Donald & Walter are cheeky guys with their lyrics. The Fez is a middle-eastern hat that has a tassel on top. Here it's slang for a condom. Also, the line about being your Holy Man is from the moment (s) when your partner cries "Oh, God!"
Steely Dan never made a bad album, but Can't Buy a Thrill has nothing on The Royal Scam and Aja...Amazing records that withstood the test of time and that will be enjoyed by generations to come.
The fez in this song is a condom. You're right about sweating. It's adaptive, which is why many people in the UK start to feel uncomfortable when the temperature rises above 75 deg F. The three albums between Can't Buy A Thrill and The Royal Scam are all essential listening. There's hardly a track that doesn't grab your attention from the opening bars and hold it right to the end. What elevates Becker and Fagen from the rest is that they're adept at storytelling, so that you listen to a three-minute song and feel like you've just watched a movie. Recommended: King Of the World (from Countdown To Ecstasy), about the survivor of a nuclear holocaust who gradually comes to accept that he'll probably die alone from radiation poisoning.
If you ignore the stellar playing, instrumentation, arrangements, wotevs, that's some slender bones to hang a track on. Don't feel shortchanged though, they'd never do that to me. Shriners typically wear fezzes at their gatherings. Don't have a clue about what the heck else that's all about. 🤷🏽🤔😕 🤭✌🏼😉🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
Probably the greatest song about putting a Hat on Mr. Happy ever recorded. 😉
Donald & Walter are cheeky guys with their lyrics. The Fez is a middle-eastern hat that has a tassel on top. Here it's slang for a condom. Also, the line about being your Holy Man is from the moment (s) when your partner cries "Oh, God!"
I was here!!!👌👍✌️😁
I have always loved interesting music, and Steely Dan always made some of the most interesting music. Always.
bernard purdy on drums great drummer !
Anything Steely Dan! This song is great!
One of the greatest bass grooves ever...
Steely Dan never made a bad album, but Can't Buy a Thrill has nothing on The Royal Scam and Aja...Amazing records that withstood the test of time and that will be enjoyed by generations to come.
Steely Dan
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I was here Biz. Love some Steely Dan.
like i said on other reactors steely dan is my top 3 band of all- time !
My favorite band! ❤
Mine too. ❤
The vibe and groove of this song is cold 🥶 af
The Clarity of sound separation on their recordings is still unmatched!
This is a banger !!!!
This album, Royal Scam, is top notch and every song will keep your toe’s tapping.
Yes, good one!
Becker and Fagen were much larger than a band, or Rock. Soooo much more than that!!!!!!!
I think my fav of theirs was Black Cow.
If you haven't already, the title track is the smack! I always appreciate what you do Biz, thanks! ✌️❤️🤟🥁
That whole album is great.
A keyboard tour-de-force, tasty guitars too. And the LOL lyrics on top of the great music. Tasty tune
RIP Walter Becker
Biz ,
This one Hits...
They seemingly couldn't Miss...
Steely Dan -Jack of Speed 🔥
Can't buy a thrill is still number one for me too! So tasty,!
My three favorite bands
The Beatles
Steely Dan
Talking Heads 😎👍
Love Steely..Never heard of your other two
💕 Talking Heads are great and who doesn't love the Beatles
@@sandymiller3577 I hate the Beatles
It sounds like exaggeration, but there really isn’t a bad track on this album.
Certainly. I'd go even further and say that most of their albums do not have a bad song on them.
True story. It’s one of those albums man…there’s not many of them at this caliber.
Truth
Have you done "green earrings"? These two songs go together for me. Can't explain why.
Biz, you are slaying the reactions lately…✌️☮️
Great album
Sign In Stranger is probably my favorite from the album, you gotta hear it
A Fez is like rolled up hat, so…… He ain’t doing it without one
Walter Becker played the guitar solo on The Fez, not Elliott Randall.
SD 🎉 thanks Biz
Don't forget that Jimmy Hat!
Love me some Steely Dan! (Mostly cuz it reminds me of R.I.)
Nice
🤔is that the Fez from "That 70's Show"?
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Sign IN STRANGER
From their last album Everything Must Go, Lunch With Gina is a groovy funk fest.
I was going to tell you what a fez is in this song, but they beat me to it...
They mocked John Lennon's Song IMAGINE, WITH A TRACK CALLED. ONLY A FOOL WOULD SAY THAT.
The fez in this song is a condom.
You're right about sweating. It's adaptive, which is why many people in the UK start to feel uncomfortable when the temperature rises above 75 deg F.
The three albums between Can't Buy A Thrill and The Royal Scam are all essential listening. There's hardly a track that doesn't grab your attention from the opening bars and hold it right to the end. What elevates Becker and Fagen from the rest is that they're adept at storytelling, so that you listen to a three-minute song and feel like you've just watched a movie.
Recommended: King Of the World (from Countdown To Ecstasy), about the survivor of a nuclear holocaust who gradually comes to accept that he'll probably die alone from radiation poisoning.
I can only remember the 70s being Sunnny!
I was a kid then, but don’t remember it being cold ever,……. In the UK! 🤣
If you ignore the stellar playing, instrumentation, arrangements, wotevs, that's some slender bones to hang a track on. Don't feel shortchanged though, they'd never do that to me.
Shriners typically wear fezzes at their gatherings. Don't have a clue about what the heck else that's all about. 🤷🏽🤔😕
🤭✌🏼😉🎶❤️🍁❤️✨️🕊
A fez could be a hat or it could mean a condom.
A lesson in "Yacht Rock 101"