| Steely Dan – Black Cow Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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I don’t know why but I always think of the movie Klute. Fonda is a hooker and Donald Sutherland befriends her while trying to catch a killer. They fall in love and she wants to go straight, but she goes back to her pimp. He sees them together and Fonda is really high embracing her pimp. Sutherland’s expression in this scene is what I think of when I hear this song. She goes back to him only when she needs to be comforted and protected, but she can’t leave the hookers life. |
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| Steely Dan – Aja Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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Aja may not be a prostitute but she is certainly a drug dealer of sorts. Think of Julie Christie in McCabe and Mrs Miller. She was both a prostitute and ran an opium den. Up on the hill they never stare. They just don’t care. But at the end of the song he sings: Up on the hill, they think I'm okay Or so they say The instrumental breaks with Gadd going bananas on the drums symbolizes the rush of the drug. In the fade out, shorter doesn’t play anymore. Instead it’s this spacey synthesizer riffs. It’s oblivion. He’s in outer space. Is he going up the hill to the Dude Ranch for the girl or just to get high? Maybe it was both, but in the end it’s just the opium. |
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| Steely Dan – Only A Fool Would Say That Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| I thought it was common knowledge that this was about John Lennon’s Imagine. The boys rightfully thought the song was ridiculous and juvenile. The song is an atheist, socialist anthem that isn’t based in reality. The fool is Lennon. | |
| Steely Dan – Chain Lightning Lyrics | 7 months ago |
| @[ProfessorKnowItAll:53866] I always thought it was about seeing Charlie Parker in NYC. The electricity of seeing one of the greats in a jazz club, an intimate setting, when the band was cooking. | |
| Steely Dan – Chain Lightning Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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| Steely Dan – Gaucho Lyrics | 7 months ago |
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I’m not sure about the agent angle or the Becker heroin angle. I remember a quote from one of them, I think Becker, who said that if a Dan song comes on the radio and they aren’t laughing hysterically, than they have failed. All their lyrics are inside jokes. Jokes that only the two of them get. Gaucho is hilarious. It’s about a gay couple. One of them older and more successful than the other. They live in a high rise condominium complex called the Custerdome. The younger of the two brings home a much younger boy. He thinks he’s cool but he is just a fool to the older man. They had an agreement - a special arrangement, that the younger one breaks by bringing home this Gaucho Amigo. It’s possible the older one is the younger one’s pimp and when the Heavy Rollers come over he is pumped out. I crack up every time I hear these lyrics: No he can't sleep on the floor What do you think I'm yelling for I'll drop him near the freeway Doesn't he have a home |
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