardonh steely dan is the illness. serious sampling goodness in there. hey DONT SUE ME WHEN THESE TRACKS GET PLAY, aight? >>By ion myke among the most sophisticated musical groups that "popular" american music has produced. just listen. >>By kp Haven't heard the newest but their most recent works I found frankly unimpressive. Hopefully this one will be different. PS has anyone visited the "official site" - what is UP with the mindless bimbo "fan" videos? A cynical shot at "reality" TV maybe? >>By autre daniel You people who claim you don't like Steely Dan need to clean your damn ears out. I think you've listened to too much of the garbage they call music today. If the cd doesn't have a warning label on it, you people don't buy it. Sorry, Steely Dan doesn't have any warning labels on any of their records. I guess they don't need to use vugarity to sell their music. Terry D. >>By Dan Fan Steely Dan's 70's output including 1980's Gaucho was a perfect combination of Pop, Rock, Reggae and Jazz. I bought Aja when I was 12 years old because of Peg not knowing that the rest of the record would challenge my ears and tastes in music over the months ahead. I thank the group for opening my ears and eyes to diffent forms of music. Two Against Nature IMO is the worst SD record to date with only a few bright spots. I hope that the new one doesn't fall into the same trap of sounding more like Donald Fagen's solo records than a Steely Dan record. >>By jazzpatrick Hey jazzpatrick, I guess all those grammies were undeserved from 2AN since you didn't like it, eh? >>By Mark I'VE LISTENED TO HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF MUSIC IN MY 53 YEARS AND THE ONLY GROUP THAT CAN COMPARE IS THE BEATLES. THEIR MUSIC IS UNIQUE BECAUSE YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO IT 4-5 TIMES OR MORE BEFORE SOME OF IT STARTS TO CLICK. "EVERYTHING MUST GO", "PIXELEEN", "THE LAST MALL", AND "LUNCH WITH GINA" ARE CLASSICS AND COMPARE WITH ANY OF THEIR PREVIOUS HITS. I PRAY THEY WILL KEEP WRITING MUSIC. ' >>By bruce bremer Can anybody out there solve a great, thirty-year old Steely Dan mystery? What -- WHAT? WHAT????? -- are the background singers' lyrics in Show Biz Kids? It sounds something like "Lot's wages" interspersed every third time with an even less intelligible word. I actually got in touch over the net with a S.D. expert of sorts last year, and he confirmed that "Lot's wages" was as good a guess as any, but . . . nobody knew! Any of you know? By the way, their new tour is great, although they characteristically tend to avoid most of their great "hook line" songs. The two famous misanthropes are actually kind of amiable. --dbittinger@wi.rr.com >>By bit I always thought they were saying "Las Vegas" but I never paid that much attention really. >>By MightyAfroWhitey Steely Dan was my partner in the year i graduated high school. I've always studied at night and on the night programs there was always a song of them. Since then i'm a great fan. On the day i become 25 years i've got The Nightfly wich became one of my alltime favorite reccords. The Nightfly remembered me the time i was young and enyoing the nights with my radio and studiebooks. In this same period i've often heard a song named "friend of mine" and i think the name of the group is "fields".....????? Is there anybody whom can help me tho find this reccord/cd or get me a copy.....???? >>By GUUUUR Anyone in The UK on November 7th? ...check out The Dan Collective: Steely Dan Revue band. Live and kicking in the UK. Don & Walt didn't make it over the pond this time so this may have to do for now?www.thedancollective.co.uk >>By Shotan Steely Dan and Elton John would be an awesome tour! Elton already went out with Billy Joel and that was crazy... I didn't get to see it, but I heard about it...and it would be cool to see Elton and Steely Dan. Especially if Elton did some of his new remixed songs- has anyone heard those yet? He just released a 5 track mini-album of old songs he re-did. It's really good actually, you should check it out. If you want a little teaser, here are links to a couple tracks I got thanks to my internship at Universal.... Real Audio Player Stream http://boss.streamos.com/real/ume/elton_john/ 03_candle_in_the_wind_acoustic_mix.ram http://boss.streamos.com/real/ume/elton_john/ 04_rocket_man_03.ram Windows Media Player Stream http://www.hip-o.com/streaming/elton/rocketman.asx http://www.hip-o.com/streaming/elton/candleinthewind.asx >>By eltonsluv I was 17 and in high school. The year was 1978. I was in mechanical drawing class and talking to a guy that I had a crush on...he never knew it. He was also the only guy that was nice to me..I wasn't pretty like the other girls..anyway....a song was playing on the radio. It was Peg. He jumped up to raise the volume..ever since then I was in love with Steely Dan. I also got to see them last year at Jones Beach theater in N.Y......I'd like to thank Dennis...thanks..lol coca >>By coca Yes, you're all correct - SD is the greatest band still in existence (OK since the Beatles departed) and yes you have to listen to "Everything must go" quite a few times until it hooks you. How about listing a few favourites from each a few albums: For me its: From EMG= Lunch with Gina - I love that song! TvN=West of Hollywood Kamakiriad=Tomorrows Girls Nightfly="The whole damn thing is brilliant" Gaucho=Babylon sisters Aja=Peg Royal Scam=Royal scam ...and lots more Oh...and er yes... the videoclip of Donald and Walter cruising Vegas in a taxi with the bimbos is classic isn't it? >>By Celerytop The first time I heard a Steely Dan was when I was 2 going on 3. "Peg" was the tune and was dominating the waves. Then I heard Deacon Blues. Then around 1980 Gaucho came out and I was hooked on "Time Out of Mind." Sometimes I wanted to romance a female when that came on. It wasn't until my early teens that I found out the name of the group. Once I've found out I went out and bought every Steely Dan tape my money could buy. And I'm a Dan junkie b/c it fits my personality. I'm dying to meet Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. >>By SteelyB It's so great to read what I've thought for years: SD is the greatest all around band since the Beatles. Just listen to "Barrytown" from the Pretzel Logic album and you can hear the Beatle-esque sound from their Rubber Soul era. The fact that the Dan skewed toward the jazz end of the music spectrum just makes them even better in my book. I bought Can't Buy a Thrill when it first came out and then not another until Aja, which some say is their greatest album--I go with Gaucho, but have to say Everything Must Go just gets better and better with every listen. Their greatness doesn't just lie in the music though. Their lyrics are incomparable. By the way, where will "bodacious cowboys such as yourself never be welcome, high in the ?????" >>By Hank what is so f-ing evil about steely dan? >>By styles my dad was a huge fan, and i grew up listening to them among others. showbiz kids remains one of the most intense, visceral musical experiences. i've always thought they were saying "las vegas", maybe slurring the v...vhatever. great band, tho' another fagen solo record is unneccesary >>By finnegan love the feedback...steely dan and beatles...both my top 2 groups.....now that would have been a great concert..the 2 of them in concert... >>By coca i was so affected by sd's long dropout in the 80's, i wrote a song as if it were written by a young girl who thought that sd was a guy........i never finished that song then......now, 20 years later, i finally finished it and recorded it with amy keys(phil collins lead back-up singer, doing the vocal....i've tried to capture the harmonic nuances associated with sd's music......anyone interested can find it under my name, rich pulin, on my "always pulin for YOU" cd over at cd baby .com, or soon it will belistenable at our site: www.richpulin.com under the name "stealie dan" >>By jzcmpsr22 thanks......sd big fan........ >>By coca p.s ..you all know what a steely dan is.....right???? >>By coca wow, what an old discussion. i've recently been driving around in my car listening to a compilation of steely dan i made, with most of their early hook songs (i didn't like it when they "smooth-jazzed" out with aja). just yesterday, my eight year old was singing "i'm a fool to do your dirty work, oh yeah..." the song, "black friday" is becoming relevant again, not that it ever became irrelevant. again, my thoughts about nostalgia and rock music with hooks...i heard these songs on the radio when i was growing up all the time, and they became a part of me...the lyrics are sometimes abstract a bit, but the hooks fit right into the brain and seem to transport me to that time, which was a time when i was young and had no worries. we should always be like that. >>By pattern The Royal Scam. ...... That was my fave album of theirs. >>By nonyeb Donald Fagin's solo album "The Nightfly" is a gem too... I do get that it's possibly a little "over-polished" for some... hmmmmm.... still makes a handy reference for checking a studio's monitors even now tho. >>By planet ear You are not logged in. To access all functionality, you can log in via Flork. Flork is a worldwide community of people who are interested in music, movies and books. As a Flork-User, you can participate in this and other discussions, meet new people and exchange messages with other members directly: www.flork.com |