'Katy Lied' was the first Steely Dan album on which Becker and Fagen fully broke from their old band, and some its songs address this. "Your Gold Teeth II" is a reference to this break (the first person ousted from the band was "Dirty Work" singer David Palmer Jones, who, just before being fired, had spent part of his new money on fixing his teeth--his firing was commemorated in the first "Gold Teeth"). "Bad Sneakers" is another obvious example: "Five names I can hardly stand to hear..."
"Black Friday," in which only the singer makes his escape from the panic of the Great Crash, also seems partly inspired the band's split. The seclusion Fagen describes ("Gonna dig myself a hole....Gonna let the world pass by me") is the no-touring, no-bandmates, studio existence that was the Dan's new life. (The choice of Muswellbrook as a destination probably has mostly to do with its hugging the tune so nicely--just as Guadalajara did in "My Old School.")
Of course, the song is also about an actual financia/societal crash, and I agree with those who have said the song's end-of-the-party mood prefigures the title track of 'Everything Must Go.'
'Katy Lied' was the first Steely Dan album on which Becker and Fagen fully broke from their old band, and some its songs address this. "Your Gold Teeth II" is a reference to this break (the first person ousted from the band was "Dirty Work" singer David Palmer Jones, who, just before being fired, had spent part of his new money on fixing his teeth--his firing was commemorated in the first "Gold Teeth"). "Bad Sneakers" is another obvious example: "Five names I can hardly stand to hear..."
"Black Friday," in which only the singer makes his escape from the panic of the Great Crash, also seems partly inspired the band's split. The seclusion Fagen describes ("Gonna dig myself a hole....Gonna let the world pass by me") is the no-touring, no-bandmates, studio existence that was the Dan's new life. (The choice of Muswellbrook as a destination probably has mostly to do with its hugging the tune so nicely--just as Guadalajara did in "My Old School.")
Of course, the song is also about an actual financia/societal crash, and I agree with those who have said the song's end-of-the-party mood prefigures the title track of 'Everything Must Go.'
Just David Palmer (not David Palmer Jones, as I said above, and who is actually the CEO of a waste management company in the UK).
Just David Palmer (not David Palmer Jones, as I said above, and who is actually the CEO of a waste management company in the UK).
@Kartoum Excellent analysis, also Fagan on the Nightfly album spoke of IGY, in the video its the end of the world
@Kartoum Excellent analysis, also Fagan on the Nightfly album spoke of IGY, in the video its the end of the world