Steely Dan/Funny

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.
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  • The liner note essay for the 1998-2000 CD remasters. You have to buy 8 CDs to read the whole thing (each CD is accompanied by the part of the essay about that album), but boy is it worth it.
    • A highlight is the Aja section of the essay, which contains an angry conference call between Becker, Fagen, the music writer who wrote the original liner notes, and a hapless real estate agent who accidentally found his way into the conversation.
  • Quite a bit of their songs' lyrics. Examples will eventually be listed.
  • Pixeleen

Our man Abu squeezes off twenty tracer rounds
And that's when she jumps the turnstile
And as she clings to the roof of a speeding train
The Double A down to Sheridan Square
Her cell phone rings
It's, like, her stupid father
be in the door by ten
again

  • Their website contains many pieces from Becker and/or Fagen that are as funny as many of their songs. Those Rock and Roll Hall of Fame pleas from the 1990's mentioned on the main entry are a good example.