Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion Edited by Barney Hoskyns The Overlook Press, 2018. Reviewed by Vic Perry “You can always look in the Steely Dan Listener’s Companion,” says Donald Fagen, helpfully answering a question about a lyric in an expansive 1977 interview with Sylvie Simmons originally published in Sounds, a British music paper. It was a good joke, but maybe Fagen just saw the … Continue reading Major Dudes: A Steely Dan Companion
For the third installment of our conversation about Steeleye Spam Dan, Vic Perry and I are joined on the line by Alfred Soto (who you may recall from previous long-winded podcast adventures) to examine the most-disagreed-upon SD release of all, 1980’s Gaucho. Largely dismissed as too-slick for its own good by punk- and post-punk-obsessed critics, Gaucho has, in more recent years, come to be considered … Continue reading Steely Dan podcast, part three
In part 2 of my Steely Dan excursion with Vic Perry, we delve into critics, love songs, and Phil Spector, all as a conspiratorial smokescreen to express our mutual ambivalence about Aja and Gaucho. PART 1: Got a feeling I’ve been here before PART 2: Don’t seem right PART 3: If you live in this world PART 4: The things you think are precious [Download: … Continue reading Steely Dan podcast, part two
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