Here's hoping Steve eviscerates Hoagy Carmichael next.

I get the hate and felt it most of my life until I heard The Royal Scam.

I have a lot of love for that record. It's so silly and makes me laugh, but I also think it's a perfect album. A stupid, goofy, ridiculous, hilarious perfect album.


The album kind of took the hate i had for them and turned it in on itself, made me laugh and eventually appreciate them. I don't think i would love it as much as i do if I didn't first hate them. It feels celebratory, joyous and triumphant because of this. Like I got to the other side.

I don't mind Steely Dan. I also don't mind Steve lighting them up. IMO, he went easy on them. All the riled up replies from fans of The Dan on Twitter are hilarious, and getting me through my morning.

Frankie99 wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 6:14 pm No use for this nonsense. Turning 40 doesn’t mean shit. Life is too short for Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Buffett, the Dead….the list is long, and this terrible band is a bold entry at the top of it.

I wrote this 19 months ago, I felt it 19 years ago, and I still feel the same today.

I've never really understood either the swooning this band inspires in some nor the revulsion it provokes in others. They got some bangers. They also got some puckered and pleased with themselves dross. Katy Lied is great and I'll stump for any/all of their classic rock radio hits.

Their meme-fication over the last few yrs has been a bit odd, esp given the tenor of the times, for the internet to throw its weight behind popular music's most pro-human trafficking & pederast sympathizers. But what do I know.

Fagen is a great lyric writer. He & Becker are a funny, inscrutable comedy team. I wouldn't been shocked if Fagen retweet'd FM Steve from his burner account.

Not crap as long as the bros spare me the mansplaining and "jazz" talk

RyanZ wrote: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:29 am I don't mind Steely Dan. I also don't mind Steve lighting them up. IMO, he went easy on them. All the riled up replies from fans of The Dan on Twitter are hilarious, and getting me through my morning.

I can appreciate SD. As for the comments section, I'm not n Twitter, but this first one on IG made me laugh.

"Dude is a 60 year old poker player. He is a Steely Dan song."

Wood Goblin wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:35 pm

octoberallover wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:31 pm

Wood Goblin wrote: Sun Jul 25, 2021 1:28 pm

You’d better be.
Crap.

lol!

Few things online irritate me more rn than the pleasure some Dan fans take in themselves for “getting it.” Probably because I wish I did too. Smooth jazz + singing about problems only the enormously selfish and callous create for themselves?? Don’t like it. Seems like music that starts to appeal after you’ve grown comfortable with defeat.

In the old thread about the Dan, several people argued about what the lyrics meant in “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number.” Nobody could agree on anything except that the subject (whatever it was) was secretly dirty and depraved.

Several months ago, a friend sent me an article in which one of the Dan guys told the story behind this song. It’s about . . . giving a woman named Rikki his number at a party. She was some kind of artist.

It wasn’t about Eric Clapton’s heroin dealer or skeevy guys with hairy chests and gold medallions rolling a joint. There was no secret filth being snuck onto easy-listening radio. It was about hitting on someone at a party.

Something I just thought of, there was a long time Steely Dan cover band in Mpls, they had a regular Sunday night at a BBQ joint and were very in demand. My cousin and his then girlfriend were huge fans and always talked them up to me, "they are SUCH good musicians! So-and-so played with Prince!", which I believe but certainly isn't a selling point for me anyway.

When they got married my cousin & his girlfriend hired this band to play their wedding, which in general was an expensive & high-end affair, on a private lake in Northern MN, beautiful summer day, excellent food & drink, a constant swirl of servers with champagne & bacon-wrapped dates, the ultimate setting to experience a Steely Dan cover band comprised of all kinds of great musicians. I was honestly excited.

Folks, this was one of the worst, most inept bands I have ever seen. Out-of-tune, shambling, off-key, awful caterwauling, at points I wasn't certain if they had even heard Steely Dan before. I barely made it through two songs. Everyone around me just losing their minds. So bad.

A few months later the major dude in the band was arrested on child molestation charges.

The Classical wrote: Their meme-fication over the last few yrs has been a bit odd, esp given the tenor of the times, for the internet to throw its weight behind popular music's most pro-human trafficking & pederast sympathizers. But what do I know.

I'm probably the last person my age to watch The Sopranos, but I felt a similar way: this is what Millennials and Gen Zers spent their lockdowns watching!? The most progressive generation(s) in history like to wallow in the mud on their free time I suppose. At least the catchy music of the Dan can be detached from the degenerate content..

Also FYI, it's possible to read Steve's tweets without being on Twitter, though it's nothing you couldn't have read here in like 2005..

Stevey Dan