Steely Dan is my all time favourite band. I love them so much. That feeling when you first hear a song and that memory is etched on your mind forever? So I know exactly where I was when I first heard Teen Spirit and Stan.
With Steely Dan, it happened three times. Reeling in the Years (BBC 2). My Old School (radio in a cramped, upstairs comic shop in Denmark St). The Boston Rag (radio, Nicky Campbell show). It was Boston Rag that made me check out their albums.
There are a bunch of clips from an 80s vhs docu called āConcepts For Jazz/Rock Pianoā, of Don showing you how Peg and Josie were written. Typically brilliant and typically heās wearing sunglasses indoors while he does it
Been thinking about artists/bands which to my ears appear to have been directly influenced by Steely Dan, evident in some tunes in the back catalogue. First that spring to mind are Belle & Sebastian and Stephen Malkmus. Any others?
Pretty Beatles-esque this isnāt it? Seems like the sort of thing you might expect McCartney to do in the 70s.
Prefab Sprout are an obvious one.
10CC maybe? I know technically they were contemporaries but i canāt help feeling there was too much similarity in the 2 bandsā combination of technical wizardry, pop gloss and cynical, smart lyrics to have been a coincidence.
Destroyer.
Ween
Always thought Ween were a joke band but tried them recently and discovered theyāve got a lot of good stuff, especially Quebec.
Iāve only really listened to one Ween album (White Pepper)
That album just reminds of SD - something about the way approach things 
Iām only just getting into to Steely Dan thanks to this thread but for current acts I think The Lemon Twigs share similar traits
This is excellent. I wish I understood enough music theory to understand more than 10% of it, but it shows the craft behind the songs. What makes them fly is the way they combine this painstaking thought process with fabulous instinctive musicians like Bernard Purdie and Chuck Rainey and top-class improvisers like Wayne Shorter and Larry Carlton.
Somehow on Gaucho they lost their way and you could actually hear them over-thinking things. Although there are some great songs on Gauch it sounds empty and soulless.
Field Music
The Stepkids are essentially a Dan tribute band.
And this is a straight-up homage (or rip-off depending how generous youāre feeling) of them too
Ha yeah itās got that late-period sound nailed definitely.
Super Furry Animals
Iāve got baked and put on countdown to ecstacy in honour of this thread.
Great job everyone
Gave Aja & Canāt Buy A Thrill a couple of listens each over the weekend.
Canāt Buy A Thrill is definitely the more immediateā¦ found there were quite a few songs I knew.
Aja clearly has more depth & I can see myself going for a much deeper dive into this album. Loved the first couple of tracks, but found I was losing concentration from then on, most likely due to jetlag 
Looking forward to spending more time with these guys though.
Chromeo and stuff like that