Better late than never. Just got home from my honeymoon and a lovely birthday dinner with the wife. Back to our regularly scheduled blogging come Monday.

Happy Feast of Saint Fagen one and all. Donald Fagen, everyone’s favorite member of Steely Dan, is 65 years old today. Hey Donald — go ahead and retire already!

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This here is what I listened to the most in 2012 according to Last.fm.

Some brief thoughts:

• I’ve barely listened to Be Bop Deluxe since the first half of the year, but as you can see I listened to them a lot during that first half.
• Ditto on Roxy Music.
• The Dead… what can I say about my newfound love for The Dead? This is one that should be a whole article at some point.
• Steely Dan had a rally at the end of the year to earn their place in the top 8.
• I listened to quite a bit of ELO over the last week of 2012, which put them ahead of my man Gordon Lightfoot.
• Gordon Lightfoot is awesome, but sometimes he just puts me down in the dumps.
• Death In June are a slow burn favorite that get listened to a lot in little bits and pieces. Other than the last couple of months, they rarely ever make my weekly top 8.
• The Tubes are another band I listened to a ton of during the first half of the year and didn’t listen to much of during the second half. Still amazing stuff and I have everything on vinyl, so it’s probably worth a revisit.

Top 30 and some more thoughts under the cut.

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This week I listened to a ton of music by a handful of bands.

Some of you might know that I’m a bit of a Steely Dan fan. The obsessioncomes and goes, but my passion for the Dan never goes away entirely. I’m currently on one of my periodic Dan benders, having listened to over 100 Steely Dan songs in the last seven days, according to my Last.fm page. I’ve decided to re-attempt an abortive project I once began to talk about every Steely Dan song (before the breakup — I don’t count the newer shit). Let’s begin with “Rose Darling” off of the Katy Lied album.

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