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Friday, March 25, 2005

"We just wanted to give the band a little more thrust than most other bands."
- Donald Fagen's explanation on why they named themselves Steely Dan!
Fantastic stuff on wikipedia...

The song Black Friday (1975) contains one of their most fascinating 'namechecks', a surprising reference to the town of Muswellbrook in northern New South Wales, Australia:
"When Black Friday comes
I'll fly down to Muswellbrook ...
This reference has startled and amused many Australian fans, but is believed that Becker and Fagen in fact selected the name from an atlas, primarily because it worked effectively with the next rhyme:
"I'm gonna strike all the big red words
from my little black book ...
and also because it allowed them to create the amusing couplets in the next stanza:
"I'm gonna do just what I please,
Gonna wear no socks and shoes,
With nothin' to do
But feed all the kangaroos."
It is typical of their wry sense of humour that the reference to kangaroos makes no particular sense unless one knows that Muswellbrook is located in Australia.
- posted by Rallix @ 12:22 AM

Comments:

heheheheehe u knowww , u should concentrate more on Deutsche music

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Anonymous : Fri Mar 25, 12:35:00 AM

Cool :)

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Vivek Kumar : Sun Mar 27, 06:02:00 AM

well to be fair, steely dan arent the only ones with a wry sense of humor. consider this -

pee hain main thodi whisky, manjula;
aayi pee kar mujhko hichki, manjula;
pee kar jaan gale mein atki, manjula;
life ho gayi risky(yyy);
ho, manjula. ho, manjula. ho, manjula.

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