Clearly, Albini just doesn’t get it.Īlex Pappademas and Joan LeMay, the authors of the new book Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors from the Songs of Steely Dan, definitely do get it. Perhaps the appropriate response to Albini’s trolling is not wrath or even exasperation, but pity. Predictably and accordingly, an almost equal number of Albini’s legion of fans weighed in to register their unwavering support for Albini’s right to make fun of things.Īlbini is a sharp guy, but it should probably come as no surprise that the author of “I Think I Fucked Your Girlfriend Once” would be immune to the charm and nuance of Steely Dan, a group perplexingly as beloved by the cocaine-and-Rogaine boomer demographic as by Generation Coachella. After the legendarily provocative engineer pledged to “always be the kind of punk that shits on Steely Dan,” Albini went on to decry the “human effort wasted to sound like an SNL band warm up” and the fruits of said effort, which he argued was created “for the sole purpose of letting the wedding band stretch out a little.”Įarnest and incensed fans of Steely Dan’s world-shifting brand of sophisti-pop fuzak leapt at the bait - many straining to make “only a fool would say that” jokes. In the main game he is voiced by Erik Braa, and in the Inheritance DLC he is voiced by Chris Nichter.Back in February, Steve Albini briefly scandalized a niche corner of social media with a series of tweets about how much he loathes the music of Steely Dan.
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