Ipodage
Actually, while I bought an ipod for the Ogwife, I wouldn’t own one myself. I DO own myself a Treo, and I have a good selection of tuneage on it.
Lately, though, I find that my selections have been the favorites of my youth, notably, The Dan.
Steely Dan wasn’t so much a band but a core of Fagen/Becker, and a lot of the best and brightest studio/session musicians in the business. The list is long and impressive. The music…
Kid Charlemagne has held my interest today. My old school. Dirty Work, featuring David Palmer’s subtle vocals. “the Fez”, the world’s first pop song about safe gay sex.
The boys were always a little too cool for the room, but they made good music. I hope they keep doing so a while.
“Just by chance you crossed a diamond with a pearl,
“You turned it on the world,
“And then you turned the world around…”
Which is sort of what Fagen and Becker did, from “Can’t Buy a Thrill” to the disastrously limp “Gaucho.” Their bravado was both their success and their failure; at some point you have to give up trying to shock everyone and rely on talent.
“Agents of the law,
“Luckless pedestrians,
“I know you’re out there,
“With rage in your eyes and your megaphones,
“Saying ‘All is forgiven,
“‘Mad dog, surrender!’
“How can I answer?
“A man of my mind can do anything!”
I don’t recall “The Fez” being about safe GAY sex. Where’d you get that?
Um, broad, listen to the song.
“You’re never gonna do it
without the fez on
don’t make me do it
without the fez on
That’s what I am
Please understand
I wanna be your
Holy man.”
Duh.
While not a Steely Dan album per se, Donald Fagen’s The Nightfly is about as smooth a piece of music as I’ve ever heard.
Its sounds still bring back very distinctive memories of my youth, cruising the streets of NYC.
Actually chose the band that played at our wedding because one of the songs on its video – the one that stood out amongst all the Brick House and Celebration covers – was Ruby Ruby off the Nightfly.
[…] Hat tip to Og for the inspiration. […]
Eh. Not a big fan of the Apple products.
Way overpriced for what you get.
Um … still not getting “gay” out of that. The fez wearer couldn’t be talking to a woman?
YOU’re never going to do it to ME, without A FEZ ON. I want to be YOUR “HOLEY” man.
Shit, Fagen came out and SAID this ten years ago. Fagen and Becker are notorious… erm…. experimenters. Becker, in fact, barely beat a kiddie porn rap, if i recall correctly.