The song Steely Dan wrote to mock John Lennon

Far Out Magazine ^ | 3/8/22 | Sam Kemp

[KC_Conspirator]

lolz

[KC_Conspirator]

ha

[pissant]

I listen to Steely Dan far more than the Beatles. For starters, the Fab Four's bubblegum pop from their early days is nearly unlistenable. From mid-career to the end they had tons of good stuff, but also a fair amount of pretentious crap.

Steely Dan (while also pretentious at times) hit nothing but homeruns from their debut album through their 7th album, Gaucho, before taking a 20 year first retirement in 1980

[shadowlands1960]

Yellow Submarine was track 6, A side, Revolver.

[StAnDeliver]

This is such rigid bs. There is a ton of material on Anthology that has Lennon just speaking to an open mic, and one outtake is Lennon stating firmly, "There's nothing wrong with wealth..." And then going on and on about his possessions.

"Imagine" is merely the Screamer Ohno doing her shitty pimping of Lennon's catlogue. FFS, both Sean and Julian are practically Torys.

I like Steely but as lyricists, anytime Becker held the poison pen it compromised the music. "Deacon Blues" is a classic example:

"If a college football team like the University of Alabama could have a grandiose name like the 'Crimson Tide' the nerds and losers should be entitled to a grandiose name as well."

I mean, wtf, I ain't 'Roll Tide' but that is a stupid, spiteful take, and the whole song pivots on that sentiment right down to its name!

The absurd irony is that just. like. Lennon., they took too much acid and it jaundiced their world view.

Lennon kept a bottle of liquid LSD in his fridge labeled "Mothers Milk"; as for Steely, shit just cue up "Kid Charlemagne".