Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band whose music also blends elements of funk, R&B, and pop. Founded by core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1972, the band enjoyed great critical and commercial success in the late 1970s and early 1980s before breaking up in 1981. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies". Steely Dan reunited in 1993 and has toured steadily ever since.

Recorded with a revolving cast of session musicians, Steely Dan's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies. Becker and Fagen are whimsical, often sarcastic lyricists, having written "cerebral, wry and eccentric" songs about drugs, love affairs, and crime. The pair is also known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio: Over the year they took to record Gaucho (1980), an album of just seven songs, Becker and Fagen hired at least 42 studio musicians and 11 engineers.

Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974 before retiring from live performances, becoming a studio-only band. After the group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen were less active throughout most of the next decade, though a cult following remained devoted to the group. Since reuniting in 1993 Steely Dan has released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001.

Steely Dan (album)

Steely Dan is a compilation album by Steely Dan, released in Japan in 1978. It is notable as being the only album release of both sides of the 1972 single "Dallas" b/w "Sail the Waterway", although these are in mono and were sourced from a copy of the single.

Track listing

All songs by Becker and Fagen

  • "Do It Again" (5:52)
  • "Dallas" (3:08)
  • "Sail the Waterway" (3:04)
  • "Black Friday" (3:33)
  • "Aja" (7:56)
  • "Kid Charlemagne" (4:38)
  • "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" (4:30)
  • Stardust Crusaders

    Stardust Crusaders (スターダストクルセイダース Sutādasuto Kuruseidāsu) is the third story arc of the Japanese manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1989 to 1992. In its original publication, it was known as JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3 Jotaro Kujo: Heritage for the Future (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 第三部 空条承太郎 ―未来への遺産― JoJo no Kimyō na Bōken Dai San Bu Kūjō Jōtarō -Mirai e no Isan-).

    It is the most popular of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series as it introduced the audience to the concept of Stands, which made it stand out from its predecessors. This popularity later spawned video games, a three volume drama CD series, two novels, two OVA series, and English adaptations of the manga and OVAs (licensed in North America by Viz Media and Super Techno Arts respectively) of this arc alone. A television anime adaptation by David Production, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, aired in Japan between April 2014 and June 2015.

    Home at Last (web series)

    Home at Last is an episodic comedy web series created and written by Matt Giegerich and Chelsea Mize. The series is directed by Stephen Sprinkles and stars William Russ (Boy Meets World). It is scheduled to premiere on YouTube and other online distribution channels in the fall of 2011.

    The show is about a homeless man, "Bob", that moves in with the son he abandoned at birth, "Mike." The story focuses on Bob's sloppy integration into the 'civilized' world, and his son's struggle to accept his Dad into his life for the first time in twenty five years.

    Characters and cast

  • Mike is the protagonist of the story. He's 25, and he's pretty much the nicest sap in the world. He works as a dental hygienist by day, and volunteers at a homeless shelter by night. He has a real desire to help people. Mike's mother died when he was very young, and he hasn't seen his father since birth. The character of Mike is portrayed by Mike Bash. Bash is also a co-producer on the series.
  • Bob is a bum. Until the series begins, he lives on the streets. He moves in with Mike in the beginning of season one, under the pretense that he is Mike's dad. Bob is played by William Russ, a veteran television and film actor. Russ is also a co-producer on the series.
  • Home at Last

    Home at Last may refer to:

  • "Home at Last" (song), a song by Steely Dan
  • Home at Last (Billy Ray Cyrus album), 2007
  • Home at Last (Larry Norman album), 1989
  • Home at Last (Glen Campbell album), 1997
  • Home At Last (horse), a thoroughbred horse that won the 1990 Super Derby
  • Home at Last (web series), a comedy series starring William Russ
  • Home at Last (Glen Campbell album)

    Home at Last combines No More Night (1985) and Favorite Hymns (1989). As No More Night was not released on CD at the time, this compilation album is the only available CD release of that album.

    Track listing

  • "Tall Oak Tree" (Dorsey Burnette) - 3:07
  • "Good Side Of Tomorrow" (Dave Loggins) - 2:25
  • "What A Friend We Have In Jesus" (Trad. Scriven/Converse) - 3:08
  • "Jesus Is His Name" (T.J. Kuenster) - 2:16
  • "Softly And Tenderly" (Trad. Will Thompson) - 3:45
  • "I Surrender All" (Trad. VanDeVenter/Weedon) - 3:11
  • "Before There Could Be Me" (Jimmy Webb) - 2:17
  • "I See Love" (Micheal Smotherman) - 2:33
  • "Suffer Little Children" (Micheal Smotherman) - 4:15 (duet with Johnny Cash)
  • "Overflow" (Wayne Berry) - 3:01
  • "Trust In God And Do The Right" (Arr. Glen Campbell) - 2:45
  • "The Lord's Prayer" (Albert Hay Malotte/Chappell) - 2:21
  • "Suddenly There's A Valley" (Chuck Meyer/Biff Jones) - 2:55
  • "In The Garden" (C. Austin Miles/Rodeheaver) - 3:59
  • "You Ask Me How I Know" (Arr. by Glen Campbell) - 3:07
  • Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    DON'T TAKE ME ALIVE

    by: Steely Dan

    Agents of the law
    Luckless pedestrian
    I know you're out there
    With rage in your eyes and your megaphones
    Saying all is forgiven
    Mad dog surrender
    How can I answer
    A man of my mind can do anything
    I'm a bookkeeper's son
    I don't want to shoot no one
    Well I crossed my old man back in oregon
    Don't take me alive
    Got a case of dynamite
    I could hold out here all night
    Yes I crossed my old man back in oregon
    Don't take me alive
    Can you hear the evil crowd
    The lies and the laughter
    I hear my inside
    The mechanized hum of another world
    Where no sun is shining
    No red light flashing
    Here in this darkness
    I know what I've done
    I know all at once who I am
    I'm a bookkeeper's son
    I don't want to shoot no one
    Well I crossed my old man back in oregon
    Don't take me alive
    Got a case of dynamite
    I could hold out here all night
    Yes I crossed my old man back in oregon




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