Latest Steely dan Podcast Episodes

Episode 11: Can't Wrap an Album

Steelin' In the Dan - August 14, 2020 16:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
We bring in some friends to take a look back at Steely Dan's debut album, Can't Buy a Thrill. We've been sitting on this episode way too long because I've been too lazy to do links and artwork, so I'm posting it more or less as is. Thanks for your patience, and apologies to our delightfull guest...

Episode 10: Love ‘Em Till They Run for Cover

Steelin' In the Dan - March 03, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Get ready for one digression after another (and a little Reddit theater) as Scott and Joe piece together their thoughts on Can’t Buy a Thrill’s final track “Turn That Heartbeat Over Again.” The song’s narrative inspires Scott’s choice, the “try-hard” meth noir The Salton Sea (2002), starring Val ...

Episode 9: Dinner at Zabriskie Point

Steelin' In the Dan - January 20, 2020 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
On a particularly coastal episode, Joe and Scott survey the "sun-struck L.A. optimism of 'Change of the Guard'" and end up agreeing with (later) Donald Fagen that it "approaches a level of filler," though Skunk delivers another killer guitar solo. The boys swing east to grab a bite at Bob Giraldi...

Episode 8: The Tao of a Brooklyn Landlord

Steelin' In the Dan - December 30, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Joe and Scott keep it (relatively) tight this week as they tackle the back-half filler track "Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer Under Me)", a 68 out of 120 on Dakota's smooth rockin' scale. Then they study the philosophy of cool presented in The Tao of Steve (2000), a leftover of the 90s Gen X indie boo...

Episode 7: Kings On Fire, Queen On the Bound

Steelin' In the Dan - December 16, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
In this piano-driven installment, Joe and Scott dig into the “Do It Again” B-side “Fire In the Hole”, a sleeper hit hiding on Can’t Buy a Thrill’s back half. The boys follow the piano line into the opening track of Fiona Apple’s When the Pawn…, “On the Bound” from 1999, and a discussion of “a jaz...

Episode 6: Like a Reelin’ Stone

Steelin' In the Dan - December 09, 2019 21:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Scott and Joe flip over to side two of Steely Dan’s Can’t Buy a Thrill and revisit the classic rock staple “Reelin’ In the Years.” Their verdict: it never gets old. Next your hosts cower before the intimidating authenticity of Bob Dylan as they discuss his ramshackle masterpiece “Like a Rolling S...

Episode 5: Episode 5: Only a Fool Would Throw That Brick Through the Window

Steelin' In the Dan - October 24, 2019 14:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Scott and Joe wrap up side one of Steely Dan’s Can’t Buy a Thrill with their analysis of the seemingly cynical “Only a Fool Would Say That.” They find parallel visions of the world in the Mothers of Invention’s protest blues “Trouble Every Day” (1966) and Rian Johnson’s snazzy high school neo-noi...

Episode 4: Duets, Anti-Buddies, and Midnite Cruisers

Steelin' In the Dan - October 05, 2019 12:00 - 2 hours ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
It’s a jumbo-sized episode this week as Scott and Joe crack into one of Can’t Buy a Thrill’s sleeper tracks, the bittersweet “Midnite Cruiser.” They then try to establish a cult for the baffling competitive karaoke dud Duets (2000), starring Gwenyth Paltrow, Huey Lewis, Andre Braugher, and Paul G...

Episode 3: “Kings” of New York, Princes of Thieves

Steelin' In the Dan - September 21, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
This week, Scott and Joe scrape the flesh off of Dakota’s favorite Steely Dan song (so far), the mock-anthemic “Kings.” Then they take aim at Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and fall under the spell of Abel Ferrara’s dreamy gangster story King of New York (1990). Historical ...

Episode 2: Closer to That Most Important Thing: “Dirty Work”

Steelin' In the Dan - September 07, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Scott and Joe sift through their mixed feelings about Steely Dan’s soft rock classic “Dirty Work” and have a tough conversation with sad sack guest vocalist David Palmer. Then they zoom in on the messy, tangled love affairs depicted in Mike Nichols’ kinda naughty "Closer" (https://www.imdb.com/ti...

Episode 1: Inside the Ballad of “Do It Again”

Steelin' In the Dan - August 24, 2019 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Scott and Joe commence their journey through the Steely Dan discography with track one, side one from Can’t Buy a Thrill (1972), the “noodly” “Do It Again.” They then go deep on the parallels between Steely Dan and the Coen brothers, specifically focusing on Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) and The Bal...

Episode 0: Steely Dan 101

Steelin' In the Dan - August 08, 2019 17:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
Before tackling the Steely Dan discography song by song, Scott and Joe initiate newcomers and skeptics into the cult of the Dan with their personal playlists of the band’s essential cuts. They discuss their own origins as Dan fans, provide a brief (and half-researched) historical sketch of the ba...