“Where Joseph Bloggs And His Amazing Technicolor Shellsuit are about to abort their Steely Dan routine”
So… what do we know about Steely Dan?
The A to Z of HMHB
The A to Z of HMHB
“Where Joseph Bloggs And His Amazing Technicolor Shellsuit are about to abort their Steely Dan routine”
So… what do we know about Steely Dan?
Gok wan acolyte
Although nothing like our heroes musically, their lyrics wage a similar war on pretentious people, the music “biz” and middle class mores, albeit with fewer fell walking references
30 December 2016
this leaden paul
Group name came from reading too much Bill Burroughs (q.v.). During the hiatus in group activity in the 1980’s, Walter Becker played keyboards on ‘Black Man Ray’ (q.v.).
30 December 2016
hendrix-tattoo
Get a mention on Ian Dury’s last album Mr.Love Pants on the track Itinerant child.
“With my long haired children and my one eyed dog.
With the trucks and the buses and the trailer-vans.
My long throw horns playing Steely Dan”
30 December 2016
Peter Mcornithologist
in the years before Steely Dan ,Becker and Fagen were in a band named Leather C anary . On drums Mr.Chevy Chase .
30 December 2016
jODRELL BANKSY
The Minutemen cover of “Dr. Wu” sufficiently fulfills my Steely Dan requirements.
30 December 2016
dr desperate
The line from the Eagles’ ‘Hotel California’ “They stab it with their steely knives but they just can’t kill the beast” was originally written as “with their Steely Dan”, in response to Dan’s “Turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening” on ‘Everything You Did’. Allegedly.
31 December 2016
Liquid len
Danny Baker raves about them, whereas they have always left me absolutely stone cold. The very worst of AOR. Music that people in huge 4x4s play on their Blaupunkts.
1 January 2017
dr desperate
I suspect Fans of the Dans (both Steely and Baker) tend to be what Mojo described, in a piece on the latter, as “exact contemporaries and smart-arses who get all the references”, and I’m sure we can find some common ground there.
SD had their moments of coke-fuelled boomer excess, but not everything’s AOR – for every ‘FM’ there’s a ‘Doctor Wu’, and some of their later stuff was as dark as anything on ’90B-C’.
Remember, when ‘Can’t Buy a Thrill’ and ‘Countdown To Ecstasy’ came out there was fu*k all else to listen to, and they helped keep me going through those best-forgotten pre-punk years. Some of those songs were written in 1972, and that’s a hell of a time signature. My only regret is that my campaign to have ‘My Old School’ adopted as our school song was unsuccessful.
2 January 2017
GOK WAN ACOLYTE
I’m not an exact contemporary – Aja was their most recent album when I first decided I liked them, and I worked backwards from there – but I’ve always been a fan. I’m ok with people not liking them but if the “worst of AOR” is a song like ‘Everyone’s gone to the Movies’ – about the local paedo trying to get teenage girls to his garage with the promise of porno movies – then I’m quite happy to be a fan of AOR!
3 January 2017
paul f
I wouldn’t class myself as a massive fan (I like a few of their better known songs, and used to play my brother’s copy of “The Royal Scam” a bit) but I also take umbrage at the “worst of AOR” comment. They’re no REO Speedwagon, that’s for sure.
3 January 2017
hendrix-tattoo
Heard ‘all around my hat’ by them, Earlier today on the radio.
13 January 2017
John Anderson
All Around My Fez.
13 January 2017