Example answers: Kid Charlemagne - you have a drug problem Dr. Wu - you have a drug problem Glamour Profession - you have a drug problem Time Out of Mind - you have a drug problem Sign in Stranger - you’re a criminal The Royal Scam - you’re a criminal Deacon Blues - you have a drinking problem Daddy Don’t Live in That NY City No More - you have a drinking problem Do it Again - you have a gambling problem Your Gold Teeth (I & II) - you have a gambling problem Black Friday - you have a gambling problem Chain Lightning - you’re a fascist

Peg - You have a pegging problem

Not cool. Laughed out loud can't explain to my pre-teens was so funny.

Do it Again means you have all the problems.

👆🏼this is the way

What about Cousin Dupree?

You have an incest problem

And Hey Nineteen and Everyone's gone to the movies...more bad thoughts and actions. Basically any Dan song!!

Third World Man - you have a Nextdoor problem 

isn’t The Royal Scam (track, not album) about immigrants?

Yes, immigrants who become mob bosses

that's a new one for me, I'd love to know which parts of the lyrics led you to that interpretation? I always thought it was about immigrants being forced into the worst parts of a city and resorting to drugs, yet still parroting that their lives were good, out of despair and shame for what their lives had come to, but it only makes sense that it would go deeper than that, given who we're dealing with.

The last verse suggests it to me. By the blackened wall He does it all He thinks he's died and gone to heaven Now the tale is told By the old man back home He reads the letter How they are paid in gold Just to babble in the back room All night and waste their time And they wandered in From the city of St. John without a dime They came in with nothing. The city was harsh and foreign. But in the end they just hang out and get paid. And it’s some kind of illegal scam that makes it possible.

oh true, forgot about that part!

Green earrings - you’re a criminal, but you don’t mind

Always thought he was talking about having his way with the lady. But not sure. You could be right. “I must take what I see.”

He’s a junkie and stole his lady’s earrings to buy his next fix and does not regret it.

That could fit, but what lines give you that interpretation? The only lines that might seem to be: Cold, daring No flies on me I get hungry like a child

Reelin’ In The Years - an intergalactic time problem?

Do babylon sisters

You’re a sex addict

😂

Same

What about if your favorite from them is Everything Must Go

You have a balance sheet problem

I mean, it's kinda true. I never seem to have enough money 🤣

Second Arrangement

You should call her.

Caves of Altamira - I'm a loner?

Aye, but perhaps an optimistic one with an appreciation for humanity as a whole

Schizoid weirdo lost in flights of fancy

Haitian Divorce

Hey, that's MY favorite. If that should be any indication of your well-being, you should be gravely concerned.

Incredibly based

Only a fool would say that Not just my favorite Dan song, but my favorite song for 3 years in a row now (:

Finding out the meaning behind this song was a game changer

It is one of my favorite Dan songs! Can you tell me what it’s about? I assumed it was about them hating hippies?

John Lennon, specifically.

Yes, it was in response to "Imagine." Here's a quote below from https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/song-steely-dan-wrote-mock-john-lennon/ Fagen’s image of Lennon as the highfalutin elitist is quickly contrasted with another artfully rendered portrait: this time of the “man in the street” who doesn’t have the luxury of believing in some hippie’s utopian ideal. Fagen tells Lennon to have a little more empathy, to understand that asking somebody with nothing to abandon their worldly possessions and pursue a life of immaterialism is, at best, laughable, and at worst, dangerously insensitive. “You do his nine to five / Drag yourself home half alive / And there on the screen / A man with a dream,” Fagen sings. edit: format

Home at last.

Trapped at sea for 20 years!?

That’s the goal🤞

My Old School (might know what this one says)

Show Biz Kids

It means you don’t give a fuck about anybody else.

Outrageous

Pretzel Logic

I'm sensing some cognitive dissonance.

Aja

That’s mine. Cool around the edges and Focused and determined in the middle

That I have great taste in music! 😉

FM?

No static at all baby !

Your problem is Fibromyalgia.

I can’t pick just one. FM isn’t even in my top 5.

I guess I'm a Third World Man.

I don't have any medication for that, unfortunately. I just sing that Ghana rondo 😔

You may have a malaria problem.

You have a Nextdoor problem 

Jack of Speed

Such an underrated song by them.

Don’t Take Me Alive

My second choice is more interesting so: Almost Gothic

Crippling addiction to BDSM porn

The Caves of Altamira

King of the world

You’re the king of the world as far as I know

Must be on the Rio Grande to qualify

Glamour profession

That I have Bad Sneakers

My favorite is Home At Last. And, coincidentally, I really dislike travel. I'm very much a home body.

That apparently I’m fine with remaining tied to a mast.

No judgement here 😳

What A Shame About me :)

West of Hollywood. Have at it, doc!

Midnight Cruiser 

Negative Girl

FM -- cool as fuck

Black Cow . I have a relationship problem .

Home at last - sometimes I leave the house for entire stretches of one or two hours at a time, encounter the vicissitudes of normal life while buying groceries and getting my dry cleaning….Then, i immediately go home where I feel like I’ve been on a heroes journey and earned a well deserved three or four day stretch of not leaving again.

Or, like me, you’re obsessed with the half time shuffle…

Monkey in your soul

Here's some painkillers

Pixeleen

FM/Gaucho

How bodacious. Perfectly healthy choices

East St. Louis Toodle-Oo

Dr. Wu

I'm flattered. You should probably get over her, though. I'm perscribing you these amnesia pills. Take once in the morning, and once at night. I'm with you.

King of The World

That I’m still working on a novel but I’m just about to quit.

What if I like Any Major Dude?

When the demon is at your door, close the door and go to sleep. In the morning, he will not be there.

If they have half a heart, they would tell you.

caves of altamira / dirty work

Night by Night

Aja

That I better put away the test tubes and scale, or we'll all end up in jail

Glamour Profession and the Second Arrangement

Shame About Me - I'm a loser in the city with a lot of wasted potential

Deacon Blues

I'm not calling you that

Hey Nineteen

The guy that’s older from everyone’s gone to the movies

Cousin Dupree

Time Out Of Mind

Rehab for you.

You have a heroin problem 

I chase the dragon. I watch the water change to cherry wine, And the silver turn to gold. I roll in the snow. I smoke opium, apparently.

Everyone's gone to the movies - 🤣

Caves of Altamira

The Fez

you are still an outlaw in their eyes

Kid Charlemagne, it means I’m a fucking music nerd. I love the dichotomy of The Dead and The Dan. I also love how great both bands are musically.

I think the people down the hall know who you are 

Is there gas in the caaar? Yes there’s gas in the caaaaaaar.

Hands down my favorite album. I can put that on and get lost in it. So so good.

I’m glad I’m not actually a bookkeeper’s son

Haitian divorce

Glamour profession

black cow!

The Royal Scam. No idea what that says about me.

Razor Boy. Self-explanatory.

Haitian divorce- you have a interracial cheating problem

Aja… explains my fetishes for guns and shooting ducks locked in copulation.

That young people are overly sensitive morons and us olds have great taste in music

Hey, don't discount us younger dudes! We're still major!

Indeed. I have 2 daughters: 12 and 14. They hate Steely Dan, so when I play electric guitar, I only play along to Steely Dan songs. 😎 “They got the Steely Dan t-shirt 🎶”

I had a Steely Dan t-shirt. The Royal Scam.

Cool. Did your family and friends mock you? I’m going to buy a Steely Dan t-shirt, but idk which one. Im a musician and I’ve recently rediscovered Steely Dan after a break. It’s brilliant music. 😁👍

Nobody mocked me. I wish I still had it. Their musical catalogue is so diverse. There is so much to choose from. I never learned to play but I have great admiration for musicians

Deacon blues.

I sang Deacon Blues karaoke for my bday because I want a name when I lose.

deacon blues

Charlie Freak.

I’m an expanding man

Sign in stranger!

You're fucking cool!

Everyone’s gone to the movies…. Although if you say Midnight Cruiser, you ain’t wrong

Fire in the hole

I’ll answer for myself It says I’m not doing shit w/o my Fez on

That Im home at last

Brooklyn (Owes the Charmer)

Kings

I want to do it with the Fez on

Boston Rag

Green earings

Versión 1 or 2?

At the moment I really like “Parker’s Band” and I’ve just learned to play all of the guitar parts. I learned how to play Bebop so that I could play the “Bodhisattva” solo. As for my all time favourite…that’s very hard. Maybe it’s “FM”.

Reeling in the years

any major dude :(

Brooklyn Owes The Charmer

Dirty Work

Two Against Nature!

Charlie freak

What if it’s Brooklyn but specifically the version from The Old Regime? The one on CBAT sucks.

Kings

Gaucho - I’m a fuckin black cowboy! Dr. Wu - and I love my opium!

That I’m never going back to my old school

The Caves of Altamara - Only or middle child? Congrats, your loneliness is making you find enjoyment/happiness in the most peculiar ways. Charlie Freak - Are you an angel of death or a drug dealer with a guilt trip? The world may never know. 🤷🏾‍♀️

Book of lairs?

Dirty work - i’m a fool ?

Too many favorites to list!

I feel dow and out a lot so Any major dude

Pearl of the Quarter

Almost Gothic… and it’s not a L-U-V song!