Comments on: Steely Dan :: Live/Sessions/Radio, ’74-’00

By: gd

gd — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:37:03 +0000

new steely dan contenders:
ryan power
chris weisman

look them up….

By: Tonedef

Tonedef — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:11:57 +0000

I don’t want to pee on anyone’s parade but there is no 00 Dan equivalent, can never be & will never be! Why do I say this so rigidly, well The Dan were/are quite musically unique. Why re-make something musically that’d be a complete waste of time, Suede tried and failed miserably (although they were ace) to re-make ziggy/bowie/the thin white duke and the nearest a group has ever gotten to kind of sounding like The Dan were Samuel Purdie back in the 90′s but they were a one off from a group of guys horsing around, check them out on Youtube. One could cite The Doobie Brothers but I hate to say it I can’t see any band touch on The Dan’s style and musical panache, I think it best that we leave it to Becker & Fagen to play it out.

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By: patrad

patrad — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:09:21 +0000

The Caves of Altamira is amazing. about 1997 someone gave me a cassette of what is now commonly labeled “Android Warehouse”. it is IMHO one of the best outtake tapes ever. so raw. “the caves”on there is amazing. it’s like hearing the newley released “sugar mountain” neil young release. listening to something at it’s genesis. check it out.

as for today’s dan? my vote goes to tv on the radio

By: Morty

Morty — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:40:38 +0000

Prefer the old stuff–Countdown to Ecstasy, The Royal Scam, Katy Lied, Pretzel Logic, Can’t Buy a Thrill.
Back when they rocked it.
I lost it at Aja. Probably cause I heard it like a million times on the classic rock station on my youth.
I disagree with others above re: Two against Nature. That was a crime against nature.
My Old School is awesome. Still love hearing the line California tumbles into the sea…

By: william

william — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:04:20 +0000

It’s a complicated question, the who-is-the-Dan-of the new century. Let’s ask Fagen and Becker. No?

I must confess I’ve posed it to myself on more than one occasion. It depends on how philosopcal one wants to get I guess. Are we talking about a one to one musical comparison or are we talking about an apprach to recording and prehaps music in general that is uniquley Steely Dan? Or the whole package?

I’ve not heard anyone yet who has really figured it out. Not to say I haven’t been waiting.

I will say this. There was a few moments in Early 2000 that I believed there might be a contender. A French band (gasp i know) by the name of Phoenix on their debut record United managed a very diamond edged, studio honed, heady concoction of sophisticated rowdiness that, right of the gate with the ‘Schools Rules” had me counting down to ecstasy if you know what I’m saying. I highly recommend it. Criminally overlooked record. Subsequent offerings have been wonderfully enjoyable and still sprinkled with Steely moments — but nothing that would allow me to confer upon them the title Dan mantle takers.

By: jema

jema — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 18:18:23 +0000

wow!!
this has really made my day…Thankyou!

Ive not found anyone that I can compare adequately with Steely Dan. The last Gonzales album (Soft Power) had a couple of early dan sounding tracks but can’t be considered a true contender in the 00s comparison.

Don’t feel like i’m desparate to find a comparison really…Steely Dan’s albums have amazing longevity… well, i’m not bored yet anyway and i’ve been listening since my parents AJA to me in the womb!

By: Funky Rutabaga

Funky Rutabaga — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:47:34 +0000

Check out Steely Dan’s 1976 album The Royal Scam. The whole album is phenomenal, but the best tracks are two immensely underappreciated ones; The Caves of Altamira and The Fez. Funky stuff.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 00:04:13 +0000

Who is the 21st Century Steely Dan? Man, that is so so tough. The Dan is really, truly like no one else. And then they’re like many many other sounds at the same time. They have such a very very strong sound. I feel like you can’t listen to their music with a bunch of other people that you don’t know well because – very often – people have a such a strong reaction to it; positive or negative. I never really considered them until I was 25 years old and I lived with a couple guys who were Dan FREEKS. They were super intelligent, hard-core, studious musicians and they “showed me the light.”
So: Beck, Wilco, Beta Band, Axl Rose? (mentioned above). I don’t know. I would say nobody is today’s Dan. Nobody appreciates both the groove and the complications that the Dan embrace. I mean, you could throw Black Dice or Battles or RJD2 into the equation. Couldn’t you?

By: Funky Rutabaga

Funky Rutabaga — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:15:40 +0000

Steely Dan is back on my iPod (Aja – I’ll have to get these tracks too). I just listened to it (I have been all day) and am mesmerized. Thanks again for altering my view on Steely Dan for the better

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Dorking Out On Dan – music : food : travel : culture — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:33:59 +0000

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By: DPZ

DPZ — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:44:22 +0000

Love the interview about the cab driver and the “stupidest lyric” in New York City. “Is there gas in the car? Yes there’s gas in the car.” LOL.

Becker and Fagan are some interesting dudes. They sure knew how to pick players and get good performances from them.

By: gorilla

gorilla — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:53:19 +0000

Oddly enough, I think it could have been Axl Rose.

Chinese democracy tries to synthesize a lot of musical elements in a traditional rock and certainly he spends lots of time in the studio with expensive studio musicians and it’s not cool to like him. But then nobody really likes the album that much and I don’t hear a Peg on that album or even a Fez.

Vote two is for Beck, because he fits many of the above requirements, he understand irony as well… but is it still cool to like Beck?