Wood Goblin wrote:I've given them multiple listens with an open mind, but I still think they were crap. Plus, as a friend pointed out, their Grammy-winning reunion record is so backward looking that it's the yacht-rock equivalent to Sha-Na-Na.

Steely Dan's Grammy for Two Against Nature is the equivalent of the Academy giving Scorcese an Oscar for one of his lesser movies. It has little to do with the artifact itself, and more to do with acknowledging the artists' better work. Also, is it really a reunion record if your band doesn't break up?

no.

besides. that acceptance speech by Fagen was awesome:

"'Thanks.'"

best "album of the year" speech, ever.

your friend isn't thinking it through.

kerble wrote: Oh yeah and Fagen's acceptance speech for the grammy for that shitty 2 against nature album, went along the lines of:

D. Fagen: "Thanks."
Also awesome.

Yeah- and Miles Davis' speech went: "Thanks.(long pause, applause) Well thanks ALOT."

Steely Dan is not crap. Producing radio-friendly pop gems based on brick-thick jazz voicings and insane arrangements was no easy feat, and damn ballsy. And despite all of their harmonic complexity, their music
was able to translate to a huge demographic.

Haitian Divorce is tremendous.

thyklopth wrote:Producing radio-friendly pop gems based on brick-thick jazz voicings and insane arrangements was no easy feat, and damn ballsy. And despite all of their harmonic complexity, their music
was able to translate to a huge demographic.

This sounds like a very wordy way of stating my original opinion, which is that Steely Dan, through exhaustive research and tireless diligence, discovered the most complex way possible to bore people.

Ty Webb wrote:This sounds like a very wordy way of stating my original opinion, which is that Steely Dan, through exhaustive research and tireless diligence, discovered the most complex way possible to bore people.

Why are people who clearly don't like complex, intelligent music even bothering with this? I don't come to your threads and criticize antiquing or rough trade.


NOT CRAP.

my old school about my old school is definitely not crap.

I fucking hate this band. I hate it. I get their name confused with Jethro Tull all the time, who I really don't have much of an opinion of.
Fuck Steely Dan. 59 voted not crap? What? What the hell.

llllllllllllllllllllllll wrote:I get their name confused with Jethro Tull all the time.

Bzzzt.

The correct answer is Steeleye Span.

Jethro Tull is cool, but I don't like them as much as Steely Dan.

I don't know how you can get Steely Dan confused with Jethro Tull. At least, I don't know how you can do it with both ears still attached and functioning. The band names don't sound similar, the bands' music aren't at all similar... the only thing they have in common is that they have two-word names. So, Steely Dan reminds me of Jethro Tull reminds me of Steeleye Span, reminds me of Deadeye Dick. Reminds me of Big Black. Reminds me of Lynyrd Skynyrd. Reminds me of Don Caballero.

No, seriously, how do you confuse these two? I am genuinely baffled.

Obviously simple minds (no band-name pun intended) who have an extreme hatred of bands like Steely Dan get easily confused.