Best "Under the Radar" Steely Dan?
08-11-08, 09:40 PM
#27
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Not bad, but you needed "Aja".
08-12-08, 03:35 PM
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Originally Posted by mickey65
I liked their song "Dirty Work" - another one that doesn't come up on any of the "greatest hits" albums - like Josie.
06-26-23, 03:18 PM
#31
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Re: Best "Under the Radar" Steely Dan?
This is a pretty cool read plus you get to hear the best quality of a long-lost Steely Dan track called "The Second Arrangement." It also has a different version of "Third World Man."
Be sure to listen to both The Nichols Tape and The DAT track.
Sounds pretty damn good and you almost time travel listening to it.
Tale of the tape - by Jake Malooley - Expanding Dan (substack.com)
Be sure to listen to both The Nichols Tape and The DAT track.
Sounds pretty damn good and you almost time travel listening to it.
Tale of the tape - by Jake Malooley - Expanding Dan (substack.com)
06-26-23, 04:15 PM
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Re: Best "Under the Radar" Steely Dan?
Funny this thread just got a bump : I was listening to a podcast yesterday about the just-released film Asteroid City. One of the hosts of the podcast mentioned the hilarious-but-true story of when Steely Dan wrote a critical open letter to Wes Anderson after The Darjeeling Limited got released, where the band kind of accused Wes of losing his way (it's my least-favorite of his films, BTW).
I had never heard this story before, so I did some digging yesterday :
WED 15TH JUN 2022 11.00 BSTIn 2006, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the masterminds behind American jazz-rock outfit Steely Dan, wrote an open letter to filmmaker Wes Anderson from the Chicorydee hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
In a 2007 interview, Anderson explained that he “appreciated their advice” and added: “I can’t say that Steely Dan made me feel like a million bucks actually; but, I think it was kind of funny.”
Early on in the charming open letter, Steely Dan referred to actor Owen Wilson as being a big fan of their work. The back story here is that, prior to their letter for Wes Anderson, Steely Dan left an open letter for Wilson (via his brother Luke). The letter, posted on July 17th, 2006, three days after the release of Wilson’s You, Me and Dupree, questioned whether the film’s title was in any way their 2000 song ‘Cousin Dupree’.
In a sharp and witty reply, Owen Wilson referenced the Steely Dan song ‘Hey Nineteen’: “I have never heard the song ‘Cousin Dupree’ and I don’t even know who this gentleman, Mr. Steely Dan, is. I hope this helps to clear things up, and I can get back to concentrating on my new movie, ‘HEY 19’.”
In his 2013 book, Eminent Hipsters, Fagen concluded the strange yet comical affair by explaining why he and Becker had written to Wes Anderson: “I think one of the reasons we’re intrigued by Anderson is that he seems to be fixated on the sort of geekish, early-sixties adolescent experience that he’s too young to have had but that Walter and I actually lived through,” he said, before adding: “And yet he nails the mood precisely, using comic exaggeration and fantasy to do the job. Although it was no picnic, it’s too bad everyone’s coming-of-age can’t take place in the early sixties. Seeing the scouts in Moonrise Kingdom, I was reminded of my own experience at Boy Scout camp. I remember spending a lot of time in my tent worrying over a huge pot of boiling water in which I was trying to brew just the right blend of herbal tea, mostly wintergreen picked in the forest, following some recipe in the Scout handbook.”
See the full letter, below.
I had never heard this story before, so I did some digging yesterday :
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The hilarious open letter Steely Dan left for Wes Anderson
Jordan PotterWED 15TH JUN 2022 11.00 BSTIn 2006, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the masterminds behind American jazz-rock outfit Steely Dan, wrote an open letter to filmmaker Wes Anderson from the Chicorydee hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
In a 2007 interview, Anderson explained that he “appreciated their advice” and added: “I can’t say that Steely Dan made me feel like a million bucks actually; but, I think it was kind of funny.”
Early on in the charming open letter, Steely Dan referred to actor Owen Wilson as being a big fan of their work. The back story here is that, prior to their letter for Wes Anderson, Steely Dan left an open letter for Wilson (via his brother Luke). The letter, posted on July 17th, 2006, three days after the release of Wilson’s You, Me and Dupree, questioned whether the film’s title was in any way their 2000 song ‘Cousin Dupree’.
In a sharp and witty reply, Owen Wilson referenced the Steely Dan song ‘Hey Nineteen’: “I have never heard the song ‘Cousin Dupree’ and I don’t even know who this gentleman, Mr. Steely Dan, is. I hope this helps to clear things up, and I can get back to concentrating on my new movie, ‘HEY 19’.”
In his 2013 book, Eminent Hipsters, Fagen concluded the strange yet comical affair by explaining why he and Becker had written to Wes Anderson: “I think one of the reasons we’re intrigued by Anderson is that he seems to be fixated on the sort of geekish, early-sixties adolescent experience that he’s too young to have had but that Walter and I actually lived through,” he said, before adding: “And yet he nails the mood precisely, using comic exaggeration and fantasy to do the job. Although it was no picnic, it’s too bad everyone’s coming-of-age can’t take place in the early sixties. Seeing the scouts in Moonrise Kingdom, I was reminded of my own experience at Boy Scout camp. I remember spending a lot of time in my tent worrying over a huge pot of boiling water in which I was trying to brew just the right blend of herbal tea, mostly wintergreen picked in the forest, following some recipe in the Scout handbook.”
See the full letter, below.
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