Welcome to r/SteelyDan, the best place on the internet to discuss Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, the jazziest rock duo of all time.

There’s just nothing there. Others, somebody else will see a funny Steely Dan tweet and they’ll tag me.

John Mulaney has made frequent references to his love for Steely Dan, talking on late night television about taking Pete Davidson to an SD show at the Beacon, signing his autograph as Walter Becker, or including a Steely Dan spoof in Oh, Hello on Broadway. Not a lot of music works that way. You’ve featured a lot of women making hilarious and informed statements on the band. All of our TV reviews in one convenient place. … He had put on “Babylon Sisters.” And the music was really loud even though there was nobody there, so it was kind of echoing all over the bar, and it was just, like, this incredible futuristic neo-soul space funk.
I literally was watching Fitzcarraldo one day, and that scene, there’s just something about his posture. But when they are asked by upper management to start shilling clam juice, will it destroy their credibility? I just thought the tickets were too expensive. And I didn’t think about it for a couple of years.

If you notice, the handle is not Good Dan Takes but @baddantakes.

He brought up this idea that women don’t listen to Steely Dan, which people rightly disputed. “It’s very particular with Steely Dan, because if you ever bring them up in conversation, even with people who aren’t huge music heads, people kind of start smirking,” Alex says.

They’re at the shows.

There’s only so many tweets that are going to come up that literally have the words “Steely Dan” and “quaaludes” in them and that just happens to be one of them [laughs]. I don’t want to say I’m definitely not going to do something with it, but it’s honestly just fun.

the sub blowing up is a great opportunity, i hope that others get to enjoy them too as they might be my favourite band of all time. Tell me about your personal Steely Dan journey.

And some musicians too. Health Science Units, Yeah, as we were discussing, a younger Steely Dan fan could see the humor in their Dan fandom, but he comes from a pre-irony era. i think its because of jojos bizzare adventure steely dan is a well know villan there the creator of the manga likes to call charachters after famous bands/artists perhaps some jojo fans came for the memes and stayed for the music? 2831 Sanford Ave, I can’t take too much credit for what I’ve done, but if that’s my contribution, then that’s fine with me. Certainly the Upper West Side alter cockers of Oh, Hello on Broadway share a lot in common with the tramps in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot: their slovenly dress, their codependence, and their inexplicable ability to hold an audience rapt for the length of a show in which nothing really happens.
Tell me about your personal Steely Dan journey. [9] According to Billboard, it became the band's "biggest hit" and "one of the first albums to be certified platinum". Miserly Synonym,

I think the comedy of John Mulaney, the later music of David Crosby or many of the bands that have been mentioned here in the last few days, the greater phenomenon of Yacht Rock, the Good Steely Dan Takes twitter account (and the posts it references) are all a part of this backwards looking phenomenon. … But you’re not going to do a Good Spin Doctors Takes.

What’s clear is that, even for fans of the band, something about their image, and the stereotypes that surround them — the prevalent idea that they’re the soundtrack to every disgruntled suburban dad’s regressive hipster fantasies, for example, or maybe music for soulless high-class coke parties — makes it very possible to both love Steely Dan and find the idea of them hilarious.

The show isn’t about story; it’s about displaying the connection between these two performers, who long ago struck up an inimitable dynamic, and have followed that dynamic to increasingly rewarding heights. Becu Phone Number,

Constant namechecks from John Mulaney, reaching their apex during a hilarious segment of Oh, Hello on Broadway that even features a spot-on Steely Dan parody song; absurdly specific memes from the Wolf Eyes related Instagram account Inzane Johnny; and a gently mocking yet affectionate Times editorial from music writer Lindsay Zoladz on her Steely Dan conversion — all these and more have contributed to the cresting wave. Who Does Lyra Betray,