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Your listen-along Steely Dan podventure.
Join Oli (Dan fan) and Andrew (Dan sceptic), as they take the scenic route through the entire Steely Dan discography.
Each week, our hosts take a forensic look at a Steely Dan song. Join them on a nine-series trek from 'Do It Again' on 1972's Can't Buy a Thrill, to 'Everything Must Go' on the 2003 album of the same name.
Will they uncover hidden truths? Will they nail The Vibe? Will Andrew ever admit he actually quite likes Steely Dan?
Turn on, tune in, find out. And be sure to listen along at home!
Join Oli (Dan fan) and Andrew (Dan sceptic), as they take the scenic route through the entire Steely Dan discography.
Each week, our hosts take a forensic look at a Steely Dan song. Join them on a nine-series trek from 'Do It Again' on 1972's Can't Buy a Thrill, to 'Everything Must Go' on the 2003 album of the same name.
Will they uncover hidden truths? Will they nail The Vibe? Will Andrew ever admit he actually quite likes Steely Dan?
Turn on, tune in, find out. And be sure to listen along at home!
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In which the Dan tackle cultural appropriation, Oli unveils a fast-moving, MIDI-powered new segment and Andrew receives the greatest gift of all: a bit of time off. *Merry Christmas to all who celebrate and lots of love to those who don't.*
Join your trusty exegetes as they avoid talking about Steely Dan's saddest song (as voted in Metal Leg Fanzine's infamous 'Ladies of Dan' poll). Among the distractions are cat-borne diseases, parenthetical song titles and a shocking revelation about Andrew's true heritage.
Oli and Andrew agree about something. How will they cope?
[Donald Fagen - Concepts for Jazz/Rock Piano: https://youtu.be/rR6OsrzbHHY]
Our hosts throw another classic onto the exegetical pyre. Tune in to hear 24-carat Danchat, teenage poetry and Andrew's run-in with a mysterious podiatrist.
Our hosts are joined by SPECIAL GUESTS Ann and Rachel from STEELY ANN: the greatest female-fronted Steely Dan tribute band in the history of South Central Minnesota. United in scepticism and tenacity, they attempt to navigate one of the Dan's stinkiest lyrical swamps. [Audio is a little ropey in this one. Blame Oli.]
Oli is ready to discuss one of his favourite things. Andrew is not. But their commitment to the podcast knows no bounds and they manage to eke out 53 minutes of edutational chat.
Could it be true – a real, bona fide Steely Dan love song? In this episode, your hosts smack a sexy piñata until it spits out William Blake, a long-lost billet-doux and something Donald Fagen has 'found'.
Our hosts brave the harsh morning light to discuss Bad Sneakers, drink pina coladas and swap footwear. Friend of the Show Ben Jones joins to share his thoughts and a song. Recorded live in Bad Sniekers, Lower Franconia.
What do you mean it's been eight months? For their Earth-shattering comeback episode, the Danlads carry on as if nothing ever happened. Join them as they dive ears-first into a world of faulty dbx systems and financial chicanery.
In this special episode, Oli and Andrew pay tribute to the myth, the legend, the cape: David Crosby.
Tracks discussed: The Byrds – Triad / CSNY – Almost Cut My Hair / David Crosby – Laughing / David Crosby in Hook / David Crosby – Yvette in English / Joni Mitchell – Yvette in English / David Crosby – Your Own Ride / David Crosby – Rodriguez for a Night.
Spotify playlist here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2HTSayRNkduFvBx9JIpApe?si=dc891a043ec943fc
"God bless your massive soul."
It's the season finale, and the guys are performing circus tricks for Exegesis celebrity Brian Rosten. Meanwhile, Andrew's own simian soul is rudely extricated.
"I had sex with you and now I think that you're a monkey."
Further listening…
The Beatles – I Want to Hold Your Hand
Steely Dan – Monkey in Your Soul (Walter Becker vocal version)
Freedy Johnston – Monkey in Your Soul
Further Brianing…
Brian Rosten's Twitter
Pete vs The City of Chicago (Brian's book)
The Maul (Brian's mag)
It's Christmas every day* at Exegesis HQ. As the fire roars and the chestnuts crackle, Andrew and Oli discuss golden pigs, shitting logs and Charlie Freak.
* It's not Christmas every day. It's not even Christmas today. The song has sleigh bells, basically.
"You've got to let the love in down the chimney of your heart."
Further listening…
The Mark Masters Ensemble – Charlie Freak
Fauré Quartet – Charlie Freak
Tuesday Island – Charlie Freak
Hello schism my old friend.
"Just shoot a harpoon in my face."
Further listening…
Them Fargo Brothers – With a Gun
Nina Cristante – Romance
Paint Your Wagon trailer
The Beatles – Rocky Raccoon
The Beatles – I'm a Loser
The Beatles – Run For Your Life
The Beatles – I'll Cry Instead
Joni Mitchell – Raised on Robbery
The boys make a heartfelt apology and open up about Andrew's charity work. Also, pretzels.
"Everything that has got better is being slowly reversed by these pony fuckers and I just want them all to die all at once."
Further listening…
Joy Wright – Pretzel Logic (and the cover of her album)
The Catman Doodz – Pretzel Logic
The Incomparable Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band – Pretzel Logic
The Jackson 5 – I Want You Back
The Jackson 5 – ABC
'Hallelujah Chorus' from Handel's Messiah
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young – Wooden Ships
Fagen's thoughts on Whiplash
Bob Dylan – Like a Rolling Stone
Bob Dylan – The Times They Are A-Changin'
It's the shortest song in the Dan catalogue, but will it be given short shrift by our exegetes?
"Fagen is fucking with us."
Further listening…
Chicago – If You Leave Me Now
Philip Frobos – Through With Buzz
Afroman – Because I Got High
The Beatles – Happiness is a Warm Gun
The Beatles – Sexy Sadie
The Beatles – I Am the Walrus
The Beatles – Glass Onion
The Beatles – Eleanor Rigby
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace (excerpts)
The lads mix up their Jims and avoid talking about Parker's Band.
[Slightly shonky sound in this one. Apologies.]
"I was just imagining Denny Dias as part of a human centipede."
Further listening…
Becker & Fagen – Parker's Band (demo)
Radiohead – Life in a Glasshouse
Radiohead – The National Anthem
John Coltrane – Blue Train
Radiohead – You and Whose Army?
Andrew and Oli indulge in some forced fun before enjoying a cosy conversation about an old jazz standard.
"A reanimated Harryhausen jazz skeleton."
Further listening...
Duke Ellington and his Kentucky Club Orchestra – East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (1927 version)
The Temperance Seven – East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
Humphrey Littleton – East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
Mercer Ellington and the Duke Ellington Orchestra – East St. Louis Toodle-Oo
Emerson Lake and Palmer – Fanfare for the Common Man
Duke Ellington and his Orchestra – East St. Louis Toodle-Oo (1957 version)
The "third exegete", Ben "Pen" Jones returns to discuss the sorta-Dylan-pastiche Barrytown. This episode also includes the world's best Bob impression and more Dan-inspired fiction by Brian Rosten.
Warning: politics.
"A very teacherly pigeon."
Further listening…
Ben Folds Five - Barrytown
The Beatles - Tell Me What You See
Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street
Bob Dylan - Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again
Randy Newman - Short People
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Tom Peel's Bandcamp
Ben "Pen" Jones's website
The boys sink into the giant jazz-pop feather that is Any Major Dude Will Tell You. Will they overcome their single greatest challenge yet – agreement?
"Gary Katz is Mork."
Tayyab Amin's piece about discovering Steely Dan
Wilco - Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Schlong - Any Major Dude Will Tell You
The Acoustic Guitar Troubadors - Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Die Sterne - Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Nancy Wilson - Any Major Dude Will Tell You
Randy Newman - Louisiana 1927 (the song Andrew said had a similar melody to AMDWTY)
Carole King - I feel the Earth Move
Nickelodeon's Alex Mack dissolving into mercury
Bob Dylan - Like a Rolling Stone
Bill Grundy talking to the Sex Pistols
In the spirit of cultural exchange, our Danizens are joined by retro gaming YouTuber RoseTintedSpectrum to discuss the "gentrified funk" of Night By Night.
This episode also includes some erotic Steely Dan fanfic and possibly the first ever Dan-themed text adventure.
"I need some funk by five o'clock, Andrew Souter."
Further listening…
Yasuko Agawa - Night By Night
Ana Popović - Night by Night
Tous les Oiseaux d'Europe - Night by Night (Spotify link)
Benny Hill - Ernie (the Fastest Milkman in the West
Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue (Live 1984)
A RoseTintedSpectrum video about Dizzy, who is a computer egg
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RoseTintedSpectrum's YouTube channel: @RoseTintedSpectrum
RoseTintedSpectrum's Twitter: @SpectrumTinted
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