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Cool tune. (I've got too many favorites to list mine!)
By the way, they have a new album coming out, called "Everything Must Go", and they're touring this summer. (I love the Dan!)
Good stuff. You should post that parody here on the internet under parody songs..
* 972: Can't Buy A Thrill - best songs..Do it AGain, Reeling in the Years, Dirty Work..
* 1973: Countdown To Ecstasy - best songs, Bodhisattva, The Boston Rag, Your Gold Teeth, Show Biz Kids, My old School
* 1974: Pretzel Logic - Best songs..Night by night, East St. Louis Toodle-oo, Parker's band
* 1975: Katy Lied - best songs - Black Friday, Bad Sneakers, Dr. Wu
* 1976: The Royal Scam - Best songs - Kid Charlamagne, Don't Take me Alive, The Caves of Altamira
* 1977: Aja - Best songs - Black Cow, AJa, Deacon Blues, Josie
* 1980: Gaucho - best songs - Babylon Sisters, Hey Nineteen,
* 2000: Two Against Nature - Gaslighting Abbie, What a shame about me, West of Hollywood
I'll buy anthing Dan record that still has Becker in charge of music and fagan in charge of the lyrics.
They haven't always been a duo, but overtime found out that it was much more convenient to go ahead as a duo and recruit whichever session musicians and guest stars they deemed it appropriate at the moment instead of depending on a regular backing band. Their point of existence was to mock American society by combining the most radio-happy melodies and arrangements possible with the most sneering, biting, poisonously satiric lyrics possible. Their sophistication was in working over those radio-happy melodies and arrangements for months and sometimes even years, sterilizing, polishing, and brushing every note to some kind of modelled perfection, and in working over the sneering lyrics so as to make them as inaccessible as could be. Their personal mystique was in gradual self-concealing, when they used to give out something like one interview per album and didn't tour at all.