Posts Tagged: steely dan
Thanks, Steely Dan…
…for making the choice of the song for today so easy. Actually, only the title is relevant. Here is more from the band.
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Donald Fagen’s Fourth Solo Album Tomorrow
Donald Fagen’s fourth solo album, Sunken Condos, will be released tomorrow. DJ and Huffington Post blogger Michael Ragogna interviewed Fagen and co-producer Michael Leonhart at the site.
Here is Fagen on the album title:
I didn’t think any of the individual songs had a title that worked for an album title, so I needed something suitably apocalyptic. I remembered there’s a piece by Debussy called “Sunken Cathedrals,” so I just updated it and came up with “Sunken Condos,” which, I think, could be appreciated on different levels. You can associate it with the economic problems in the world now, the sociological problems in the world, and also my own personal situation. In other words, it’s really about getting older and maybe facing some of the realities of life. I’m sixty-four now.
The audio of one of the cuts on the album, I’m Not the Same Without You, is available at Rolling Stone. This song is very reminiscent of The Nightfly.
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Steely Dan: My Old School
This great version of the song is especially energized, perhaps because it was recorded in a small venue in Clarkston, MI.
Here are FM, Pearl of the Quarter, Daddy Don’t Live in that New York City No More and Cousin Dupree. The latter two are among the great lyrics in the history of rock and roll. Two other great Donald Fagen tunes are New Frontier and the title track from The Nightfly, his terrific 1982 album.
If I am reading this correctly, Fagen is married to the mother of the late Levon Helm’s daughter. This page at Fagen’s site was written after Helm died. Steely Dan’s site appears to not have been updated recently. Here is Walter Becker’s site.
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