{"id":2504,"date":"2014-04-03T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/?p=2504"},"modified":"2014-09-30T18:30:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T22:30:20","slug":"steely-dans-magisterial-sleeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2014\/04\/steely-dans-magisterial-sleeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Steely Dan&#8217;s Magisterial Sleaze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/read.maintainradiosilence.com\/article\/5317ce20c873d9174f1f3651\/why_steely_dan_doesn't_suck\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2505 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screenshot-2014-04-01-16.03.58-300x235.png\" alt=\"Screenshot 2014-04-01 16.03.58\" width=\"300\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screenshot-2014-04-01-16.03.58-300x235.png 300w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Screenshot-2014-04-01-16.03.58.png 430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>You either swoon to the jaunty guitar lick that rips Steely Dan\u2019s \u201cReelin\u2019 in the Years,\u201d or you hold your ears. Same with that eerie figure at the top of \u201cFM,\u201d or the sly, cribbed piano vamp to \u201cRikki Don\u2019t Lose That Number.\u201d Steely Dan tracks can seem not just overproduced but overplayed, overpraised, and catnip for the wrong kind of music nerd. Long before you dig into a five-decade career with countless buried pearls, the band inspires way too many harangues about everything rock supposedly squelched (instrumental pretension, phony intellectuals, and control-freak arrangers). Jazzers profess love for Dan tracks even if they hate rock; rock partisans get swept up in Dan fever even if they hate jazz. Steely Dan records didn\u2019t just thread stylistic needles, they turned style into a sardonic target&#8230; <a title=\"Steely Dan Doesn't Suck\" href=\"http:\/\/read.maintainradiosilence.com\/article\/5317ce20c873d9174f1f3651\/why_steely_dan_doesn't_suck\" target=\"_blank\">continued on <em>Radio Silence<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steely Dan Sucks&#8211;NOT, from Radio Silence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2505,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2504"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2723,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2504\/revisions\/2723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}