What's your favorite story song? I'll go first: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcFa...

If you know all the words to "My Old School" you're either 60 or broken

My internal monologue is just the Purdie Shuffle

Your black cards can make you money so you hide them when you're able In the land of milk and honey, you must put them on the table

Looked up “groove” in the dictionary

Steely Dan's fourth studio album, Katy Lied, was released on this day in 1975.

AND WE DON’T CARE

Drinking coffee and listening to Steely Dan

DF ridin’ shotgun www.instagram.com/reel/DVZKhWW...

Stepped out into the cold Collar high under the slate gray sky The air was smoking and the streets were dry And I wasn't joking when I said goodbye youtube.com/watch?v=fGqb...

WANTED: High-end audio engineer capable of making a human drum kit sound like a sentient calculator.

Listening to "Godwhacker" by Steely Dan and plotting cosmic revenge

Listening to "FM" by Steely Dan and wishing the rest of my life had this much production value

HELP WANTED: A fool to do my dirty work.

I asked Walter what he really thought about Donald, and he said, “Somewhere between Dinah Shore and the Marquis de Sade.” expandingdan.substack.com/p/alison-ros...

Listening to "Peg" by Steely Dan and waiting for the backing vocals to fix my life

Steely Dan is the musical equivalent of someone saying "well actually"

Everything is terrible, and I feel like we could all use a distraction from <gestures broadly>, so I am once again offering to make custom playlists for my Bluesky pals. Want one? Reply with a favorite song/band or three and a theme (optional) and I will cook up something special just for you!

Listening to "Don’t Take Me Alive" by Steely Dan and siding with nobody

Listening to "Kid Charlemagne" by Steely Dan and rooting for the wrong guy

Everything is terrible, and I feel like we could all use a distraction from <gestures broadly>, so I am once again offering to make custom playlists for my Bluesky pals. Want one? Reply with a favorite song/band or three and a theme (optional) and I will cook up something special just for you!

Every Steely Dan song sounds like it knows something about you

Listening to "What a Shame About Me" by Steely Dan and agreeing completely

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults-Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe - living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

Listening to "The Last Mall" by Steely Dan and treating my local Target run like the literal apocalypse

This is like 75% of the steely dan discography

Do any of Steely Dan’s albums qualify as the greatest albums of all time? Vote for up to ten albums—across their and other artists’ discographies—in our readers’ poll here: album.ink/GOATAlbumsPoll

Listening to "Slang of Ages" by Steely Dan and appreciating Walter Becker’s rare lead vocal on a song about a very sketchy pick-up attempt

If you can’t hear the sarcasm in the guitar solo, are you even listening?

Gaucho took so long to make that the 70s ended before they finished

Donald Fagen's voice sounds like he's disappointed in you specifically

Billy Idol got it right back in 1993

If you're new here, I maintain a page with some fun Steely Dan resources: sd.auralmess.com Enjoy!

I wanted to separate the "Steely Dan Stuff" page from the main Aural Mess site, so it's now hosted on Github: sd.auralmess.com The old links redirect there, so nothing should break.

Listening to "Doctor Wu" by Steely Dan and trusting someone I absolutely shouldn’t

Saint Etienne released ‘So Tough’ 33 years ago on February 22, 1993 | Listen to the album + watch the official videos here: album.ink/SaintEtienneST

Me: puts on “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”, George Lazenby comes on screen Wife: who the hell is that

Steely Dan is undefeated at making bad decisions sound cool

A Monument to Perfect | Steely Dan's Gaucho youtu.be/xncUmM_02lc?...

The smoothest song ever that is also basically “bitch you are a mess” youtu.be/XRj0Ohg-y1A?...

Steely Dan released ‘Pretzel Logic’ 52 years ago on February 20, 1974 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/steelydanPL

Happy celestial birthday to Walter Becker (born 1950)! Also on this day in 1974, Steely Dan released their third studio album, Pretzel Logic.

Listening to Steely Dan at the function so people know I'm damaged

Listening to "Pixeleen" by Steely Dan and realizing Donald Fagen predicted waifu culture in 2003

They’ve got Packaged salads I think you should know

"Is there a technology that the left is excited about???"

Can’t, I’m high in the Custerdome

Steely Dan understood the assignment

They should tie the global markets to the price of Szechuan dumplings