How would you categorize Steely Dan?

Definitely not yacht rock. Jazzy rock, maybe.

 

I’ve always just categorized them as ‘boring’ but that’s just me.

 

This sounds like Steely Dan.


"She's Got to Be Somewhere" by David Crosby

 

Croz is a Steely Dan superfan (as you probably know!) played "Wooden Ships" with them (or just Fagen?) at one of their shows

 

No, because there's also traditional folk music, which is not written to be sold, and the music that's generally lumped together as classical music, much of which has never been recorded and exists only as scores. Everything else, including country, jazz, hip-hop and rock, is pop music.

 

Smug is always the first word that springs to my mind.

 

Cocky, clever schoolboy music.






Not to say that I don't like it...

 

As they sang in FM "Funked Up Muzak"

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

Soft rock? I guess you never listened to Countdown To Ecstasy.
:--)

 

"Night by Night" boring?

 

Don't bother

 

Boring???

Steely Dan is the antithesis of boring.

 

Is it so important to categorize artists? What is this, a recotd company marketing department?

 

I would characterize them categorically.

If you don't get that, it will come back to you.

 

On the other hand, the people who call them boring are that, and more.

 

A good band for scotch drinkers.

 

Call me crazy but I always thought this song sounded a bit like Steely Dan too.

 

They wouldn't beat Pink Floyd in that sense) as there wouldn't be overly extended, dark, orchestrated themes)

Jazzy rock. Conceptually close to 10CC.

 

I think what really sets them apart is the subject matter of the songs in contrast to the lush, brilliant, smooth music they create.

 

I would simply categorise them as one of the top five bands to come out of America

 

The singer's voice does sound a bit like Fagen's, however the song is more like Steely Dan extra light ''and i'm being kind'' if there was such a thing

 

I’m not sure I could categorize their music, but I like it.

I really don’t consider most of their music to be rock, even though they usually use “rock” instruments. More jazz than rock, to my ears. But, they don’t fit neatly into the jazz definition either, whatever that may be.

I think Becker, or Fagen, or both have been quoted as stating that they don’t even like rock ‘n roll.

 

I was referring mostly to the chorus so yeah the singer, Rick Wright, is part of that. Just out of curiosity do you not know what band this is?

 

Music That Women Universally Hate

 

Not 100% true--Aja. But everything else, pretty much