| Steely Dan – Everyone's Gone to the Movies Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| BigFire is right about the 16mm and 8mm films but the lyric's also a sly double-entendre about the ages of LaPage's victims. "I know you're used to 16 or more, sorry, we only have 8." | |
| Steely Dan – Time Out of Mind Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Every single one of you is right. Heroin. And makes it sound so good I want to go try some. | |
| Steely Dan – Gaucho Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I always thought it was about some dingbat tagging along on important drug deals and blowing them all with his idiotic behavior. I never got a gay vibe from the lyrics. Seems more about drug deals gone awry because of a fool friend, to me. | |
| Steely Dan – Hey Nineteen Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| "Skate a little LOWER now" is an upskirt reference. Yes those existed then! | |
| Steely Dan – Hey Nineteen Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Efunk is right on the money. Skating rink brings back memories of youth to the protagonist as he watches the fine young things skate around him. "Skate a little lower now" is one of the most scandalous lines in pop history, because it's Fagen requesting an upskirt. My my, now! |
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| Steely Dan – Aja Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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I always thought this was another diss on pretentious Western aficionados of Eastern culture, like the one in "Throw Back The Little Ones". I also thought "angular banjoes" was "add in a banjo, sounds good to me". |
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| Steely Dan – Josie Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I'm just wondering if Josie is the red-haired girl Donald Fagen refers to in "The H Gang", a very similar song off "Morph The Cat". She's GOT to be. | |
| Steely Dan – Sign in Stranger Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Funny I always thought "take a yoyo for a ride" was a reference for driving a stool pigeon or other informant out into a desolate area and performing a hit. | |
| Steely Dan – The Fez Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Yep, condom | |
| Steely Dan – Lunch With Gina Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| STALKER | |
| Steely Dan – Here At The Western World Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| My humble opinion has always been this song is about former Nazis who fled to Argentina and found safe haven and welcome asylum there. Being Jewish, Donald Fagen saved his most potent vocal vitriol for this song and its lyrics. Good for him as it's needed. | |
| Steely Dan – Everything You Did Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| I can say this song has the single funniest opening line Fagen and Becker have ever written. | |
| Steely Dan – Everyone's Gone to the Movies Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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The final verse is "Take off your CHINOS and sit right down, and start the projection machine". Chinos are beige corduroy pants and they were popular in California during the 1970s and 1980s. LaPaige is telling his little victims to take off their PANTS. Once they have, they will "see what [they] never have seen". Chinos -- not "cheaters". |
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| Steely Dan – Dont Take Me Alive Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Cyborgs. [Shake head, tsk, look sad, shoot oneself] It's about a bank heist gone wrong. Please people. |
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| Steely Dan – Babylon Sisters Lyrics | 14 years ago |
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Babylon Sisters is about at least one Caucasian guy taking another across town to sample sex for the first time with African-American women. Reasons: "Drive west down Sunset to the sea" disguises the song's locale, switching it from San Francisco to LA. Oakland is west of San Francisco and has a higher black population than San Francisco 'proper'. Oakland however is on the sea. "Turn that jungle music down, at least until we're out of town" is the voice of the soon-to-be-initiated white gentleman, anxious and uncomfortable, possibly scared, to his more experienced friend who is listening to black music in the car as they drive to the scene of the initiation. "It's everything they say" is one of the biggest giveaways this song is about sex with black women: white America is notorious for the statement "once you go black, you never go black", and white men in many seldom publicly known myths about black women being oversexed and insatiable. "The end of a perfect day" is somewhat a cocaine reference, but "lights across the bay" again locates the song in Oakland, the black area of San Francisco, located across the bay from San Fran. "Babylon Sisters" is a double-reference ID-ing black females as the subject of the song. Jamaican Rasta culture calls America "Babylon", and "sisters" is the best-known black female self-appelative. Black women refer to one another as "sister", white people call black women "sistas". "Shake it" is a porn reference suggesting the woman on top, bouncing so that her breasts bounce up and down above the man. "So fine, so young, tell me I'm the only one" describes the women in the first half, and the man having sex with them in the second: "Tell me I'm the only white guy you've ever had." As a black woman who has had white boyfriends I cannot TELL you how many times I've been told this one. "Here come those Santa Ana winds again" is a Los Angeles localism: when the Santa Anas blow, all bets are off, people go crazy, and you are expected to do things against the norm: i.e. sleep with a black while white. It's like Sadie Hawkins day. They are also considered unlucky. "Cotton candy" is a pretty blunt reference to the women's hair texture (two guesses where and either is correct), and when Donald Fagen says "my friends don't go for that cotton candy" he is talking about his other white male friends who would never consort with black women. It's also an oblique reference to "Brown Sugar" by The Rolling Stones, whose Mick Jagger refers to sex with black women as "sweet". Ergo, "candy = sugar". All the lines after cotton candy are Steely Dan's clever nods to white fear and neurosis after the act is compeleted, i.e., "Will this come back to haunt me?" "Does this mean I'm into this skin color forever?" "Am I tainted by this experience?" et cetera. All in all a perfect song that sums it all up succinctly, accurately and perfectly. Source: a friend of mine played for Steely Dan and his son plays for them now. |
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