The brilliance behind Steely Dan's "Reelin' in the Years"

[Gyrofrog]

@generic_name

Steely Dan is one of those groups I didn’t really start to appreciate until well into adulthood, despite hearing them plenty growing up

Yeah, me too, except I’d say because I heard them plenty growing up.

Dead Celebrity (Part 1)

It was a long time before I could tolerate Steely Dan, much less enjoy them. I’ve posted here before about being in elementary school, around the time Gaucho came out, and we had a very irascible gym teacher who made us line dance to “Peg” and “Hey Nineteen.” I could not hear Steely Dan without imagining her going apoplectic, ranting raving and shrieking (at all of us) over some perceived infraction (committed – or not – by one of us). When I found out what “Steely Dan” meant it raised them in…

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@generic_name

…I’ll bet to put their love of jazz on display for anyone in the know

I’m sure you’re right, although on that same album they covered “East St. Louis Toodle-oo” outright (as opposed to sneaking the riff into a different song).