Yes he was, both lyrically and musically. Check out "A Steely Dan Bedtime Story." You can find it on the first "Do it Again" video on RUclips in the newest comments. It combines their song titles and lyrics into an amusing tale. I hope you laugh as much reading it as I did writing it.
I remember my 10th grade gym teacher tried to get me into this; gave me a cassette of "Kamakiriad" to play on my walkman. Admit I totally didn't get it then. Sounded like parents music. Now I love it. Fucking grunge ate my brains then.
Grunge, metal, and rap do that to young people. It's just hormones...sumpin' all peeps go through, most survive and generally grow out of. (Those who don't/can't are people you'd do well to avoid.) SD fans are savvy and realize our human brains do not fully develop/mature until ~age 24.
@@PogueMahone1 Well said...as an artist myself...I always wondered why people 64 years old are still dressing like the scorpions and reveling and doing hand signs still...hormones...and still paying child support...teee heee heeee
It's Christmas Eve as I'm listening to this and seeing this video for the first time, wow. I've heard the song before but have never seen this vid. This is cool.
Ladies and gentlemen, In the year of our LORD 2023 , We are still in the presence of GREATNESS … PERFECT in every Steely Dan way … Co wrote with Becker in the Mid 80s … Beautiful 🤩
that's a hard one. Kam rocks. whatever tune I'm listening to is my fav. countermoon, florida room, teahouse, 2m's girls, on the dunes, springtime, all of them, Relax - put some sounds on I'll brew up some decaf C'mon kick off those heels ma'am Now breathe in and sigh out
Haha, yeah, I remember that. We got weeks of snow days off, so much so that the school forced us to come in on bad days because we had used all of them in 2 months.
@@ewaf88 - By your ignorance I mean the belief that Burton represents some sort of standard others are measured against. Whereas he is the emptiest, most talentless, overhyped twit of the last 30 years or so. Arch opposite of Michel Gondry, a true genius.
I was in junior high when this came out and the small town I was from would have snow dumped on it from October until March, back then I was a rocker and metal head, I wasn't into Fagen's jazz stuff but the video interested me and the song got stuck in my head. This song would come into my head when I didn't have to go to school because of the heavy snowfall.
This video used to play on The Chill Out Zone back in the day ‘cos the album came out the same year the show premiered on MTV Europe. It so chill and such a great comedown tune 😮💨
This is one of the most mesmerizing and captivating work I have pleasure watching for years. I don't know how much drugs one has to ingest to come up with something like this.
Loved this song on the radio, and VH1 played this video back when they had the logo upside down to look like a tree. It was a good time for music videos.
I was blown away when I first saw that video (on MTV?), way back then, and I was trying to find it ever since! Man, what visuals and so well connected to the song...Thanks for the upload!
I was working at a record store at one of our local malls, back in 1993, and this album came out at that time. We had some televisions that were hanging from the ceiling, and played VHS tapes that the record companies sent to us every quarter, that had the popular songs for that quarter, as well as up-and-coming artists, and new releases. This video was on one of the tapes they sent to us, and they sent us a promotional copy of the CD to play in the store, also. I ended up keeping the promo CD, as well as the VHS tape, and wore out both of them!
this song crossed my mind today and I didn't know singer...just that the sond might be something like snowbound...lol...thanks to modern technic I found it straight away... 26 years earlier this would have been difficult...smooth music and video ...thank you...video is peter gabriel style!
Damn I’ve loved Kamakiriad since it came out. I was 19 and a Steely Dan fanatic, and Tomorrow’s Girls came out on the local “classic rock” station. Bought the cassette immediately, and wore it out so I could imagine it was actually Steely Dan
I knew who Steely Dan was about, however I was not from that era. But I grew up in the 1990's as a young adult male. I remember when Kamikiriad came out. Nice mellow tunes and great video.
@@33Luger I got to see Steely Dan, minus Walter Becker, in Boston and in Connecticut a few weeks ago. Those were two great shows. Do you have any favorite songs?
Hey, thanks so much for sharing "Snowbound". I've been looking for this video for ages. I couldn't remember what the song was called. I just remember loving the little animated car people and the proles working in the factory. I'd gotten "lets sleep in today" confused with "lets stay in tonight", so I was always finding the wrong video.
Been looking for it for ages as well, used to have this on a music video compilation on VHS and well... As a kid I loved the whole car town and the song always stuck on my head. Listening to this again and wow, this guy was awesome.
Same story for me. Looking for this song long time. More than 25years ago I see it on MTV (i think so) and than can't remember singer name, can't remember song name, just couple words from refrain and toy car's town. So happy to finally found it
I'm in the same boat, I have been looking for this video for ages. I remember seeing this on MTV at night a lot when I was a kid, and the only things that I could remember were the heads in tiny cars witch metal arms and a Christmas tree. So happy to have finally found it!
Same story. Remember seeing this video on mtv and was mesmerized by it. It was not my taste of music at the time, but I loved the animated video. By time I forgot the artist and the song. When I got older and tried to find the video again, all I could remember was parts of the video and the mood of the music. I have literally spent the last 10-15 years trying to find this song and video, and today an artist suggestion in Spotify said Donald Fagen, and something told me this was the artist. A quick search for "Donald Fagen 1993" resulted in this video!
LYRICS (YEAR 1993): Snowbound Let's sleep in today Wake me up When the wolves come out to play Heat up These white nights We're gonna turn this town Into a city of lights At Nervous Time We roll downtown We've got scenes to crash We're gonna trick and trash We're gonna find some fun We hit the street With visors down With our thermasuits Sealed up tight We can beat the freeze And get saved tonight Let's stop off at the Metroplex That little dancer's got some style She's the one I'll be waiting for At the stage door Snowbound Let's sleep in today Wake me up When the wolves come out to play Heat up These white nights We're gonna turn this town Into a city of lights We take the tube To Club Hi Ho It's about dead space It's a marketplace And a party house too Something new From Charlie Tokyo It's a kind of pyramid With a human heart Beating in an ion grid A critic grabs us Says without a smile The work seduces us with light Eviva laughs and we step out Into the blue-white night Snowbound Let's sleep in today Wake me up When the wolves come out to play Heat up These white nights We're gonna turn this town Into a city of lights We sail our icecats on the frozen river Some loser fires off a flare, amen For seven seconds it's like Christmas day And then it's dark again Then it's dark again Snowbound Let's sleep in today Wake me up When the wolves come out to play Heat up These white nights We're gonna turn this town Into a city of lights Snowbound Let's sleep in today Wake me up When the wolves come out to play Heat up These white nights Turn this town Into a city of lights
That beautiful orangish/pinkish sky comes as a recent snowstorm is breaking up at dusk. Quite a site, but seen more than enough of it this winter.... and more snow coming tomorrow!
always feel like he knows something i dont. there's a message to decipher here and i just cant get...a scary big brother type message that seems like its almost come to pass:(
Member? illuminati is all in this video. This is what President Kennedy was going to tell us about before they killed him. The government are planning to make us in to slaves.
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Cutest dystopian future ever.
Lol.
So that's what Donald Fagen looks like when he smiles. Nice song. I always liked this one.
Fagen is gifted. A genius, really.
Yes he was, both lyrically and musically. Check out "A Steely Dan Bedtime Story." You can find it on the first "Do it Again" video on RUclips in the newest comments. It combines their song titles and lyrics into an amusing tale. I hope you laugh as much reading it as I did writing it.
Greatest artist of all time
Reminds me of my trips to NYC in the mid 90's when I was a young man in San Jose...Better times
25 years ago this album Kamikiriad/ Snowbound was produced...still a masterpiece..thank you Donald!
Wow! Time flies.
still dope
You're welcom.
That bassline! This is why I love the bass.
If you haven’t yet heard the bass/drums/vocals mix available on RUclips it’s well worth a listen. So freaking good.
Walter Becker
The ultimate song to put on in your home office on a snowy January day lol
it's not about snow lol
@@judithbreastsler never said it was my dude
This video reminds me of the silent film “Metropolis”.
And Brazil!
1984 made me want to watch it.
@@jamesbush3857 Spot on! I was just thinking exactly that: Brazil!
I remember my 10th grade gym teacher tried to get me into this; gave me a cassette of "Kamakiriad" to play on my walkman. Admit I totally didn't get it then. Sounded like parents music. Now I love it. Fucking grunge ate my brains then.
Good teacher! I did receive it as 'parents music' but then I got along pretty well with my dad. Great album!
Grunge, metal, and rap do that to young people. It's just hormones...sumpin' all peeps go through, most survive and generally grow out of.
(Those who don't/can't are people you'd do well to avoid.)
SD fans are savvy and realize our human brains do not fully develop/mature until ~age 24.
@@PogueMahone1 Well said...as an artist myself...I always wondered why people 64 years old are still dressing like the scorpions and reveling and doing hand signs still...hormones...and still paying child support...teee heee heeee
Crazy to think that even way back in 1993, this was already considered "parent's music". The Dan are old.
@@zacharyhunter8340 not old , Timeless.
For seven seconds it's like Christmas Eve... Then it's dark again... Then it's dark again...
Always loved that section 👍🏾
It's Christmas Eve as I'm listening to this and seeing this video for the first time, wow. I've heard the song before but have never seen this vid. This is cool.
Christmas Day
Ladies and gentlemen, In the year of our LORD 2023 , We are still in the presence of GREATNESS … PERFECT in every Steely Dan way … Co wrote with Becker in the Mid 80s … Beautiful 🤩
it's the best song on the album. the song is so mellow. perfect.
that's a hard one. Kam rocks. whatever tune I'm listening to is my fav. countermoon, florida room, teahouse, 2m's girls, on the dunes, springtime, all of them, Relax - put some sounds on
I'll brew up some decaf
C'mon kick off those heels ma'am
Now breathe in and sigh out
that's not saying much
This one penned by becker
This is brilliant. On The Dunes is even better.
I’ll put in a plug for “Tomorrow’s Girls”.
This video came out in 93 way ahead of its time greats track too Steely Dan all over this
Walter Becker on bass
@@modifiedcontent yess! 🙌🏿
It came out at the perfect time, at least for us in the northeast. In winter 93-94, we had more snow than I'd ever seen in my life.
Haha, yeah, I remember that. We got weeks of snow days off, so much so that the school forced us to come in on bad days because we had used all of them in 2 months.
Yes, but two years later, the whole DC area got an even worse one, the fabled 'Blizzard of '96'.
My first year teaching. It was more snow than I'd seen in a while.
I remember this winter in Chicagoland
I so remember that I was 5 years old going on 6. I remember on a cold day my mom had to make hot milk for my crunch berries to keep warm
Just got feet of overnight snow dumped here in Seattle. Had to put this on and just look out the window and enjoy the moment! Perfect song for this. 😁
Senior year in high school... my jam
Really love the Hammond glissandos on this track.
Paul Griffin on organ- he never needs to play a lot to say a lot !
Tim Burton would have been proud of this video - wonderfully surreal.
Who cares what Tim Burton thinks?
Why the angry post?
@@ewaf88 - Guess it was your ignorance.
@@offbeat65 I don't fully understand your comment - what do you mean by my ignorance?
@@ewaf88 - By your ignorance I mean the belief that Burton represents some sort of standard others are measured against. Whereas he is the emptiest, most talentless, overhyped twit of the last 30 years or so. Arch opposite of Michel Gondry, a true genius.
I was in junior high when this came out and the small town I was from would have snow dumped on it from October until March, back then I was a rocker and metal head, I wasn't into Fagen's jazz stuff but the video interested me and the song got stuck in my head. This song would come into my head when I didn't have to go to school because of the heavy snowfall.
I remember when I saw this video in the 90's and loved it. I never forgot it. It's kind of therapeutic to watch. Nice rhythm & groove. 💞
Been looking for this song forever. Remember if high school and seeing it on MTV.
Merveilleux. Fagen+Gondry... quel combo !
This is the unofficial Steely Dan song. Co-written with Becker, and WB is all over it instrumentally.
This video used to play on The Chill Out Zone back in the day ‘cos the album came out the same year the show premiered on MTV Europe. It so chill and such a great comedown tune 😮💨
So nice of Maroon 5 and Bjork to agree to be extras in this vid.
Love you Donald! RIP Walter! Much respect!
The dancing cowgirl is gorgeous.
Favourite - never fails to put me in a good, mood, ready for some ❤
This is one of the most mesmerizing and captivating work I have pleasure watching for years. I don't know how much drugs one has to ingest to come up with something like this.
The formula....
It used to be:
1 marijane -uh (stick)
2 a listen to
SIGN IN STRANGER
- ON -
THE ROYAL SCAM !
Absolutely love, love, love this video! And I love Snowbound too! Been listening to Steely Dan almost daily since the 70's!
Loved this song on the radio, and VH1 played this video back when they had the logo upside down to look like a tree. It was a good time for music videos.
My favorite steely dan becker fagen song ever...next to glamour profession.
I’m the oneeeeeeee
@@GeoffStrehlMusic illegal fun!
Now that I am 41, I dig this so much more. Don't know why. I guess I appreciate what he is talking about more I guess.
It's a great song for last call
in the winter time.
I just love me some Donald Fagen, to me original artist have gone out the window, he truly is one of the great of the greatest.
I was blown away when I first saw that video (on MTV?), way back then, and I was trying to find it ever since! Man, what visuals and so well connected to the song...Thanks for the upload!
Michel Gondry and Donald Fagen, amazing.
First saw this in a Beavis and Butthead episode in 94
I was working at a record store at one of our local malls, back in 1993, and this album came out at that time. We had some televisions that were hanging from the ceiling, and played VHS tapes that the record companies sent to us every quarter, that had the popular songs for that quarter, as well as up-and-coming artists, and new releases. This video was on one of the tapes they sent to us, and they sent us a promotional copy of the CD to play in the store, also. I ended up keeping the promo CD, as well as the VHS tape, and wore out both of them!
Let me guess..."This blows, heh-eh"
Anyone got a link?
Mike Judge didn’t rag on it so much I remember.
@@Anders2112 I got it taped but I’ll have to dig it out
Love this video. Amazing
Damn right, Donald Fagen is a musical genius! (So was Walter Becker, RIP).
Great song and great album (would you expect anything less). But the video...FANTASTIC!!!
Mr. Fagen never ceases to amaze.
I loved this when I worked at Shoney's. It played on the Muzak station.
the bass in this is great.
Walter Becker
Magnifique chanson + video 🦜🦜🦜🦜🦜
Love that BASS LINE....!!!!
Thanks for posting! Classic Fagen! Classic fusion!
Great Michel Gondry video....probably his best video. Gondry did videos of so many stars in the late 80 s.
this song crossed my mind today and I didn't know singer...just that the sond might be something like snowbound...lol...thanks to modern technic I found it straight away... 26 years earlier this would have been difficult...smooth music and video ...thank you...video is peter gabriel style!
I've been searching for this video for nearly 20 years after first seeing it on MTV in 1994
Feels like 2021.
Damn I’ve loved Kamakiriad since it came out. I was 19 and a Steely Dan fanatic, and Tomorrow’s Girls came out on the local “classic rock” station. Bought the cassette immediately, and wore it out so I could imagine it was actually Steely Dan
Found this by chance...... Fantastic, just so crazy... love it !
Wow, Steely Dan, soooo many signs and symbols. Never saw it till now....😲
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this video!! And such cute and handsome faces!!
I loved watching this video as a kid
I knew who Steely Dan was about, however I was not from that era. But I grew up in the 1990's as a young adult male. I remember when Kamikiriad came out. Nice mellow tunes and great video.
Playing it on a snowbound day in Colorado. Perfect song when the flakes are falling.
No snow here in Florida, but I have always had a draw to anything from Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. How about you?
@@edwardsholar9730 One of my biggest regrets was never seeing these two legends in concert.
@@33Luger
I got to see Steely Dan, minus Walter Becker, in Boston and in Connecticut a few weeks ago. Those were two great shows. Do you have any favorite songs?
Dr. Wu.
@@33Luger
My favorite Steely Dan song changes from day to day.
Hey, thanks so much for sharing "Snowbound". I've been looking for this video for ages. I couldn't remember what the song was called. I just remember loving the little animated car people and the proles working in the factory. I'd gotten "lets sleep in today" confused with "lets stay in tonight", so I was always finding the wrong video.
Been looking for it for ages as well, used to have this on a music video compilation on VHS and well... As a kid I loved the whole car town and the song always stuck on my head.
Listening to this again and wow, this guy was awesome.
Same story for me. Looking for this song long time. More than 25years ago I see it on MTV (i think so) and than can't remember singer name, can't remember song name, just couple words from refrain and toy car's town. So happy to finally found it
I'm in the same boat, I have been looking for this video for ages. I remember seeing this on MTV at night a lot when I was a kid, and the only things that I could remember were the heads in tiny cars witch metal arms and a Christmas tree.
So happy to have finally found it!
Same story. Remember seeing this video on mtv and was mesmerized by it. It was not my taste of music at the time, but I loved the animated video. By time I forgot the artist and the song. When I got older and tried to find the video again, all I could remember was parts of the video and the mood of the music. I have literally spent the last 10-15 years trying to find this song and video, and today an artist suggestion in Spotify said Donald Fagen, and something told me this was the artist. A quick search for "Donald Fagen 1993" resulted in this video!
Bass is wonderful
Peter Butler, Walter Becker.
Great Tune & lovely to see a Gondry video for it x Walter Becker helped write this one x
A Becker and Fagen classic.
Donald Fagen and Matthew Berry my two favorite Aliens
Holy smokes I had no idea this song had a music video
Thanks for shearing this wonderful song! I remember seeing it on TV a couple times but could never really see the full video until now.
What a incredible music video! I like it!
this was music therapy for me 23years ago
love it - great music with inspired video editing
Watching this during a blizzard here in New York.
been looking for this ..
This is one of my favorite things.
Cool song,underrated, nice!!
Ooh. That edit to the guitar solo really hurts.
LOL!
Yep….
4/3/20. I'd rather travel to that World right now as long as Steely Dan hits play all day nonstop
HEAT UP
I like this song and Donald Fagen.
Great song. Even though the music is mellow, the lyrics are upbeat. Never let bad weather get you down.
Michel Gondry is such a legend
Such Christmas pictures and feelings mixed with sharp-theet-lyrics. Great editor work and soundtrack! Nice and easy
2 settimane per ricordare il nome del cantautore fino a quando il (vostro caro amato presidente) Donald T. mi ha fatto ritornare la memoria...
LYRICS (YEAR 1993):
Snowbound
Let's sleep in today
Wake me up
When the wolves come out to play
Heat up
These white nights
We're gonna turn this town
Into a city of lights
At Nervous Time
We roll downtown
We've got scenes to crash
We're gonna trick and trash
We're gonna find some fun
We hit the street
With visors down
With our thermasuits
Sealed up tight
We can beat the freeze
And get saved tonight
Let's stop off at the Metroplex
That little dancer's got some style
She's the one I'll be waiting for
At the stage door
Snowbound
Let's sleep in today
Wake me up
When the wolves come out to play
Heat up
These white nights
We're gonna turn this town
Into a city of lights
We take the tube
To Club Hi Ho
It's about dead space
It's a marketplace
And a party house too
Something new
From Charlie Tokyo
It's a kind of pyramid
With a human heart
Beating in an ion grid
A critic grabs us
Says without a smile
The work seduces us with light
Eviva laughs and we step out
Into the blue-white night
Snowbound
Let's sleep in today
Wake me up
When the wolves come out to play
Heat up
These white nights
We're gonna turn this town
Into a city of lights
We sail our icecats on the frozen river
Some loser fires off a flare, amen
For seven seconds it's like Christmas day
And then it's dark again
Then it's dark again
Snowbound
Let's sleep in today
Wake me up
When the wolves come out to play
Heat up
These white nights
We're gonna turn this town
Into a city of lights
Snowbound
Let's sleep in today
Wake me up
When the wolves come out to play
Heat up
These white nights
Turn this town
Into a city of lights
Fagen has the perfect apocalyptic overlord mien.
HOly shit, I had no idea Michel Gondry did a video for this!
That beautiful orangish/pinkish sky comes as a recent snowstorm is breaking up at dusk. Quite a site, but seen more than enough of it this winter.... and more snow coming tomorrow!
thank you so much! thats a great song!
Reminds me of shopping the Warner Brothers Store, winter '93.
Yes!
Awesome video thank you for posting is timeless and classic Fagen😹
Fantastic!
Luv this!
amazing how all the creepy undertones in the song, still are less creepy then this video.
something new from Charlie Tokyo. love there double meanings, cocaine refs everywhere
Cool music video even now in 2023!
remember seeing this on mtv
Great song, incredible video!!
Now I want a hipster winter!!
I never knew Michel Gondry directed this video! It looks like it cost a fortune.
Oh, my best memories of those times.☺
always feel like he knows something i dont. there's a message to decipher here and i just cant get...a scary big brother type message that seems like its almost come to pass:(
Member? illuminati is all in this video. This is what President Kennedy was going to tell us about before they killed him. The government are planning to make us in to slaves.
Sgrud.
Dystopian, maybe they're going for the novel 1984.
2022 here! you were not wrong ! 🤔💯
Groovy jam
+1 si estás en Madrid viendo la gran nevada mientras escuchas este temazo.
Great music !!!
Best song, Snxs for publishing.