I knew this one had some life left in it, 55 weeks after it first died.

kerble wrote:

That...that's fucking hilarious.

New Donald Fagen album and solo tour this year.

All this talk of the Dan and no mention of the mu chord? Sheesh......

http://www.jmdl.com/howard/steelydan/mu-major.html

......school's in session.

Furthering my inability to actually purchase anything new, i have decided to investigate the dan further...

Two facts that have always stayed with me about these weird fuckers was that "Steely Dan" was the name of a vibrator, and where they got their moniker, and Chevy Chase drummed for them in the early-college days.

If these are untruths, keep yer yaps shut, cause i like it better this way.

full point wrote:All this talk of the Dan and no mention of the mu chord? Sheesh......

http://www.jmdl.com/howard/steelydan/mu-major.html

......school's in session.

Clearly the gayest chord ever invented!

DefinitelyNOTtheSWEDE wrote:"Steely Dan" was the name of a vibrator, and where they got their moniker

Close- Steely Dan got their name from a dildo which makes a brief appearance in William Burroughs' book "Naked Lunch."

Here is the passage from "Naked Lunch" in which Steely Dan appears.

Mary is strapping on a rubber penis. "Steely Dan III from Yokohama," she says, caressing the shaft. Milk spurts across the room.

"Be sure that milk is pasteurized. Don't go giving me some kinda awful cow disease like anthrax or glanders or aftosa...."

"When I was a transvestite Liz in Chi used to work as an exterminator. Make advances to pretty boys for the thrill of being beaten as a man. Later I catch this one kid, overpower him with supersonic judo I learned from an old Lesbian Zen monk. I tie him up, strip off his clothes with a razor and fuck him with Steely Dan I. He is so relieved I don't castrate him literal he come all over my bedbug spray."

"What happen to Steely Dan I?"

"He was torn in two by a bull dike. Most terrific vaginal grip I ever experienced. She could cave in a lead pipe. It was one of her parlor tricks."

"And Steely Dan II?"

"Chewed to bits by a famished candiru in the Upper Baboonasshole. And don't say 'Wheeeeee!' this time."

"Turn up the eagles the neighbors are listening".

I've never cared for Steely Dan's often obscurantist lyrics.....

However, "Pretzel Logic" always stood out to me as Steely Dan's finest record......the playing and the writing on that album were never better. Personally, the guitarring on that album as well as some other stuff they did in the 70's had a big impact on my playing when I was in my teens.

Definitely not crap.

what's with the gaucho hate? that's the best one! they kept getting slicker and sleazier, and by that point every semblance of humanity had left the building. the hilarious amazon reviews of that album read like "american psycho":

"But their trademark studio professionalism was precisely honed with the addition of even more top-flight studio musicians like Larry Carlton, Joe Sample, Mark Knopfler, and David Sanborn."

"The lazy decadence of the opening track Babylon Sisters is the perfect music to listen to when seated in a convertible, sun shining and cruising the highway. Listen to the fading chorus at the end: that alone took three days!"

katy lied is a close second.